“The truly surprising thing is the support that’s been engendered—not majority support yet—here in this country for the injection of wholesale numbers of American troops into a generations-long, historical, religious, tribal warfare. There is a consensus within the Pentagon that with the proper number of troops—that number is debatable—you can defeat ISIS in three months. But are you going to stay there after that?,” asks Mike Barnicle in response to the suggestion of sending a substantial number of American troops to fight ISIS in Iraq. Watch the conversation on the ongoing turmoil inside Iraq’s current borders, along with a discussion of a recent The Washington Post article on the dominating conspiracy theory that has made “Iraqis think the U.S. is in cahoots with the Islamic State.” Only on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
