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Far periphery, uninvolved. security situations view this as an opportunity to pick up anybody and everybody, sort of the rules about who you pick up are out the window. they may be picking up people it might get smaller is what i'm saying because they may be picking up people because they have vague suspicions and they'll realize quickly some of these folks probably weren't closely involved. >> then narrow that down. >> guys in the control room grab the foreign fighter map so we can put the numbers up while we talk about tunisia. it was seen as one of the successes of the arab spring. but if y...

Entire u.s. population and government and moreover it takes the commitment of the american people for the long-term. that's what jim is getting at. >> sarah, what is going to be the solution next? we're going to manage this and then what? at what point do we walk away or do we now just never walk away? >> it becomes difficult to walk away. because these situations are spinning quite badly out of control. and it's spreading. you can -- there is a theme in these conflicts that also crosses a number of other really serious security situations, which is acutely bad governance or even -- look at ar...

Cause problems. either attacks within baghdad which they have been doing p. they can still he is security and one of the worst case is if there are security situations at the embassy and we have to shut down or temporarily close or relocate or evacuate staff, those are worst case scenarios we need to watch for. that may not be a take over but that would be something to dramatically alter both the policy strategically and how they deal with iraq and the strategy in general. >> a possible, you think? >> a possibility between a mortar attack. we have seen those things happen before. you know, it ...

They have been shaping mosul for two years by conducting terrorist attacks. this is vehicle born ied, suicide bombers, blowing up government facilities, police stations, undermining people's confidence in the military and in the police. last summer in 2013 they began an assassination campaign of key individuals. they waited until that target they believed lost its resolve and will and then they launched this conventional military operation to cease mosul. >> is isis in syria and iraq a threat, is it a safe haven to terror attacks against us? >> as of right now isis is not a direct threat of u....

Russia. and ukraine -- crimea's part of ukraine and there's absolutely the right for ukraine to request under this document military observation, mission to dispel concerns about security situations on the ground, which are concerns, by the way, that have been raised by i the russian federation themselves. >> and this argument that the local crimea government, which crimea, of course, is part of the sovereign state of ukraine. but this local government in crimea doesn't want these observers to come in. what's the reaction? what's the -- what do you say to that? >> well, the so-called governmen...