CSPAN3 Politics Public Policy Today September 18, 2014
With their archrivals, if not enemies, the iranians. That also holds true, to a large extent, in iraq, even though it has a shia majority. Theyre not persians. Theyre arabs. Iraq fought a bitter, brutal eightyear war with iran from 1980 to 1988. Hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides. Most of those casualties on the iraqi side or iraqishia arabs. So again, it is a great phrase. Our enemys enemy may still be our enemy. We have to be very, very careful here. Thank you, sir, for that question. Id only add to the previous two comments that in syria, iran continues to support the regime ...