Page 7 - Peter Bergin News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Against isis, its affiliation with russia. moving forward what this does for isis is create an enemy. they have the iranians, syrians, the turks are on board. it tightens the turkish cooperation in a way. isis is causing a lot of tragedy in turkey. in the long term they've created so many enemies that this will be the beginning of the end for them, too many enemies for them to defoet. >> some people think, peter, turkey's government appears unable to deal with these terror attacks. it doesn't know what it's going. it's going to eventually destabilize the country which is important for american...

If you look at the geography in this situation, if this individual who did this killing, assuming it's one person, did any planning beforehand, he should be across the border into syria already. i'm not sure we'll ever see this person again. if we don't have some sort of positive confirmation, let's say, in three or four days, i'd start to worry. >> peter, isis has claimed responsibility for this attack. it says a soldier of the brave caliphate struck where christians were celebrating their holiday. most of the club's victims were muslims. what do you make of that? >> isis doesn't want to clai...

Effort, not a recovery effort, they are still holding out hope. one counselor i spoke to said that's the hardest thing, wolf, that as these hours slip by, human nature, you my belief there is some tiny hope your loved one is alive out there somewhere. until they have that closure, they are in limbo, this terrible limo, hours of agonizing waiting. so they're not even thinking about the why. right now they just want to know what happened to that plane. >> our heart goes out to all those folks over there in beijing and elsewhere. thanks very much, david mckenzie, for that report. the head of ma...

Peter bergin, joining us from washington. peter, we have seen these theories pop up before in other aviation disasters. how do these square with reality once the facts are actually known? >> well, often, they don't, wolf. of course. you recall twa 800, which fell out of the sky in the atlanta shortly after leaving jfk airport. a another people saying they saw missiles going up hitting the plane, turned out to be unreliable eye-witnesses. peter sallinger, jfk's press secretary said a navy ship, and because of his position, some took that seriously. and after the longest investigation that the n...

And i think that the president probably stopped short of where some people internally wanted him to go. >> he mentioned edward snowden twice, by name, peter, in his remarks. would the president be making these proposals today if edward snowden had never leaked all those documents? >> of course not. simple. i mean, we wouldn't be sitting around this table, not -- you know, there's -- without these revelations, we wouldn't be having this discussion. >> so where does that put edward snowden in this conversation? >> well, snowed -- >> an important dialogue we're having in the united states. >> sno...