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Fallujah, why are they doing this, fareed? >> because they are corrupt, inefficient, and they do not have the same determination that the opposition does. you know, we saw this in vietnam with the south vietnamese government. when a government lacks legitimacy, when a government is not inclusive, the opposition is much more determined, much more ruthless than the government. and what nouri maliki has done is undo almost all the good that general petraeus did in iraq with the surge in 2008. the surge was mostly a political operation where you were bringing the sunnis back into the fold by bribi...

>> certainly a chaotic situation there, shasta, thank you to you, your producer, for all of your hard work. moving to iraq now where in the city of tikrit, isis now taking over with weapons now in their hands, these highly trained, highly motivated fighters are now highly armed. let's bring in bob baer analyst, bob, how dangerous are they, especially since they are taking over the cities and are able to gain other resources in those cities? >> they're extremely dangerous. they have heavy armor, and by the way, they have been doing this in the last few months, first in fallujah, then in

>> you joined the marine corps in 2001. you have seen this from the beginning of the war on terror, how did it make you feel when you saw the al qaeda flag in fallujah and iraq? >> it made me furious. i spent seven months of my life trying to make that part of the world a better place. and to see that work kind of reverse over the course of five years is extremely frustrating. >> what message does that send to the rest of the world about america's willingness to confront its enemies? >> you know, america is the greatest country in the world. we've fought very hard to earn that place. and it's ...

No u.s. troops in afghanistan, no counterterrorism, no advisers. in this in the past has not been the president's preference, but senior white house sources tell me this will be what the u.s. does if afghan president karzai or his successor do not sign off on the agreement that would, among other things, allow u.s. troops to remain in country with immunity from local prosecution. a senior pakistani government official told cnn that u.s. withdrawal would cause a civil war in afghanistan potentially undoing much of the work u.s. trooms have established in the past 13-plus years. so we wondered w...

Determined to do whatever it's going to take from suicide bombings to assassinations to establish their ultimate goal, and that is the creation of an islamic state, wolf. >> and this isis group, they have a significant presence in iraq right now, whether in fallujah, on bar. you have spent a lot of time in iraq. they seem to be gaining some significant strength, not only in syria, but iraq, as well. >> reporter: and they are effectively an extension of the islamic state of iraq, headed by omar omar al badadi who a year ago announced the accretion of the islamic state of syria and iraq and that...