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Mitchell makes yet another trip to the mideast. no sign israel will stop new settlements in east jerusalem. >> this is a formula for disaster. not for peace. >> to find out where all of this is headed i turned to a panel of distinguished experts. joining me now to dissect all of this is foreign policy analyst robert kagan, also senior associate of the endowment for international peace. former u.n. peace envoy terje ron-larsen, and james rubin, despite the fact he is married to me, remains a shar...

Year or so. the taliban will be beaten back. the big question is governance. there i would say theres not a lot of reason for optimism. we had two chances to get rid of karzai and we passed them both up. now were stuck with him but were going to pay the price. >> sanctions on iran, wra jamie. the permanent five seem to be all over the place. turkey doesnt want it. theyre on the security council. what chance of real sanctions? >> i think well get a resolution. i think itll take two, three months ...

Outliers. how do you think that helps or doesnt? >> i dont think it makes that much difference. theres been so much emphasis in this administration on being not bush. not using the language of bush. trying to do whatever the opposite that bush did. thats not very unusual. when bush came in, he was going to be the opposite of clinton, as jamie recalls. but its not a policy. i think where we are right now finally on a lot of these issues at the beginning of an effort to actually have a policy. not...

>> that was israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in an interview this week talking about iran. what is the result? we asked our panel. so let me ask all of you now, president obama came in talking about engagement, one of his first acts was to name a special envoy, to put the middle east peace process on track, engagement with iran, engagement with the islamic world in his cairo speech. how would you assess engagement as having worked or, jamie, on iran. >> on iran obviously engagement has ...

Imagine that a president who has made a policy of ending wars in afghanistan and iraq, his policies about ending these wars is going to initiate another war. and id put the chances of that extremely low, whether its a good idea or a bad idea, i just dont think its going to happen. >> i want to discuss that a little bit more. first, jamie, we always discuss, how do they know what iran has. every time we turn around, somebody has a different assessment on what its doing and when its going to be a ...