There Are Many Reasons Why The Russians

But It Is Equally Incontrovertible That If Our Intelligence Gathering Process Is Seriously Flawed, We Had Better Find Out And Find Out Fast If We Are To Avoid Another Sept. 11.

The Most Important Thing To Me Is That The President Donald Trump Fired The Fbi Director James Comey All Because Of The Russia Investigation. That First Justification Given, Again, The White House Misleading The Country About A Major Action The Administration Was Taking, But The Fact That They Had A Private Conversation In Which The President, By His Own Admission, Was Discussing The Future Of Director Comey In That Job, And The President Brings Up Whether He Is Under Investigation, Highly Unethical, At A Minimum, Unethical.

I Would Need To See Changes In The Iraq Governance. Otherwise I Don't Think Strikes Are Going To Have Any Impact And Could Be Very Well Counterproductive.

I Think What We Are Confronting Now Is A New War Of Ideas. It's Not Communism Versus Capitalism, But It Is Authoritarianism Versus Democracy And Representative Government. And That Is A Threat That Here In Europe, They Feel Acutely. They've Seen Their Countries Interfered With, Bombarded By Cyber-attacks, By Russian Propaganda, Indeed, By Russian Troops.

Whether We Kept A Certain Number Of Troops There Or Pulled Out Completely, If We Can't Get The Maliki Government To Include A Large Segment Of Its Population In Its Security Forces And Protection, Then The Small Amount Of Forces That We Would Have Left There Might Have Slowed This Day, But They Wouldn't Have Prevented It Altogether.