CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper June 23, 2014 20:09:00
Made mistakes doing and which could have been done if we left troops into iraq and especially if we stopped the syrian civil war from getting out of control. i don't know with the syria war metasizing into iraq, kurdistan's not a problem. independent, semi independent, defacto independent. the problem be al qaeda stan, the isis or isil controlled territory to the north or west of iraq and iran controls shia south. that is a terrible security situation for the united states, a terrible geopolitical situation for the u.s. and its allies. obviously we have to have long-term plans and strategies. ...