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One of the things we've seen in the past 15 years in the iraq war is the law of unintended consequences. when you've got 65 % of people who are sunni, that guarantees when you get a democracy people supported by iran will take power. we brought some version of democracy or helped to to iraq, we also brought in iran. i think we'll see the iranian influence in iraq which is an influence counter to our interests for decades to come. >> do you agree with that, peter? >> there is suspicion of the iranians in iraq as well. they call them the persians, which is not a term of endearment. al sadder wer...

Assad. paul: assad invitation. >> that's an important distinction. syria is the russian entry way to the middle east to have basis and so forth. there's no bringing syria together as long as assad stays, look at how he has played his cards, he played them well. james mattis once gave a speech that he said the single biggest thing that we could do to check iran's ambitions is to deny them syria as a client state. there are people that know this and, again, the president sounds good notes but the policy so far in iran, we don't have an iran policy in the middle east yet and he's going to find th...

Assad. paul: assad invitation. >> that's an important distinction. syria is the russian entry way to the middle east to have basis and so forth. there's no bringing syria together as long as assad stays, look at how he has played his cards, he played them well. james mattis once gave a speech that he said the single biggest thing that we could do to check iran's ambitions is to deny them syria as a client state. there are people that know this and, again, the president sounds good notes but the policy so far in iran, we don't have an iran policy in the middle east yet and he's going to find th...

We had created by drawing that red line with regard to assad's use of chemical weapons. so we brought the russians in, gave them legitimacy there, political legitimacy in order to police up, imperfectly, i might add, the syrian chemical weapons. just a little bit more than two years ago, the russians intervened in force in syria and literally changed the geometry of the battlefield there. assad was on his last legs and with a really fairly modest application of russian military power, changed the dynamics of the fight and now we see assad's not going anywhere and it's isis that is thoroughly d...

Not happening and you don't need to believe me, ask president trump's ambassador at the united nations soch nations. so all of the happy talk, all of the joint statements that are going to save hundreds and thousands of lives is not happening. the strategy of approach mount with putin is not achieving objectives. >> usually you want your ambassadors on the same page at the white house. nikki haley really talking from a different page when it comes to russia's involvement in syria. she's not holding back any punches. very critical of them in every outward comment. >> she's not been on the same ...