it the inconvenient revolution behind and of course as a country that's a member of the gulf cooperation council and the gulf cooperation council has assent to calls basically everywhere in the world whether we're talking security wise or economically and does internationally speaking or regionally we're talking about a situation where most people don't want to take a stand against the ruling gulf monarchies that exist today and so politically security wise and economically it doesn't make sense for a lot of these countries who say that they support human rights and democracy in other places to actually take a stand when it comes to behind they would rather turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to the situation you know unlike in syria or egypt or any other arab country the united states hasn't said much about bahrain that critics connected to the strategic positioning of the american fifth fleet in bahrain is that how you see it. i think that the fleet the film he plays a role in the u.s. position towards the behind humor a situation or should i say the deteriorating human rights situation and behind

for a great deal of the base for these terrorists and they are quite frankly aided by the gulf cooperation council countries so we have seen the uptick in violence in syria we have seen the. flow of money and arms and so on and all this aided this violent situation now let me ask you what about the iraqi army how are they doing are they are quick to handle this type of situation well as a iraqi army is. basically it was destroyed or was you know dissolved back in two thousand and three that was a decision taken by the bush administration at the time and ever since then they have been reconstituted they have been trying to reconstitute the army but so far you know the sectarian aspect of the loyalties and the structure of the army has really taken its toll on having a professional army so it is not that effective now while we are seeing these civilian casualties that are happening as i said on a near daily basis most media outlets are not reporting about this instead they're reporting about the sparks middle school shooting which people were killed there reporting about the las vegas casino shootin

throughout the book a different phases is the desire to partner with the gulf air, the gcc, gulf cooperation counciltates be read the first incident i ever found of us trying to work with them and forge a collusive bond was in 1982. the defense department to start. the late 80's, we start working on an integrated air defense system. he buys hawk missiles. it is all primarily aimed at iran at the time for an integrated air defense system in case they decided to attack one of the gcc states which comes a begin in late 90's. again, when the iranian threat seems to rise again. so we start working with the gulf countries again and trying to forge some kind of cohesive bonding we have been doing it. >> back again. >> and it really is a partnership. if you look at the very early debates about how u.s. military was going to operate in the middle east, back to the carter administration there is an enduring constant that we cannot do this alone. we have to have partners in the region. it is we just need the resources, we need the people to help us. >> so where does iraq said and all of this? we have somehow b