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Focused on counterterrorism, isis, as do syria. three things are important in this country. number one, make sure that isis never comes back in syria. we need to keep our troops there. they're inside the ten-yard line in defeating isis but we're not there yet. >> how are you going to convince people to come to that -- >> if we leave now, the kurds will get slaughtered. i'm going to talk to him at lunch. i got a call from general dunford. the president is reconsidering how we would wee do this. he's frustrated. i get it. we're not the policemen of the world here. we're fighting a war against is...

Afghanistan, i can tell you that isis is on the rise in afghanistan but if pakistan would help us, we can get taliban to the table and end the war in afghanistan. our presence then would be focused on counterterrorism, isis, as do syria. three things are important in this country. number one, make sure that isis never comes back in syria. we need to keep our troops there. they're inside the ten-yard line in defeating isis but we're not there yet. if we leave now, the kurds will get slaughtered. i'm going to talk to him at lunch. i got a call from general duffert. the president is reconsidering...

>> i'm john berman filling in for jake tapper today, we do begin with the world lead. president obama asked him to do it. secretary of state john kerry flew to baghdad to ask him in person, but iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki appeared to shut the door today on requests for him to form a sort of unity government, one that would include sunnis that maliki has shut out of the process for years. this would be all in the hopes of will quelling the uprising by sunni militants tearing iraq apart. so if the prime minister won't play ball the way the u.s. wants it could mean those air strikes that ...

A day to baghdad with 70 tons of supplies. with syria and iran battling the same enemy as the u.s. it is making for some very strange bedfellows. here's jim acosta. >> reporter: all of a sudden the u.s. may have some unlikely helping hands in iraq. u.s. officials believe syria launched air strikes on isis military strong holds. adding the syrian air assault, iran is conducting drone surveillance over isis forces. with that kind of assistance from two longtime adversaries is not sitting well with the obama administration. >> we've made it clear to everyone in the region that we don't need anyth...

Political process. >> our thanks to jim acosta for that report. joining me now here in new york fareed zakaria host of fareed zakaria. as if it it could get any more complicated. the enemy of my enemy is a dictator. it's not like the white house can call syria and say thanks for this, but to an extent was this inevitable by the u.s. saying we're not going get involved with air strikes right now by saying the response will be very, very limited. does that create a vacuum where syria and iraq were bound to get involved? >> i think they were bound to get involved anyway and they have been involve...