CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS June 29, 2014 17:37:00
Demonstrate strength and not to lose influence over that client or not to lose influence over adversaries. that's sort of how brittain and france and germany got involved in the war in the balkans. >> would that apply to iraq, that we would get in because we wanted to show the iraqi government? >> it would be less the iraqi government than the saudis in a sense because the sense that the sunni/shia war is a proxy war between iran and the saudis. the biggest difference though that i actually see is in 1914 you had germany, a rising power and then all around it every other power in europe was in...
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