ambassador to israel martin indyk. the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. and "new york times" columnist tom friedman. plus we'll talk to the chief washington correspondent of the "times" david sanger. "time" magazine deputy international editor bobby ghosh. and cbs news political director, john dickerson. this is "face the nation" upon captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. with >> good morning again. and here is the latest news from overnight. four american military people have been killed in an attack in southern afghanistan. this happened when at least one afghan police officer opened fire on them at a checkpoint. the state department has ordered all nonessential u.s. embassy personnel to leave tunisia and sudan, and protests against americans continue in at least 20 countries. we're going to start this morning with libya and the latest on tuesday's attack. we spoke a little earlier this morning with the president of libya's national

us bank. >>> we are back with richard haass, anne-marie slaughter, and martin indyk talking about thee middle east, and now iran. martin, is netanyahu going to attack iran? >> famous last words, but i don't think so in the next couple of months before the election. since we get into 2013, either an israeli or american attack seem to me more likely unless the iranians make a strategic decision to give up their nuclear weapons. >> why has the rhetoric from israel gotten harder in the last few weeks? >> because i think that the two things happening -- number one, the iranian nuclear program continues, notwithstanding sanctions, crippling sanctions, and an effort at negotiations. they're moving closer to the threshold. that makes the israelis more and more nervous. and they're adding to that this rhetoric of annihilating israel. so any israeli prime minister has to be nervous about that situation. there's potentially a window of opportunity before our election that would jam the president to be fully behind israel. i think he'd be behind it anyway. there may be a calculation there. beyond

martin indyk of brookings, and tom friedman of the "new york times" are with us here in the studio. richard haass, i'm going to go to you about what martin indyk was talking about, this problem between israel and the united states over iran and what do we do about it? the prime minister is saying the united states ought to publicly draw a red line and tell iran you cannot go beyond this point in your nuclear weapons development. where do you see-- what do you see happening on this front? >> well, that's an approach i think that probably can't work, simply because the iranians may be doing things already that we don't know about. and i think it's legitimate to say, even if they don't cross the nuclear weapons threshold, if they get 90% of the way there, that's not a very comforting outcome. so let me suggest a different approach, bob. instead of red linees, let me suggest deadlines. what we ought to do is going to the iranians with a diplomatic offer and make clear what it is they have to stop doing-- all the enrichment material they have to get rid of, the international inspections

joining me now, martin indyk, former u.s.el, and back in 1993, president clinton's top adviser on the middle east at nsc working on that very event. i was standing on the south grounds, broadcasting like. you were in the rooms trying to get that handshake to happen. >> yeah, it's amazing to think how far things have deteriorated since that bright september day when it seemed like everything was possible in terms of peace. raben saying enough of violence, bloodshed, time to make peace. >> and clinton holding his arms out saying what we promise you, people of the middle east, is the quiet miracle of a normal life. >> the quiet miracle of a normal life. now look at yemen today, look at libya, cairo. is egypt our biggest challenge potentially because of its siz , its importance, its strategy relationship the peace treaty with israel and the fact that president morsi done seem to have decided which way he wants to go. >> look, there's no doubt egypt is the cornerstone of our whole strategy for protecting and promoting our interest

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