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Picking grounds. they see the residents there as having been alienated by the government. so they swooped in, seeing an opening. and now we see the -- what will likely be another very pitched bloody battle to take control of that city. >> and i think the "new york times" would echo what you just, which is that this is a proxy war between the saudis and iranians. at the same time, the "times" makes a point of this is a power vacuum in the middle east. the bloodshed in the past two weeks exposes s...

Some time, alex, its essentially the growth of two radical strains of islam. what we have going on there is sort of a proxy war, a proxy war between the shiite led government of prime minister al maliki in baghdad backed by the iranian regime and then sunni residents out in fallujah in that part of the country, who essentially get aid and support from saudi arabia. this is to some degree a proxy war between the saudis and r iranians playing out in iraq. its a problem thats been made much worse b...

Today, quote, but for all its echoes, the bloodshed that has engulfed iraq, lebanon and syria in the past two weeks exposes something new and destabilizing, the emergence of a post american middle east in which no broker has the power or the will to contain the regions sectarian hatreds. hereby to help me make sense of the various warring factions, the american interests and options in the region and former ambassador mark ginsburg. thanks for joining me. >> sure, karen. >> ambassador, i want to...

Americans in iraq and afghanistan? one by one, did they, yes or no? >> they did but i want to give you a prelude to that. >> are they fighting a proxy war through hezbollah and other groups in the middle east? >> theyre not fighting with us. >> i said are they fighting proxy wars and are they a terrorist state? and the answer is, yes. they are spreading terror. >> i wouldnt call it terrorism. what theyre doing is terror but i would not qualify them as a terrorist state, sean. >> what theyre doin...

Americans in iraq and afghanistan? one by one, did they, yes or no? >> they did but i want to give you a prelude to that. >> are they fighting a proxy war through hezbollah and other groups in the middle east? >> theyre not fighting with us. >> i said are they fighting proxy wars and are they a terrorist state? and the answer is, yes. they are spreading terror. >> i wouldnt call it terrorism. what theyre doing is terror but i would not qualify them as a terrorist state, sean. >> what theyre doin...

On irans side. >> we heard earlier on "state of the union" that the saudis hate iran in part because iranians want to kill saudi ambassador here in washington at a restaurant in washington a few years ago. thats one example of why they will never trust iranians. >> saudi arabia and iran are fighting a proxy war throughout the middle east and iraq and syria and lebanon look at the middle east through sectarian lenses. they are the sunni power. they look at iran as the shiite power. i think we hav...

Leland vittert is live in jerusalem with the latest now. leland? >> reporter: and, jenna, this was really the fear, that the syrian civil war, that proxy war going on would spill outside into the neighboring countries, lebanon being one of the prime targets. twin suicide bombs outside of the iranian embassy. remember, the iranians are the top of the triangle here. they support president bashar assad inside syria, they also support the militant group hezbollah that is fighting in syria to help pr...

Negotiation time. and weve said that. at the same time, im not convinced theyll work. >> but that doesnt mean we shouldnt do it. >> and the reason the stakes are so high is because the war in syria represents a proxy war between a sunni and shia divide in the region. and that could really escalate into a regional conflagration. and this is one of the most important steps towards bringing that down, to be negotiating with iran isnt only going to, if these negotiations work, mean a safer world for...

Into buildings occupied by u.s. forces. in fact as far back as the 1990s, usama bin laden was referring to the u.s. marines barracks bombing as a model for future attacks against the u.s. embassies in africa for instance, and the first world trade center attack. >> fact that what happened is that the multinational peace keeping force that had been deployed to beirut to keep the peace in war-torn civil war all withdrew. the united states, the italians, the french, the brits, everybody pulled out....

Decisively outclassed. how might the obama administrations stalling on syria impact iran? impact rouhanis strategy on his own nuclear assets? >> you know, brooke, in fact, president obama came to this encounter, came to this chess game, if you will, with the iranians and rouhani and the foreign minister, he came weakened by the way he handled syria. i think the iranians watched him in syria. we had a proxy war in syria on one side, the opposition forces, the rebellion, and supposedly with the de...