02/23/2015
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"it is in our national security interest not to give these guys safe haven in Syria and Iraq, because the next 9/11 could very well come from that region."
"Do you worry about if--if Afghanistan falls apart like Iraq, that one of the collateral damages could be destabilizing even further a nuclear-armed Pakistan?"
"I don't want to cede Iraq to Iran, but, at the same time, I don't want to blunder into a situation without thinking this thing through."
"If Iraq falls and Iran dominates the south, and this group, ISIS, owns the Sunni territory all the way from Aleppo to Baghdad, Kurdistan breaks away, that would create economic chaos in the region, wh..."