otherwise, it is pointed to by jihadis, it is used as a recruiting tool. that's very different from saying, israel is a strategic drag. >> i think that discursively, if you sit down and parse what they're saying, at base, at root, that is essentially the message. far from being an enormous asset, if israel continues to act in a way that antagonizes opinion all over the muslim world, all over the arab world, and in other parts of the world, to tell you the truth. you go other places and say, why is the united states supporting this crazy policy, then it becomes a liability instead of an asset. >> yeah, but at that point, if you accept that analysis, at that point, you ask yourself, what can the administration do to move the peace process along in a direction that serves both israelis and palestinians well? and what the administration has been doing, i think, serves the opposite interests. it basically sends a signal to israel that this administration is not reliable, there's no longer a kind of hug-me-close mentality, which has, in fact, moved israel to, fo

there was one incident in pakistan where a particular nonnuclear base was attacked by 600 armed jihadis at the same time. russia is another category of high risk. i believe. they have the world's largest stockpiles and the world's largest numbers of buildings and bunkers. and nuclear security that has improved dramatically since the mid-1990s but still has some significant weakness. and those security systems face some significant threats particularly from insiders with the massive corruption problem that exists in pakistan. as it does highly enriched fueled research reactorses. most of these reactors though not all have not enough for a bomb at one side. al-qaeda showed with the embassy bombings and then with 9/11 it is capable of attacking more than one site at the same time if it is needed to achieve its objectives. and they have very minimal security at most of these places. many of them are on university campuses. and nuclear theft is not a hypothetical worry. it's an ongoing reality. there are 18 cases documented by the international atomic energy agency involving theft or loss of

he was not a great man it was not essential for him to hold public office you have been eight awp jihadis? yes. holding elected office. it does not mean that much where was the absolute compulsion you have another question? it was a very disconcerting age to rewrite about now. [laughter] >> this is a terrific book. i realize you're a historian. i heard that on c-span there are future aspects of the coolidge philosophy probably for the first time since he left his presidency. i hear a lot of coolidge in the two-party. do think it is possible that the philosophy is not antiquated but implemented? >> i am a historian not a profit. [laughter] but they go in cycles. and reagan although not a big fan of fdr he became more conservative and a big coolidge finance and replaced a portrait of harry truman that hung in the white house that surprised fl of a lot of people. and in this very year we heard glen beckham resurrect the coolidge philosophy and persona and the tv show and cpac. i think the timing may to be right to. and according to the founding fathers reseal lot of similarities in that phil

. >> bill: well, after that episode ran, the following quote appeared on a pro jihadi web site targetingth park. we have to warn matt and trey, they are the creators that what they're doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like theo van gogh this is not a threat but a reality of what will likely happen to them. van gogh is a dutch citizen murdered for criticizing islam. with us now undercover special agent for the justice department in afghanistan and pakistan. so if the creators of south park were to call you and say what should we do here, what would you tell them. >> i think the best thing they need to do right now is nothing. the more attention they pay to this, the more attention it's going to get. if it does escalate, i think they are going to have to take precautions. this is serious. i think they knew what they were getting into. >> bill: they had to know. >> when they started it. interviews with them and they said they realized this was going to be pushing the envelope. but they do that all the time anyway. >> bill: you would not recommend that they get security now and

qaeda today is more than an organization, it's an idea, concept, the concept of the global islamic jihadi appeared to use the internet to radicalize those who will never have any face to face contact. major had died, the killer at fort hood is a classic example of this. he radicalize himself on internet and then he began to communicate with the ammonite cleric using it. and there is an ongoing war as shane has indicated. i give you an example. every september 11th is 2003, al qaeda issues a major statement. it's kind of the state of the jihad statement from al qaeda, which is that here's what was done in the last year. user things are going in his solo thing to do in the year ahead in the broadest terms. in 2008, the statement was delayed from being rented by our intelligence community basically taking down she hottest websites. and i turned up i think four days later when they finally got one of their websites up and operating. last year was taken down and they were back up and operating four hours later. so this is an expensive war for the web that's going on every day. we have on our s