CNN CNN Newsroom December 26, 2013 19:48:00
Are you surprised? >> today, the organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self. >> jim walsh, international security analyst with me. you just heard the president, jim, calling al-qaeda a shadow of its former self. so why are we sending weapons to iraq? >> well, it is true we're sending the weapons to help the government back al-qaeda. i think when the president talked then he was really talking about the al-qaeda value, the old version, al-qaeda 1.0, where they had an old base and were able to launch attacks on the u.s. soil. this is more regional and local, thinking in...