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he starts with world war i and takes us through the recent financial crash showing how democracies and american democracy in tickler much from crisis to crisis muddling along, but somehow surviving and outlasting enemies and even thriving. now for the last look. this month marks william shakespeare's 450th birthday and people around the world are celebrating from stratfordians to syrians. yes, syrians. 100 syrian children performed an adaptation of king lear in one of the largest refugee camps located in jordan. the camp is home to over 100,000 syrian refugees over half of whom are under the age of 18. many of the children are not educated and have not read or seen any of shakespeare's work
that's why i think as a background thing, it's really important because it was part of every sense of grievance, every sense of we must fight, every reason for al qaeda starting. it was a palestinian who started al qaeda. i'm now in north africa and all the countries, it's an underlying theme. it's not -- i agree, today's immediate issue perhaps. but it would create an enormous change in general atmosphere in the air ab world, i believe and the muslim world if there was a way forward. because it feeds and fuels the youth and you can feel the resentment when you talk to people on the street. it's always there. >> i know we could talk about this the whole time. but richard, could the administration do much more than it has done on ukraine? it feels like we're in a situation where putin has taken
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welcome back. we're going to go around the world with a great panel. richard haass is the president of the council on foreign relations. peter beinart is a columnist and coe let a gall is a reporter. 2001-2014 which will be in bookstores on tuesday. brett stevens is the foreign affairs columnist for the "wall street journal." carlotta, the elections in afghanistan, do you think that this resolves anything? you know, what is the likely political orientation of afghanistan going forward? kind of post karzai world. >> for starters, we see the three frontrunners will all sign the bilateral security agreement with the states. >> allowing american troops to stay? >> and yeah and to have a plan
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it's got the largest -- the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world. in a funny sort of way, as bad as they are, we're immobilized by the fear that things could get worse. >> do you have any ideas how to handle pakistan? >> no. i any what's interesting is the great game that follows. some of the alliances could be interesting. what role does russia play? they've historically been closer to the u.s. side as -- >> i notice on that front, india did not vote to condemn russia on the ukraine issue in the u.n., presumably because they want russian support in the great game that will follow in afghanistan. >> right. it shows how american interests and alliances on that sphere, how different they look from ukraine. >> all right. we're going to come back and talk about what happens in ukraine and the middle east peace process when we come back. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪
question, but also, leila, across the air ab world. are we seeing in the vacuum the fall of some of these regimes the powerful interest to squash what might be the second wave of revolutionary movements, if it were allowed to take hold. >> well, chris, it's really interesting for me to watch fellow americans arguing with the comfort, basically, of a system that allows them to have this kind of argument and talk about institutions and is it horizontal or vertical because we don't have the freedom to have this kind of discussion. so, if it took george to become 18 months, eight months, i'm sorry and we're at 18 and suffering from six years of military rule, you understand where we are right now. i clearly said, we need people to be involved in the political process as well as that