Jon Stewart

Right.

The Shia game, one of the worst children's games ever made.

Will you stick around?

I know you have a book party to go to.

We have a few more minutes, so we'll stick around and we'll talk about all this stuff.

Worthy Fights, it's on the bookshelves now.

Leon Panetta, we'll be right back.

So we're back here.

We're talking about this idea.

You know, we talked about the incoherence of the strategy.

It seems to me that our original strategy for fighting these terrorist groups is to knock over existing regimes that we don't trust or like, hold them together through tens of thousands of US troops and billions of dollars until they become fully functioning democracies that like us.

Excuse me.

You laugh, but I imagine that's kind of how it was pitched in the meeting.

Why didn't anyone else there go, that's hilarious?

Why is that not what we kind of are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq?

or what we were doing, or what we were trying to do.

Or why maybe some of them don't even necessarily want that or want what we're bringing them.

But the thing, going back to Iraq,

You know, when the guys are out there and they're saying, if we just left 5,000 troops there, you know, you have a Sunni minority there that doesn't believe they're a minority, that truly believes that they should be more represented in whatever parliament system exists because they're the majority of the country when they're not.

How are we supposed to, in any way, battle a rift that is hundreds and hundreds of years old with 5,000 or 10,000 troops or any other unrealistic solution to that?