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Hard time defending against the attack. >> it is the case that after the surge the swath of the iraq that is now under control of isis forces was peaceful and al qaeda was decimated. >> this stems back to the inability of president obama and president bush. a lot of the talk coming to obama is about the failure to leave troops there and behind. and while i think people on both sides of the aisle believe we should have intelligence service and some presence, there is a debate on whether obama even had the option to keep the troops behind. the president in iraq didn't agree to an agreement that ...

States really required the united states as sort of a central part of its dna, do you agree with that? >> i do, actually. that's the evidence. you know, ryan crocker, ambassador for several years. american ambassador said to me, that the irony is, that we built ourselves into the hard drive, and i think that's right. you've basically got these three groups, the shiites, the sunnis and the kurds, they've never really learned how to live with each other. they don't trust each other. the united states, we came in in 2003, we destroyed the iraqi state, spent eight and a half years trying to build ...

Mosul have been unable to stop largely these isis forces from advancing. >> anderson, if you could follow up on that, that's a good point. the iraqi troops outnumber the isis forces. yet can you really pin it all on just morale? why don't they feel they can stand unto the isis forces when they outnumber them? >> certainly in an area like mosul which was the second largest any iraq and that's what fell first and that caught everybody by surprise, certainly shocked a lot of people with the government and nouri al maliki here, they didn't think the iraqi forces would fall that quickly and throw d...

Certainly not in mosul and yesterday in talifar a city of of 200,000 up in the northwest. that was taken over by isis forces so a lot of certain here in baghdad. you can feel it. a lot of checkpoints all throughout the city. we're seeing more and more volunteers trying to join the fight but their capabilities are under question as well. >> anderson cooper in baghdad, we appreciate that reporting right there on the ground. still to come, the terrorists gain ground. president obama loses precious time. michelle kosinski is at the white house picking up that part of the story. >> reporter: hi, ...

Tense day in this nation's capital. there are check points all throughout this city. they have been been now throughout the last several days. those checkpoints have been fortified, are more heavily manned than they were just several days ago. but very real questions about the iraqi military and their capabilities to stop the advance of isis forces. just yesterday on monday in the northwest of iraq in a city called tal afar, shi'a and sunni turkmen, isis was able to take that city defeating iraqi forces. civilians are said to have fled into the desert and it's another remind of the failures ir...