CNN Smerconish December 26, 2015 14:34:00
If they get ramadi as well, and they've said that after this they're moving on to mosul, how confident are you that iraqi forces can control and keep control of the territory that they're regaining and continue to move forward? >> well, this is the difficulty. you know, ramadi is, in a sense, the strategic heartland or the strategic city of sunni arab tribes in iraq, which is essentially the bellwether constituency of isis. as goes the tribe, so goes isis. the difficulty that i see and what worries me, and this goes back to the u.s. occupation in the mid-2000s, you're seeing a lot of reports c...
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