of the union address only true he's been able to achieve so now obama did try to assert himself by valli him to sidestep congress on a number of issues for example using his executive power to raise the minimum wage for federal workers but on the big ticket items his hands really are tied obama needs congress to play ball and given the current climate on capitol hill it's simply not very likely that he's going to get it now this speech was very light on foreign policy or obama did remind viewers that he's imposed limits on the use of drones and also promised again to reform u.s. surveillance but no details on how he planned to do that the president did also mention ukraine saying the u.s. stands for the principle that all people have the right to express themselves freely and peacefully and have a say in their country's future so really coming out on the side of the protesters they're not really straying from the administration response over the past few weeks and so when it comes to the actual policy proposals really not much in terms of what's new we really are seeing obama sort of try

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those cases the shia were persecuted and one of the things that iraq unlocked was this, you know, what vally calls the revivalal of the shia. i remember reading his book and in it he said all the wars of the middle east are now going to be wars within islam on the sectarian lines and it turned out to be quite -- >> i think vali was right on that point. not only shia majorities coming to power but we really saw kind of the up ending of the whole orders in the middle east. we're still seeing that play out. where you have minority vee geems governing majority regimes. >> like assad. >> some ways syria is the exact mirror opposite of iraq where you had a sunni minority governing a shia majority. i agree there's been an up ended but it's too easy to think that calm stability which we fondly look back on in some cases, would have persisted in the absence of what happened over the last decade. as both our guests here have already intimated, sectarianism didn't come about after 2003 and the removal of saddam. certainly as someone who spent the better part of two years in iraq, i'll be the first to a