might try and soften the city. car bombs, attacks, little shoot and run attacks. assassinations. the kind of violence we saw in the worst days of the war in 2006 and 2007. today, a fleet of u.s. military assets moving into the persian gulf as the white house weighs its next move including possible air strikes and opens informal talks with iran. >> when you have people murdering, assassinating in these mass massacres you have to stop that and you do what you need to do if you need to try to stop it from the air or otherwise. >> and the republican playbook. hillary clinton signing books at a d.c. area costco runs into a few familiar faces. but republicans already crafting their counterattack with the help of mitt romney. >> if you were running for president again, and if she were the democratic nominee, what's

the playbook to beat her? >> well, the playbook, i believe is to look at her record. i think you have to consider what's happened around the world during the years she was secretary of state. and you have to say it's been a monumental bust. then her most recent comments as she was rolling out the book she was asked whether the bergdahl trade was one that presented a threat to the united states. and she came back with a clueless answer. she was clueless. plus, world cup fever. team usa supporters, including vice president biden, descending on brazil for tonight's first match kickoff. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. tal afar has fallen to militants.

and the senior military officer was reportedly captured. the violence and instability only intensifying in iraq and the threat to baghdad becoming more real. some 100 american soldiers and marines arrived overnight to provide additional security at the u.s. embassy. and an unspes fight number of embassy staff were moved out to consulates. secretary of state john kerry said today the obama administration is not ruling out cooperation with iran or what to do next. officials say that is most likely taking place alongside nuclear talks with iran already taking place in vienna. he did an interview with katie couric on yahoo!. joining me for the latest from iraq, richard engel is in baghdad. and jim miklaszewski. richard engel, first to you. we know there's been some fortifying of the embassy there. some evacuations. what about the situation on the streets in baghdad? >> we just came from a drive around the streets here. first of all, it's not very easy to drive around the streets.

there are security checkpoints on every corner. they stop vehicles. they want to know who we are, who the foreigners are, who iraqis are on the streets. and you don't see many iraqis on the streets. many of the shops appeared to be closed. it isn't just soldiers who have deployed on the corners looking in cars, asking for documents. there are also these shiite militias driving around in civilian cars. some were in uniforms. others just wearing all black outfits. their guns, assault rifles hanging outside of their windows. this is a city that is now being secured by the army, by the militias. it doesn't feel like a city that could fall easily. it feels like a city that has taken its gun out, locked and loaded it, and is holding it in its hands should something happen. people here expect that there won't be any kind of invasion, that those days may have passed because the communities here

have woken up and are now in a very strong defensive position. what they do expect is car bombings, assassinations, militants slipping in perhaps from a neighborhood or who are already here and trying to destabilize the government through terrorist attacks. >> and putting up a map also of some of the cities that have already fallen, richard. as you've seen the advance and you have been reporting on how rapid this advance was, by the isis forces, they are also making claims of mass executions of the iraqi -- whoever kept their uniforms on and maybe some they captured. they say as many as 1,700 were killed. what are iraqi officials saying about that? >> iraqi officials are outraged. they are engaged in a massive media campaign. i was listening to the radio a short while ago and watching the television here, local radio and television. it is nothing but patriotic

songs, praising the government, praising the armed forces. they want people to join up and join the military to take revenge against this terrorist group that is being described as nothing but a terrorist group here. the government has confirmed that some sort of massacre did take place in western iraq. they haven't confirmed what the militants are saying, which is 1700 people were executed. that video, which came out over the weekend, shows roughly 150 iraqi forces apparently loaded into a vehicle and then executed. what's important to understand is this is a sectarian conflict. it is not just simply a government that is fighting against an invading force. it's more sophisticated than that. this invading force is sunni primarily. almost exclusively. the government is led by shiites. and this invading force has always been moving through relatively friendly territory.

it's been moving across other shiite areas. that's why it's been able to take ground so quickly and why that advance came to something of an abrupt halt when it hit the edges of baghdad. but it is not just isis, this al qaeda offshoot fighting in the areas. it's been joined by baath party members, people thrown out of party. i'm in the square right now where the statue of saddam hussein came down. this square is symbolic for many reasons for the shiite community. they remember this as the first time in about 13 centuries when shiites came to power. for sunnis, when they saw that statue come down and the government collapse about 24 hours later, this was a devastating moment. they have been on the run since then. they've been out of power since then dreaming of a time to come back in power and now this vangard, this very aggressive military group is leading the charge and other sunnis are getting behind it. >> ayman, when we talk about

other sunnis getting behind it, we also have the fact the united states in vienna today and elsewhere perhaps, secretly talking to iran about how to, you know, how to figure the lines of authority. how to coordinate. and how to deal with the fact that the head of the qods force, the iranian revolutionary guard, the bad guys supposedly, are now our new allies in going against isis? i mean, this is extraordinarily complicated. >> it is. as one political analyst here told me it is the irony of all ironies that the united states and iran have a convergent of forces in iraq fighting the type of al qaeda-linked groups that the united states and other u.s. applies in the region, including saudi arabia and qatar were trying to support in their very same fight inside syria. so you can see that the composition of the lines of the

middle east are constantly being redrawn. the allegiances and the cooperation is completely being redrawn if you will, depending on what happens on the ground. according to some of the sources that i've been speaking to here in the region, the cooperation between the united states and iran does not necessarily have to be anything tactical. it could also be political. there are some that i've spoken to within the sunni arab community that say the only way for this crisis to send for the prime minister and his government to step down for the country to reconstitute a new government that represents the political diversity of this country and actually share power among the various groups. is the united states prepared to say to prime minister maliki to step down. and more importantly, is the iranian government prepared to see prime minister maliki step down from power and to allow perhaps some new leaders in iraq to emerge? he's been here in power now for several years. and a lot of the blames that have been put on his shoulders is the iranian government has been backing him.

as you mentioned, there are now reports that iran's special forces, the revolutionary guard have been deployed in iraq to try and shore up support for the prime minister as they did in syria. so the real question is, on a political level, to what exte extent -- is prime minister maliki to step aside or respond accordingly if iran wants to stand by its men in baghdad? >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon has now clarified there will be no military cooperation with iran but certainly political cooperation saun the books. it's happening now in vienna with the deputy of secretary of state bill burns, we believe, and the iranian officials. they were already meeting today on the nuclear issues. and they do have to figure out who is doing what. and if there were to be air strikes and you know the planning is being done, even though the president has indicated reluctant to do this. if they are going to do any kind of military action inside iraq,

they have to figure out where the iranian forces are at the same time. jim miklaszewski? >> i'm sorry, andrea. let me go back to this idea, any suggestion that the u.s. and iranian militaries would work together. that door was pretty much slammed shut this morning when the pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby said there are no intentions, no plans to coordinate military activities with iran inside iraq. there will be no military consultations with iran inside iraq. and i can tell you going back to what richard said a few minutes ago, andrea, that this is a sectarian conflict. and it is shaping up, if, in fact, the iraqi military forces get their act together with the support of iran, we're looking at a shia versus sunni war, and

the experienced military officials who have fought in iraq, experience combat pilots who have flown over iraq, none of them want to get involved in a sectarian war. get in the middle of it. and quite frankly, even the pilots themselves from a tactical standpoint said it would be very difficult to pick out precise targets without collateral damage, civilian casualties or, as you suggested, perhaps hitting iranian forces or iraqi forces instead of the sunni militants that they would be targeting. they all say from their standpoint, it's a no-go. but they are still awaiting the decision from the president, andrea. >> and as the president has to make these decisions, richard engel, what is the chance the maliki government is going to change its policies, the policies it's had for all these years against u.s. pressure, despite u.s. pressure and advice and finally open things up to the sunnis who have been excluded from that government?

>> i think they are pretty slim. i think maliki right now is feeling strong. he feels like he has an enemy that the world hates. an enemy that presents itself as an al qaeda group. and he now has strong allies. he is fighting an enemy that is the common enemy of his friend iran. his friend bashar al assad in syria. if you look at a map, where the iraqi government is, where iran is, where bashar al assad is, this militant group is effectively surrounded by hostile shiite forces in this case. so if the u.s. gets involved it would have to accept that it is joining a shiite alliance against a sunni movement, joining that alliance with bashar al assad's syria, iran and maliki's government. that's what's at stake. >> richard engel and ayman mohyeldin. marines have been sent to shore up the u.s. embassy in baghdad. we're not talking about big numbers.

contractors and other u.s. personnel were sent to consulates in safer parts of the country and in jordan outside of the country as john kerry told katie couric today in the yahoo! interview. >> i'm absolutely convinced that we have the security we need for our embassy. we watched this every single day. we have had any number of meetings to make evaluations. we don't discuss the numbers of people, but suffice it to say there are a number of contractors doing various things around the country and because of the situation around the country, clearly they're not able to be out there safely at this point in time. >> joining us now is william cohen, former congressman, senator and importantly, secretary of defense during the clinton years and played a large role in directing u.s. military actions in iraq during "operation desert fox" in late 1990s. thank you very much for being with us. first of all, what military decisions should the president be making? are there options for air

strikes that could be effective without putting special forces on the ground inside iraq to direct these strikes, given the ability of isis to become, you know, part of civilians and to hug close to civilians who could be targeted? >> i think it's very hard to do unless you have some boots on the ground in the sense of advisers, intelligence individuals who are collecting information and spotting where the congregations of the isis would be. absent that, you'd have to say is isis really dumb enough to form into large groups to mount an assault knowing that under those circumstances they could be targeted without folks being on the ground to direct our either uavs or combat aircraft taking them out. so i'd say unless we have people on the ground helping out it becomes very problematic as to whether they could be effective. but i'd like to come back andrea to the notion of talking to the iranians. as a poet once said, history has

many cunning passages and contrived corridors. if you think back over the years, we at one point were supporting saddam hussein against iran. then we launch an attack against saddam hussein. we encouraged the uprising of shia in the south and then abandon them. and then removed saddam and now we're talking about supporting at least talking to an iranian government that in fact, has been dictating to the prime minister of iraq what should be done. i don't think the president should do anything to help prime minister maliki out, unless there is a real commitment to a political transition that involves the kurds and the sunni majority. absent that, i think you are going to see, and i think we are seeing, that iraq is being divided into three parts. up in the north, the kurds, the south, the shia being kroeld and

in the vast middle, a civil war that will continue for years to come. and i don't see that we're changing that by any sort of solitary strikes here and there. that has to be a strategy and it has to be one that's based on a political reality that nothing is going to change unless maliki himself changes. and unless the iranians understand that they are going to continue to see this war go on unless they are willing to see a more inclusive and unified government in iraq. >> and, in fact, the argument that the sunnis have made against maliki is that he has been to sectarian and that he's excluded the sunnis. if we help him be backed by iran, isn't that only going to further alienate the sunnis and draw them into the arms of isis? >> absolutely. i think the sunni majority -- minority is going to demand they

be able to come back into power. they haven't had a power sharing arrangement. maliki has been very sectarian. with the support of iran. now the whole issue of whether or not we could have stayed in some numbers really is just debatable. on the one hand, many feel that we should have insisted much stronger that we have a residual force there and the argument that comes back is, well, maliki was taking his orders from iran saying under no circumstances could american troops remain. well, maliki is now paying the wages of his sins in the sense that when you take the u.s. forces out, it's almost predictable what's going to happen. it takes time to train an army. it takes time to inculcate certain democratic values and, clearly, maliki has been pursuing a very narrow sectarian objective. and as a result of that, you have the sunni moderates joining with the most radical of all elements in al qaeda now taking

towns all over the central part certainly and part of the north of iraq. i think that we're not going to be in a position and don't want to be a position of helping iran simply confirm what's been going on by having a purely shia government running iraq. >> and finally, suleman, the head of the qods force in baghdad this week. the worst of the iranian government, worst military operatives. suleman who the u.s. accused of actually trying to assassinate the saudi arabia ambassador here in georgetown, in washington, d.c. whether or not that's true, that's the accusation. so why would we in any way be working with him and with the very people who are helping -- who are helping assad and sending arms to syria across iraq? >> i think we're seeing what happened when we failed to take action with the support of the moderate elements in syria. and turned away from that.

we've sent a signal globally to all of the countries in the gulf that we are retreating from the region, that we're saying over to you. we're out of here. we're sending that signal by standing on the sidelines, certainly, in ukraine and i just returned from a conference in singapore in which many of the asian countries, the asia-pacific countries feel that we are still a very strong military power. we no longer have the will to act like a superpower and, therefore, they are making different calculations on their own security. so we've got -- and the perception may be wrong. it may be unfair but that's the perception that america is retreating. and, according to the american public, that's fine with them. but i think it's incumbent upon the president to convey to the american people why it's important that we have to be forward deployed. we have to have forces in various parts of the world, and we've been doing that for years now to our great benefit and to world stability. when we pull back, you have an

absence there, and it's being filled by radical elements or it's going to be fills by the russians and the chinese over time. that's not a world in which we really can feel very comfortable or good about. >> bill cohen, thank you very much. former defense secretary. it's decision season at the supreme court. the end of, or mid to end of june with several hotly anticipated cases awaiting perfect the summer recess. one major decision announced this morning. the court ruled to uphold a federal gun law that makes it a crime for one person to buy a gun for another. while lying to the dealer about who the gun is really for. it's known as the straw man purchase. writing for the court in a 5-4 majority, justice kagen said the law helps to keep guns out of the hands of those not legally able to buy them, including those with mental illness or previous felly convictions. more decisions are expected thursday. good job!

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and this weekend the al qaeda inspired militant group isis posted graphic photos. video they say showed 1700 iraqi soldiers being herded into trucks and executed. state department won't confirm the attack but condemned the tactics in the strongest possible terms. joining me now is david ignatius, columnist at "the washington post" and kimberly dozier, from the daily beast. former intelligence writer for the ap. former cbs news correspondent who covered the war in iraq and was wounded there in a car bombing. david, first to you. a lot of people are wondering how could intelligence, american intelligence have missed this and maybe they didn't miss it. maybe it was just that people in

washington were hoping that it wouldn't come to pass. but this march by isis and the quick taking of city after city has certainly caught a lot of people off guard. >> i think this is more a policy failure than an intelligence failure. certainly intelligence officers have known that isis was getting stronger and stronger both in northeast syria from iraq east along the euphrates valley. and in iraq, two months ago, isis was effectively in control of mosul. you could listen to national public radio reports about the impossibility for sunnis living in mose towul to conduct busine without being extorted by isis. u.s. intelligence officials have known about this. whether that was sending alarm bells to the white house is

another issue. one thing that troubles me the most is that as isis gained force in iraq, our response was to, in effect, double down with maliki, to begin to provide counterterrorism assistance of a stronger kind to maliki's government. that government was so sectarian, so hated by iraq's sunni population that it was a recipe for what we've seen. i think there's going to need to be a searching re-examination of how we got here. but i think intelligence officers have seen it coming. what is done in light of that information was inadequate. >> and kimberly, you spent so much time in iraq and spent so much time recovering from your wounds, you talked to a lot of the return soldiers. clearly the veterans community has to be incredibly distressed as seeing the unraveling of this country. >> it's painful. i've heard from a lot of both

commanders and rank and file guys who were in the field who say, you know, how could it come to this or they say, yep, we saw this coming. it was only a matter of time. it really divides into the group who thought that the only reason the shiites and the sunnis weren't fighting was because they were there and the best we could do before it exploded in our faces. and then the other side who said, if we convinced prime minister maliki to let us keep 3500 troops there, maybe those advisers would have stiffened the spine of the iraqi forces. maybe they wouldn't have run in the face of the fight from isis. and perhaps also we would have a better intelligence picture than we have now. as david was saying, yes, the cia saw this coming. dia director mike flynn said in february, isis is going to try to take territory in iraq, probably this year. but here we are. >> and david, the same time that the maliki government has been

propped up by the united states, there's no evidence that they've done anything to reach out to the sunni. in fact, he doesn't have a defense minister. he was running defense himself. and those soldiers who took off their uniform and fled were basically fleeing partly because they have no allegiance to the government. they feel completely repressed by that government. >> maliki's army has been disastrous. he has systematically purged the good commanders, the genuine military officers who the u.s. tried to train. there weren't enough of them. but the ones who were there, he didn't trust and replaced them with political loyalists, people who followed him and the dowa party. that's part of why the iraqi army's performance has been so pathetic in this conflict. it was led by officers who often were not competent. i'd love in a moment if there's time to talk a little bit about

the question you were discussing earlier of u.s. cooperation with iran because i think -- >> please. >> just to briefly express my own view. i think for the u.s. to intervene militarily with iran on behalf of maliki and the sectarian shia government would be a terrible, terrible mistake. this is not a war in which they want to take sides. however if it's possible to begin a dialogue with iran and saudi arabia and other regional partners about how, over time, to stabilize the situation in iraq, get a unity government that i think has to exclude maliki and begin to stabilize the situation, we're going to be living with an effectively partitions iraq now for some time. the question is, will you have a government in baghdad that at least has international legitimacy and will the united states and its allies have counterterrorism platforms to

begin going after isis where it is. isis does not have universal support. quite the opposite. it burns too hot. the sunni tribal leaders do not like isis. they are fighting with it. they've told me in conversations in the last two months, we do not want to be their allies permanently. >> and kimberly, that validates what you know from the ground as well that the sunnis were forced into the arms of isis but would prefer to have a representative government in baghdad. >> that also complicates for the pentagon planners right now what they choose to hit. they would like to go after isis military targets. but isis is in the urban areas. a lot of the shiite militias are also out there right now dressed in civilian clothes. easy to mix the two up. and you want to try to separate isis from the sunni tribal leaders so you maybe can win over to the u.s. side. but if you hit one of their

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ruth, first to you. mitt romney taking on hillary clinton. they all seem to see vulnerabilities in her and they are seizing on the sort of rocky book tour. >> yes, and it was very interesting. one thing that he left out was he didn't mention the other "b" word besides bergdahl which is benghazi, for one. and then i think i'm not sure about whether her comments on bergdahl are a vulnerability, but one thing that will be an interesting set of discussions, something that she touches on very, very lightly in "hard choices," she is -- iraq and her role in the maliki government, the decision to -- the failure to negotiate a status of forces agreement and how that situation was allowed to deteriorate. if you look in the index of the book, one mention of maliki. she fesses up to having got ten wrong on iraq and then she doesn't say very much more about it. >> the vote to go in was 2002 so that does not involve her tenure

as secretary of state. chris cillizza, we just saw some pictures of what happens when you go to the pentagon city costco on saturday to do a book signing. and all of a sudden either john lewis is there or we see sonia sotomayor who was doing their saturday shopping. it does show you that supreme court justices also have to shop and have to shop at big box stores and ran into hillary clinton there. the book tour you would think with all of the fanfare and the carefully chosen set of interviews and all the rest that she could avoid controversy or is it controversial just because the book is so cautious? >> i think it's a fine line between sort of the way she's portraying it, which is, i'm being more myself. i'll unbound. i'm going to say it how it is and saying things that get you into long-term trouble. i do think one of the critiques of her and i'm sure she's examined this during the 2008 campaign was too guarded. too cautious. didn't take any risks.

so, you know, she probably does want to have a little bit more freedom in terms of what she says and how she says it. that said, she's the biggest -- nonincumbent front-runner, certainly in the modern history of presidential campaigns which means she will get a level of scrutiny that no other candidate will get. it's a very fine line there. i tend to think for a very disciplined candidate, and i say that in a good way. the last week interestingly enough with the book tour was not her -- at her best. maybe shaking off a little bit of rust. maybe trying to find that right balance. but not her best. >> and the republicans themselves, mitt romney being urged by some to get back into the fray. we're told that that's not going to happen. at least he was pretty categorical with david gregory on "meet the press." >> he made a very good telling point that impressed me and the other folks who there were which is pointing out that if he were thinking about running, he probably wouldn't have been

introducing his potential rivals to his top donors and fund-raisers. >> all of whom showed up. >> that is the -- when you start introducing them to the people who financed your campaigns then you know you're not running. >> ruth marcus, chris cillizza. chris, see you later. thank you both very much. it's been 42 years since "washington post" reporters bob woodward and carl burnstein blew open the watergate scandal that would eventually bring down president nixon with an anon us in source known as deep throat. their source was later identified as mark felt. now another chapter is closing. local officials in arlington, virginia, have voted to tear down the parking garage where woodward met with deep throat. the garage will be demolished so that developers can build apartments and office buildings. but it will always have a place in cinematic history thanks to the movie "all the president's men." >> cover-up had little to do with watergate. it was mainly to protect the covert operations.

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they've opened up military facilities in texas, california, oklahoma to ship some of these kids. some of them are coming here to miami. some of them are going to be shipped up to like baltimore and richmond, virginia, very soon. the purpose of this trip is to try to figure out what the -- try to figure out what they can do to help those countries. it isn't as simple as trying to seal down the borders down there. as we well know it's pretty hard to do that. what they are talking about is providing assistance in terms of short-term thing like trying to lock up those borders. but also trying to work on the longer term issues that's prompting this. the economic insecurity down there. the incredible violence in those three countries. el salvador, guatemala and honduras are three of the most violent countries in the world. the highest murder rates. i think 3 of the 6 highest murder rates in the entire world. so they are working on, figuring out what they can do to stem this right now and also long term to work on the security and economic issues so that push to get those kids up to the united

states can be eased up a little bit. >> alan, i can't even imagine what would motivate the level of violence that would motivate parents to hand their children over to these smugglers given the death rate even along the route. it's just horrendous to even think about what's happening to these kids. >> yeah. and i think that's one of the things that's kind of hard to understand in this debate. we're having a very political debate here in the united states. has president obama welcomed this because of his lax immigration enforcement? on the other hand, are we sending a bad message to central america and latin america saying come on up. if you are kids, you'll be able to stay here. these kids continue to get deported. they get here. we get them and they are placed into deportation proceedings but at the very beginning of that, like you mentioned, i think it's -- we're losing the sight of the fact that these parents are, yeah, sending these kids off with smugglers who are very often involved with cartels that are working with these gangs.

that's part of their income. and that's why a lot of these kids, they are coming through the same deserts, crossing the same rivers and hopping on the same trains that adults have been doing for years. so it's really hard to picture what's going on in a parent's head when they are doing that. the desperation they are facing and how they just have no other options. . that's one thing we need to be considering when talking about all of this. >> alan gomez thank you very much from "usa today." the vice president is going to be joining team usa at the world cup for the kickoff match tonight against ghana. and it follows an epic triple-header championship weekend for sports fans. friday, the los angeles kings out west defeated the new york rangers taking home the stanley cup. on in to the links, german martin kaymer capped off four dominating rounds at pinehurst and coasted to an eight-shot u.s. open win. and last night in game five of the nba finals, the san

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>> heading up there tomorrow. so this is obviously being done in advance of it. the president with an executive order can't and the -- as you said, discrimination based on sexuality across the workforce, but he can do it for federal contractors which is a big part of the workforce. this continues to be something we saw in the state of the union where the president said year of action. going to use his -- the power of the pen. executive orders. we've seen some of that. but the problem with executive orders is that there's only so much you can do. obviously some on the left want him to do more. this will be well received within the gay, lesbian and transgendered community on the eve of him going up there. but it's hard to do it without any support from congress, including some within your own party to get big things done. i think that's sort of the story of his second term thus far. >> this is the continuing evolution of barack obama.

we saw him being forward leaning on gender equality and sexual preference, sexual orientation, i should say in his second inaugural address. hillary clinton has stumbled along the road, at least she was criticized in her npr terry gross interview. clinton forces say that was an unfair interpretation of what she was saying. but she also has had to evolve to the place where she is openly supportive of all of the goals. >> i think we focus a lot on how republican politicians, some of them at least, are trying to change their positions on this. but the societal movement on this has been so rapid. democratic politicians, too. obama and clinton alike are struggling to sort of keep up. >> thank you so much. chris cillizza. that does it for us for a busy edition of "andrea mitchell reports." former ambassador to new york, ryan crocker joining me tomorrow. follow the show online, on facebook and on twitter at mitchell reports. my colleague ronan farrow has a

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constructive that can be contributed by iran, if iran is prepared to do something that is going to respect the integrity and sovereignty of iraq and the ability of the government to reform, i think we are open to any constructive process here that could minimize the violence, hold iraq together. the integrity of the country. >> the pentagon was quick to stress that for now, that would be purely political, not military collaboration. iran would be something of a strange bedfellow, though, of course, with the shared goal of stopping sunni insurgents sweeping iraq right now. it would be the latest in a long history of america forging some pretty uneasy alliances in this region. desperate measures spurred by desperate circumstances. that's because isis fighters took another city tal afar just before dawn today. adding it to this list of territories already under isis control. you see those cities