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Especially in the dark of night. everyone seems to be wearing helmets-not just police, but protesters as well. you can see the flags of the opposition here and the flames burning, and the monument -- i dont see in this picture, this wall is so big -- i believe that might be the mon independent the corner. you can see the fires are still burping and you can see incoming into the fires the -- theres also fireworks. i understand we have someone on the line -- michael ohanlon, a senior fellow and di...

The relationship between the u.s. and afghan president hamid karzai continues to get worse. the latest work of a usair strike on thursday that resulted in civilian deaths has mr. karzai lashing out again at the u.s. the same week karzai told susan rice he will not sign a bilateral security deal until certain of his conditions are met. now, if that agreement is not signed, that means u.s. troops might leave afghanistan for good. going to bring in michael ohanlon of the brookings institution to re...

Arbitrary acts and oppression of foreign forces continue, the security agreement with the united states will not be signed. >> he sees this as something we want, which is true, but he should want it even more. >> reporter: analyst michael ohanlon says karzais refusal to sign the deal is a bad call but not a complete surprise. >> my belief all along has been that he would draw this out for the fundamental reason that he wants leverage. >> reporter: the deal allows u.s. troops to stay in afghanist...

Relationships between the countries, not on our difficulties with this one man. >> people there like the fact that their girls go to school now and concerned that would end afterwards. they like having american troops around. is that still the case today? >> absolutely. this has been a very mixed campaign as you well know and most americans appreciate. it has not been a defeat. afghan people are much better off than they were 10 or 12 years ago. this fighting season, this he were in the lead. th...

Functioning state. we have not helped them get on their feet. we did a very minimalist intervention in 2011 and then essentially left them to their own with best wishes, if that. and so we have had these big debates in the united states about benghazi. we had this recent raid and now a big debate with the libyan government. but i think its all sort of about the wrong question. the right question is what can we do, even at this point, to try to help the libyan government develop its courts, devel...

Talking about the iraq invasion. im talking about the aerial operations of the 1990s. he knows there are lot of things we can do from the air, and if we get serious about doing them he will lose the war, at best hold on to a tiny enclave so air power is never enough to win the war but when you combine i with the syrian insurgencies, such as it is, which has already taken fair amount of the country, dont believe he can hold on in the face of that. so he has a disincentive to provoke us. my best g...

Ive ever seen. so we know its coming. or presume its coming. what we do not have is what the goal is once it comes, michael. >> well, you know, im a little more comfortable with what is being proposed than your previous guest, for example. i think we do know whats coming, not in targeting detail, but president obama has said that this is a shot across the bow. it will be a little more than that from what i can see in terms of five destroyerers being ready to fire up to several dozen cruises miss...

Somewhat seriously. to me thats right. and thats more or less the center of gravity that i hear in the debate myself. now you raise a very valid point. what if this level of chatter persists. then we have to ask whats the danger of incapacitating our foreign policy in the middle east by not letting our diplomats or our development workers and others do their jobs just to make sure we dont get hit in the short term with an attack. thats the hardest clem ma th e that we have to face. for the next ...

>> the one good thing i think about the state department issuing these warnings, when you let them know you know you put them on the heels and they often times back down. >> the caution has earned the white house applause on both sides of the aisle but as bloombergs jeffrey goldberg noted, closing two dozen embassies across the arab world also has its drawbacks. >> this is very problematic. you are telling 21 countries we want them to believe that were a powerful country, an open country, a free...

Threat as separate from the region. but from all the intelligence that weve been able to understand, this specific warning emanates from yemen and there is a low level war going on in yemen. has been for several years with saudi arabia, the united states, and yemen carrying out air strikes and drone strikes in many parts of the country against al qaeda militants and other extremists. while we dont feel the are war in yemen, it doesnt get reported on, the people who are living there certainly do ...