CSPAN Washington This Week December 20, 2014
Diplomatic corps alive today. He said, i do. We could have gotten that agreement if we had been a little more persistent, flexible and creative. But what really cost us was the political withdrawal. We cut off highlevel Political Engagement with iraq when we withdrew our troops. There were no senior visits. Very few phone calls. Secretary of state john kerry made one visit prior to this Current Crisis mainly to lecture the iraqis on how bad they were being for facilitating iranian Weapons Systems to syrian Bashar Assad Bashar Assad and we left them to their own devices, knowing if left to thei...