that is very hard in the middle east. because you do not get invited to a lot of things if you do not have a man accompany you. her life changed completely. she wanted to buy a car. my father used to have a car so she wanted to buy a car so she could take us to school. and it was very rare for an egyptian woman to drive a car. she was looked at by some neighbors and even members of her family as a loose woman. ira member her crying a lot. she said, isn't it enough they take our husbands, the jihad, but they do not give us women the respect to live with some ease after they die? that was the day i really felt the struggle women have to face in a family where there is no man. i remember one time when i was a teenager, i was standing in front of the school, waiting for her to pick me up and a boy came and he was like four or five or 10 feet away from me and he was talking and she came to pick me up and my mom would not stop yelling at me -- how do you look back at the boy when he was talking to you? it is not the fault of th

on the topic of diversity in the middle east. as an american you like diversity, you have all these raises and ethnicities, even a black president. what if diversity in my society is not the same as diversity in yours? what if diversity here is a source of weakness? he asked me. wasn't it diversity that created the violence in iraq, he pressed on, the existence of all those different groups, sunni, shiite, christian, kurdish? i would rather live in a place that did not have diversity and was stable than live in a diverse place that was at constant risk of falling into civil war. let that pregnant conversation hang in the air for a minute and i will return to at the end of my remarks in my next 15 minutes or so. i want to give you a structural overview of what happened over the last three years, where we are currently and where we were going. quick overview of the recent past, and it's uncertain future. where did we come from, the recent past? we can understand the conflict in syria by looking at three axe these about the revoluti

a panel of middle east experts look at middle east conflict, the isis threat to the u.s.a. by westerns are joining isis. [inaudible conversations] >> okay, good afternoon, everyone. hope you're having a good day. i direct print center for middle east public policy or as they call it here, cnet. our center focus on middle east from across the rand corporation. we focus on the pricing socio- economic challenges facing the region. today the region is at a critical juncture. the panel you are about to hear from are going to be discussing the really complex challenges that were facing in the region. but i wanted to note that our center here at rand, we also focus on longer-term solutions to some of the underlying issues generating so much of the violence today. that is why we focus on issues like education for syrian refugee children, which is one of the greatest displacement crises in the globe today. we focus on the critical question of youth unemployment in regions like the middle east. in our view, if we don't tackle these kinds of long-term challenges, we are going to conti

again the middle east part of the subsidies are in middle east countries.for me unbelievable that on one hand governments want to improve renewable energies and market share and on the other hand they are putting subsidies for fossil fuels. this is unbelievably because you push the renewables in order to have a better chance to compete in terms of prices. you have no chance. this is definitely not the right way and as you said we were in africa this year. one of the reasons why people say we have subsidies for energy our numbers show that out of this money, 550 billion only 8% of the subsidies go to 20% lowest income groups and more than 90% of the subsidies go to medium to high income. therefore we have some suggestions in the context of the g20 and we have to realize the subsidy reforms and also this year we are looking at the turkish g20 two moved the subsidy even further. >> one final question from me and we will open it up to the audience. you know i can't get away from asking a climate change question. one of the interesting things you know for those

so what's different is now it's the middle east. it's not east asia, it's not africa, it's not latin america. all those places -- you have a single, dominant language. . they were all part of a single country less than 100 years ago. so, instead of having half a dozen somewhat autonomous conflicts going on and a certain amount of contagion of among them, you have what appears to be an up evil in entire civilization, and the conflict more intense. it has several conflicting strands and one dimension. the second thing is, the immediacy and intensity and volume of the media content. americans were being killed in as brutal a fashion as the journalists who were beheaded in the 1980's. one poor man in a wheelchair was pushed overboard when an entire ship was hijacked. but there were not the u.s.. videos, there were only three channels and then of them are broadcasted. those pictures would have never gotten out. it would not have had the immediacy of seeing mr. foley the beheaded and almost real-time. nine 11 as a course, 9/11 as a backgro

so what is different is now as the middle east. t asia and is not africa or latin america. all those places are relatively quiet. it's now the middle east. that's one difference. the second difference is the middle east is an unusually homogeneous place. if you have a single dominant ethnicity. they are almost all arabs. you have a single dominant language. they are almost all speak arabic radio the single dominant religion. they are all mohammad bin and they were all part of a single country less than 100 years ago. instead of having a half a dozen somewhat autonomous complex going on with a certain amount of contagion among them you have what appears to be and that people of an entire civilization. and the conflict is much more cross-border. it's much more intense. it has several conflicting strands, the ones you mentioned so that is one thing that makes it different. the second thing is the immediacy and intensity and volume of the media content. americans were being killed as the journalists were being in the 1980s. one poor man

you know, there is plenty of potential in the middle east. but large companies are not going to walk inside a region where there is lack of security, lack of investment in the future, and i am saying this understanding is possible. i mean it is possible. we just need to eliminate fear. >> let's talk about eastern europe. these tensions between russia and ukraine and eastern europe have exacerbated already slowing economies. some are worried about a recession in western european countries. what are you seeing? >> well, first, i think europe is in a recovery mode. there is no doubt about it. but this recovery mode has been put in doubt by the fact that there is die virgentions inside europe about the policy to be implemented. this divergentions now is taking place inside the european central bank which has many choices and cannot make what seems to me as obvious choices because the different constituents of europe do not agree. at least for the moment. now. >> means we are in the middle of a crisis in europe. this crisis is not due to the fact

so the middle east is a region we can either fix or ignore, what is left? i am for containment and amplification. does any of that ring true or resonate with you? >> when you look at the entire inventory of what you said, it is pretty hard to disagree with a lot of the points. if we had had such good policies over the years we would not be in the situation. but here is the reality. we live in this imperfect, dynamic, changing, interconnected world that we have never seen before. we have never seen anything like this before. and so policies, yes, are predicated on historical knowledge and cultural awareness and all that goes into that. have we made mistakes over a series of many years? i think anyone would agree to that. but that is not the issue, that is not the response ability that i have now or that the president has or john kerry. our responsibilities now are to find ways to make it better, find strategies and policies that work. within a world of uncontrollable's -- we are living in this world, charlie, especially in the middle east, of uncontrollables

this is the middle east. and it is the very reason why we are very worried, among other things, about the current developments in the middle east. because of this growth in the middle east, half of it needs to come from one country, which is iraq. where you look at the size of the reserves, when you look at the ongoing plants, when you look at the opportunity of the fields it is iraq. it is not only our view, it is the view of many organizations working on it. nd in iraq, of course very easy geeology, cheap to produce the oil. but you have to spend $15 billion to make the oil come to the markets. but today in this security situation, having the appetite to invest in the iraq and middle east countries, many middle east countries are close to zero. d assuming that the issue of the security issue today in iraq and elsewhere will not be resolved tomorrow. it will be with us for some time to come. this we believe is a major issue. because if you want to see a production growth in 2020 in the middle east, we have t

and he has said he will not commit american combat military operation in the middle east. there will be and there is combat there in syria and iraq. boots on the ground in iraq. but they're not americans fighting that war. we're training, we're advising, we're equipping, doing everything we did. >> rose: there may come a time which he has to recommend to the president to inject more combat troops there in order to stop isil. so the question is, what circumstances would produce that decision. >> well two things. i think we should be clear on what general dempsey has said. i never heard general dempsey say and i sat right next to him at a hearing last week, that he might eventually, essentially say we need to have the united states put troops and leave combat operations in iraq. i didn't hear him say that. now he has the responsibility of the chairman of the joint chiefs. it's his constitutional responsibility to the president, to the secretary of defense to continue to give us every option we seek. the president asks for that. i asked for that. we need that. we constantly a

of may have been, the state governments in the middle east were often corrupt, certainly economicallymismanaged by the command of their territory. that's no longer the case in a number of middle eastern countries, not the case in libya, not a case in iraq, not the case in yemen, syria. it's never been the case in lebanon. and this is essentially you beginning to see some fragmentation of middle eastern states along sectarian and ethnic cleavages. this creates enormous opportunity for sort of a mischievous actors looking at the middle east. because as the state power decomposes and as you begin to see people sort of clustering together in various identity groups, at the same time what has taken place in the region for sort of an arab -- or a cold war in the 1960s it was cold of the arab cold war which dated sort of what was called radical republics, against conservative monarchies, jordan, saudi arabia. a similar cold war has descended on the middle east today and this time is getting the islamic republic of iran against saudi arabia. this cold war is playing itself out in a lot of dif

if you look at the middle east today, it's a very different middle east than the one that we grew up in. one of the things that was said about prur u to the arab spring is whatever the deficiencies of the state power may have been, the state governments in the middle east were often corrupt, certainly economically mismanaged, but they have command of their territory. that's no longer the case in a number of middle eastern countries. that's not the case in iraq or in yemen, syria, it's never been the case. this is essentially you're beginning to see the fragmentation of middle eastern states along sectarian and ethnic cleavages. this creates enormous opportunities for a mischiefous actors looking at it. as the state power decomposes and as you see people clustering together in various identity groups, at the same time, what has taken place in the region is a cold war in the 1960s it was call called the arab cold war which pitted what was called radical republics against conservative monarchies. a similar cold war has descended and is pitting the islamic republic of iran against saudi

and russia and also northeast asia, south asia and the middle east. and those relationships are marked by the mocked by the new kovic city greater than we were familiar with in my horseback ride through history. we have multiple actors in these cases it's not just two countries and even conceptually that raises all kinds of problems plus there are new theaters to worry about. there is cyber, there's space where they are not easily transferable from the nuclear period. we need new concepts and we still need to worry about accidents and unauthorized use. we need to worry about terrorism and the nuclear device that's made as a result and we continue to have to worry about nuclear energy ambiguities. there there's there is still in busy as important enrichment and the use of plutonium as a fuel and you're going to hear about that very soon in the public of korea and the united states of america announced the new arrangement. all of this says to me that nuclear weapons are back into discussions about our security and other countries they are something for

this is not a situation but a nuclear weapon state in the middle east. we could have a very complicated situation with the saudis and egyptians that they could not stand idly by and it could get complicated very quickly. pakistan for about 20 years of a recessed nuclear weapon capability it had the capability to manufacture weapons with a series of test bet after the indian series of tests but it is a longer possible for pakistan to have a minimum capability they are adopted american policy from the '50s to be built and have tactical weapons with the fighter bombers to a table of naval platform. the triad. to have the nuclear weapons program in the whole world lead in the stockpile of nuclear weapons but our debts that puts them in the range of france and britain by the way. if you watched wilander something would notice. but at times is not what we would like. india. packet -- pakistan recessed for 20 years in the it had it for 40. and deterrents was their policy. it is not any more. that is relatively new for india is also with war fighting and to the

and revolution in the new middle east. fawaz, good to see you. the irony of libya is its descent into, when it helped officials topple moammar gadhafi. isn't it in a civil war already? >> almost. i think libya is almost descending into all out civil war. you have two authorities, you have two governments, you have many militias, many tribes fighting one another. it's a civil war seen as exist tension existential. i fear that libya is following in the foot tips of syria. you could -- footsteps of syria. this would be catastrophic, not only for the libyan people who have great hopes, but also, for the region as a whole. >> all right, let's break down what's going on. the numbers are astonishing. 1700 estimated militias and fighting groups. as you said, you know, these two governments, libya's elected government got kicked out of tripoli the capital by an islamist faction that has control there. there's another islamist faction in benghazi, that killed the u.s. ambassador then there's a nationalist militia led by retired gene

the topic is isis and the shifting geopolitical dynamics of the middle east. the islamic state leapt into public and international consciousness earlier this year with the horrible beheadings of western journalists. since that time, the public debate over the situation in the region has often tended to be oversimplified and focused on isis, itself, and the effort to degrade and destroy it. today we step back and look deeper at the complexities in the region today and forces shaping the political situation in iraq, syria, and lebanon, as well as the actions and the policies of neighboring countries in the region. we have an excellent group of carnegie and regional speakers, experts speaking today. our last session will be with deputy national security advisers. that session will begin promptly at 3:00 p.m., and anyone attending will be asked to remain seated until mr. blinken leaves the building. finally, we have c-span and a number of other news agencies filming the conference today. i ask you to please be conscious as you move around in the back of the room.

we did in the middle east when we didn't need to. it was an easy way out. i also think that a proposal which said, take genocide. let's make it a particular case for reform. while they there are disputes about it, we pretty much can define it it is easier to define than tororrism. now, let's say now, i thought there was a time when we could convince the five permanent members, want now. there it was a time to cop vince the five permanent members, unless three of them said they were prepared to vote against a draft, they would all agree to obstain or vote in favor. that would do several things, that would crystallize the negotiations on a draft. it would give us a better chance to get a tougher draft on genocide questions. which in my view is very important. i think you could take out of the mix right away things that states as a clause in the nuclear test band territory, it is in your vital interesting to go back to testing you have an out. limit that as much as you possibly could. moving it,a way from those kinds of things would be important for us. i thin

>> part of it is beyond the middle east.he president just was, ought to be the area of focus. increase american presence of a medically, economically, to keep asia on the rails. asia has been a remarkable three-decade story. we want to keep it that way. europe is tougher because you have the russian challenge. there we ought to be doing i believe more for ukraine and more for nato. the answer should not always be just to penalize russia. you should strengthen ukraine militarily, strengthen the rest of nato. steps to weaken european energy dependence on russia. middle east is by far the less successful, most problematic part of the world, and there we have simple he got to take steps to try to thwart the momentum of a group with isis. >> what type of diplomacy is proactive in the middle east the way we see this? everyone stammers. >> i do not think there is diplomacy with groups like isis. what you can try to do is shore up some of the neighbors. do more with turkey. i was there the other day. i am not sold that the turks are

arabic and al jazeera english are a bit different but many people in the middle east and north africa especially the north defenders would tell you that especially al jazeera arabic is that it is a finance station that has promoted fundamentalism and has been soft on fundamentalism in many instances and so i would encourage you to look for alternative independent news sources. one that i love and write for a lost twice to publish voices from that region including in the translation is a wonderful website called "-open-double-quote see and you can find the voices from tunisia and serious and iraq and it's critical that we find ways that are not communicating in english and make the material available. you can also do what i did although it is getting more dangerous and that is actually go to the region and talk to people. i interviewed 300 people from nearly 30 countries and i think you're right we cannot always believe what we are necessarily hearing in the headlines. you have to work hard yourself to get out there and find more of the truth. >> i was wondering i think it's important

america's military involvement in the middle east. colonel really a pleasure to have you back on the show. you wrote a blistering article in the times, better called half hearted effort. you have been an outspoken critic of the broader waw iraq war. >> i'm not only a critic of the broader iraq war but the u.s. military spps that ha enterpriss been unfolding in the past decades. my own sense is even if u.s. officials won't acknowledge the fact our purposes really are to attempt to impose our will to mold to shape to dominate the core of the islamic world. it hasn't worked. it's not going to work. and indeed, the rise of i.s.i.l. the islamic state in the wake of the failed iraq war is simply one more piece of evidence suggesting the extent of our failure. >> i guess then that is question and i bring up also a column that tom freedman wrote in the "new york times." he says we have tried everything, decapitation without abdication in libya, syria, all out invasion in iraq, democratickization in democratization in egypt. what can we do? >>

what happens in the middle east will have a blowback in canada, or the other west. we cannot live without one another, and yet our nationalistic ideologies encourage to us focus too anywhere rely on the nation and that's particularly true in the mideast, where the nation state set up by the british and the french 100 years ago were arbitrary, bizarre, and put together a whole lot of incompatable peoples, with -- and tell them to create a nation. very, very difficult to do. almost set up to fail. and so -- and also they're modern, too, and their very successful economic handling of all the loot and oil they've been acquiring on that travel. a very successful corporation here in the modern sense. so, in some -- to see us going back to the dark ages is unfortunately not quite true. they are a bizarre and terrible group, but they express a darker side of modernity that we don't often consider. >> host: karen, we only have a few minutes left. i wanted to ask you -- because i was talking about going back to the darker side. so where does all this lead us? we're in this vi

ally right now in the middle east of the neighboring countries? >> i think you would probably have to put jordan and the united arab em rapts on part. jordan has been a tremendous ally. we have been relying on them more and more. my concern with jordan is we have pulled them too far into our camp they lose their reputation for being a middle ground state. but the jordanians have been tremendously helpful. the emirates are coming into their own. their military forces are much more capable than they were and the qataris have provided us with consistent air basing support. the saudis have been supportive despite their frustrations with our actions in egypt. we have gotten tremendous regional support. >> inside the country, there was a story by david kirkpatrick that said that the prime minister replaced 36 military commanders. is that a good sign of -- what's that a sign of, going forward, i should ask? >> in very practical terms, it is positive because a lot were not jut corrupt but political appointees but had purchased their position and they were

and the middle east, many governments are taking steps. today in the middle east, they used 2 million barrels per day of oil to generate. from an economic point of view -- i just want to say something. this is something to run your car, -- it is not economic at all. so the government are moving to cast especially. in the middle east, i see part of the subsidy is just for me unbelievable that on one hand, and rubber bands equaled the market share. on the other hand, they are putting substantial subsidies to use. this is unbelievable because you pushed the renewables in order to have a better chance to compete in terms of crisis. but you have no chance if you do not -- you said you work on it this year. one of the reasons people say something is for energy. our numbers show that out of this money, only 8% of the subsidies go to global interest groups and 90% of the subsidies go to medium and higher income groups. so it's more medium and high income levels. so therefore, we have some suggestions in the context of the g20, how to realize the s

it imagines a middle east that digit exist. in less than six months, isis relar reerased the border and carved out an arable e area the size of mds m.d. washington calls this state a cancer. the cure, it says, is not o e to send in one army, but to prop up five armies. in central iraq, rebuilding and retraining if army. in western iraq, it's paying sunni tribes. in north earn iraq, it's sending guns to the kurds. in southern syria, the regime is still in power. in a wider reason e reel joon, the u.s. is counting on support from muslim regions. >> but they have, at time, supported radical groups like isis. the u.s. has tried to sort out the divisions between sunnis and kurds in the past. it did not go well. now we're trying it again. on a larger scale and by remote control. the president has said it will take years. he's been fairly cautious. vice president biden, not so much. >> we will follow them to the gates of held until they are brought to justice. hell is where they will reside. >> well, for the past several weeks, the ga

so tonight i want to begin with what i call the extended middle east as a cluster of questions. it's self-evident, it's obvious, the importance is perhaps, if anything, been overstressed in the press recently. but we can look at that. and so, from the straits of gibraltar to the hindu kush, the extent of the middle east is a fertile field to continue to present us with new, interesting, challenging, and sometimes very destructive problems. and, in fact, the middle east fertility in this sense has probably outstripped our capacity in any real way to continue to deal with them. certainly new questions have emerged since the beginning of 2013, or even 2012, with a kind of rapidity that has left us all breathless, left our government masters, if i can call them that, certainly stymied often at the starting post, as to how to get at them. and looking now at the complications of their interrelationship. no one set of questions, i think, in the middle east has the silver bullet embedded in it, that will solve the others. but it is interesting that as things get worse in one area, they

when you talk about the middle east and the young woman and the terrorists groups getting involved. in america, it is important for us in america to be a part of a movement that not only affects us abroad but also domestically and i wonder what we can do to getting gauged. >> absolutely true there are serious human-rights problems that need to be taken care of but we also have to care about what happens on the other side of the world. i believe in human universe of rights and solidarity and every one of these stories i heard wherever i went whether it was my father's home country or another, really became a part of me and i hope so we will both think locally and think globally and act locally but also thing globally and act locally. both of those pieces are very important. one of the things we can do in terms of people getting involved is bring some people like those in my book to the u.s. to talk, to be heard for themselves, to shares these stories. you can do that in a range of ways, with the book, with the website for the book which is karima bennoune.com. there is an excerpt the

it can change in the middle east. is just going to take the kind of political courage that these three men demonstrated. >> and he was assassinated. >> these makers are easy targets. it is so easy to disrupt peace. abbas,ears ago, mahmoud the palestinian leader, had an idea. let's let the palestinian people solution.e two-state why not? were poll showed they yearning for a two-state solution and that would demonstrate to the world their political will. they would also override hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of israel. if people could vote and show that they had different expressions of what happened, hamas abducted this israeli soldier and the israelis invaded gaza and everything went to hell . people that are opposed to peace act so quickly. there is almost a will to lose on the part of the peacemakers. israelis, in order to up 1000 --alit, gave >> i did a one-man show about that. it was interesting to me how you measure a person's life. how does someone's life get to equal 1000? what does that say abou

this could be another nuclear weapon state in the middle east. and we could have a very complicated situation. the saudis, the egyptians and others have just about promised us if the iranians proceed with a genuine program, they will not stand idly by. this could get very come lated and very quickly. pakistan. pakistan for about 20 years had a sort of what i would sometimes call a recessed nuclear weapons capability. in other words, it had the capability in the late 1980's to manufacture nuclear weapons. it didn't. we don't think at that point it did. certainly in the late 1990's when they tested a series of test after the indian series of tests. but things have changed. it is no longer a possibility for the pakistanis to have a minimum deterrent capability to deter the indians. nonsense. that's not where they are now. they have adopted american policies from the 1950's. they have built and are deploying tactical nuclear weapons for war fighting purposes. they have a very, varied set of delivery vehicles that includes aircraft fighter bombers tha

it imagines a middle east that doesn't exist. they've been able to capture mosul and take over half of syria. in less than six months, isis erased the border and carved out an area the size of maryland. washington calls this state a cancer. the cure, it says, is not o e to send in one army, but to prop up five armies. in central iraq, the u.s. is rebuilding and retraining the army. in western iraq, it's paying sunni tribes. in north earn iraq, it's sending guns to the kurds. in southern syria, the regime is still in power and growing stronger. the fact is these groups hate each other. in the wider region, the u.s. is counting on support from muslim countries. but they've at times supported radical groups like isis. is u.s. has tried to sort out the divisions in the past, it did not go well. now we're trying it again on a larger scale and by remote control. the president said it will that take years to can grade and destroy isis. he's been very cautious, vice president biden, not so much. >> we will follow them to the gates of hel

then go on to say that they are concerned not just for the plight of christians who are in the middle eastand that notion that this is indifferent to many. that's something that we have been hearing echoed time and time again from refugees from iraq and from syria, from christians, from muslims and from everyone, who have been suffering the brunt of the violence, whether it's violence brought on by isis, by the assad regime, by rebels, by various different sects. this is a region that has been mired in violence and this persecution of the christians is just one of the many devastating consequences. >> all right, arwa damon reporting for us in istanbul, arwa, thank you. >>> there are alarming, new discoveries about the number of drones that are in the sky and not just how many are there but how close they're getting to passenger airlines. >> take a look at this, between february 22nd and november 11th of this year, the faa says there have been 193 reports of drone sightings during flights. in october alone, 41 pilots reported seeing a drone or unmanned aircraft in the sky. >> cnn's candy cr

what happens in the middle east will have a blue back in canada or the west. we can't live without one another yet or ideologies encourage us to focus on the nation and that is particularly true in the middle east where the nationstate setup by the british and french about 100 years ago where the arbitrary and bizarre put together a lot of incompatible people and told them to create a nation that is very difficult to do and almost set up to fail. and also in the very unsuccessful handling that they have been acquiring on that. they are a very successful corporation in the modern sense. so going back to the dark ages is unfortunately not quite true. but they express a darker side of that we don't often consider. >> we only have a few minutes left but i wanted to ask you because i was talking about going back to the darker side where does all of this lead us. we are in this violent world and to talk about the fact it's in our human nature. are we going back to the pre- religious days where it is about the community or are we going forward with more of a religiou

later a discussion on the expansion of isis in the middle east. after that remarks by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >>> next a look at u.s. strategy against isis. thursday david cohen, the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence outlined his agency's work to attach the terror group's funding sources. this hearing of the house financial services committee is three hours. >> the committee will come to order. the chair will declare a recess at any time. before we begin, if you think you are in a strange room, you are. we did not change the portraits, as i have announced previously to the committee. our hearing room, i think, is the last hearing room in the raburn building to receive a sound upgrade and other modifications to make the room ada compliant. as a reminder to all members, we will be a no maddic tribe between now and theoretically the end of march. we hope that doesn't mean mid-w mid-wmid mid-may. and we will take whatever committee room our friends will allow us to have. so if you see chairman s

the middle east.re to have you back on the show, certainly. you wrote a blistering column in the l.a. times saying our campaign against isil which the pentagon calls operation inherent resolve. can would better be called operation half hearted effort. but you have been an outspoken critic of the broader eye back war so what should we be doing? >> i am not only a critic of the broader iraq war, but a critic of the u.s. military he wants prize. that has been unfolding in the greater middle east for the past three plus decades. my own sense is that even if u.s. officials won't acknowledge the fact, our purposes really torah tempt to impose our will, to mold, to shape, to dominate, the core of the islamic world . it hasn't worked it's not going to work and indeed the rise of isil, the islamic skate, in the wake of the failed iraq war, is simply one more piece of evidence suggesting the extent of our failure. >> i guess that is the question. and i bring up also a column that tom friedman wrote in the new y

foreign policy dilemma in the middle east.it would become very important for persian gulf security, for the stability of iraq, of syria, of afghanistan. the key to this is to resolve this decades old marred relations between u.s. and iran and i believe if that happens we are going to have a new chapter for a region that is being broiled in conflict and is raging on now. >> and russia benefits as well. >> of course it does. i believe if -- it is important to lay down this comprehensive deal on the nuclear issue that we realize that a year ago just a year ago, the break through of a decade of nuclear negotiations was primarily based on the fact that president obama mentioned that he wants a deal with iran. and vice versa. and mr. rouhani. and it is backed up by a great team in both capitals. and most importantly, when the iranian leadership structure, we have ayatollah khomeini to press ahead with the deal. this is very important development. >> the white house will be under pressure to explain exception to a skeptical congress.

in t is what is happening the middle east. what we have to load up all our and all our troops and send them halfway across the world to fight people whose neighbors won't even help them? not only do we fight for them, we fought the bill, and we send foreign aid to the who won't fight -- countries who won't fight. on the democrats line. west virginia. >> hello, i just want to say that they need to take their masks off and show their faces. everyone should quit blaming obama. he is just a man. he is only human. this started before he came in office. that is all i have to say. >> the wall street journal this morning has a story taking a look at chuck hagel. he lays out a plan for weapon, as the story says, the pentagon outside the k traditional industry to find affordable emerging technologies. saying that those technologies would be looking towards -- one second be within budget constraints -- some leaders believe could reshape the weapons business over the next decade. pentagon officials, the report looking to dy to tackle cont

the islamic state consolidating its power in the middle east. terrorist threats through most of north africa and the rest of the region. i think as long as america steps back from the conflict, our adversaries will conclude they have an open past. it's not just the threat of terrorism about vladimir putin using military force on the continent of europe to change international boundaries. something we hope in the cold war we could eliminate forever. >> that's absolutely astounding. gosh chof is saying we could have a new cold war with putin. putin has been expanding the new russia. how do we stop him? ask that possible? when you mention the last six years, obviously a message to the obama administration. >> right now, there's a shared common perception in radical head quarters around the middle east that they face in the united states a weak and inattentive president. the calendar is just as easy for them to raze as it is for us. they see two more years of that. so i think the scope and the pace of challenges we're going to face will increase in

. >> war in the middle east. spearheadsces drive across the sinai peninsula west to the suez canal, breaking the blockade, capturing the west bank of the jordan river and occupying the old city of jerusalem. the first crippling blow came 25 basish air raids on in egypt, jordan, and syria. the sinai campaign was instrumental in mapping the nation's battle plan. quickness of the israeli army crash forces with a one-to punch. charges are vigorously denied are broken.atic a cease-fire continued at the united nations. u.s. ambassador arthur goldberg issues a peace plan. an immediate debate is started in the security council representing 15 nations. while the united states and russia disagree on the wording of her troupe of her true patrol, israel's foreign ua ourr charges president plotted the murder of a state. the vote is finally taken, and the resolution adopted unanimously. word continues to come from the battles on, telling of sweeping israeli victories. next day, egypt accepts the cease-fire, joining jordan, lea