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Of aiding netanyahus self-professed quest to insure that theres no nuclear capability in terms of iran. >> pro israeli organizations in the united states have pushed tough sanctions against iran. i dont think thats necessarily in and of itself a bad thing. the problem is if you have sanctions without a diplomatic alternative. the sanctions have to be pushing iran towards aç diplomatic solution. if you think that the military option is a very bad option. as it turns out most of the military lea...

Iran and israel and iran and the west and iran particularly and the united states. the iranians are responsible for killing a lot of americans in iraq and now unfortunately, afghanistan. making common cause i might add with their ideological or at least theological enemies in the taliban at times to just kill american soldiers. so -- >> thats not proven, but -- >> its not proven. >> ill take the word of four-star generals over you, no offense. >> okay, well -- >> my point is there is a low-level...

Followers. >> thats, thats mitt romney, sounding i would say sort of toeing the neocon line. the american currency is anb)qqp that -- >> i dont know if its neocon. >> im an american, i dont sound like that, ill respectfully dissent from that as being category cal. >> theres a tremendous division of continuity, robert kagan who wrote an essay about the myth of the american decline, the sort of brain trust out of which springs this american century idea. >> barack obama according to you -- >> the ...

Solution? is there a way for that to happen without that being seen as losing face? >> i think if you know, if there is any kind of credible scaling down and eventual stop to any nuclear weapons program the iranians might have, i dont think israelis will see it as losing face. in fact most of them have, have been shown to understand that even the nuclear -- sorry, god forbid, even the military attack on iran would only stop the program for a while. then it will resume. so you know, anything that...

Iran and the israeli talks about war and strife, is uniting everybody you know, with this government. >> the green movement is disappearing, moussaoui is at house arrest for a while and nobody is talking about it. the green movement is actually hammered because nobody is talking about what they are doing. and the daily struggle. were talking about should we bump them or not bump them. >> the threats and the sanctions is definitely hurting civil society in iran. theres no question about that. i s...

Corrupt and the karzai government is seen as very corrupt. the question is, what are we doing fighting their war for them? the view a think of a lot of soldiers is the united states wans to win against the taliban more than the government that theyre effectively fighting for. >> suneil, youre in constant contact with women on the ground in afghanistan. one of the things i think is really interesting is, i thought when the bales incident happened, i think a lot of americans thought, there would b...

Two issues. one is weather there is something conceptually rotten to the core of the entire project of counterinsurgency, right. which is even if the strategic aim is to win hearts and minds, its still fundamentally an occupation. and occupation has a power differential which has fundamentally occupations chafe at. a night raid into someones house, no one comes into the my house in the middle of the night with guns. thats a fact of being an american. >> youre also not a member of the taliban. >>...

Before i went to break, eli lake made an interesting provocative point about the sort of trajectory of the political veilance of the zionist project from its inception until now and being fundamentally alive with the left because of its socialist roots and now being fundamentally aligned with the right partly because of its opposition to islamic fundamentalism. peter, you want to respond to that? >> i think the problem is not that eli is wrong in saying that there are real threats from the islam...

Our troops, im sorry. not only the discipline of regular soldiers and single episodes, the command, what are they teaching them, what they are telling them to do. how they are training them. and are we really on a peace-keeping mission. >> im asking you a serious question, do we really know this. do you know that u.s. commanders are allowing this? >> im not saying that theyre allowing this. >> well that seems to be the implication. >> youre changing my words. please dont change my words and keep...

Intelligence reporter -- is that it would be very hard, given how the dispersal of the targets,ço actually wipe out the program, right? is that the general sense, eli? >> yeah, i mean i think that the policy for bush and for netanyahu and for obama and everybody else has been a combination of clandestine sabotage at times it gets to the point of killing scientists for i guess the israeli side. sanctions to try to pressure the regime. and then you know, the natural result is that you pressure a...