feisal istrabadi was iraq's deputy ambassador to the united nations from 2004 to 2007.s now a professor of international law and diplomacy at indiana university. abbas kadhim was born and raised in iraq and is now a senior foreign policy fellow at johns hopkin university's school of advanced international studies. and charles duelfer served as a united nations weapons inspector in iraq, leading the effort to find weapons of mass destruction after the 2003 u.s. invasion. welcome to you all. feisal istrabadi, until a few years ago, iraq's politics seemed to be relatively stable. what has happened in what seems to be such a short time? >> i think over the last two years the prime minister has increasingly come to confront some of the other partners that he has in the coalition. he has begun in the last few months to confront the iraq militarily in a variety of ways, the sunni, and the kurdish region in iraq economically and i think this has caused many of his coalition partners to look upon him with some question harks. >> ifill: are the question marks from within or witho

feisal istrabadi was iraq's deputy ambassador to the united states from 2004 to 2007.s now a professor of the practice of international law and diplomacy indiana university, bloomington. ambassador, let me start with you. do you share i guess the perception we just got from jane arraf that this is a country that may be disintegrating and this is every bit as much as a political as military crisis? >> i do. i agree with much of what jane said now. iraq is facing an existential crisis, a moment where the iraqi political class and the broader people of iraq have to answer the questions do we as iraqis want to live together in one country or do we not and what other ramifications of answering the question one way or another. the root of the solution of this problem has been for years and not just in the last four or five days a political solution and the current government in iraq has simply failed to live up to the expectation that it could find a political solution because as jane has just said it seeks a military solution first. >> so ambassador jefferies, if that's the