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Oct 10, 2026
Matt SpeerHOST
Those forces have relationship in Pakistan, and they are not considered friends to the United States.
Matt SpeerHOST
But the Peshmerga, which is which are the forces that are allied with U.S. troops, 2014 helped push back in Syria and then also in the caliphate were supportive.
Matt SpeerHOST
These people are the Peshmaga and they are the good forces of the Kurds.
Matt SpeerHOST
However, even after really abandoning them in Syria, which we did, and also abandoning them in Iraq, They are still utmost loyal to the United States because we kill terrorists and they love that.
Brad ColbertHOST
And Central Command is well-placed to report its own departure, right? Its judgment about the security condition left behind is deserves a separate assessment.
Brad ColbertHOST
Admiral Brad Cooper says ISIS no longer presents a systemic threat to Iraq and that Iraqi forces, including the Peshmerga, can independently manage their security threats.
Brad ColbertHOST
That is the command's assessment.
Brad ColbertHOST
It's not a guarantee about future performance.
24 MINS LATER
Brad ColbertHOST
The bilateral relationship needs to become observable.
Brad ColbertHOST
Training arrangements, intelligence cooperation, and the delivery of agreed support will tell us more than general assurances.
Brad ColbertHOST
So coordination between federal forces and the Peshmerga, it matters.
Brad ColbertHOST
So does evidence that armed factions are complying with state authority.
Glenn BeckHOST
What was the name of, of the most feared, uh, uh, troop against ISIS?
Jason ButtrillCORRESPONDENT
Uh, I don't know what the, the name of the actual unit was, but it was an all-female, uh, Kurdish Peshmerga group.
Glenn BeckHOST
Okay.
Glenn BeckHOST
Why were they so feared? They were that good?
Doug SillimanGUEST
But the CTS did a much better job and at the end of the day had to bear the brunt of the combat against, uh, against ISIS.
Doug SillimanGUEST
If I believe, and I generally do, my military colleagues and former military colleagues, the experience that the Iraqi military, the federal police, the Peshmerga, and the CTS have gotten in the period from two thousand fourteen up to today has given them skills and abilities to ferret out ISIS, to collect intelligence, and to figure out where the next attacks need to go.
Doug SillimanGUEST
They've progressed significantly from where they were in two thousand eleven.
Doug SillimanGUEST
But that does not mean that they have all the capabilities that the United States brought to them or brought to the general fight.
Robert EvansHOST
I- in, in the fighting against ISIS in Mosul, you had, like, two primary, like, non-state militias.
Robert EvansHOST
There was the Peshmerga, which is like the Kurdish militias from the north, and then you had the, the Popular Mobilization Forces, which were the Iranian-backed guys.
Robert EvansHOST
And the dudes you wanted to avoid when you were there, to be honest.
James StoutHOST
[laughs] Yeah, so they-
Robert EvansPANELIST
I- in, in the fighting against ISIS in Mosul, you had, like, two primary, like, non-state militias.
Robert EvansPANELIST
There was the Peshmerga, which is, like, the Kurdish militias from the north, and then you had the, the Popular Mobilization forces, which were the Iranian-backed guys, and the dudes you wanted to avoid when you were there, to be honest.
James StoutPANELIST
[laughs] Yes.
Robert EvansPANELIST
They were s- they were not the, the least trustworthy of the, uh, of the Iraqi state forces.
Robert S. FordGUEST
But in general, the biggest groups have said, "We have conditions." Some of the conditions I think are gonna be very hard to meet.
Robert S. FordGUEST
Disarming of the Peshmerga, um, ending American influence over Iraqi's oil revenues, for example.
Robert S. FordGUEST
Um, things that are probably not all going to be put in place by next June.
Robert S. FordGUEST
So when we go back to this issue of political cover, were the governing Islamist party, Shia Islamist parties, to say as a unified voice to the militias, "You must disarm," uh, then it will be harder.
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Robert S. FordGUEST
Um, they are not to attack anybody in Iraq, including, uh, the Iraqi Kurdish, uh, communities up in the north.
Robert S. FordGUEST
So we'll see if the Iraqi militias stick to that.
Robert S. FordGUEST
If they don't, um, you could see, um, uh, the Iraqi Kurdish population, um, seriously rattled, and it's not impossible to imagine fighting breaking out along the lines of separation between where Iraqi Kurdish militias, the Peshmerga, are deployed and some of these, uh, Shia Islamist militias.
Robert S. FordGUEST
They have certainly fought battles in the past.
Ethan SwopeGUEST
And so these Kurds were gathering forces to try to build momentum to be able to go into Iran if they were called to.
Ethan SwopeGUEST
Peshmerga.
Ethan SwopeGUEST
Yeah, Peshmerga.
Ethan SwopeGUEST
Yeah, so we photographed some of their training and some demining up there.
Ethan SwopeGUEST
And then as the U.S. was withdrawing their support from the Kurds and in Syria, I went over there to cover as the Kurds were losing a lot of territory.
Sharmine NarwaniHOST
That is a given.
Sharmine NarwaniHOST
And one of these de- demands will be, well, if you want us to disarm, okay, disband, and then, um, merge into Iraqi security forces, right, national security forces, then the entire Peshmerga operation, you know, Iraqi, um, militant, sorry, Kurdish militant groups have to also disarm and merge into Iraqi security, Iraqi police, Iraqi ar- army, right, forces.
Sharmine NarwaniHOST
And, uh, yeah, I d- I don't think this is a win of any kind for the Americans or just on the surface.
Sharmine NarwaniHOST
It is the Americans deciding to take themselves out of the many target banks that are, you know, that Americans are going to represent if a war-
Justin HughesGUEST
So he probably kind of filled you in on like a lot of what that dynamic was like.
Justin HughesGUEST
But ISIS had kind of built a stronghold and we had like the northern section of Iraq, which we had like this really cool partner force called the Peshmerga that we were fighting with.
Justin HughesGUEST
And It was like World War One, man.
Justin HughesGUEST
There was like trenches.
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