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Holes there and a disaster. we ended up getting our marines blown up. in this case, the only thing we can do is push maliki and use the leverage -- >> but maliki can't be pushed. no. we tried to push maliki. obama tried to push maliki. the generals tried to push maliki. even when we were there with tens of thousands of troops, maliki still was a bad actor so that is not a solution. what we do if that doesn't work? >> maliki fought the shia death squads in 2007 and 2008. i would not have intervened in 2010 and say maliki to help win re-election but that is second-guessing but the no the case we...

Managed. >> what do we do now? >> maliki is treating it as a war. people are marching 50 miles to his capital slaughtering his army. it's a war because the iranians helped bring him to this place. >> iranians instead of the americans. >> we made it clear we were willing to get out but, fine he is paying for it. it's not just -- >> what do we do now? >> it is a strategic crisis. let's be clear what is going to happen. >> what do we do now. >> the most radical al qaeda group will be there for miles. >> that is not acceptance. >> the iranians will expand their influence far to the west and strorn...

It would be -- i think obama is doing the right thing by trying to use what leverage he has to push maliki to work with other parties. i mean, even after mosul fell, he had an opportunity. the sunni tribes agreed to form a sunni army to combat isis. isis is only 4,000 people or so and there is a political solution to this, not a military solution. >> bill crystal, now maliki, the guy that wouldn't listen to bush advisers and wouldn't listen to obama advisers, maliki reports have over the past 24 hours is now manning the military stations, not reaching out to the sunnis and he and his buddies a...

They start cutting people's heads off. if they do what they have done in the past elsewhere, they can not control the will of the people and they won't be able to control territory forever. eric: this happened so fast, so quickly. certainly the president of the united states will speak out at some point rather shortly. finally, what do you want to hear from president obama and what do you think he should do? >> i think the problem with the president is he is going to have to suggest that he has power that he doesn't really have. there is not much we can do here. we broke the china. we left. no...