one thing you'll notice and ken pollack from brookings has talked about this a lot.hey haven't taken over any shia areas. they can't. they are not strong enough to do that. like mosul, two-thirds of mosul is shia. the only areas that have taken over were the areas they were sympathetic to because they hated the central government because they accuse them of being shia and iranian. they preyed on television and got some equipment. that doesn't mean they know how to use it. they waved the flags around and cut peoples heads off and the tide is turning i think. i suspect this is going to go back with a national unity government i think it's going to go back to being what it was before this started a year or year and a half ago. >> how are you guys able to win the trust of the city of fallujah during that time? >> part of it was the discussion we had with him. over time they had seen how the u.s. military dealt with them in the city in a professional and balanced way. i have more impact than i thought it would. in discussions that was one of the things they talk about. it

one thing you'll notice and ken pollack from brookings has talked about this a lot. they haven't taken over any shia areas. they can't. they are not strong enough to do that. like mosul, two-thirds of mosul is shia. the only areas that have taken over were the areas they were sympathetic to because they hated the central government because they accuse them of being shia and iranian. they preyed on television and got some equipment. that doesn't mean they know how to use it. they waved the flags around and cut peoples heads off and the tide is turning i think. i suspect this is going to go back with a national unity government i think it's going to go back to being what it was before this started a year or year and a half ago. >> how are you guys able to win the trust of the city of fallujah during that time? >> part of it was the discussion we had with him. over time they had seen how the u.s. military dealt with them in the city in a professional and balanced way. i have more impact than i thought it would. in discussions that was one of the things they talk about.

one game you will notice and ken pollack from brookings has talked about this a lot. they haven't taken over any shiite areas. they can't. they are not strong enough to do that. like most low. they've haven't got into those areas at all. they hated the central government because the accused them of being shia. they preyed on television. they got equipment. that doesn't mean they don't have used it. they wave the flags around, copy both had a comic yakov and their officers aldrin of may, which is unfortunate. but the tide is turning and i suspect this will go back with the national unity government to be what it was before all this started about a year, year and a half ago. >> hour you guys able to win the trust of the city of falluja during that time? >> part of it was his discussion of her time they've seen how u.s. military dealt with them in the city. professional balanced in that kind of thing. i have more impact than i thought it would. in discussion that's one of the things they talk about. that doesn't mean they like best. for 30 years we were told they were th

syrian rebel forces and is a start but i would actually recommend people check out my colleague's ken pollack's long detailed, very ambitious and provocative proposal in foreign affairs and he lays it out in detail of building a syrian rebel army. he puts the price tack at $3 billion to $10 billion a year for two to five years depending on how extensive we want it to be. that might sound unrealistic to the ordinary american viewer. which is fine but we shouldn't -- we can't do a lot of this on the cheap. if we are serious about defeating isis, then we have to rise to the occasion. if people don't want to do that, that's fine. but there are proposals out there that are possible if we had leadership in the u.s. and europe that were truly committed to addressing this. and just a couple other examples and a little bit on the lower nonmilitary scale, we indulged, we have been complicit in one of the most brutal -- with one of the most brutal regimes in the middle east, egypt. and we continue to give them billions of dollars and will presumably for the foreseeable future. and we had a legal obligatio

what is going to happen here is why it isn't permanent because one thing you will notice is when ken pollack talked about this committee had taken over any of the areas. they can't. they are not strong enough to do that. about two thirds of those old they haven't gone into those areas. the only areas they've taken over were sympathetic because they hated the government because the accused them of being iranian. they preyed on television. they got some equipment that doesn't mean they know how to use it. they wave the flags around and execute when the officers ran away which is unfortunate. but the tide is turning and i suspect this is going to go back in the national government is going to go back to being what it was before all of this started about a year, year and a half ago. >> are there other questions? spec how were you able to win the trust of fallujah during that time? >> the discussion we had over time they'd seen how the u.s. military double in the city. at the professional, balanced and that sort of thing had more impact than i thought it would end of the discussions that's one of