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If iraq falls to a group that is too extreme even for al-qaeda, whose fault is it? the united states for leaving too soon? for going in at all? or is it iraq's prime minister, nouri maliki, who was admittedly hand-picked by the united states. listen to what president obama said just hours ago. >> there should be a wake-up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shiite who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and functioning to all people inside iraq come together and work diligently against these extremists...

Some of the weakness of the state and that then carries over into the military capacity. so i think it's fair to say that in our consultations with iraqis, there will be some short term immediate things that need to be done militarily, and you know, our national security team is looking at all of the options but they should be also a wake up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shia who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and prosperity to all people inside of iraq, come together and work diligently aga...

Functioning state. we have not helped them get on their feet. we did a very minimalist intervention in 2011 and then essentially left them to their own with best wishes, if that. and so we have had these big debates in the united states about benghazi. we had this recent raid and now a big debate with the libyan government. but i think it's all sort of about the wrong question. the right question is what can we do, even at this point, to try to help the libyan government develop its courts, develop its army, develop its economy. right now their oil production is very, very low. the state is pr...

In phases. the one we're coming to a close now is the military one, military control. that will be followed by repairing the ground for those defectors, working with the community leaders to call back those boys so that we're preparing for them rehabilitation, retraining so that they will have -- they can be even today in somalia there is employment opportunity. many of these are not employable because they lack skills. the government is working on that. and on top of that, a functioning state in place that controls the territory is prerequisite for member of al shabaab. without a state that c...

People here feel that their freedoms are being curbed more and more. that's the argument critics have been making. when you ask supporters of the president, they say that it's actually quite the opposite. the president inherited a state bureaucracy that was full of remnants of the old regime, of the state's security apparatus. they're the ones causing the chaos. they're the ones that are preventing any type of democratic reforms to take place. every time the president tried to push through any type of reform, he was either dismissed by a corrupt judiciary or by a police force that refused to i...