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Now if there's an attack or a provocation, sure. but never do americans spontaneously say, hey, let's get back involved in iraq. that's why we have a president and we have an executive groonch do unpopular things when necessary. >> the interesting thing though is that a lot of people are arguing that because of the president's actions, this sort of security vacuum was left in iraq and now some are asking could the same thing happen in afghanistan? the president vowing, of course, to leave their relatively soon as well. >> well, we have very analogous situations going on because what you have i...

Part of key iraqi actors so that an organization like isis cannot take advantage of the existing security vacuum that was left after the u.s. troops withdrew, but so that it can also not continue to capitalize on the sunni population's disenchantment with the shia government, christine. >> wow. arwa damon for us this morning. thanks, arwa. >> the politics of iraq front and center right now in washington. house speaker john boehner really lashing out at the president, saying the president made a mistake removing u.s. troops so quickly and so completely, also accusing the president of taking a n...

World. >> we've got the saudis who are very concerned and others as you just mentioned in the arab world. is this all going back to not only the way we left iraq but the way we didn't engage in syria? >> yeah, it's part and parcel of all of that. it starts after 2003, after the invasion of iraq, we did not secure it, we created a security vacuum and produced the civil war in iraq. >> the famous decision to dismiss the army. >> exactly and not occupy it and secure the populist and prevent looting. you're also right, the other kpoen enlt was the decision to not take a more active role in syria. ...

Imagery, providing intelligence, drone imagery, helping the afghan security forces fight the taliban, training them on weapons systems, making sure that they are organized, but going forward, it's unclear if this mission will continue. the united states needs to have a bilateral security agreement with afghanistan for this to continue, and so far president hamid karzai has said he will not sign this agreement, which would mean when the end of the combat operations end at the end of this year, all american forces should leave this country, leaving no one behind. many in washington, many in the ...

To beoops. what do you mean by that? how do you clarify? >> i think what happened was the world community has been not as focused on ukraine as they should be and they left a vacuum. first they left a security vacuum. in view of what was happening in other communities across ukraine, there should have been contingency plans to deal with any potential unrest as a result of a collapse of the party of regions. that didn't happen. so you know the old rule when there's a power vacuum, bad things can happen and it does. so i think it's incumbent on the world community, and started today with nato, i...