03/19/2012
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"And just a quick thing on Iran. And, obviously, I mean, if we just had these extremist Sunni groups to fight, I mean, that would be enough to really challenge us."
"But, as I have said many times before, that cow has left the barn. Iraq is fractured. You can make a pretty powerful argument, in fact, that Iraq is no more."
"What can you do to encourage the tribes in Syria and in Iraq to turn on ISIS?"
"We could drop 200,000 U.S. troops in the middle of this; it wouldn't solve the problem."