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Conflicts that we may have with iran including what we're seeing with respect to yemen or what's happening in syria, but what it does do is create a climate and an atmosphere in which potentially we can start lessening some of the tensions in the area. >> i know you care about africa and i certainly do, and your feelings of watching the refugees, 950 people drowning, just trying to find a life, and then also kenya, a country we all care about. >> right. >> very moderate country, pro-western, getting terrorized, the college kid, the hope of their families, getting killed because they are christ...

Happening in syria but what it does do is create a climate and an atmosphere in which potentially we can start lessening some of the tensions in the area. >> i know you care about africa and i certainly do and your feelings of watching the refugees, 950 people drowning just trying to find a life and then also kenya, a country we all care about. >> right. >> very moderate country, pro-western, getting terrorized the college kid, the hope of their families getting killed because they are christians. are you still going to go to kenya? >> i am still going to go to kenya. look, it's a heartbreak s...

The whole momentum is to pulling out of afghanistan. notice the already the united states, president obama seeing what happened when the u.s. pulled out of iraq and left a vacuum there. the rise of isis, this kind of horrendous attack against civilians has had to leave and wants to leave a slightly bigger deployment of reserve forces in afghanistan than originally thought. with a broader mandate than originally thought. now its only going to be there until 2016, we're told. but maybe that will increase. what you have is good news, is a very good president elected in afghanistan. he's a moderat...

Latitude and they screwed it up. >> that being said, dow believe that the goal in iraq should be democracy for that country or do we have to be more explicit and after so many years of operating in iraq, that we want a pro western, pro government in place that we are willing to do the work to achieve that? >> in the end, it is not our decision on whether a country is pro- democrat or pro-western. we want a government that we can work with and that includes a government is not oppressing the minorities. the current government there has done that. and that has to change before we play an effecti...

That election in afghanistan, they ended up with a pro western president out of that. >> bob, whether you agree with george bush's policy or not he made it a central issue to go after radical islam. you've been very vocal about your thoughts about radical islam on this show. do you think david gregory was being provocative? >> i think to suggest that somehow this was the creation of radical islam is silly. he has no notion of history but having said that, there are those of us who believe unequivocally to this day that the invasion of iraq unleeshed forces into the extremist forces into that m...