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Basis for ending the conflict. it has been more than 20 years since israel and the plo signed their first agreement, the oslo accords and the plo formally recognized israel. both sides committed to a plan to transition much of the west bank and gaza to palestinian control during permanent status negotiations that woput an end to their conflict. unfortunately neither the transition nor the final agreement came about. both sides bear responsibility for that. finally, some 15 years ago, king abdullah of saudi arabia came out with a historic arab peace initiative which offered fully normalized pea...

Weakness on an arch enemy and to push as hard as we could, all those temptations were there. and i think that the bush administration understood that for us to be able to reimagine europe and re-imagine the world was going to require restraint and care. and the way the president managed that was really important. and his national security team helped to usher in relatively peacefully a transition to what we now know as a unified europe and purchased at least 25 years of relatively building peace relations between the united states and russia. >> the soviet union fell without anyone firing a sh...

Whom they were establishing glorious we come in peace relations. they detained the british forces against their will and ultimately released them and sent them home. joining us live, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. >> reporter: it is always a pleasure, rachel. that story about the british special forces is just one of a series of almost ridiculous stories that have come out of this. you have the libyan propaganda on one side, then you have this incredibly badly botched attempt at establishing diplomatic relationships, p...

Good on a promise to establish british contact with rebel forces in libya's east. he definitely tried. but as they say in britain, it all went pear shaped. he had to go to house of commons to explain why a team of british special forces troops and intelligence officer were deposited in rebel territory with no advance warning by helicopter at 2:00 in the morning. we know this is how they arrived because once they landed, they got arrested by the rebels with whom they were establishing glorious we come in peace relations. they detanld the british forces against their will and ultimately released...