CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS December 27, 2015 18:42:00
He had come into office promising to heal the country's sectarian divide. instead, he inflamed it. maliki met frequently with david petraeus. >> i would have loved to have tested the proposition that it might have given us the kind of influence necessary to dissuade prime minister maliki from some of the highly sectarian action that he took. >> 10,000 troops, a plan to leave a force of that size had been floated in washington and baghdad. it was a plan that never came to fruition. >> i don't know whether 10,000 troops would have given us the leverage. i actually, i suspect it might not have. b...