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D.o.d. has sent those armed peace keepers and trainers to cameroon. to say nothing of the reemergence of al qaeda. you would think all those things happening in afghanistan that the white house, president, might rethink the decision to draw down from u.s. force levels. doesn't look like that will be the case. listen to josh ernest today. >> it continues to be important. there's no denying that the risk that's posed by those terrorist elements inside of afghanistan is significantly lower than the risks posed by core al qaeda pre- 9/11. >> draw down will continue? >> this is part of the policy d...

Now, let's look at question number five. after eight years of war and 4500 u.s. combat deaths in iraq, it's easy to see why some americans are not eager to go back. maybe you think not our problem or to put it even bolder, why should the united states care? let's bring in eli lake, senior national security correspondent for the daily beast. also terrorism expert robert mcfadden and former special agent with the naval criminal investigative service. thank you to both of you again. eli, let's start with you. can you make a case for why americans should care if iraq is consumed by sectarian civil...

Afghanistan is not the safe haven that it was. is the biggest terrorism threat in the world to the united states sitting now in syria? >> absolutely. in my view, syria is almost as bad as afghanistan was pr pre- 9/11. we have as many americans who have traveled to syria to fight with the opposition than we ever saw go to pakistan, afghanistan -- >> this is what makes it difficult. when you say afghanistan, i'm thinking afghanistan 1988, which is they're fighting on the side that america's on, oddly enough, right? >> syria has now become such a melting pot of violence going in both directions. ...

Afghanistan training camps there pre- 9/11 and indeed the so called pilot in this case had never fully trained as a pilot. although this information is coming out in the public domain now and may seem to imply that the group in malaysia may have been responsible for this, it was all tied up over ten years ago and that's why it could be removed from the what could bes, jake. >> nic, thank you so much. the 2001 hijack plot is one of several leads that investigators have been chasing to figure out whether terrorists had anything to do with the disappearance. a chinese official said background c...

People in syria now are thinking about attacking the united states. what he's saying is syria has the potential to return to a pre- 9/11 afghanistan. any number of things have happened in the last couple of weeks that have made john kerry really, really worried about syria and worried that our response is not strong enough. >> the concern from the obama administration is then, okay, what do you do? the last thing that they want to do and the last thing that you could get congress to do would be to vote to send in ground forces in this area. >> well, nobody is -- >> john mccain or the real syri...