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From the people who lived the fear and the pressure. until now. >> in the late '70s through the '80s into the '90s all around the world we had proxy wars. lebanon was raging. there were conflicts throughout africa. the iran-iraq war. the break-up of yugoslavia, the break-up of czechoslovakia, those all occurred because someone was willing to sell them weapons. they created havoc. millions of people were killed. if you're one of the top gray and black arms dealers in the world you can make fortunes by distributing weapons to whatever cause you want to make money on. they're businessmen. they do...

Military equipment, their usage of that equipment by leading this coalition to get rid of the houthis in yemen least a lot to be desired. people can't tell if it's recklessness or lack of skill. so then it's is the u.s. better positioned to strike on behalf of saudi arabia and we also have to ask the question, do we want to get involved in not just an iranian and saudi conflict but proxy wars across the middle east. this is an enormous mess. we hope the saudis will be an ally, but -- >> but would a refinery strike in iran, is that war? that's my question. >> the iranians you can argue have bee...

Going after the saudis. so i think that -- the good news to me is that they've all tempered a little bit to say okay, let's do the forensics, who did it, how did they pull it off and what are our options? everything from diplomatic and i hope at the last of the list is military. >> it was last month the military adviser to iran's supreme leader said outright yes, proxy wars are instruments and tools for us to increasingly use against the united states. do you believe that that is what we just saw play out here, especially given your note on the precision of this attack and the intelligence tha...

Everything depends on what the us and other players do next to calm or aggravate the situation in one of the world's most volatile regions. yeah i mean it's a region that is even more volatile deny it when you consider you've got iranian sabur rattling in the strait of hormuz you've got the failed state that we call libya and the problems there. you've got these latest drone attacks all of these things coming together are probably go are not going away and now we're looking at higher oil prices so we're talking about the global economy now cannot escape the middle east do you agree with that s...

Libya and the problems there. you've got these latest drone attacks all of these things coming together are probably going they're not going away and now we're looking at higher oil prices so we're talking about the global economy now cannot escape the middle east jube agree with that statement it's back to the middle east crisis which we know from the seventy's from the ninety's where the oil price plays a big role and you've mentioned iran and the united states which i've been to many proxy wars in the region and now the spillover of the yemen war into saudi territory in this dimension defin...