the driver behind the resurgence of isis i would say fury al maliki. >> nouri al maliki the prime ministerhe united states put into power in 2006. >> i appreciated your commitment to representing the people of iraq. >> back then maliki's appointment was touted by the administration as a triumphant moment for the newly democratic iraq. >> i appreciate you recognize the fact that the future of kwlour country is in your hands. >> to insure the success of democracy, maliki, a shiite needed to hear the powerful schism between iraq but he never did. when asked to fight against isis the sunni soldiers and the iraqi army simply said no. >> for many soviet union nice they look to iranian backed regime in baghdad. they looked at isis. some made the calculation that isis was the lesser of two evils. >> they left after the u.s. could not reach agreement with maliki to maintain a military presence. >> the question that we ask today when people look back at that decision is, what would we have done with 10,000 u.s. troops? frankly, would we have wanted them to be fighting which is like mosul and falluja

iraq's prime minister maliki had a new set of patrons. his fellow shiites in tehran.he couldn't refuse. >> that was part of iran's deal with maliki. we will give you a third term but the conditions are no american soldiers. that was what tehran demanded and no way we were going through the parliament. >> one thing is clear. it was only iraq's army that could have stopped isis. instead, iraqi soldiers threw down the weapons and ran. next on blind sight, what drives these? what makes them tick? you will go inside the mind of a radical. meet a man who was prepared to die for a fantasy. the idea of an islamic caliphate. >>> the 1980s and 90s in pakistan were crucial years for jihad. bin laden was there, it's where al qaeda and islamic terrorism as we know it today was born. foreign fighters were constantly flowing in. now incredibly foreign fighters are flowing in even faster to iraq and syria. an estimated 20,000 of them in total. what drives these people there. what makes them leave home to go far away and fight for an idea? a fantasy? you are about to find out. in the

that is what was lacking under maliki. you're absolutely right. senator sessions: i believe you used the word strategy -- is support, capable and motivated ground forces where we find them. well, i think general stewart a few months ago testified a new defense intelligence agency had who was there in the al-anbar region and led the effort that the forces when they turned it around in iraq. general dempsey, you remember that effort. and he said, when pressed, i felt that he was reluctant because it wasn't the administration's policy but he acknowledged when you have embedded soldiers observers, the united states forces embedded with troops moving out into combat situations that those iraqi troops will perform better. do you agree with that, general dempsey? general dempsey: i agree that there are points on the battlefield when the j-teches, embedded forces would make them more capable. senator sessions: so is our strategy now, will it remain that we will not do that? general dempsey: i can tell you that i have not recommended it. whether we do it o

that was what was lacking under maliki. i agree with that. >> and you just used the word strategy, is to support capable and motivated ground forces where we find them. well i think general stewart a few months ago testified to the intelligence defense strategy head who was there in the anbar region and led the effort that the forces -- when they turned it around in iraq. general dempsey you remember that effort. and he said, when pressed i felt that he was reluctant because it wasn't administration policy, but he acknowledged when you have embedded soldiers, forward observers united states forces embedded with troops moving out into combat situations that those iraqi troops will perform better. do you agree with that general dempsey? >> i agree there are points on the battlefield where the presence of j teches embedded and soft forces would make them more capable. >> and they would -- so is our strategy now does it remain that we will not do that? >> i can tell you that i have not recommended it. whether we do it or not i'

maliki. i met with him several times. it was apparent to me. prime minister abadi says he has a different intention which is to govern iraq from the central but in a decentralized enough way that the kurds, the sunnis and the shiia each have enough , space to carry on their own welfare in the way that they wish but there is a single integral iraqi state. the -- and that is what he says he's working towards and we're supporting him in that regard. that's why, for example, we -- when we provide arms to the kurds we do it with consent of the iraqi government in order to indicate that we support the idea of a single iraqi government in baghdad but we wanted the kurds in the fight and armed and that has not delayed our arming of the kurds. senator manchin: and then the sunnis and the shiites. secretary carter: and the sunnis and the shiites. that's why it is so important to take the time to train a truly multisectarian iraqi force. there are elements of the iraqi forces that have that right character. for example, their c.t.s. and so our strategy --

the iranians pushed maliki to push and crackdown on the sunni arabs of iraq to the point where they were ready to welcome him. they're both arsonists and firefighters. they come and say we will help you put out the fire. you guys lit the fire. charlie: we have to do something about the fire regardless of whether they lit it or not. tom: the saudis are also arsonists and firefighters are you the idea that we have some -- our interests in the middle east are the following. we are there -- let's try to build order. where there is order, try to make it a little more decent. either is decent order, jordan uae, kurdistan, try to make it more consensual and where there is consensual order tunisia, lebanon, protect it like a rare flower. we got to go right down that checklist, it seems to me but do not buy into anybody's schtick. there's a deep shia-arab-sunni thing going on. i have said before --exec. it is so deep. iran is like your big brother walks out and slams the door. charlie stakes the -- takes the stereo. and we have a soul relationship with dad in washington. 36 years later, big broth

maliki, the shiite prime minister of iraq was so hammering the sunnis, firing their generals, takingney away, that basically they said well these awful guys are less awful than those guys. charlie: that is beginning to change. tom: they understand if they want to keep that they have to govern it. it always goes back to this question. why is it -- going back to afghanistan -- why are we always the ones saying we just got to train a few thousand more. who train the taliban. who train isis. who trained al qaeda? -- who trained at the telegram? who trained isis? who trained al qaeda? charlie: the silver bullet is training them to make the fight. tom: training is a byproduct of an allegiance to a set of ideas and values and if you have got that, you do not need any training. if you do not have that, all the training in the world will not get you to stand and fight except for your own home. charlie: is time on their side or not? tom: if you redraw the middle east map, what is the rational way you would do it? you would you would go back to the only peace agreement that has held all these y

because the iranians pushed maliki to push and crackdown on the sunni arabs of iraq to the point wherehey were ready to welcome and isis. a professor from carnegie likes to say of iran's behavior in iraq -- they're both arsonists and firefighters. they put the fire of -- they lit the fire of mal;aki. you guys lit the fire. the saudi's are also arsonists and firefighters there. the idea that we have -- our interests to me, charlie, in the middle east are the following -- we are there as disorder, let's try to build order. egypt, where there is order, let's try to make it a little more decent. where there is decent order, jordan, uae, kurdistan, try to make it more consensual, and where there is consensual order, tunisia, lebanon, protect it like a rare flower. we have to go right down the checklist, it seems, but don't buy into anybody's shtick. there is a deep shia-arab-person-sunni thing going on here. you and i are not part of the story. i have said before -- it is so deep. iran is like your big brother walks out the door 36 years ago and slams the door. charlie takes the stereo. tom

we have heard it a number of times by you know, previous prime minister maliki in iran. we don't think that they were vigorously defend the iraqi people equally. i don't believe they will. but we've talked also about being more inclusive. that was mentioned again. more inclusive. i hear this time and time again. but what i would like a definition of what does more inclusive look like and how do we measure more inclusive, gentleman, if you would address that please. >> i would begin by noting the words of prime minister abati when he was here. i think he used the word decentralized iraq and that is one in which there is a central government in baghdad and an integral state of iraq. but there is substantial opportunity for self determination around the country amongst sunnis among shias and among kurds. it seems to me that's a wise way of approaching what multi-sectarianism means. i think a government in baghdad that allows the different parties there a degree of self derrylation to maintain security within their own territory and to zbompb themselves, share in things like

so you had moderates who war frustrated with maliki, shearch that moderate sunnis started supporting and joining al qaeda in iraq so they also rebounded because of that. then the syrian civil war breaks out. syrian civil war breaks out and al qaeda in iraq wants to be part of the action in syria. so they go across the bored, and that's when they change their name. you can't be fighting in syria and be called al qaeda in iraq. so they rebrandded themselves as isis. three things happened in syria that made them really, really strong. the first was they got their hands on a whole bunch of new recruits both syrian sunnis who joined them as well as all these forefighters who were flowing into syria to fight in the civil war, joined isis. they also got their hands or money. the way you get money in the terrorism business is to be successful. that's howow get donations get financing, by being successful. conducting an attack, taking territory. so they got themselves a lot of money. and they also got themselves a lot of weapons because the war overrunning a syrian government weapons stockpil

the president and maliki were there. the president ducks twice and the secret service agency was speaking behind the interpreter and when he lunged forward he hit the steel and at the the mic rape. it was a violence i had never felt before. and it hurt so bad and this marine saw me. the president was determined to finish the press conference which was a smart decision. if you read the u.n. you are thinking the president turns out of there and doesn't stand strong, that looks terrible for america. he made maliki sit there and i realized i had to get out of this room. i wasn't sure what was going on. this marine had seen what happened and he reaches down and pulls me up and we are trying to get out of the room. now it's almost a crime scene as the iraqis are trying to figure out who this was. i tried to get out of the room and everyone is blocking my way. i set doctor and the guy walking in the room is an iraqi security guard and he says i am a doctor very at. [laughter] my doctor? the president comes and finds me and he s

maliki died during an attempted bail break in punjab province. 13 were killed including two of his sons >>> turkish jets targeted kurdish fighters in a mountainous area in the south-east, and is targetting i.s.i.l. fighters. they back turkey's fight against i.s.i.l., but urged it not to abandon the peace process. a group of scientists signed an open letter calling for a ban weapons. professor steve hawking are among those that develop weapons that think for themselves >>> the u.n.'s humanitarian chief warns against calling a buffer between turkey and syria a safe zone. it could risk attracting people to the area as syrians try to flee the fighting in the country, and says a political solution to the conflict is more urgent than ever. diplomatic editor james bays reports. >> reporter: the u.n. humanitarian chief briefing on the suffering in shia. he had to -- syria, he ha to report on a dire situation getting worse. >> indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks by all parties, including through barrel bombs. it remains the primary cause of civilian deaths and injuries. >> the speble env

the prisons alleging that they have been tortured when haider al-abadi took power after nouri al-maliki, he said he would clean house. we haven't seen a huge amount coming on in relation to the secret prisons of torture. the iraqis denied all of that. various human rights groups put out public statements and evidence to suggest that those tortured - torture techniques are used and secret prisons are in existence. >> reporter: turkey's ministry said three soldiers have been attacked. turkish jets have targeted fighters from the p.k.k. since wednesday. >> kuwait says it's uncovered a network of i.s.i.l. members who fought in iraq and syria. state metedia reported five of them. kuwait launched a crackdown after an attack on a shia mosque that killed 26 people. the u.n. envoy to syria put forward a plan for political solution to end the civil war. all sides have been invited to join a serious of working groups aimed at restarting peace talks >>> there are reports that eight members of a group of u.s. trained fighters have been abducted in northern syria. activists say the leader of the new

been inside those secret prisons, alleging that they have been tortured but abadi took power after maliki he was going to clean house. we haven't seen a huge amount of that going on particularly when it comes to these allegations of secret prisons and torture. various human rights groups have put out public statements and evidence to suggest that those -- torture techniques are still being used and those secret prisons are still in existence. >>> the verdict in the retrial of three al jazeera journalists in egypt has been postponed until next month. baher mohamed, mohammed fahmy, and peter greste are accused of colluding with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. charges they and al jazeera deny. the hearing has been adjourned for the ninth time until august 2nd. the men were found guilty in june 2014, but an appeals court ordered a retrial in january. >>> thousands of migrants are taking their live into their hone hands while making desperate attempts to cross the channel from france to the u.k. this week alone, nearly 4,000 people have tried to use trucks and trains as a way of getting into

the proxies and the policy of prime minister maliki in iraq played a tremendous role in the creationof isis, and the policies in syria have later tremendous role in the creation of isis. iran is responsible for a lot of the traction that isis has gotten. in one way they are responsible for it, and now they are cleverly coming out saying that we are the only ones with boots on the ground who can fight isis. there is a constituency in america analyst that is following that argument. but frankly, the more iran has boots on the ground and the more active it is in iraq and syria the more empowered isis will be among the sunni communities in syria and iraq, and the more dangerous it will be. what isis serves the interests of iran. isis has not attacked baghdad, has not attacked iran. isis has been controlling sunni areas, and the iranians know that. it is really a full analogy -- false analogy to make, and a very clever argument by the iranians one made by the foreign minister a few days ago in the "financial times," that iran will help you stop isis when they have been one of the main dri

>> well, the maliki government was a pretty low bar. it's gotten better, prime minister abadi is focused on the right kind of challenges and i don't mean to suggest that it's easy to take these on, given all the blood that's been shed in iraq well over a decade. so i think they're pointed in the right direction, but it's going to require a lot of help and support and encouragement from the united states and from others as well. >> rose: does this deal mean that it's more likely that somehow although the president said no that it's more likely that shia militias and the iraqi army shia militias supported by iran and others and the iraqi military and the united states air force will be working closer together? >> i don't know. >> rose: the shia militia supported by iran is an issue. >> right and shia militias in iraq the most extreme have had a mixed record militarily on the ground against i.s.i.s. so i understand the concern and the reality they're kind of parallel interests here in the sense that iran and its allied shia militias don't

the iraqi military melted away largely because of prime minister maliki's mismanagement of the military. he put incompetent shia officers in charge of the military, and in a very short period of time they destroyed what the united states had created and trained in terms of the iraqi military. so that's what happened. that's where we are. isis is a very significant threat to the stability of the middle east. that's why we're doing what we're doing. they're a moderate terrorist threat to us today. al qaeda actually in yemen and in anotherred a quite group in syria and al qaeda in pakistan are still a greater threat to us than isis, but given enough time in iraq and syria isis will pose the kind of threat that al qaeda posed to us before 9/11. >> thank you director morell. please give both gentlemen a round of applause. [applause] >> the director will be available in the lobby to sign your books and take photos. please come back tomorrow for ian bremer. >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on booktv television for serious readers. up next, political commentator mark

and it was a high stakes effort by the president insisting that nouri al maliki should leave and that new prime minister new member representative of his party should take office, as he did with haider al abadi. that policy i thought was correct, handled in a disciplined way. it was necessary to get iran's acceptance of that change of shiite leadership in iraq. and again, i thought that was done well. second thing that was part of the strategy was to build an international coalition. and general john allen went around the world there were meetings, the coalition was assembled. and in terms of working with allies, it's hard for me to fault that in principle. that was the right thing to do. the list is a good list. when, you know, one member of that coalition, jordan, was attacked in such a vicious way the jordanians responded strongly and seem to have popular support. another part of the strategy was to find a way to mobilize the elements in iraq that would have to be part of evicting isis from sunni areas the sunni tribes the sunni leadership, empowering them in this badly sectarian i

still to come on the kqle juszczyk nouri al-maliki. -- on the al jazeera newshour they voted no now some greeks feel betrayed. i'm adam raney on the dominican republican border. hundreds at this camp say they were torsed to come here >>> in sport we hear from a wimbledon legend closing on on a eighth title >>> the u.n. backed truce in yemen has been broken hours after it came in effect. there are reports of saudi-led air strikes at the city of taiz. there has been reports of fighting on the ground. the truce was to last for a week. aid has been delivered too. >> reporter: for thousands of people wounded in yemen medicine was running out. many places have been cut off for weeks. aid agencies warned if the humanitarian aid doesn't go through, 6 million can face famine. you cannot survive without getting assistance. it's paramount that the families would be humanitarian aid and food or the situation will certainly move into a different scenario. >> reporter: in the city of taiz forces loyal to the government in exile cast doubt on the ceasefire. in fact we don't have much hope for the truce

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william burns: the maliki government was a pretty low bar.nk the prime minister is focused on the right challenges. i don't mean to suggest it is easy to take these on. i think they are pointed in the right direction but it will require a lot of help and support and encouragement from the u.s. and others. charlie: does this deal mean it is more likely that somehow shia militias and the iraqi army are supported by iran and others in the iraqi military and the united states air force will be working closer together? william burns: and the shia militia in iraq, the most extreme, have had a mixed record on the ground against isis. i understand the concern. i understand the reality that they are parallel interests in the sense that iran and allies want to see isis succeed. -- don't want to see isis succeed. but that doesn't mean you are going to see close coordination. charlie: when the history is written of the obama administration, is it possible history will say, this president , because he came to power when the u.s. was withdrawing from iraq

they look at the al maliki government the last decade and they see a creeping takeover of the iraqi security force by shia iran and this drives them nuts! a collective nervous breakdown taking place. isis is pushing this narrative as hard as they can. in fact, i mean, this u.s./iran nuclear deal, i guarantee isis is rubbing its hands because this is exactly what they want to portray, the u.s. and arab countries in bed with the islamic republic of iran for the murder and dispossession of sunni muslims. >> i'm sure we will hear more that have in the debate happening in the congress. i need to jump in there because i need the lieutenant colonel to weigh in on one element specifically. we saw, just yesterday, on friday, oklahoma governor and jindal of louisiana sign orders that would allow military personnel at military facilities across the state to carry weapons and speaking specifically about these recruiting centers. is that the right way to go? >> the chief of staff of the army said yesterday that that is probably not the way to go. but we clearly have to do an assessment of soft targets in

because iran was talking about maliki, she craw in power, we can't get a status of forces agreement soe need to leave. it is pretty murky and messy. if we were a little bit more clear and used more deterrents and frankly feared we wouldn't have a lot of these problems. >> all things i know a navy seal makes very clear. iran with. what can we sell to the nation? >> you brought this up. how much is the president relying on iran to help out with this isis issue? rob, you look what when the president called the isis the jv squad. >> yes. >> you look at today which they're clearly not. the president has not changed his strategy or his actions or his behavior several of enthuse a.m. whether they're jv or not. i have two questions for you. one, how much is a pr move boeing over to the dod to look like he is doing something? a lot of politicians do that. the name of the game. look like you're doing something. what the relationship currently between the department of defense and the white house? i heard from a lot of people it is pretty strained. >> it is probably strained. i think this is sort

september 8th the iraqi prime minister al maliki was replaced by al baghdadi. faced with tremendous pressure from inside and outside ooh rackiraq. on september 24th, 2014 president obama speaking at the u.n. spoke out against isis. isis supporters began appearing around the region with groups in sinai and libya declaring allegiance or acting on behalf of isis. in february 2015 isis released a video showing the burning to death of jordanian f-16 pilot who was shot down during an operation over syria. isis also executed christians in libya, destroyed an ancient iraqi city, claimed responsibility for the bardo museum attack. we saw a delta force operators penetrate syria and kill a senior isis leader during a firefight. the next day, may 17th isis took ramadi, iraq and four days later palmyra syria. on june 10th president obama authorized the deployment. and we had the attacks in tunisia and kuwait. this go well beyond a simple body count to include the political, economic, social and diplomatic strains inflicted on millions of people. as we look forward, there ar

one of the biggest challenges in iraq has been when prime minister maliki was there he eliminated many of the capable quality leaders that were in iraqi security forces. i think at the tactical level it's fair to say the afghan force have solid leaders. we've seen them. developed them. they've gone to our schools. i feel good with where we are with afghan leaders. we have work to do to rebuild the iraqi security forces frankly to get them back to perhaps where they were a few years ago. >> there are many aspects of the situation in iraq but one is this tension, sectarian and geographic tensions in the country. our policy is that to support a unified government in baghdad and work with them so that they are able to integrate their ethnic communities, is that the approach you think makes much sense? >> senator, that is going to be very difficult to do. at this point i believe that's the best prospect for long-term success as a unified multisectarian government in iraq. if confirmed and at any point i no longer believe that's possible, my advice to the president would be adjusted acarding

i think one of the biggest challenges in iraq has been when prime minister maliki was there he eliminated many of the capable quality leaders. so i think at a tactical level, it is fair to say today the afghan forces have solid leaders. we seen them. they've gone to our schools. i feel pretty good with the afghan leaders. i think we have work to do to rebuild the forces to get them back where they were a few years ago. >> as many aspects of the situation in iraq. one is that this tension, sectarian and geographic tensions in the country, but our policy is that to support a unified government in bag and work with them so that they are able to integrate their ethnic communities. is that the approach you think makes much sense? >> senator, that is going to be very difficult to do. but at this point i believe that's the best prospects for long-term success is a unified multi-sectarian government in iraq. frankly, if confirmed, if at any point, i no longer believe that's possible. then my advice to the president would be to adjust it accordingly. >> thank you very much. again, thank you for yo

. >> toshiba saying nouri al-maliki -- muromachi will step in. >> we had several earnings reports thisng in the head of investment. you have a great story for us about how analysts are approaching the earnings season. what are we seeing? are they going into a bullish mood? >> yes, analysts are quite a list. the euro has weakened a lot. the domestic economy has picked up as well. it is coming together. even though investors have been focused on greece and that has dragged down sentiment quite a bit, that has not had a material fact -- affect. it is higher than they were expecting in april. >> the analysts expect the biggest growth in what sectors? >> they like exporters and carmakers in particular. they have already gone up a lot on the expectation they will do well. even though there has been a bit of slowdown in china, european sales are picking up. they are really bullish about carmakers. they expect banks to grow very well. >> happy days. does that mean we go higher and higher on european equities? >> certainly the rebound we have seen in the last eight or nine days has been pretty

>> so those of us who believe there could have spent some forces left there were the valuation of maliki not doing his job was rigo down the past to democracy ought -- democratize the country we did not have the option? >> the iraqis were not meeting our demands item '03 would have no option if i would say that. >> i have spoken many times of a lack of the audit in the federal government and the marines have made more of a never than any other branch but it has not been fulfilled. what is your commitment to have an audit to know about our contractors or how many forces with of military order national guard? >> we cannot be effective as an organization or be efficient with the taxpayers' dollars if we don't have an effective audit. working as the assisted commandants we did make significant progress to get to the point where we could in turn liotta resources that are under the marine corps with some data base but i can assure you if confirmed i will continue to press hard in that direction and to press hard that we can come to you with a clean audit. >> you have my support and the confide

it was a high-stakes effort by the president insisting maliki should leave and the new prime minister new representative of his party should take office as he did with allah body. so that part of u.s. policy i thought was correct and was handled in a disciplined way. it was necessary to get iran's acceptance of that change of shiite leadership in iraq and again i thought that was done well. the second thing that was part of the strategy was to build an international coalition. general john allen went around the world. there were meetings in the coalition was assembled and in terms of working with allies is hard for me to fall that principle. it was the right thing to do. the list is a good list. when one member of the coalition jordan was attacked in such a vicious way the jordanians responded strongly and seem to have popular support. another part of the strategy was to find a way to mobilize the elements in iraq that would have to be part of infecting isis from sunni areas. the sunni tribes in the sunni leadership. empowering them in this badly sick terry and iraq in a way that they

rise to grievances in many of those of the iraq's security forces can be traced to prime minister of maliki with the cronies loyal to himself. those are at the behest of iran with their acquiescence in the influence knbc in even prior to of a dinner shah -- prime minister of a dinner shah. but today it will continue to support to assess carefully the strategic level as we weren't with the threat of isil as we reshape policies and strategies ultimately one of the key lessons from the iraq war disputes on the ground with the underlying political forces to at a rise and thrive they must take simpson to the staffs with longstanding grievances to expand integration to disarm these shechem militia. but isil remains a critical al said assistance but has ceded territory in recent months. despite these russians of a debate on the battlefield us solution in the constituencies is the pathway to a sustainable solution is they said the coalition forces are at a multiyear campaign to stress patients to help they get perspective for me are in the long fight in what to expect in the coming months and years

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see, their game plan is a little bit larger than iraq and syria and it's not about just assad or maliki's corruption. it is a global caliphate. the last thing i want to do is get you inside the mind of isis today. i want to give you that you are playbook. -- i want to give you their playbook. unless you're looking for the g.p.s. coordinates of a high value target, everything you need to know at the strategic level about the global jihadist movement is available on that super classified system called google. [laughter] it really is stunning. there is no polygraph at the strategic level for isis. if you want to know what they're doing right now in syria, iraq, libya and elsewhere, you need to read this book. this is an egyptian that we killed a few years ago or rather the pakistanies killed a few years ago. the book is called the mastery of savagery. if you know your u.s. military doctrine this is the anti-petrino manual. this is the antidote to our f.m.-324. and this is exactly what they are using today to run their operations. if you're interested in the book, send me an email and i will

because we let maliki take out a lot of the officers and they ended up going over to isis. was perhaps the biggest single blunder of the presidency which there's quite a few of the decision not to keep american troops in iraq. >> let's go just a little bit to why we didn't and why the obama administration was reluctant to push on the status of the forces agreement. i know some people even argue that they never had any intention of having the status of forces agreement. they wanted all of the troops out but didn't address the fundamental assumption that you see very often in the certain foreign-policy circles and that is that the u.s. military presence is almost a provocative presence that either tends to foment or stir up animosity is an anti-american feeling destabilize countries in the region when we have a robust u.s. military presence and that on the converse that when you pull back american forces, people talk about the obama retreat, when you pull back the eric in military prisons and as the terminology goes maybe even an invisible footprint then infect in fact you ar

bush signed an agreement with the maliki government to withdraw all forces. >> we'll have this debate later on. but it was clear we could've and everybody knows they could have and the people there know they could have. senator ayotte. >> and watch it any time on our website. go to c-span.org. you'll also find other hearings with defense secretary carter and chairman dempsey on isis and the defense department budget. >> when congress is in session c-span 3 brings you more of the best access to congress. key public affairs events. it's american history tv. traveling to historic sites, discussions with authors and historians. and eyewitness accounts of events that define the nation. c-span 3, coverage of congress and american history tv. >>> accident prevention technologies designed to automatically stop or slowdown trains and the progress that's being made on freight and passenger trains to comply with the current congressional deadline at the end of the year. the house transportation committee held this hearing late last month. it's about two hours. >>> good morning and welcome to the

one year ago today, prime minister maliki was sitting comfortably in office, governing that country in a sectarian way that ultimately undermined the effectiveness of the security forces but more broadly undermined the ability of the country to confront this isil threat. over the course of a last year, we've seen a new government take office led by prime minister a badi. thats also extended approach to the security forces, and that is improve the performance of iraqi security forces. i think the variety of measures to evaluate the progress we've made against isil in iraq and in syria and the provenance of those measures indicate that we have made important progress, but there is no doubt that there continues to be significant challenges in confronting isil. you noted one of them, which is that isil has continued to demonstrate some ability to continue to recruit fighters to their site. this is an important part of our strategy, and we obviously would like to see additional progress in confronting the flow of foreign fighters to the region, countering their radicalization strategy that

it's not just about assad or maliki's corruption. it's a global caliphate. the last thing i want to do is get you inside the mind of isis today and give you their play book. the beautiful thing about the enemy we face today that unless you are looking for the gps coordinates of a high value target, everything you need to know about the global jihadist movement is available on that superclassified system called google. it really is stunning. there is no tssci with polygraph at the strategic level for isis. if you want to know what they are doing in syria, iraq libya and elsewhere you need to read this book. this is from an egyptian that we killed a few years ago or the pakistanis killed a few years ago. it's called "the mastery of savagery." if you know your u.s. military doctrine this is the anti-petraeus. this is exactly what they are using today to run their operations. if you're interested in the book, send me an e-mail and i'll send you an unclassified english language translation. the operations undergoing now in the middle east and north africa are thr

i think that coupled with the political malfeasance of maliki. the prime minister. secretary clinton traveled to baghdad, as condoleezza rise told me, one time, for three hours, and it imploded. that was the consideration of isis. that created the threat that we see today. so, the president couldn't get his head wrapped around isis. this wasn't supposed to happen under his watch. his narrative. it defies his campaign narrative and so, i think strategy for him is running the clock out, not having a strategy to defeat and destroy isis as isis enters our hometowns. and i think that's a huge mistake of foreign policy. makes it dangerous to the homeland. i want to see this -- one of the driving issues in the 2016 debate. i'm not seeing it right now. i have to tell you. i'm not seeing a lot of candidates, quite frankly, with experience, in national security and foreign policy. i think usually it's about the economy, it's about the economy, stupid, but this election, i predict, that this issue will be one of the driving debates and issues in the 2016 presidential election.

when we pulled out of afghanistan, maliki used his power to go after sunni.what happened is these sunnis felt depressed by baghdad. they felt depressed by the center. when ice is king in they greeted isis as liberators. they don't feel that way anymore but it's too late. they already do. it's important for us to figure out a way to work with our iraqi allies great a country that is inclusive of christians, kurds sunnis and shia. if we don't do that iran will dominate iraq and suddenly they will have gained yet another puppet. >> coming to the in what you think it would have of american for peace, prosperity and security there, to think you when not busy or. we want to thank you for coming to south and. is the anything we didn't ask today that you want to kill the people of south carolina and? >> you asked a lot of questions i think we covered speed you give a lot of answers. >> i think the most important obligation of the federal government is to provide for our national security. we do a lot of things that we like to do or maybe shouldn't do but the one thin

i think that coupled with the political malfeasance of maliki. secretary clinton traveled to baghdad, one time for three hours and it imploded. that was the consideration of isis. that created the threat that we see today. so, the president couldn't get his head wrapped around isis. this wasn't supposed to happen under his watch. his narrative. it defies his campaign narrative and so i think strategy for him is running the clock out, not having a strategy to defeat and destroy isis as isis enters our hometowns. and i they's a huge mistake in foreign policy, makes it dangerous to the homeland. i want to see this -- one of the driving issues in the 2016 debate. i'm not seeing it right now. i have to tell you. i'm not seeing a lot of candidates, quite frankly, with experience, in national security and foreign policy. i think usually it's about the company, economy, it's about the economy, stupid, but this election, i predict, that this issue will be one of the driving debates and issues in the 2016 presidential election. and rightly so. i think ever

who believe that maybe there could have been some forces left there or basically the evaluation of maliki, he didn't have his job? >> given what we were demanding of the iraqis, they weren't meeting our demands. i'm not sure that meant we had no option to stay. >> i've spoken many times about the lack of an audit. the only agency in the federal government that we do an audit is the pentagon and the marines have made an effort, i will say, they made more of an effort than any other branch, what would be your commitment, especially for us to know about our contractors, how much money we spent, how much contract forces that we have doing the job that i believe maybe our military and definitely our national guard could be supporting in that effort that we are not doing today. >> senator we can't be effective or efficient with the taxpayer's dollars, if we don't have an effective audit. as you alluded to, we worked out pretty hard in the marine corps. i worked as both, an assistant commandant. we worked internally to get the resources directly under the cognizance of the marine corps with some

when we pulled out of afghanistan maliki really use the power to go after sunni.at happened is they felt oppressed by a central government. when aces came in, they initially greeted the presses. they don't feel that way anymore, but it's too late. it is important for us to figure out a way to work with the iraqi allies to create a country that is inclusive of christians kurds, sunnis and shia. if we don't do that iran will dominate iraq and they will again get another. >> senator, we are coming to the end. i want to thank you on behalf of americans for peace prosperity and security. we know how busy you are. thank you for coming to south carolina. is there anything we did not today that she wanted to the people of south carolina? >> you asked a lot of questions. i just want to thank you. i think the most important obligation of the federal government is to provide for national security. we do a lot of things that the federal government that we like to do with the one thing we must do is provide for national security. it cannot prosper economically. the american dr