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>> we've increased our intelligence. we're prepositioning for the potential of airstrikes. but the president and others are really reluctant to use air power to support maliki. they don't want to take sides in this sectarian debate. >> sure. >> so far maliki has been sectarian. he's not been the government governing all of iraq. >> i'm afraid the two issues that are most connected with this are the way that this group was able to overrun a part of syria, take control, build up and rearm and refinance themselves there in syria and then come over the border. the other aspect is the sectarianism ...

We're prepositioning for the potential of airstrikes. but the president and others are really reluctant to use air power to support maliki. they don't want to take sides in this sectarian debate. >> sure. >> so far maliki has been sectarian. he's not been the government governing all of iraq. >> i'm afraid the two issues that are most connected with this are the way that this group was able to overrun a part of syria, take control, build up and rearm and refinance themselves there in syria and then come over the border. the other aspect is the sectarianism of the maliki government. i think the...

Border into iraq. we've got in the short term to push them back as hard as possible. i think the president is right to send help to the iraqis to be helping the syrian opposition, the moderate syrian opposition, but in the longer term we're going to have to get a strategy for the middle east that identifies correctly the problem, which is this extremism, and bears down on it wherever we can, however we can, with the allies we have in the region. >> we've increased our intelligence. we're prepositioning for the potential of air strikes, but the president and others are really reluctant to use a...

It could have done more. in view of repeated broken promises not just to the u.s., but more significantly to the iraqi people, the u.s. has continued to not just support maliki, but to arm him. >> so what does the u.s. do now? the u.s. still a big supporter in a military sense of iraq certainly in terms of equipment and the like. should they be putting more muscle on him? or is there -- what can they do? >> well, they definitely should be putting more muscle on him because they continue to arm him. and i think one thing is seven this is not going to be won militarily. this is not going to be e...

That they got here to baghdad and i was up the day after the statue was pulled down just behind me. and there was a sense that the u.s. didn't know what to do next. fast forward to now. what he is saying about the u.s. is they have backed al maliki, which he says is fine. they have not put enough pressure on him to rein in the sectarianism. to be more inclusive. here's part of what he said about the u.s. >> they should support maliki. it's up to them. but they should also clarify to maliki that their support is conditional. on inclusivity of the political process and respecting the constitutio...