that's the problem. >> does this new alliance push that day of reckoning, about what josh landers was talking about, further away or bring it closer in. >> all things considered, it will not solve it. it brings it closer. saudis reached out. now the iraqis visit them, you have the iranians visit them. it gives you an opportunity, whether it will work or not... >> things are happening. >> yes, they are, and i think that it does give you an opportunity recollects and i think professor landers is rite f the government in baghdad. we have to keep pressure on them. do they want us to help them, they have to be mo inclusive. it's up to them. they have to solve it. it gives you the opportunity, it's not going to be easy. >> a sense that this will about a long-term thing set in after the speech. does that make all of this harder? you have to put these people in harness for perhaps years. >> it makes it harder and that much more important. look, there's a near-term game and a long-term game, and the administration and successor have to play both of them well. here is why. if you look at the mi