central command, retired general anthony zinni.r under secretary of policy at the department of defense, michele flournoy. and, retired u.s. army colonel andrew bacevich. welcome to all four of you. let me just quickly go around the group to begin and get your response to this addition of 450 more military advisors in iraq. secretary panetta, you first. >> well there's no question that i think the president's taken the right step in adding these trainers and advisors. we're in a tough situation where i.s.i.s., obviously, is resilient. they've got a lot of momentum. i think we need to do this. i suspect that we're going to have to take more steps, particularly that we're now in a combat zone, where we're going to have to have more flexible rulings of engagement. i think we do need additional special forms to help not only with c.t. operations but with targeting and i do think we have to ensure that arms do flow both to the sunnis and the kurds. all of that is going to be necessary in order to be able to achieve the mission that we'v

and there seemed to be in the wonderful discussion you had this week with general zinni, a secretaryand others that there seemed to be a consensus that it wasn't going to happen without greater u.s. involvement and engagement, and i just don't see that being a reality either politically or militarily. >> woodruff: the majority view of some of the analysts out there but david is it the right thing to do now? >> i think so. i think the drawdown of the troops was too fast. one of the biggest mistakes of the presidency is to draw down the troops too fast. some stability had been achieved, the sunni tribes in sunni areas drew down too fast i.s.i.s. came in. the troops, what 450 advisors will do, their effect, the key thing is we were effectively arrived with sunni backed shias. they're shifting helping some of the sunni tribes. and it's got to be the sunni taking over sunni areas. it does not work to have irony backed shia taking over sunnis. that's a recipe for hostility and resent meant. a lot of the irani militias were coming in executing and looting places. >> david makes a good point

general zinni, let him move on to iran.dline is tomorrow for a nuclear deal between the six superpowers and i've read that the deadline is now fluid. officials say we will stay in vienna while the iranian officials have gone back to tehran to talk to us government. what is your take on a potential iran deal? >> i think the key is we cannot compromise on the verification regime. our allies in the region, israel, both allies and others are watching us like a hawk. we are in a position where it is not going to harm us as much as i read it this thing stretches out. the situation as it stands now stays in place. that hurts iran in the long run. but we can't do is want this to more than iran or anybody else in compromise on our ability to have access to all the powers that produce the kinds of material that would lead to the weapon of mass destruction. that is everybody's biggest concern right now insert lately with all all hope that our negotiators will not budge removed from that position. treated to at this point we know iran

national security officials, famous diplomats, including jim baker and brent scowcroft and marine general zinni and the head of the former national security agency, bill odom, spoke out and wrote against invading iraq before it happened in march 2003. a majority of the people in this country think that there's something inflated about our military budget. [scattered laughter] all right. well, they've read the pentagon audits and the gao reports and the "60 minute" exposes and so on. it's horrendously inflated. waste, fraud, abuse is only part of it. we're still building cost-overrun military weapons systems designed for the soviet union era of hostility. like, the f-22 should never be built. you could put it on this stage. that's how much $200 million of electronics cost, profit in overruns. why are we building more submarines, nuclear submarines? one trident submarine--nuclear warheads can destroy 200 cities. that's before it reloads. why are we building more aircraft carriers, $15 billion a carrier? we got 13. the next country to challenge us is italy, has two. [laughter] it's the military in