fouad, do you see some say this is the downfall of political islam. this is political islam on its heels. do you agree with that? i do. i think it s the set back for the muslim brotherhood, ben wedeman gave us a cautionary note. we should never think that anyone could extubate the roots of the muslim brotherhood in egypt. they run deep. they run to the 1920s. the muslim brotherhood should always be in the game. many of the liberals if you will, begrudge the brotherhood, they ran for elections against the brotherhood and they lost. it sustained a setback in egypt and it even sustained minor setback in turkey, the troubles of erdogan. the story continues. it never ends, because there is no way that you could somehow cut down the roots of the muslim
happen in egypt. today we ve also heard from the united arab emirates. the uae issuing a statement in which they pointed out that the muslim brotherhood is a banned organization in the uae. they also said that they were following with great satisfaction the events that had transpired in egypt. in a sense basically, they re happy with what s happened, that the brotherhood president is out there now. but more interesting today has been the reaction of embattled syrian president bashar al assad. he took this moment to gloat. that s the only way you can really put it. syrian president bashar al assad saying that he had predicted this experiment put on by the brotherhood would fail. he went on to say, this is why from the beginning i said that their project is a failure before it began, and this is what made the muslim brotherhood s experiment fall quickly, because it is wrong and what is built on a wrong principle will definitely fall. president al assad also said he called this expe
character to deal with more any administration. i am not sure he becomes more pliable, so to speak. take a lesson from iraq and dealing with iraq. when you pick up stakes and leave you lose influence. we are about to lose whatever influence we have on the country. shannon: quick thought? you can see it around the middle east. egypt led by the brotherhood. embassy, attack and we re hopeless and powerless. nothing happened after that. obama made a decision he wasn t interested in the region he wanted to leave. he can argue whether the blood and treasure spent in iraq was worth it. but when obama came in office it was spent. he had a choice. he decided we ll be out of there. as a result, all of this is happening out of our control.
power in afghanistan, and you say wait, when we pull out, they ll realize we are best friend they could possibly have. i think what they re going to find is their problems aren t over. in other words, they ve got an awful lot of enemies in that part of the world. everyone hates each other more than they actually hate the united states, and that they re going to eventually, they re going to different actors are going to conclude that working with the u.s. is better than being left without the u.s. brian: these insurgencies, when they take power, like morsi, the brotherhood, the al qaeda in iraq, they always make the same mistakes. they are too brutal. it s easy to be a revolutionary. it is not easy to govern. it is not harder to seize power. you ve got to keep paep. they don t know how to keep people happy and so they always use force.
will get talking about the specifics of how each side could attain goals which when we look at them seem unattainable. so it s fragile. but the fact we have some engagement on part of the egyptian government formed by the brotherhood is really, really significant momentum. we can be cynical and not so hopeful about it but they have no choice than to trust the fact that he has put nims the line. to get this going. whether or not he can keep it going is another question. both sides of this have very publicly sort of lamented their doubts about the other side staying true to any type of agreement. is it worth continuing to hash this out? well, look, this was the best outcome and the situation. if they had gone in to a ground war things would have spiraled out of control and put egypt in a terrible position in terms of having to choose sides. it is a muslim brotherhood, leader of the country, hamas