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Cut off isil's supply routes into mosul. these are urban area where's isil is entrenched. >> joining us now, former state department middle east specialist under presidents george w. bush and bill clinton. and also joining us, former middle east adviser to president obama and currently a visiting professor at dartmouth college. hillary, what is your reaction to what the president said today? >> i think that he is doubling down on what i see as a failed strategy, a strategy that embraces mill terism and all of its aspects. symbolic aspects by going to the pentagon, surrounding himself with the ...

Has been able to perpetrate, their come plesity, their geographic scope around the world, the number of recruits, the number of foreign fighters have surged to the battlefield to join isis has increased with his further embrace of mill terism. it didn't work under bush. and unfortunately president obama, i think, under domestic criticism here has instead of focusing on the diplomatic strategy, has really focused most -- first and foremost on this embrace of militaryism. >> steven simon, in your article that you entitled "why washington's middle east pullback makes sense" you wrote, the adminis...

Middle easterners somehow or muslims around the world are not going to get it, that the united states continues to militarily intervene in their countries. just because the united states does it in some kind of backseat way doesn't make it any less problematic. this even goes far back. we like to tell ourselves that we really didn't get involved in middle east conflicts before but, you know, the united states intervention in iran, for example, in 1953 to help overthrow the democratically elected government then came back to bite us pretty hard in the 1979 revolution that brought us the islamic...