this is linda robinson on the wy rand corporation. she's also an author. i linda sirobinson, where were yo last? >> i think we're going to this about isil today, so i have been out in the region this year. i've been to iraq, jordan, and d kuwait. in iraq, ith visited all the various units that were doing k. the advisory and training work y out ou wthere. >> now are you working with the pentagon in your current role? >> so rand is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. it works for bulk anyone, but d say probably the bulk of its work is for the u.s. governmente and of that the biggest part is u get dod research. >> so when you're out in the field, do you get a sense of who's fighting who? who's winning? >> it's so complex, so i think that's very important to establish. it is in my view we've had a number of iraqi units over the past year that we've been able to -- the u.s. military has thea re-engaged with and is starting to understand their exact state because there was a loss of visibility of who was leading ty these units, what their capability wa

host: linda robinson? guest: certainly, those with long memories, as this caller certainly has, the original sin, if you will, of the invasion of iraq in 2003 was this premise that there were weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be incorrect. , and we has passed now did fight a very large were there. ofl rose up out of the ashes al qaeda in iraq, and it now holds more territory with more guns and more capability than anything we have ever seen. i would say i think in reaction to the caller said, i think that there has been an effort, but probably not a sufficient effort, to ask the arab countries to do more. those surrounding countries have the greater interest. and you see, for example, saudi arabia has been very preoccupied with its own military operation in yemen. aboutd, it is a concern what is going on there is some of this conversation in its entirety at c-span.org. we will go live now to a conversation on combating al qaeda and isis posted by the new america foundation. >> it provides an

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so -- >> recently and the new york book review there is a book review by linda robinson, it was an iraq war veteran story. so many of those books have come out, how how do you choose just one? >> it's a voice, perspective, it's a subjective thing, it's an imperfect art. if it's a subject that has been explored you're looking for someone who has some kind of unique twist, some kind of different argument. >> outage did you get into this business? >> i loved criticism. i did in program and fiction writing. i like to review, i loved reading critics, i started at publishers weekly which is a trade magazine which turns out reviews. i went over to mpr and have longer reviews. then i got the good luck to be here. >> do we ever see her byline of the new york times book review? >> yes, every now and then i write. right now i'm working on a review about a photographer which is going into an art issue >> how long have you been here? >> i have been here three years. >> thank you for your time. >> one of the few sections of the paper that have our own dedicated copy desk. they are integrated into the

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