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To the region that the era of strategic patience was over and we commenced the steps to dramatically increase not just the scope but the effectiveness of the sanctions. the department undertook a global campaign to bring partners and allies on board in every country around the world with every embassy and mission raising this to the highest levels and every meeting i've had throughout the year, this has been on the agenda to discuss. the adoption of the south asia strategy, the tool to compel the taliban to reconciliation and peace talks with the afghan government. finally equipped our militar...

Enormous amounts of our national budget and given 2,000 american lives to the war, 20,000 wounded. and yet, our strategy is really a case of doing the same thing again and again. and expecting different results is. >> steve, the administration has made changes to rules of engagement. does that potentially bring progress to ending this quagmire? >> i'm afraid not. dropping more bombs is not going to change the facts on the ground. and we already know this because at the peak of our military commitment to the obama administration, there were 150,000 national combat troops in afghanistan trying t...

Looking towards the russians or even the turks. paul: are we seeing the seeds being planted of israeli-iranian conflict over syria, parts of syria? >> i think you are. we are alienating the very people in syria and in iraq, the moderate sunnis, the kurds, the people who fought with us to eliminate the islamic state to say where are we supposed to go now. trump may proclaim that he has eliminated isis, he may give tehran that show it is seeds for much more conflict to come. paul: we can't commit more forces, that'll be military commitment, minimum air power and maybe more. >> i don't think we h...

Even the turks. paul: are we seeing the seeds being planted of israeli-iranian conflict over syria, parts of syria? >> i think you are. we are alienating the very people in syria and in iraq, the moderate sunnis, the kurds, the people who fought with us to eliminate the islamic state to say where are we supposed to go now. trump may proclaim that he has eliminated isis, he may give tehran that show it is seeds for much more conflict to come. paul: we can't commit more forces, that'll be military commitment, minimum air power and maybe more. >> i don't think we have a choice. first of all, we h...

Need to perform certain aspects of this particular mission. and so i would want to know do they have the resources that they need. and, again, there are a lot of opticals and a lot of challenges dealing with dialect, dealing with ungoverned spaces. that's the other important piece of this, joy, is that the fact we need to be helping them from a military standpoint, but i would imagine that this particular part of niger that was close to mali that was probably ungoverned and that some of these islamist forces may be providing services that the government is not providing. and so we need to make...