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Officials about the deadline and when u.s. should leave? what i can tell you is that the taliban have been very clear about what their expectations are, as well. what the public and private statements are the same? without getting into details, i m not seeing much dissonance. you were speaking about that issue. taliban calling the shots here, please go on, sorry for interrupting but i wanted to play that for you. they are calling the shots but we have some leverage with them. after we leave we ll certainly have an intelligence capability, not as great as it has been but nonetheless, i won t predict this but speculate about it. the taliban may be calling upon our intelligence services to help save them from isis k and from alibi da. they will be in trouble economically and i think they will be assaulted from the extremist groups more extreme than them. they will have to fight that war, as well. ....
We were there with a lot of people and a lot of intelligence resources, drones and everything. so even when we were there in force, there were limits to our intelligence. the limits will be higher and we had reports from the u.n. and as well as by our own intelligence agencies that alibi da is there. administration is pretty much silent on those reports. so americans evacuated the u.s. embassy. russia and china have a presence there. what does that say to you about the future? does that bode for the future? i think the first thing it says is our threats that saying if you don t cooperate, you won t have international recognition are going to be seen by the taliban as toothless. ....
It is the case as jim is suggesting that isis and iraqi sunni militants will have a toucher fight on their hands as they get closer and closer to baghdad. we re seeing that in some of the other out lying towns. where the shia soldiers are defending homes and families, all of a sudden their resistance stiffens. they have been joined by large number of militia men who are as vicious as the isis and alibi da and other militant fighters on the sunni side and of course, they are being backed up to some degree by the iranians. baghdad is eight, maybe 9 million people. it s a huge urban sprawl and urban terrain is some of the toughest terrain to take, especially a force like isis that is mostly capitalized on ....
Granddaughter, his daughter. comfort, the hell they have been through the last couple years must be heart breaking. it is and he refers to that every single minute he s in captivity he thinks of them. you know, bill, it s a very difficult situation because what hi is saying in this video is he s urging president obama to negotiate with alibi da and that basically is not going to happen. the policy of the u.s. government is not to negotiate with al qaeda and that s the dilemma. i can t see really the u.s. ever giving into some of the demands al qaeda is making. they are not looking for money. there are plenty of kidnapping chains that grab an american and sell them to the highest bidder. it seems the demands are clear cut and non-starters. there are. there were eight that were made a couple years ago by them, and they are things that the united states is not prepared and will ....