US military presence in Iraq is increasingly tenuous

Back and forth attacks between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran have been escalating. Iraqi politicians are becoming more vocal in their demand to kick the United States out of the country, while at the same time they quietly want the US to stay. Host Carol Hills talks with Hamzeh Hadad, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security who used to live in Baghdad, about the dilemma over the US military footprint in Iraq. 

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