>> has most middle easterners and americans for example are aware of this longer, deeper, humanitarian dimension of america's involvement. when we think about the middle east committee usually centers on oil, israel and military security and middle easterners feel like ways. they don't think about whether the longer routes that have nothing to do with oil, nothing to do with israel having nothing

landis and norman he is director of the center for middle east studies and associate professor of middle eastern studies at the university of oklahoma in dubai we have moved to jabber he is an expert with the center for middle east studies and public relations and in washington we cross to our resident nader he is a senior international policy analyst at the rand corporation right gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want josh if i can go to you but the security and difference here between the sunni and the shia have been around as long as islam itself virtually but how is it different in the arab spring and what events being played out in the region and we can't forget about iran. well it's become very politicized ever since the iranian revolution nine hundred seventy nine america was boosted was kicked out of iran and went to saudi arabia to build up its major center of power and to keep its hands on gulf oil saudi arabia has become the armored base of the united states and increasingly the u.s. has has sided with the sunnis now that the other big factor

alley is right it's not just america's fault this is a regional problem and it is that only middle easterners can come to terms with but america is stuck in the middle of it all right gentlemen we're going to go to a. very short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the sunni shiite divide stay with our. lives. and. still. live. the speech. she gave. her her. mother will. come up. with good luck. just see. it in the. mind of a little. choose your language. make it with know if they feel some of. the consensus here. to the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in life choose access to often. british. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to come is a report. welcome back to crossfire campaign of else remind you we're talking about the sunni shia conflict. came if it ever go back to you in dubai after everything that's happened with the arab spring and what's going on with syria do you think that the west is rethinking its neocolonial project in the region

alley is right it's not just america's fault this is a regional problem and it is that only middle easterners can come to terms with but america is stuck in the middle of it all right gentlemen we're going to go to a. very short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the sunni shiite divide stay with our. slate. still. hold it. hold. her mother. that speech. her. mother with. her mother her mom it's good. to see her. mother. and. her. son i mean a little. wealthier british scientists. because. markets. tend to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. tune in to kaiser report on r g. do we speak your language or not advance. the music programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles in the stories. for you here. to ensure the spanish find out more visit i to. take. welcome back to crossfire comparable to remind you we're talking about the sunni shia conflict. and if you. came with it if i go back to you in dubai after everythin

alley is right it's not just america's fault this is a regional problem and it is that only middle easterners can come to terms with but america is stuck in the middle of it all right gentlemen we're going to go to a. very short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the sunni shia divide stay with our. slums can see. live. live. live live. live. at the speed. of. play. her. live mum will. clearly be limitlessly good luck. play lists look at. her. bottom a little. live. even some to see explain destruction without the see. what could be just ruins lives saved by a great sacrifice gameplay and restored by human jets it's. a remarkable reminder of the courage and selflessness of troops into. is it more people. believe. the site. choose your language. call it a killer though if they feel some of the. treatments that the concerns here can. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact the life choose access to your office. wealthy british. margetts weiner scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. welco

a senior official of one of the biggest middle eastern countries vice president al do you are more how much about mohamed is out there who is also head of the environmental protection often has a. when it comes to greenhouse gas polluters the general public might think oh established industrial giants and the developing economies as the worst culprits however iran is in the top five carbon emitters at the recent climate change conference to qatar the kyoto protocol was extended but carbon emitters as the united states russia and china chose to opt out iranian why is president mohamed these are this that he's country championed the extension backed by dozens of other nations. mr mohammad is a dan welcome to the show but i'm going to be first off as we've just heard a few days ago qatar hosted koppel eighteen the. eighteen's conference of the parties of the un framework convention on climate change the conference made

professor haddad is also head of the middle eastern studies program here at george mason university. this is a booktv on c-span2. >> tell us what you think about our program this weekend. you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> with just days left in this month and this year, many publications are putting together a year and a list of notable books. booktv will feature several of these lists focusing on nonfiction selection. these titles were included in the "christian science monitor"'s 15 best books of 2012-nonfiction. >> for an extended list of links to various

discuss it further i'm now joined by jeremy sold an associate professor of middle eastern history and politics and bill can university thanks for coming on our team today the countries are involved in the only aim is to protect their nato ally but the missiles are capable of reaching deep into serious territory what do you make of that well this is the reason for staging the missiles on syria's border is not because of an attack by syria because there's actually no likelihood that syria turkey and in any case those missiles to be the. all ballistic missiles the artillery shells. the border accidentally so the. speculation is based on the fact that perhaps. an. intervention. and this is the interpretation. and he said it's fundamentally part of the game plan against iran. you know these are the questions that. factor into this equation. let's talk about the troop deployment the u.s. the netherlands and germany a. thousand troops to operate the patriot batteries that amount of soldiers really needed to operate six. i wouldn't think so i. wouldn't think you need a thousand soldiers to do

we are told by middle eastern diplomatic sources that middle eastern countries are trying to find a place to give assad asylum. the u.s. military is making contingency plans in case assad leaves. if he leaves suddenly a top international priority would be getting the gas. >> we are at risk not only chemical weapons will be used in the conflict in syria but terrorist elements within the opposition get their hands on the agent or the weapon they could go out of the country and be used by terrorists worldwide. that is a real danger. >> a senior u.s. navy official told my colleague jennifer griffin no nave sal -- navel aspect has been passed at this point but it could change quickly. >>> time to look at who is talking. we are going back to the looming fiscal cliff. that's what florida senator marco rubio is talking about. >> he discusses the negotiations on capitol hill and the raising taxes. >> my parents worked in the service industry we were able to afford a house. we always had what we needed thank god and thank this country. that's only possible in the future if we have limited governmen

, middle eastern countries.t's important to recognize that for what it is. it's important to see who these guys are. it's important not to deceive ourselves by the come in all kinds of the rainbow brite of shades, they do, okay? it's black, gray, or very, very dark blue. so that's what i would urge people to think about. one last point because my mind is on -- of course to say we need to learn about bob and these guys, locke's second treatise of government comes out of -- who argues for monarchy. and monarchy is looking better and better in the middle east. if there's one country that seems to have figured it out, so far, is morocco. and maybe that should be a model for other places in the region as well. >> thank you, bret. brian. >> my basic arguments for our side of the debate, an argument for reality of opening your eyes and seeing where we are today, two years into these uprisings and these changes. and in a region of the world just narrowly focused on the middle east which has about 20 countries, you have

we are now seeing the proces s of totalitarianism coming into too many middle eastern countries. it is important to recognize that for what it is. it is important to see who these guys are. they come in a rainbow variety of shades of islamists -- they do not. it is black, gray, or very dark blue. i would urge people to think about -- the second treatise of government. markey is looking better and better in the middle east. if there is one country -- monarchy is looking better and better in the middle east. if there is one country that has figured it out, it is morocco. >> my basic argument for the proposition on our side of the debate is an argument for reality. open your eyes and seeing where we are today, two years into these uprisings and changes. in region of the world just narrowly focused on the middle east, which has about 20 countries, the vaccine political change in four of them. -- you have seen political change in four of them. we're at the start of a process. our response from washington has been very philosophical and intellectual, but not very operational. this proc

several middle eastern nations have offered him asylum if he steps down. >> marriage licenses will be issued in several maryland counties today and for same-sex couples. some counties have confirmed they will begin issuing licenses today, including anne arundel frederick, and montgomery. maryland maine, and washington became the first states to pass a same-sex marriage by popular vote. the washington state same-sex marriage law takes effect today. the governor signed the law wednesday night during a ceremony at the state capitol. there's a three-day waiting period. >> professional hockey returning to verizon center tonight for one night. ahl showcase. tickets are sold out before the game. it's at 7:00 p.m. there are signs ice could be sawing between players and owners in the 82nd day of the lockout. -- ice thawing. talks will continue today. the work stoppage has wiped out all games through december 14 as well as new year's day, the winter classic, and the all-star game. >> facebook's rivalry with twitter deepens and hundreds of jobs are on the chopping block. >> linda bell has more.

this will wean us off middle eastern oil. we won't use petroleum-based fuels.t true at all. if you want to get off middle eastern oil, all he would have to do is open up the united states to exploit our own -- we're the only country in the world that doesn't exploit our own resources. and we have more recoverable reserves in coal, oil and gas in america than any other country has. we could actually be totally independent in a matter of if we just opened up our own. melissa: i know you're going out. one of the moves is to go out and tell people about this so they understand that we're spending $59 a gallon on fuel, money that we don't have. is there any way to really stop it in its tracks? this kind of spending makes me really want to tear my hair out? >> it should want to make you tear your hair out. way back in '09, the first big bunch, that is where he came up with the i'm sorry, the $424 a gallon. we said it. we talked about it. there is lot of interest. my people in my state of oklahoma, they're outraged but somehow this just doesn't seem to get out. and we

there are indications that various middle eastern countries are trying to find a place to give assad asylum according to diplomatic sources. as you mentioned, senior u.s. official also told fox earlier today that the sarin had been mixed and had been weaponized and that that sarin, once that gas is mixed, if you will, it lasts for about 60 days. it's perishable. there's a great deal of concern tonight at the pentagon and in washington about what the intentions of the assad regime is with the sarin gas, these chemical weapons that can be so deadly. >> greta: jennifer, what makes this so vastly different than anything else is you've got this 60-day window. it's not like nuclear weapons where some country has that sort of discussion with us that endures for years, and they sort of plod along. this is a 60-day window, and in the event that he doesn't get asylum or in the event he gets asylum but as he leaves, he does something rather dirty or leaves insecure, one minute in a discharge of this sarin gas, and it's deadly to so many people. this is different. would you not agree? >> reporte

of middle eastern history at columbia college. an m.a. and b.a.in middle eastern at princeton. >> israeli and american citizen? >> i am. >> why due end up in the 1982 war in lebanon? >> i always wanted to move to israel. i saw my future in israel. i wanted to raise my family in israel. in 1973, at the end of the 1973 war which i would have missed had i been living in israel, i determined i wasn't going to move just then. i was going to do my b.a. first. i did my b.a. which turned out as an m.a. i worked as an advisor to the israeli administration to the u.n. arafat speaking for the general assembly. very tumultuous period. i moved to israel and tried for this unit in the army. the tryouts are rather rigorous. i did 17 months of basic training. and got out just prior to the lebanon war. but in israel, we have -- you serve for a long period your regular serve and do reserve service to the age of 52. now i have a son in the army who is 19. and in a very elite unit. i am still doing reserve duty. we share uniforms. very bizarre. >> how old ar

when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle eastern north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave out of a very clear message for president which is it is time for him to go but when scenes of violent clashes between riot police and reform complainer scheme from bahrain the definition of democracy shifted and rhetoric softened. in the summer the u.s. state department came up with a statement expressing its concerns over the human rights situation and alleged torture in bahrain this was only several months after washington had restarted weapons sales to this gulf state dissenters in bahrain have been directing anger at their government for months now stop arming the killers is a message they are more often sending out to the west somehow the in bahrain blood is worthless and the libyan blood is more important it's just book critical stand so here you see four from travels to europe to direct attention to what he believes to be brutal repression in h

middle eastern countries are more apiece than ever, seeing a 100% increase since 1990. in the same time, there has been success in tackling malnutrition with deaths down 2/3 in the last 30 years. this report actually bears out the trends that we have seen over the years. people's lifestyles are changing and there are high levels of chronic diseases which are underpinned by conditions such as obesity. >> sub-saharan africa still has its own specific problems but with life expectancy in many countries still much lower than the rest of the world. the gap in ill health between this region and elsewhere has widened. the researchers warn that aides have not gone away and africa is having to get to grips with other elements like mental illness. these figures present fresh information and fresh challenges. >> we return to the scene in connecticut where 26 people were killed today. we can speak again to barbara. all around the country, people are absolutely stunned by this unbelievable, nowhere more so than in newtown. >> absolutely. at the end of this horrible day, we have very

when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle eastern and north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical for margaret i think has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave one no matter how long it takes that will be a reckoning for this dreadful regime but when scenes of violent clashes between riot police and reform campaign risking from bahrain the definition of democracy shifted and there was a suspiciously move. in the summer of the us state department came up with a statement expressing its concerns over the human rights situation and alleged torture in bahrain this was only several months after washington had restarted weapons sales to this gulf state it is claimed that the weaponry is defensive but hardly anyone in the opposition believes that dissenters in bahrain have been directing anger at their government for months now stop arming the killers is the message there are more often sending out to the west some of the in bahrain blood is worthless and the libyan blood is more important it's just a book criti

emirates is according to prime minister david cameron who says he wants a defense partnership with a middle eastern monarchy the u.k. also signed a four billion dollar contract with oman to supply it with aircraft geo political analyst patrick hemmings and now with things lining is really looking to print pressure on a country on the other side of the persian gulf the justification for this massive build up in the middle east especially in the gulf states area the west is quickly blaming iran saying that because iran's pursuing nuclear ambitions although there's no proof of any to their weapons programs as such they're blaming iran for a possible nuclear arms race in the region that's a quote from david cameron only days ago so the encirclement of iran is certainly not a geo political scale number one priority and i think they've achieved that militarily but you know the question is. is this going to be a real military standoff or we looking at it a cold war situation were we just posturing militarily geopolitically looking for some bigger conflict down the road perhaps in a few years. turning now

has seemed to change the world forever but what has really changed as new governments form in middle eastern countries like tunisia and egypt how different really are the new bosses from the old ones and one of the changes meant for american influence in the region are the correspondent arena glu show has more. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken from vendor certain cell phone fire in an act of desperation some say he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more hollow was uses real motivation was his act of self immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were toppled what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections brought on their tables and jobs what they got seems to be a very different result patrician a swore strike comparison to what. and comparison to the years before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe. when we see. all t

from future gun massacres we already know how far lawmakers are willing to go to protect us from middle eastern terrorists group that is killed nothing close to the number of americans who die every day because of the n.r.a. if al qaeda were to strike the united states for example in the last remaining weeks of this year and kill as many americans as thirty nine eleventh's the carnage still wouldn't compare to what guns do to americans every single year so far in two thousand and twelve more than nine thousand americans have died by way of the gun almost one hundred thousand were shot just this last saturday alone one hundred ninety people in america were shot and in newtown connecticut twenty first graders are dead gunned down by an assault rifle borrowed from a gun mom. it's interesting and instructive to compare our national response to muslim religious extremist killers versus our response to largely white christian extremist killers at the end of two thousand and one a british islamic fundamentalist named richard reid try to take down an american airlines flight headed to miami by igniting

>> you know, i-- i was sent the script ands i was a middle eastern study major in college and i had been look at developing a story about the overthrow of the prime minister in iran by the united states and great britain. it was a really compelling story, and then i got this other script about iran and immediately i was drawp to it because it focus on things i was interesting in-- themes about storytelling, about the unintend consequences of revolution. in some way our relationship with the shaw is revealed to be similar to our relationship with mubarak. they appealed to our pro-western idea of what a leader should look like there and we overlooked the corruption, the croniness, the oppression underneath, and both were overthrown, and when both were overthrown the revolution revolutions that subsequently took place were not necessarily in our best interest. >> schieffer: ben affleck, a pleasure to have you, and good luck with the movie. when do you go back to the congo? >> in february, and you're welcome to come with me. >> schieffer: thank you. >> thanks very much. >> schieffer: and we'