the news from the middle east was dismal. syrian saboteurs had blown up their oil pipelines running through their country, egyptian troops were pouring into kaiser and the anglo french strikes had ground the egyptian on the ground. eleanor roosevelt accused the administration of favoring the arabs over israel and asserted britain and france had been brought to the point of desperation by american policy. it leaves us in the very strange position, she said, of supporting the kremlin and an egyptian dictator against our own strongest ally. 6 of the 8 democratic members of the senate foreign relations committee publicly agreed with stevenson and roosevelt that the president's middle east policies had failed. eisenhower, they declared was over four years of indecision, tacklessness, amity and bluster. stevenson asserted, quote, the president's age, his health, and the fact that he cannot succeed himself make it inevitable that the dominant figure in the republican party under a second eisenhower term would be richard nixon, steve

the middle east, the timing could not have been worse.y the time he returned to the white house on july 15th 1956 john foster dulles decided to withdraw the american offer of aid to the project, largely because congress was opposed to it. on july 19th 1956, important date, dallas and a 12 minute meeting, 12 minutes, obtained eisenhower's decision to withdraw the offer of aid. he was not on top of the issue. his recovery from surgery had been difficult. he had been plagued with bouts of depression. that afternoon dulles and formed the british ambassador of the decision. the next day dollars proudly told friends that the united states had made a big chess move and that it was in a hell of a spot. a week later in retaliation he nationalized the suez canal company. he would use its profits to build the dam. the british and french controlled that company for decades. two-thirds of the oil came through the canal. now it was the united states and its allies that were in the hellespont. immediately the british and french prepared to go to war. ei

of the book, "break through, return of hope from the middle east."we heard michael say hundreds of thousands coming to christ. why is that happen do you believe that is happening? >> i do, gary. churches and believers around the world started praying for muslims 25 years ago. today we see as we see 1 out of every 2 muslims that become believers in christ have a dream or vision or christian prayed for them before they came to faith in christ. it knocks down those barriers and preconceived false information. they feel close and want to find out more about them. >> i know you have finished writing a new book and muslims of christ. how come? >> we can never figure out why god does something. islam, the religion started with a dream. mohammed went into a cave. that is why so many are in ramadan, in mecca celebrating ramadan. he went into dream, and gabrielle appeared to him. dreams means something to people in the middle east, especially muslims. god is breaking down the walls. a muslim goes on a search and wants to find out more about christ. i think it

he drove in the middle east, calling unthinkable. that was set at this favorite words, i'm in for both the united states would join forces with the soviet in the general assembly saturday ordered a cease-fire. unilateral action by the soviet union, eisenhower stated, would be forcefully opposed by the united states and ordered the sixth fleet stationed in the mediterranean order to place on alert. this was election eve. distresses retake and it's on the president. after a tense meeting over the message, eisenhower found the president heartbeat irregular. he laid down and developed a headache. after all, he'd only eat eaten a dish of carrot and a glass of yogurt since breakfast. the president agitation recorded was due to what he termed an ultimatum that had been served upon him. he crowd i'm concert was soldierly profamily. he crowd that if he were a dictator, he would tell russia if they moved a finger he would drop our entire stock of the public weapons on him. tuesday, november 6 was election day. i cruised to an even greater turm

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the better the middle east does the worst they do. so how that will play out, her nose. >> we have time for one more question. your career has taken you a long way. at one point in your career you were the sec liaison to the watergate special prosecutor. the dates you a little bit. you mentioned our hunt earlier. started this conversation. you have seen a lot of things in your life that could be described as a real. certainly nixon's time and ordered it was real. >> nixon himself. >> well, maybe this was the final question then. any similarity between nixon and osama bin laden? i take that question back. >> are we talking about charm? >> well, i mean, all joking aside. personality, the way it takes to get to the top of one profession. >> i think nixon was really a remarkable figure because he was the most a natural politician i've ever seen. you see natural politicians. bill clinton is amazing. watching him is just astounding. nixon had none of that. you can see the message from his brain to his mouth. he just was completely uncomfort

he said iraq was a shining example of the middle east.r of experts thought that the majority was going to eliminate the minority are dropping them out of the country or worse. for whom is a rack a shining example? >> for those that like democracy, more open societies, increasing appreciation for democratic institutions and principles. is a racket guaranteed to be a shining example forever? though. is it better than it was in recent years? absolutely. this is on a continuing and got a moment in time. if you look around the middle east with the exception of israel and turkey in you're trying to rank haitians that are next on the progress meter in terms of movement towards the like, you will put iraq moving in the right direction. in light of other challenges are within iraq, we don't know the answer to that. in this moment of time, it can and has been made in a difficult region with the complex and seemingly insurmountable history. absolutely. >> i want to ask a question that john asked you about states that democratically choose leaders wh

the better the middle east does, the worse they do.o how that's going to play out, you know, who knows? >> somewhere we have time, really, just for one more question. you know, your career has taken you a long way. at one point in your career you were the fcc's liaison to the watergate's special prosecutor. you mentioned howard hunt a little earlier at the start of this conversation, but you've seen a lot of things in your life that could be described as surreal, certainly nixon's time, watergate was surreal -- >> nixon himself was -- [laughter] >> nixon. well, that may lead us to the final question then. any similarities between nixon and bin laden? forget it. take that question back. >> well -- are we talking about charm? >> no, i mean, all joking aside, personality, the way it takes to get to the top of one's profession, duplicitous -- >> well, i think nixon was really a remarkable figure because he was the most unnatural politician i've ever seen. you've seen natural politicians. i mean, bill clinton's amazing. to watch him is just

>> we've put a tremendous amount of energy into the middle east peace process and in the middle east generally. we have not bee able to bridge the differences, charlie, between palestinians and the israelis on the peace issues to date. >> rose: do we have a plan? >> well, we do have a plan and in may the president set out a set of parameters which conform the basis of a middle east peace negotiation between the parties and we have been working with both the parties to try to bridge that as an alternative to the palestinian thority coming unilaterally to the united nations in september. on the relationship directly to your question. we obviously are going to have disagreements on political issues with allies and friends given the complexity of these relationships but i will tell you this, and this is now in my lane, in my bailiwick. on the security relationship, it's as close as it's ever been. dennis ross, whom you know, rks with us on my staff, has for many years, he worked on the first stratic dialogue between the united states and israel in the early '80s in the reagan administrat

closest ally in the middle east. this is one country where you have wall to wall americans. >> and under hostile threat. >> this is size of new jersey. 12,000 rockets pounding israeli cities. prime minister netanyahu in a huckabee exclusive. >> plus. they may be small but back by popular demand. sleepep man bango boys. >> and good evening. governor mike huckabee. >> thank you . thank you very much. great audience. welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios from new york city. some nut group called freedom from religion has the antenna up because the governor of texas is calling for a day of prayer. even thope the taxpayers are not paying. this group is suing to stop it. it is one thing to express the cynicism as the timing of a prayer event is a precursor to announcement that the governor is running for president. but i can't understand why people who don't believe in god and hate religion are afraid of it. if they think prayer is a exercise in futility. shouldn't they want believers praying more. that would keep

. >> host: let's talk about the middle east. what does the middle east tell us about the perils of forecasting and the dangers of accepting what we think is the >> guest: we have to define the middle east which is a very vague term. we speak about the area the united states is engaged in, i think about the mediterranean, from israel over. this is very different from north africa. >> host: the greater middle east you are talking about. >> guest: some people have used the middle east to include any islamic country. some people use it with errors. the british foreign office does a great deal of use. i'm interested in areas where the united states is waging war, which is iraq, afghanistan, to some extent pakistan, possibly iran. this is the battle the united states is facing. the balance of power in the region, the iran iraqi, the indo-pakistani. each one of them have destabilized over 10 years. in the air of israel relationship, barring some dramatic change in egypt over time, israel is so dominant that it creates new realities on

>> i think most people in the middle east would be much happier.e are some iraqis who are very nervous about it, because the new government has failed -- in elections with the united states monitored, have failed to provide equally for all the different ethnic and religious groups and failed to really implement a full democracy, and that's a problem. >> substantively what's different? in other words, it's good to be bringing your oh democracy about as oppose to the u.s. bringing it in but is there a difference in what you see as americans idea of democracy and liberal society and what you see as being these more grass roots ideas in east muslim countries, arab countries? >> look, democracy takes lots of different forms. european is different from american dock kreemocracies and m@ddle east different as well. a long way to go and a very, very rough ride. the tragedy, we've spent so much money in iraq and afghanistan when it comes to fighting terrorism but are not willing to put even small amounts of money into the fragile countries that desperately

like those which begin large areas of the middle east there are already two zones being created first of all it was decided to create a west african soon with ivory coast as the center which corresponds to the ancient myleene par which in fact explains the french intervention in ivory coast after that it was planned to obtain a considerable part of northern africa except egypt the latter being part of northern africa we represent another block. in case whole states are divided control would be spread first to morocco and if northern africa is revamped the conflict would have to be created with or not between shiites and sunnies as was attempted in the middle east but between arabs and the berbers this is where the real source of the events in guys ease. our civilians dying and that yes. indeed starting from the moment it was decided to launch this operation the lives of civilians were not taken into account everything we used to see in the middle east is not transpiring in this region and this is just the beginning it is a rather a question of the rearrangement of this. and we are yet

what happened in the middle east was that nationalism became pan-arab nationalism. and some sense it was another way within the region that the idea of the state became undermined. so when you would, say, 30, 40 years ago talk to someone from damascus and you would mention the nation of syria, they would say no, no, no. you can't say that. there's only one nation and that nation is the arab nations. >> it calls itself a searing division of the baath party. as if the boundaries were mirrored. i found more enthusiasm for george w. bush's call to arms in 2003, and the march invasion of iraq, than one usually encounters now. even among people who were supportive of the war, who are members of the bush administration. typical in my experience is a columnist who talked to people, to find people looking backwards, really scratching their heads and saying, you know, glad it turned out better than people here, but we have to be honest even now what we now know that there were not weapons of mass destruction. that war did make a lot of sense. there's a more enthusiastic accou

first of all, for the middle east and for the arab regime, but of course others.if iran has nuclear weapons then the arab spring would turn into an iranian winter, i'm convinced of that. and so, so much is at stake. the security of my country, the future of the middle east, the control of the world's oil supplies and the direction of where the arab world goes, does it go to democracy as we want or does it go to iranian style dictatorship? a lot of that will be determined by the acquisition of, or the development of nuclear weapons by iran, but the worst thing is, this is a terrorist regime, sworn to anilelation, killing americans, helping to kill americans, fossstering terror worldwide and to have iran with nuclear weapons the specter of nuclear terrorism to become really, real. >> it would be an immediate threat to israel. >> to you, too. >> mike: a lot of people in the united states don't understand how it could be. i think you've made it clear in the past, you have no intention to let iran get to that point. would they be a part of that to ensure that iran does

position in the middle east what is interesting in this affair used to see it at the operation in syria and the operation in libya had been designed exactly the same way and should normally have ended with the same war and both sides but they let go of syria and i think that some states rushing polluted thought better of it and prevented the course of those operations so that is why at the moment there is no war in syria you know if some western leaders are repeat almost every day that it is necessary to go toward one of the characteristics of the system mr have islamised extremists on the spot but a same works known as being those a little qaida and i use this term on purpose is there are some chiefs of those units we see here who are known for having fought in afghanistan in bosnia-herzegovina in chechnya in iraq not in syria or libya some of them in the meantime had been detained for years in guantanamo created by the united states and brought on the spot to continue to fight so here the deplete is always saying that he sees cities which are easy to supply located either on the coast

also in the troubled middle east the syrian government is opening talks with opposition activists to discuss the possibility of reforms but some leading rivals and prominent campaigners are not that in the meantime mass demonstrations erupted across the country on friday killing at least thirteen people tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets calling for president bashar al assad to step down so the protests began in march a government crowds have killed more than seven hundred demonstrators syria's deputy foreign minister told r.t. that any interference in the country's affairs from the west would end in disaster . syria's position has been clearly articulated and the global community is aware of the military forces syria hands so even if the west is thinking to be seen we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of the middle east and eventually the symptom is here to drive this region to disaster western countries are well aware of this have never been asked to keep hating arabs in syria in particular was a little startling i was really kind of it becau

the middle east peace corps heads made up of russia america the u.n. and the e.u. is gathered in washington and attempt to revive stool israeli palestinian peace talks meeting comes at no point organisations between israel and the u.s. not the presence of obama spoken freyberg return to establish pre nine hundred sixty seven borders. as well. so he's a palestinian and since declared much of it has its own. quarter of a key u.n. vote one officially recognizing it as a sovereign state something stronger close by israel and that you can explain why there is such urgency to see the talks take off. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as in effect that there is a sense that cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached the end and we that ily are to negotiate a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the u.n. general assembly in september recognizing the state of palestine and that adds urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last

the middle east peace quartet made up of russia america the u.n. and you has gathered in washington tent to revive a stalled israeli palestinian peace talks meeting comes at a low point in relations between israel and its biggest allies of us after president obama spoke in favor of return to established pre nine hundred sixty seven borders where israel occupied vast swathes of palestinians. and and since declared that much of it has its own gathering of the quarter it had a key u.n. vote the september one officially recognizing palestine as a sovereign state something strongly opposed by israel turns on the kitchen karen explains why there's such an agency to see the talks type of. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as ineffective there's a sense that cost for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached a dead end and made the failure to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly is september recognizing the st

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i'll ask him about that scandal, america's economy, and revolution in the middle east. also tonight. >> time is of the essence. we are running out of time. >> if america's debt rating gets downgraded, every interest rate in america will go up. >> two senators, democrat and republican, who think they've found a way out of this country's $14 trillion debt crisis. and a man who has strong opinions on just about everything, from casey anthony to president obama, to harry potter and the space shuttle. what will he say tonight? i'll ask the opinionated new voice of "the new york times." this is "piers morgan tonight." >>> good morning. "time" magazine calls prince alwaleed bin talal the arabian warren buffett. when he talks, the business world listens. tonight prince alwaleed bin talal joins me from the four seasons in paris where he's on vacation, to share his unique perspective on america's debt, the middle east, and the news corp. scandal. your highness, thank you for joining me. let me start right from the top by asking you of your impression of america's economy right no

soon a different threat than the revolutions and warfare spread throughout north africa and the middle east toppling regimes and bringing instability to the region so what are the biggest threats to your feeling global security for they care is a next three inserts the security as there while it is the chief of them stashed with first alex this crowd. last year russia and the united states strengthen ties by signing the new stock nuclear disarmament treaty each one russia needs relations and made things clear up along with the european missile defense program but things are still where they started because the alliance wants interceptor me silenced in eastern europe and russia wants guarantees they won't threaten its security the two parties also disagree with the current middle east in a shoes like the syrian i'm going to be on the ball. game. hello exist thank you very much for coming in three shows a pleasure to have been here first of all before we start talking about war and missiles and all those things let's talk about the from the more lively things like . a flag which was really lo

the middle east peace quartet made up of russia america. is gathered in washington tent to revive a stall palestinian peace talks comes no point in relations between israel and of us president obama spoke in turn to establish pre nine hundred sixty seven borders or israel occupied vast swathes of palestinian land and since declared much of it as its own. quartet head of the u.n. vote in september when i finished. recognizing palestine as a sovereign state something stronger posed by israel. on the future kerry explains why this such urgency to see the top of. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as in fact if there is a sense that cause for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they have reached a dead end i mean the failure to negotiate a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly is september recognizing the state of palestine that answer urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last chance for th

do you think something like that could happen with iran in the middle east or is that impossible? >> guest: i think it certainly could happen. the green revolution of 2009 was an early indicator of that. that is what i was referring to in the book when i say look across the border the ai iranian shia i can see another kind of policy that is thoroughly shia, but it is one in which the clerics are not in the primer minister's position and they can contrast that with of the obsession they are feeling and say why can't we be more like iraq today, but that's really president obama pointed to that as the 2,009 to iran as the fighting point of the spring and that's wrong. the steady point was to see the revolution in lebanon in 2005 and that puts us back to most of our intelligence the don't want to go as well as saddam hussein that kicked this off in some sense. the bush second inaugural address and president bush did not go forward with its. it was nonetheless there. the issue back then was the question of the uprising and for generations had been due the air and people want to be free

after world war i, the whole middle east region was really pulled into that system, but the states thatormed the region and the regimes that governed them didn't do very well, and so the region as a whole has always been in this modern era in a kind of adversary uneasy problematic relationship to the larger world which is a state, the united nations, the usual deformity in treaty systems, there's always been that tension there. i wanted to examine that to see what the origins might be and what the prospects might be. >> host: to help perspective readers of the book, perhaps you could summarize the distinction that you draw between modern states, the states that post-date the 1548 that ended the long religious wars which you say were states that focused on prospects, that the process of the state was issues of process, not issues of substance meaning not issue of religion. perhaps draw that argument out a little bit and tell us why those modern post-west states as we call them, why those states have had trouble in this part of the world where islamist was from? >> guest: before the moder

turning now to other news the middle east peace quartet made up of russia america the un and the e.u. has gathered in washington in an attempt to kick start stalled peace talks between israel and palestine the meeting comes out a time of strained relations between israel and its biggest ally the u.s. after president obama spoke out in support of reestablishing pre-one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders and ahead of a u.n. vote on officially recognizing palestine artie's correspondent going to church you can reports. the quartet has met at a time when its efforts as the global mediator in the middle east peace process are largely seen as ineffective there's a sense that calls for negotiations alone are not enough in fact they've reached a dead end and we'd easier to negotiate as a solution palestinians plan to seek a vote by the un general assembly tembe or recognizing the state of palestine that and urgency to the meeting of the quartet as some analysts say could be the last chance with the global mediators to prove their efficiency before at the possible voting september divid

did i use the approach in the middle east as they did on the tip of the in the middle come a little south of there are going to be so generally generally in general rather sad to. oh my oh go ahead if you had the common sense the common sense approach is the fact that it's pretty cool power we've seen we've seen a movement across the north africa across the middle east where people are taking ownership and asking for change and this is just an example of that gadhafi had been in power for forty two years he's time was up nonetheless the people said they wanted change the question is not about people wanting change itself is where the change can happen without foreign intervention is for the libyan people to determine their own cause to determine their own country and that's not what's happening currently ok mark i'll give you last word you had what brought the fled into the valley so this puts it all the libyan people are against him as omar suggests that how is it that he's managed to the entire city of tripoli how is it that they clearly are on his side in those mass demonstrations goin

in cairo's quarter, you can see what people want a new middle east. official corruption made the country worse, the regime's real legacy. too many live in places like carrots -- cairo's cramped back alleys. it is hard to feel free if every day is a struggle. to get an idea of where the changes are coming from, you need to go down any street in the middle east. or around 60% of arabs are under the age of 30. a lot of them are fed up with regimes that have not been trying to give them better lies. this year, they feel they can do something about it. change is not coming easily or quickly, but there is no going back to the way it was. but they have gone back to tahrir square because they believe the revolution is not complete. egyptians overthrew the man at the top. now they defy the generals who run the country until the elections, who they believe is trying to preserve as much as the old system as they can. organizers since the first anti mubarak marches in january are still leading the way for the arab world. >> we started by toppling the regime. all

fact that it's people power we've seen we've seen a movement across the north africa across the middle east where people are taking ownership and asking for change this is just an example of that gadhafi had been in power for forty two years he's time was not nonetheless the people said they wanted change the question is not about people wanting change itself it's where the change can happen without foreign intervention is for the libyan people to determine their own course to determine their own country and that's not what's happening currently ok mark i'll give you last word you had what brought the feeling for values like this especially for the libyan people are against him as omar suggests that how is it that he's managed on the entire city of tripoli how is it that they clearly are on his side in a mass demonstrations going on over there we don't look at falsified they look as genuine as anything else i've seen coming out of libya he clearly has a huge amount of popular support as well let's not blind ourselves so that omar. i didn't say the all the injection all the vivian's that get

this is a policy in the middle east that of the family in that little camera with the loss of her father are going to be so gentle gentle and gentle rather central. am i a guy if you had the common sense the common sense approaches the fact that it's people power we've seen we've seen a movement across the north africa across the middle east where people are taking ownership and asking for change and this is just an example off that's good aki have been in power for forty two years he's time result nonetheless the people said they wanted change the question is not about people wanting change itself it's where the change can happen without foreign intervention is for the libyan people to determine their own cause to determine their own country and that's not what's happening currently. ok marc i'll give you our security and what brought the flight into various cities or city hall the libyan people are against him as omar suggests but how is that he's managed on the entire city of tripoli how is he going to clearly are on his side in those mass demonstrations going on over the layout we do

guest: this has been a dilemma in the history of american foreign policy, not just in the middle eastghout the world. unfortunately, the policy has more often been, until recently, that we support regimes that are friendly to american interests regardless of what that regime's human-rights records are. the famous line, "he might be an ours."but he's that is a great alienate people across the world especially -- that will be a way to alienate people. mr. obama made a speech on may 18th at the state department and in which he outlined a new american policy that would put democracy first and foremost and would criticize regimes that did not make progress on political reform. we will have to see in the future what happens. egypt is a good case in point. if the supreme council of the armed forces makes good in egypt, will hand back power to civilians elected by parliament and the president, election democratic, if the security sector is reformed and there is a fundamental respect for human rights, and someone, then that will be a good relationship. if that does not take place, i would hope

after world war i, as the whole middle east region was pulled into that system but the states that formed region and the regimes that govern them didn't do well. and so the region as a whole has always been in this modern era in a kind of advery -- adverarial to the treaty systems -- there's always been that kind of tension there and i want to examine to see what the origins might be and what the prospects might be. >> host: to help perspective readers of this book perhaps you can summarize the distinction you bring to modern states to states that post-date vest failia and that ended long wars which you say states that focus on prospects, that the purpose of the state was issues of process, not issues of substance, meaning not issues of religion. perhaps you could just draw that argument out a little bit and tell us why those westphalian states, why those states have had trouble in this part of the world where islam is so strong. >> before the modern age, that's before the early 17th century, going all the way back into antiquity there were lots of different concepts of world order. the c