Episodes
Thursday Jun 19, 2014
John Bolton, Bill Gertz, Bill Roggio, Andy McCarthy
Thursday Jun 19, 2014
Thursday Jun 19, 2014
JOHN BOLTON, former US Ambassador to the United Nations:
- Analyzing the as-yet unclear administration policy on Iraq, and how the US response will be shaped by Iran's role in the conflict
- Concerns the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will produce a resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda similar to that of ISIS in Iraq
- What is the future for the Kurds in Iraq?
BILL GERTZ, senior editor of The Washington Free Beacon:
- An attempt by China and Russia to use international treaties to prevent the US from developing space weapons, even while they continue to do so covertly
- A Congressional effort to block the US from sending attack helicopters to the el-Sisi government in Egypt
- The need to modernize the U.S. Air Force's strategic bomber fleet
BILL ROGGIO, editor of the Long War Journal:
- Capture of Benghazi terror suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala—if he was watched by the U.S. "from day one," why did the administration blame the attack on an anti-Islam video?
- Likelihood that Iranian troops in Iraq will create a full-scale civil war between the Sunnis and Shiites
- How ISIS's desire to create a new Caliphate might lead to the creation of a Kurdistan made up of the Kurdish areas of Syria, Turkey and Iraq, all of whom would be expected to strongly oppose any loss of territory
ANDY MCCARTHY, former federal prosecutor:
- Problems with trying Benghazi terror suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala in federal court—namely, that the start of the discovery process gives Abu Khattala access to US intelligence, and the government is prevented from interrogating him further
- Overview of the newly-established Benghazi Accountability Coalition
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