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Jim acosta, thank you very much. the troop drawdown may have a ripple down effect in the region. right next door, as all of us know, is pakistan. with fewer troops in afghanistan, will that limit u.s. options in dealing with terror in pakistan? >> wolf, this may be a key question for what does happen two years from now when u.s. troops pack up and go home. what happens if the u.s. spots an al qaeda terrorist training camp right on that afghanistan/pakistan border in what if pakistan's nuclear weapons are not secure? how does the u.s. operate against terrorist elements inside of pakistan? no on...

Sense -- she feels the iranians know there's a moment here. it's not just an emotional thing. it's not just about sanctions. they feel for the first time that their interests in the region overlap with america's interest. they feel threatened by what they see as an encirclement, by terrorist elements, who happen to be enemies of the u.s. they see a strategic interest in trying to align with the u.s. now. they don't want -- whether or not they want the u.s. to be their best friends, they certainly don't want the u.s. to be their enemies. so there's a strategic reason for iran to follow through ...

Circumstances, but we have been in south korea for a significant period of time. >> not a civil war going on. >> that's the point, that's why i got to the point about saying that the government there ultimately, and that's going to be the case in afghanistan as well, has to be able to provide internal security on their own. if you don't have a functional government that can provide the basics of government, no residual force is going to ultimately guarantee the result we want. it's just not possible. ultimately, iraq belongs to iraq. even afghanistan belongs to afghans. they ultimately have to...

Recollection sted away. -- wrested away. you have got a civil war in syria that's growing worse by the day. you have got rising terrorist elements all across north africa and the middle east from algeria, nigeria, right across to somalia and the arabian peninsula. this is a huge issue. the president doesn't want to talk about the global war and terror. he doesn't want to engage on a war on terror. he wants to indict in federal criminal trials. i think the significance of the traj chicago benghazi does give you a window into the much broader, much more significant question. bill: if you weren't...

Here. we have had over the past four years, a pipeline of young somali americans, particularly from minneapolis, of all places, going to somalia, training, and then returning here to america, and apparently, neil, in this mall massacre, some americans were involved in this massacre in terms of seizing that mall. so we have a big problem there. >> neil: we're get something disputes on that, but what is driving them? is a understand they were -- had a prominent government helping somalia weed out some of the terrorist elements within somalia. >> kenya has done separations in somalia. somalia is ...