both the sunni and shiite side. these volumes capture all of that, help you to understand it, and understand the interaction among all of these different events and why he was the sum total of those interactions that ultimately produce this remarkable transformation of what's going on in the war. the complexity of those volumes from start to finish, they handle it in a way that you always know exactly what's going on. you aren't just being hit with endless little details and bewildered by what this is supposed to mean. it's part of a wider narrative that helps understand this conflict in ways that i have not seen in any other work so far. >> that complexity also speaks to another thing that really stood out to me. throughout the entirety of this work but especially in volume 2, the patron saint of warfare famously said among his many brilliant observations that the most important thing in war is understanding what kind of war you are fighting. one of the thing that stands out is the struggle to understand what kind

pakistan's hands are a shiite minority living under armed security under constant fear of attack by extremists can't the government protect them as promised. and the show went on musicians from the north and south korea shared a stage despite north korea's weapons test this month. i'm melissa chan and welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us it's official joko widodo has been reelected as president of indonesia he will lead the world's 3rd largest democracy for the 2nd time we doto who has been president since 2014 captured over assist the 5 percent of last month's vote citizens really did have 2 distinct choices would doto the reformist or his ultra nationalist conservative challenger or both beyond joe the former son in law of military dictator suharto subiaco also retired millet. very general challenges recent results and says there has been widespread voter fraud the results arrived a day earlier than we expected people are worried about possible violence these are pictures from today you can see heavy security in front of big elections commission office in the capital of jakarta

but was supplied and trained by neighboring iran the self declared defender of shiites many feel more allegiance to tehran been to baghdad they're a group of battle hardened troops united in their hatred of the u.s. and. it's heading towards a proxy war in iraq. and. the. militia could play a deciding role iran could use them to strike american interests. i mean that's reportedly what attracted the attention of secretary of state mike pump a zero. his visit to baghdad on tuesday was seen as a warning to iran and an attempt to remind iraqi prime minister are dead up to him on the up his commitment to protect u.s. troops in the country. is a serious. concern. but not everyone in iraq shares that sentiment many deplore the tone coming from washington and consider pump ayos visit imperio list and. they just want to push their interests in iraq and force marty to do their bidding just like in saudi arabia they come list their demands and then leave. iran on the other hand has been working hard on increasing its influence in the country for years it supplies energy and markets here a full o

and also the number 313 in the group's name 313 this number is also a reference to shiite islam and this morning when we talk to an official in the interior ministry often also invest he also confirms that among other things. looking into crimes that are politically or religiously motivated. as quickly if you can this gang allegedly wasn't only operating in germany what else do we know about their activities. well they have been active swell to europe. people who estimates that the total membership was about $700.00 people and the most striking thing is i think it's a connection to shiite militias in iraq and that was why we were looking at them because we found it very boring that there would be an army of militants militant groups iraq to groups operating in germany and europe and threatening refugees and also people they don't like. hunt for us in bonn thank you so much in football manchester city and england for a game stirling have called for harsher penalties on teams whose fans are found guilty of racist behavior sterling is coming off the back of the best season of his career so

during the iraq war, shiite militias backed by iran often targeted and killed american forces. beencent years, there has an informal truce between the united states and these militias. foe,focused on a common the islamic state state. now that the administration has designated the irt cs terrorist c aanization -- irt terrorist organization, there is concern that the truce might become undone. when you were in a rack and talked to american forces, what was -- iraq and talked to american forces, what was their perception of the threat posed by shiite militias and that a threat that has been dormant for recent years might be reactivated now? sense i got from our american leaders on the ground was military and diplomatic less of a threat from iranian back shiite militias but more of an easing of power by those militias -- seizing of power by those militias. they had elections last year and they had some of the lowest voter turnout but the iranian back shiite militias were so well organized they won seats in parliament because they were able to get people to go vote. ,hereas overall

were there and they talk about the iraqis and it was not the sunnis that brought them off but the shiites about them off. there is an iraqi nationalism that i got the sense they are trying to foster and build and i especially get that from the prime minister. >> do think there's an american rule in encouraging that or is that something that largely iraqis have to work out among themselves? >> i think there is an american role and they are always very encouraging and -- [inaudible] >> i [inaudible] i also sense the young people especially in the baghdad area that the iran backed military have overstepped their bounds and then they felt like i ran had gone too far and they were pushing back against that. >> that is one of the hardest things for me is realizing how much influence iran still has even though we were the ones who fought a lot of the war. we go to iraq secretly and the iranians going to iraq with big parades and were you concerned about security but you don't see those concerns. how much influence to have more influence in iraq was there ways to build more influence? is this som

situation in the country and that exploded into at least a two front war with sunni militants and shiite militants were the coalition command that time under gen. sanchez barely escaped collapse. it was only the timely intervention of the first are meant to vision under maj. gen. marty dempsey which was already on its way out but just happened to be a few days away from driving down to kuwait that it was available for a reserve course to counterattack against the militants who were in danger of taking over the entire center and saved the situation. a dramatic situation where the army division had to cut out helicopters out of shrinkwrap on the pier in kuwait and send them back up to the theater just to save the situation is how close of a call it was. that colored the response to different crises of the coalition and the iraqi side for the remainder of the ward. the war. those are the big areas of the historical narrative that i would draw people's attention to. i should have started by saying i speak on behalf of myself so can i retroactively put that caveat on? the commentary i'm about

but was supplied in trained by neighboring iran the self declared defender of shiites many feel more allegiance to tehran than to baghdad they're a group of battle hardened troops united in their hatred of the u.s. and. it's heading towards a proxy war in iraq. and how. the. militia could play a deciding role iran could use them to strike american interests. here that's reportedly what attracted the attention of secretary of state mike pump a zero. his visit to baghdad on tuesday was seen as a warning to iran and an attempt to remind the iraqi prime minister are dead up to him on the up his commitment to protect u.s. troops in the country. are. some serious. serious. but not everyone in iraq shares that sentiment many deplore the tone coming from washington and considered home pay as visit imperio list in one. day just want to push their interests in iraq and force maki to do their bidding just like in saudi arabia they come list their demands and then leave. iran on the other hand has been working hard on increasing its influence in the country for years it supplies energy and marke

helped build ied's the killed and maimed american servicemen in iraq and the organization behind shiite militia in iraq today i and the organization behind a lot of the efforts to support hezbollah and in syria and other parts of the world. the i rgc force is designed to do things that have some level of deniability. what the i rgc has developed and we know this now for the better part of the decade is the ability in case of conflict with the united states to attack us using proxies meaning other groups and escape and have some level of deniability to get some group that stood up and have equipped and trained to attack us in retaliation for something market does that they can deny it and say that was not our army or air force and it was another group that did it on their own. this is the capability they have built are just in the middle east but all over the world and we been aware of it for a long time. it is not a secret to anyone. it is a capability they've increasingly perfected. as what happened here recently ais a persistent and clear strm of information has arrived to american po

just one week ago madam president, saudi arabia beheaded 37 citizens most of them minority shiites and mass executions across the country for a legend terrorism related climes which amnesty international pointed out that it wass nothing than a sham relied on confessions through torture. of those put to death was a young man convicted for reportedly attending a pro-democracy rally during the arab spring when he was just a teenager. here is a headline report. man set to attend western michigan university was beheaded in saudi arabia. a teenager and part of a democracy movement, imprisoned by saudi authorities, he was intending to attend an american university and was beheaded. you also find for the saudi's to detain american citizens and dual nationals for their activism on human rights seeking greater freedom for women in saudi arabia. rather than hold them accountable this administration seems determined to move forward in a very secret way with providing nuclear assistance to the saudi government. they talked about the authority even though the leaders have openly talked about acquiri

forces encouraging aggression by shiite militias in lebanon iraq and syria shipping missiles to hooty rebels in yemen and allowing iranian iran's naval forces to behave belligerently in the persian gulf it's quite a long list and it's by no means fiction. i don't think so for example if you succeed as a case officer monroe iran as so hard highroad. regard. even as a state department told. before the war but. told who to invade sanaz all this is very our way towards influence of iran on the hutus on the rehman . saudi arabia knows that iran has no lobby in rest of us iran a surprise attacks to legitimize a policy that does not also do so there are many other countries. that legitimize its policy. by taking iran as a project and if you compare for example the role of saudi arabians the region and the role of iran in the region i do not see is that iran's will in the region is really destabilizing i see it whether this was. supported. take this prime minister. and pressure him to step aside. they are things only problem between those arrests or iran. is a case of if you want to salute th

in fact, just a week ago, saudi arabia beheaded 37 citizens, most of themit minority shiites and that's across the country, or alleged terrorism related crimes, which and the ininternational pointed out, nothing more than sham relied on extracted through torture. convicted for reportedly attending a quote rally during the spring. when he was just a teen. i have a headline report, young man s sent to a michigan university, beheaded in saudi arabia. this was a man who was a teen, the port of a democracy movement imprisoned by saudi authorities, he had been attending, intending to attend a university and yet he was beheaded. also find the saudi's arer detaining a number of american citizens, dual nationals for their activism on human rights, they were seeking greater freedom for women in saudi arabia. so rather than holding saudi regime accountable for the administration instead seemsra determined to move forward in a secret way with providing nuclear assistance to the saudi government. they talked about providing the authority for u.s. companies to engage in these conversations even thoug

the irani government, the ayatollah that would pick up strong intelligence that they had given the shiite militia, basically or running room and direction in the attacks against american interest and personnel for intimate and the decision to offend the abraham lincoln to the region was to try to deter the attacks against american personnel into starter work, and i hope it works, i hope the iranians understand that we will hold them liable for any attack on american inside iraq or anywhere else. if they are not willing to do that we are letting our people down. it is not for to send 5000 shoulders to iraq to stabilize place and is offered that the that they love them to be attacked for any foreign government and not respond. [inaudible question] >> i think the actions of the ministration has changed the calculation of the iranian. i think they believe the european to the united states is divided about whether or not we should be colo but the european sees the threat very real. the behavior of iran and iraq is being bad and the bottom line is, the nuclear agreement did not stop the iranian

shiite militias. these are shiite militias that have dubious alliances that in some ways they're still alied with iraq and are fighting on behalf of iraq, but have ties back to iran. that has been of serious concern for us for some time. it could be these pmu's that are posing the threat on these channels. >> dana: we appreciate your expertise. thank you. >> any time. >> dana: capitol hill and a push to fix the growing crisis at the border. senator lindsey graham introducing a bill to tighten the asylum rules and slow the flow of migrants. we have elison barber live on capitol hill. what is the main focus of this particular bill? >> reporter: you said it. senator graham said the primary goal of this is stopping the flow of migrants from coming into america. he said there are issues happening at the u.s./mexico border that cannot be fixed with a wall alone. >> no amount of money is going to stop people from coming. no matter how high the wall will be built, no matter how many drones you have, no matter

. >> yeah, what part of the force we were fighting were some of these iranian backed shiite militias.d developed weapons called efps that could penetrate our most -- strongest armor. they were lethal. they were deadly. they were deadly throughout the iraq war. what's important to realize is if there is a conflict with iran, that these shiite militias would be part of it. iran has the largest missile force in the middle east. it also has a formidable proxy force in syria. it also has the ability to close the strait of hormuz with 20% of the oil reserves is shipped through. it has the ability to hit american forces throughout the middle east. this would be -- we would of course prevail in a conflict, but this would be the most significant military conflict that americans have seen in a very, very long time. >> you know, one of the things we've been watching is the way in which this confrontation has exposed conflict among members of the trump administration. and i want to read for you a quote in the "new york times." a president who is instinctively wary of military ventures. and in you

we picked up strong intelligence that the cio -- intelligence that the shiite militia attacks againstmerican personnel were imminent. the decision to send the abraham link into the region was to deter attacks against american personnel, not to invade. i hope it works. i hope the iranians understand we will hold them liable for any attack on an american inside iraq or anywhere else directed by the government. if we are not willing to do that we are letting our people down. it is not fair to send 5000 soldiers to iraq to stabilize the place, it is not fair to the state department and the usaid workers working for all of us to make the world a better place, to allow them to be attacked by any foreign government and not respond in kind. closer to a war? senator graham: the actions -- closer to ae we war? senator graham: the actions of the administration has change the calculation of the irradiance. we are divided about whether we should be in the jcpoa, but the europeans see the threat streams as very real. the europeans see malign behavior of iran and iraq and syria as being bad. so the

i had to ask myself, were one of their family members killed by a shiite death squad that they blamed the americans for, wouldn't they omnipotent we had night vision goggles, that's the logic i'd hear on the streets or had they joined this unit because a family member had been accidentally killed at a check point by an 18-year-old kid who was there with insufficient training but always under fire. so, fast forward to today, the u.s. invasion didn't call the violence that we see playing out but i think we overestimated our ability to reform the society and teach them the values of appreciating each other's religion but with that much blood spilled from both sides.. isis 1.0 and i just got back from three weeks in iraq in february and what i saw was child soldiers by not being given any kinds of counseling and when isis comes back to the next generation. hundreds of thousands of former isis families are being held in de facto internment camps, they have relatives in sunni villages building resentment and shiite militia groups on part of the government who are divvying up reconstruction

directed by the iranian government, the ayatollah, that took strong intelligence they had given the shiiteitia basically more running room and direction and that attacks against american interests and personnel were imminent. the decision to send the abraham lincoln to the region was to try to deter attacks against american personnel and also start a war. i hope the iranians understand we will hold them liable for any insideon an american iraq or anywhere else. >> i believe that a war with iran would be an absolute disaster far worse than the war with iraq, and i hope the american people tell this administration that we will not go to war in iran. reaction divided very much on party lines. however, relief among some in congress that the acting secretary of defense making clear that conflict is not on the table at the moment, that the u.s. is proceeding with a policy of deterrence in that particular region. the key issue is how iran views a step up of american military action and naval action within that particular region. also, a reminder from democratic members of congress that it is view

level where they don't even be able to do well even if you give them a 100 slots you know but by shiite means of probability and numbers it meant that the more africans you had the greater the chances of doing well so far that is the skill and it's still going to be $32.00 teams means that it's back to square one for african countries. off 2 years of struggle barely ends a rebel team f.c. union are on the verge of a promotion to germany's top league the blues league for the 1st time the team are set to face stood guard in a 2 legged play off here's our burning reporter dominic kane. as they go through their training routine the players of effort say when you'll have got one thing on their minds the chance to play in germany's blunders league or next season but to get there they must 1st beat far i've got a team with a bigger budget that's used to life in the big league something new on is definitely not. when you have a new challenge you have to adapt to it there is a difference in quality between our league and the blunders eagan but i can tell you we all want to get their club officia

forces encouraging aggression by shiite militias in lebanon iraq and syria shipping missiles to hooty rebels in yemen and allowing iranian iran's naval forces to behave belligerently in the persian gulf it's quite a long list and it's by no means fiction. i don't think so for example if you succeed as a case officer munro you're honest so hard highroad. raghad. even the state department told. before the war but the. iranians are told so just do not invade sanaz all this is very our way towards influence of iran who is on the rehman. saudi arabia knows that iran has no lobby in rest of us iran as a pretext to legitimize a policy that does not also do so there are many other countries that the that the leg to my eyes its policy. by taking iran as surprise attacks and if you compare for example the role of saudi arabians or region and the role of iran in the region i do not see that iran's role in the region is really destabilizing i see it. support their. take on this prime minister. and pressure him to step aside. sings the only problem between those arrests or iran. is a case of if yo

intelligence that they had given the shiite militia basically more running room and direction and that attacks against american interests and personnel were eminent the decision to send the abraham lincoln to the region was to try to deter attacks against american personnel not to invade or start a war and i hope it works i hope the iranians understand that we will hold them liable for any attack on an american inside iraq or anywhere else i believe that a war with iran would be. an absolute disaster for the wall with iraq and i hope the american people told this to ministration but we will not go to war in iraq by delivering that to disagree here. it's interesting to him talking about this wasn't a lindsey graham that talking about the briefing and saying that whoever it was whoever someone in that briefing said iran was definitively somewhere behind those attacks because mike compared to a few hours before the briefing had refused to be drawn on whether iran was behind the attacks that lindsey graham was talking about so that we know that there was no publicly releasable evidence sug

this rally is being called by knocked out of the south are these are shiite cleric is also a leader of one of the biggest political blocs in all of them he's also a nationalist he's made no secret of the fact that he wants troops from the u.s. foreign countries out of iraq but he like many other iraqis across the political and religious spectrum i said that they want iraq's safety and security to be paramount and they want iraq to be central to any negotiations not have marjon to them we are having discussions with the u.s. and iran and will be sending delegations in a few days to various foreign countries especially to iran in washington to try to push for calm. iraq has been relatively quiet since the threat from isis began to decline last year iraqis like these now fear their country could be dragged into another conflict matheson al jazeera back down in libya others been renewed fighting on the outskirts of tripoli between forces battling for the capital. back government forces say they pushed back against fighters loyal to warlords near the old international airports. has the late

arabia is a bloody dictatorship where women are treated like minors where the shiites open and solve beheaded more than one hundred since the beginning of this year it's a country where terrorist groups have been supporters of journalists who are like mrs khashoggi are are cut into small pieces. where we have your country where you have been there have been fighting since or two thousand and fifteen against a neighboring country shamelessly more than ten thousand soviets have brought here the list but i go back to your country then with all that said why why is france doing what he's doing oh. for decades france abounds the endless stream of weapons of mission and software that would be kinda miss constance. acquiring and what is new is that these arms delivery comes in full control of a sea on tuesday are all a left wing lawmakers expects it departments in protest and that's that's pretty new and what's mccrone saying about this that i mean any of fact as well as it isn't in breach violation of the un arms trade treaty if it knows that there's a chance these weapons are being used t

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region were out there in the commander of the middle east that the iranians were supplying the iraqi shiite militia with veryh sophisticated and revised devices that were killing our soldiers and our marines and our sailors. a the iranians denied it and were lying but it all came out to be true and these were infrared tripwires, explosively formed projectile that can punch through anything, abram tank, humvee, if you are an american soldier got hit you are pretty much dead. i asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in an open armed service hearing how many american military members were killed and woundedem by these iranian ied's, over 2000 was his answer. 2000. i've never heard any of my colleagues talk about that. the notion that foreign minister is a moderate when he was negotiating with secretary terry is belied by the facts. this foreign minister literally had the blood of american soldiers on his hands. i take these issues very seriously like my colleague from delaware does and there's a notion that our allies were not. some of our most important allies, israel, gulf arab stat

last week during which he reportedly told the rocky commanders that's intelligent showed around back shiites malicious positioning rockets may basis housing u. s. troops. the warning has prompted reaction from europe with both germany and the netherlands suspending military training operations in a rock jew to increasing regionall tensisions. germany's armed forces have now suspended training. this i is a decision baseded one current situation of rudolph not some kind. mike pompeii -- saidd washington is not seeking wall with to wrong was that's what also said byby ron supreme leader. but that hasn't stopped international concern from increasing over the escalating tensions. unease has been mounting in the gulf region. for oil tankers off the coast of the united a arab emirates wouould damamage in a f sabotage on n sunday according o us mediaia anonymous american investigators think are w wrongr bring in fact accessss all to blame. an allegation that's a wrong has repeatedly denied. donald trump has dismissed reports that he is considering sending a hundred and twenty thousand troops to the

anniversary of the martyrdom of a mom raising a descendent of the islamic prophet muhammad and the eighth shiite him on. the shrine is managed by an extremely wealthy religious foundation an institution that wields a lot of power not only in mashad but also on the regime in tehran. was . i. the. crowds of pilgrims mark the public holiday by visiting the shrine every year sees some twenty seven million devout muslims visit mashad this conservative reactionary city is an unlikely home for a lively underground rock music scene but as we find out appearances can be deceiving. his soundproof too small sound studio in his parent's house to make sure the outside world doesn't hear what goes on in here. for me being a heavy metal musician in mashad means living in a dead end if so little of everything i do i do purely for myself. it's not for public consumption. i only do it because of the pressure i feel. this is bob but that reinforces my belief in what i'm doing. if it weren't for social media we wouldn't be here now we musicians are all connected via the internet. before i met the others on facebook

religious bond between us that's another motive to support iran. 1 pm et function led by the influential shiite cleric muktodhara solder has distanced itself from iran but said that any party that threatens iraq's stability is an enemy neither iraq nor its people can bear another war he tweeted on monday we need peace and reconstruction any party that ignites iraq with war and makes it a battlefield will be an enemy of the iraqi people the u.s. has withdrawn its non-emergency staff from the embassy in baghdad there was an evacuation of exxon mobil foreign workers over the weekend from an oil field in the south of the country a katyusha rocket was fired into the green zone which is home to the u.s. embassy on monday night nobody claimed responsibility as the war of words continues between the u.s. and iran the atmosphere here in iraq is increasingly tense. iraqi prime minister says any u.s. intelligence about increasing threats to u.s. interests in iraq is wrong and his country has been mediating between both sides to try and avoid further escalating tension and. iraq is very concerned that its

uniquely, oman's majority is neither sunni nor shiite, but rather ibadi, a very old and particularlytice. islam is not a monolith it comes in many forms. ibadi theology arguably forms the backbone of many of oman's codes of conduct. it places value on concepts like politeness, acceptance, unity, and understanding. perhaps, as a consequence of that, the sultanate embraces grace and tact as a matter of foreign policy. internally too, oman has avoided radicalism and sectarian violence. it is considered shameful by ibadi teachings to draw blood over religious conflicts, unless attacked. the terror and bloodshed in neighboring yemen feels very far away up here. jebel al akhdar, the green mountain. >> anthony: this area, oh my god, look at this, it's so beautiful. >> halil: we are 64 [ speaking in arabic ]. >> anthony: 64. how many generations has your family lived here? >> hamden: 200 years maybe, more than 200 years. >> halil: can you see all the small farms? >> anthony: yeah >> hamden: all of our grandfathers built that. and they built all these things with only their hands. they didn't

claimed responsibility and officials believe the rocket was fired from eastern baghdad, in area home to shiite militia. donald trump tweeted it is a fight that would be the official end of iran. written -- never threaten the united states again. over the weekend the uss abraham lincoln strike group made its presence felt by conducting exercises in the persian gulf. donald trump said he hopes it doesn't escalate into a full-blown war in tonight he is telling iranian he's ready to talk if they are. >> that will be up to them. i only want them to call that they are ready. if they are not ready they don't have to call. >> reporter: tomorrow watch out for some counterprogramming on capitol hill. the briefing given by senior administration officials democrats invited frequent -- john brennan to brief them as well, happening around the same time. >> others will be running around over there and a lot of different reactions. thank you for bringing us all sides was the president talking tough on iran, pushing us towards democrats claim or is it a part of his negotiating style? we have two experts tonigh

embassy in baghdad, possibly from east baghdad which is home to several iran backed shiite militias. he vows not to let the rogue nation get nuclear weapons. >> iran has been a problem for so many years. if you go back, take a look at all the conflicts they have caused and the deal that president obama made was a horror show. basically it says that in five years from now, they have an open bed to nuclear weapons. and especially them. >> this is the kind of attack that iran has been preparing for hitting u.s. assets using proxies in the region. no group has claimed responsibility and so far the iranian backed militia are distancing themselves from this attack. it's clear clear that the timing of all this is not helping growing the easing tensions. president trump tweeted, if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again. this morning, iran's foreign minister fired back tweeting in part "goaded by the b team, the real donald trump hopes to achieve what other aggressors failed to do. iran has stood tall for millennia. hashtag never th

not some fundamentalist shiite ideolo ideologyp. even allies are becoming more assertive and anti-american. 66% of mexicans had a favorable view of america, by 2018 the number had dropped to 32%. confidence in the u.s. president plummeted in that same period from 49% to 6%. the pattern recurs almost everywhere. in canada it went from 36% to 25%. in france, it's worth. single digits under trump. in a recent survey of 25 countries, only two places express greater confidence in trump than they did in his predecessor, russia and israel. yet other countries are simply following trump's advice. in his 2017 speech to the u.n. general assembly. donald trump called for a great reawakening of nations, urging countries to use patriotism and self-interest as their sole guides in foreign policy. his gold star has been to celebrate national interest, reject the idea that there are larger international interests and by implication, to denigrate the idea of win-win solutions. the chinese, iranians and others are doing what trump urged. since the u.

with american personnel with the shiite militia controlled by the ayatollah. i'm glad abraham lincoln and we are seeing more troops because that campaign is working. you cannot buy oil from iran reymore without being sanctioned yourself now the guard is subject to sanctions. 's a president trump is putting a lot of pressure onmp iran and this is an effort t1 i have two more issues the president is reportedly considering pardons around memorial day two servicemembers convicted or accused of committing war crime crimes. >> we are looking at a lot of different pardons for people some of the soldiers are people who have fought hard. we teach them how a to be great fighters and then when they fight then they are treated unfairly t1 as someonede who spent three decades as a military lawyer and judge how do you feel is a president possibly granting pardons to people accused or convicted of war crimes? mimic it depends what case you talk about i don't mind him looking at these cases but mayor pete said he shouldn't pardon anybody. we had a situation we would catch a t