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Near and what our potsture is in the region going forward is a big strategic questions for the next administration to work out. but i think that what is important here is to realize that iraq itself faces critical challenges and the way those town out are important for u.s. national security, the challenges are terrorist groups, iran, for example, and, just the cohesion of iraq itself, and most military analysts and our own generals in the field tell you that iraq simply is not up to the challenges. >>shepard: the extremist whom you mention, the sunni extremists and insurgents, i guess, are fu...

Forces be able to keep control of the security situation there? given that there will be forces, both inside and outside the country, that would like to see the second table tensions come to a boil. >>shepard: we are all hoping to get them trained and that their politicians could get their mine -- mindset right but hope is not a strategy and was it anything ever more than hope? >>guest: the question is the glidepath. we have gone from having several hundred thousand troops in iraq to, now, zero, essentially, and, again, our commanders would have liked to have left behind a force significant en...