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Reconciliation that he and we had done together during the surge. >> now mosul has been taken. it's on to raqqah. can mosul hold? >> the question is not can you defeat the islamic state. it's can you then achieve governance that avoids re-establishment of fields that are fertile for the planting of the seeds of extremism and the rise of isis 3.0. >> leon panetta says iraq is still not ready to go it alone. are we going to continue to play whack-a-mole in iraq in. >> the thing i worry about the most is we will again repeat the same mistakes we've made in the past by virtue of saying somehow, yo...

A few miles away in a control center, american and iraqi officers were watching the live feed from an overhead drone. they checked the coordinates -- >> the strike is southeast. >> -- deconflicted the airspace, and approved the attack. an aircraft delivered the payload on the mosque just 50 yards from our position. the major and his men moved a few steps forward. on the battlefield as mosul, that counted as a good day. >> are they going to be able to point to the debris of mosul and say, look what the americans and the shia government did to this sunni city and use it as a rallying cry? >> oh,...

It's on to raqqah. can mosul hold? >> the question is not can you defeat the islamic state. it's can you then achieve governance that avoids re-establishment of fields that are fertile for the planting of the seeds of extremism and the rise of isis 3.0. >> leon panetta says iraq is still not ready to go it alone. are we going to continue to play whack-a-mole in iraq in. >> the thing i worry about the most is we will again repeat the same mistakes we've made in the past by virtue of saying somehow, you know, we've now cleared mosul. it's up to the iraqis to try to deal with their own problems a...

Have their heel on the throat of isis and they're about to finish them off in the next several days. >> what's the fight been like from your vantage point? >> it's extraordinarily violent. never in my lifetime have i seen close combat like this. 20 meter gun fights, hand grenade range all the time and it's extraordinarily complex. >> but work generally sees the battle from far above the fray, on feeds fed into control centers in the rear, where his men order up artillery strikes, air strikes, and close support. this time around, the battle on the ground is left to the iraqi soldiers. so to see...

Piece. >> there is no perfect timing or conditions anywhere. >> isis just broke in country into pieces. >> indeed. >> are you just finishing the job. >> no, in fact this has been our foal our right even before isis was born. >> in fact it's been the goal for kurding all along which is why many suspect that the democratic process now under way is merely a rubber stamp for an opportunityistic land grab. >> in 2014 when they launched a counteroffensive against isis kurdish fighters made a bee line for the big prize, the oil fields. the kurds have a historical claim in the city which they call the...