in a region or isis or the muslim brotherhood or al qaeda following the "i am, unfortunately, randy newman" and flow of public opinion can be disastrous. it doesn't mean we should ignore people's opinion but it means in my personal view we should give less credence to the jam did you do damned if you don't as a problem. that is just the reality. >> i guess we don't have time but i have to take issue, an important issue. there's a reason we have dammed and that is the trajectory of history we have in the region that has not been pretty. when i did my book arab voices and a myth americans have about arabs about us, they think we are really smart. what do you mean? they think that we are all powerful and we make decisions based all the time on our interests so when something happens that is really stupid they think we knew what we were doing and got the outcome we wanted. we invaded iraq so iran would be more powerful than the arabs would turn to was for more weapons and was part of a master plan because they couldn't explain our stupidity. they couldn't. that is an issue we have to wrestle w

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