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Attacks. but some of the strikes, this is the serious part, have missed their targets. in august a bomb said to be made by the united states hit a bus in a town near the saudi border. at least two dozen children were among those killed. the saudi-led coalition later admitted the strike was a mistake. the air campaign has worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis. more than 22 million people, three-quarters of yemens population, need help. 14 million face starvation. nearly 2 million children ...

Visited, some of them camps for internally displaced people. there is no help for them. they are literally sitting there in whatever they can use to cover themselves. you know, they are sharing food amongst them. so its really different in the sense that the international community cant do the work that theyre trained to do. >> robert, i mentioned that this has turned into a proxy war. its really iran and saudi arabia at each other at someone elses expense. i dont mean to oversimplify this. ther...

Created a power vacuum that jihadists have used to their advantage. yemen, the ancestral home of osama bin laden has become the base of al qaeda. eight years later the terrorist organization targeted the u.s. embassy in the yemeni capitol killing one american. in 2011 robert worth wrote an article in "the new york times." it was titled "yemen on the brink of hell." yemen is a source of leverage for weakened regimes. quote, terrorism helps raise the profile of a country that had long been neglect...

Groups. in the last couple of weeks in egypt after this military coupe, we are hearing groups like al qaeda and other extremists saying we told you democracy doesnt work, if you are an islamist political party the west and backers will never let you come to power. thats why theyre calling on supporters to take up arms. theyre taking root in the northern part of sinai in egypt. were not saying its al qaeda. al qaeda inspired ideology is on the rise. that has egyptian officials and western officia...

Put its own interests above the interests of the domestic company. that is the result of what we see across yemen and elsewhere across the region. it does not hold water but it is the kind of rhetoric we hear in countries like egypt. that has negative impact in how the u.s. engages once its trying to deal with egyptian counterparts on domestic egyptian issues. >> nbcs ayman mohyeldin and robert worth. coming up, they both sit atop the highest court in the land. thats where the similarities end...

>> well, we heard two different things today. he wants to take the long view and he wants patience. think thats something he wanted to express going forward in the middle east. >> and also i want to bring a quote to your attention. helene cooper and robert worth have a piece in "the new york times" that examines the presidents tough test with the arab spring. they write bold words and support for democratic aspirations are not enough to engender good will in this region, especially not when hamp...

Have beaten back gadhafis forces. they fought back. it really is a stalemate in and area where there are not a lot of civilians, around a key oil refinery area and perhaps with the defections weve seen of the foreign minister and others, perhaps theres a period where some back channel diplomacy can take place. we heard the rebels talk about the possibility of a cease fire and heard the government spokesman dismiss that. i guess the sense of the two weeks after coalition action here and intense s...

We are back joining me now, truly terrific panel, bernard henri levy, who is said to have convinced the president for action against gadhafi. richard haass, who has been skeptical about this inver tension from the start. from washington were joined by "the new york times" reporter, robert worth who wrote todays cover story on libya. and from berkeley, california, bob baer, spent years in the middle east and africa. welcome all. you found yourself in -- you were in egypt. you heard about what was...

President for action against gadhafi. richard haass, who has been skeptical about this intervention from the start. from washington were joined by "the new york times" reporter, robert worth who wrote todays cover story on libya. and from berkeley, california, bob baer, spent years in the middle east and africa. welcome all. you found yourself in -- you were in egypt. you heard about what was going on in libya and went to libya and chartered a plane and met the opposition and then ended up to ta...

And we are back with bernard henri levy and bob baer and robert worth and richard haass. richard haass mentioned the problem is libya is taking up so much air time were not talking enough or thinking enough about egypt, saudi arabia, bahrain. youre all experts on so many of these countries. robert worth, your last "new york times" cover story was about yemen. they are going through a fascinating problem where the president seems to have decided that he cant hold on to power but his family is hol...