this case he's opening a hospital in the middle of an iraqi opening a hospital in south baghdad. that is the director of the army staff on the trip with us. i was there in october, november of '07. in the might he would goo right from there is and the night running combat patrols in the neighborhoods neighborhoods of south baghdad. one of the petraeus initiatives was out in the field. this is shocker. small combat outpost. about 100 some soldiers, company size element. here i am talking with the -- that's the guy is -- i talking about him the book. knows him is the captain in charge of the that outpost and the end of the tabling is the brigades commander and that's myself, and steve bitle making a tour for general petraeus. what happens, they open up the combat outposts and you have these -- the rise of the sons iraq, militia groups rise up around the out post to help fight against al qaeda. the second person from the left there is sheikh -- sheikh stab back, who showed up tikrit said aim here to run the local militia. he said he was an nco in the iraqi army. i watched him operat

baghdad. now the news now north korea has warned washington of quote a most of the strike ahead of ten day joint drills between south korea and the u.s. the annual war games simulates a military conflict with an isolated country john young says the drills are a provocation while the u.s. maintains that defensive in nature those comments came despite the fines north korea earliest that it would hold off on any strike funding the next move to washington talking very good looks at how u.s. foreign policy is often seen as going against the wishes of the international community. when it comes to foreign policy it seems that trump is trying to twist the knife into some of the most volatile international issues. there's fire and fury for north korea while the international community is calling for deescalation in the region trying to spouting some of the most aggressive rhetoric that's been heard in decades. and this may not get away with what he's doing only they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see kind of pitiable so the escalation in brest weeks certainly doesn't solve the problem the solution t

dagen: jim mattis is in baghdad to begin implementing the new south asia strategy. it will include sending an additional 4000 troops to afghanistan with 8400 us troops in that country. joining me fox news military analyst jack keane, general keane, great to see you but especially this morning. what is your take on the new strategy? >> the president delivered a good speech because he conducted a major policy realignment less about troops and more a strategy. strategically he placed afghanistan as a critical part of the overall strategy against radical islam which is a multi generational struggle extending beyond his presidency. secondly he has taken a regional approach recognizing south asia consisting of three countries, afghanistan, pakistan and india. houses 20% of the terrorist organizations in the world and two of those three have nuclear weapons which makes south asia a dangerous place. and when you focus on a strategy in afghanistan what he is telling us is i am going to deny safe haven to international terrorists in afghanistan, period. i am not going to let

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