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the decision will then be whether pakistan and the countries of the arabian gulf, as well as recent overtures from china will be rewarded with recognition of theew regime and whether they will join the united states in making it a pariah state, as the u.s. has threatened. anthony: suja, a simple question, does -- shuja, a simple question, does the u.s. government have the power to stop the taliban from seizing the entire country? shuja: not the government by itself. the intent to bolster the defenses in different provinces by making deals with local landlords who came back from turkey to take over his part of the country, but, the trouble is, the history indicates that these warlords will not defend kabul. they will defend their own territory to the best ability, but if they do not succeed, they will try to cross the borders into friendly territories and as happened on the night of the 26th of september 1996. anthony: without another western literary intervention, how will this escalating conflict ultimately affect the people of afghanistan? shuja: very badly, to say the least because afghani

goes back to the seventy's when it was part of our mission to secure oil, coming out of saudi arabian, the gulf. so that, that strategy, it needs property and that property was held by rack. it was held by afghanistan to some extent area. it's certainly our allies in the goals and the amorous and cutter . so this is what it was about now. how do you explain that to american people? how do you explain that to soldiers who are told they're going to educate women and girls in afghanistan? i'm going to build schools and you know, playground, you can't, it's 2 things going on here. there's the actual question. now and justification, which is not much for what we did as a nation in afghanistan. and then there's the story they tell back home. and joe, actually job seems a little confused, mixing some of it stories, but for the most part he stuck to the message. of course they're evil and bad and we really wouldn't be working with them. but oh yeah, actually we are a little bit. yes, it's actually quite embarrassing. you might embarrass and you just started a few ideas of what politics of the bridge an

cooled off in terms of actual, physical movement happening in the persian gulf in the gulf of oman, around the arabian sea, but we're at the stage where the un security council is discussing these incidents, the complaints the israelis have raised at the u.n. >> some analysts are calling it a shadow war. where does that leave sales with sanctions? >> right now there has been no impact that we know of on iranian oil output levels. production has dropped since u.s. sanctions were reinstated, reimposed on iran back in 2018. the stronger impact of those sanctions have been on iran's export levels. those export levels have dropped dramatically since 2017, a direct result of this effective embargo that the trump administration imposed on iran's energy industry. alix: thank you very much. such an important update to consider. time for commodity in chief, where we talk to one executive in the commodity world. today it is the american clean power ceo. the u.s. has been a clean energy power goals. president biden wants to eliminate carbon from the grid by 2025. enter american clean power. it unites way in, sola

> faisal was interested in liberating the arabs of what is today the arabian peninsula, saudi arabia and parts of jordan and the gulfberating it from the ottoman hands and trying to create their own sovereign rule. >> on that promise, he launches the arab revolt in the summer of 1916. >> faisal rallies his arab brothers. he drives the turks out of mecca, and he has successfully created a small rebellion. >> but very quickly the revolt kind of reaches paralysis. they can't really advance. the turks have artillery and machine guns. the arab tribesmen don't. so it all kind of looks like it's all about to fall apart. >> and faisal recognizes that they're not going to be able to fully sustain this rebellion, this movement, without some help from some big players. get ready - our most popular battery is even more powerful. the stronger, lasts-longer energizer max. no, he's not in his room. ♪ ♪ dad, why didn't you answer your phone? ♪ your mother loved this park. ♪ she did. ♪ ♪ when i was young ♪ no-no-no-no-no please please no. ♪ i never needed anyone. ♪ front desk. yes, hello... i'm so... please hold. ♪ those days are do

needed bigger army and excuse me, navy and air force to deter china, to deter iran in the persian gulf and arabian and the capabilities we have aren't great, but it doesn't seemed like it's in joe biden's constitution to use this to pivot towards a new national security strategy. lauren: it gets worse because china said they will support the taliban's leadership and look what has just is left of afghanistan. now china has a land bridge from afghanistan to iran. implications of that? >> yeah, i'm a little less worried about that just because the taliban really has no love for the chinese and it doesn't mean they wouldn't take chinese money for infrastructure although it's unclear if china would get a lot from that. there is a lot of interaction between afghanistan and iran. there was question yesterday when afghanistan president ran away whether he actually went to around and turns out he might be in pakistan, but yes, iran does sort of have a broader issue land in which to operate. lauren: christian, thank you for coming on. >> thank you. lauren: it's look at stocks because united airlines began r

gulf, texaco, standard new jersey or exxon, standard new york mobile. this is the moment at which these companies were turning towards south america and the arabian peninsula, urged on by washington to secure new fields before domestic reserves ran out. we've had several cycles of peak oil over the last 120 years. this was coming in the wake of fears over peak oil and anticipating what was going to become next as the automobile industry continued to expand in the post war period. for luce, their corporate labors when harnessed by god fearing patriots held the capacity to transform the world. he drew on metaphor to encourage his compatriots. it served as the pillar of the american century. but luce, the very architect of the term suggests that a religious of ecumenical outreach. william eddy pictured below kneeling was the son of presbyterian missionaries in the middle east. his parents were among a generation of american missionaries who moved to beirut. there they spread mission bases but also developed hospitals and schools such as american university in beirut. trained at princeton, eddy went onto teach at dartmouth before accepting the presidency of ho