Page 2 - The Arabs News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

But it wasn't very welcome with the last administration. remember, judge, at the beginning of last administration, you had hope by the arabs, by the muslim world, and by israel. by the end of the obama era, all of them had given up on the united states under president obama. he simply alienated everybody, including bibi netanyahu. he spent money trying to defeat american tax dollars. judge jeanine: exactly. >> this reopening is about undoing eight years but beyond that because it's got to do things that didn't happen under george w. bush. it's got to bring the arab world together in a differen...

They say the arabs wouldn't like it. but then some of these diplomates tell us the arabs, really at this point, couldn't care less. it would be okay with them and also how do we put it delicately the issue of president sarkozy and some people have talked about that he right from the beginning wanted to be seen as the person leading this and perhaps that is part of the motivation. >> general clark, there are plenty of people that aren't so thrilled in the u.s. involvement who would say, great, let president sarkozy take the lead and run the whole thing. >> that's true. and if it works out okay....

Turn against us all unless you become a principle party to it. >> les, i want you to finish your thought when i asked, what does the president do next. so, number one, push the arabs. number two, what does he do? >> number two, he's got to turn over control of the operation to our main partners, the british and the french. that was the understanding at the outset, and it's very important he keep to it. and, thirdly, i think he ought to propose a cease-fire. now, that's very tricky because to propose it and push it, not just say, let's have a cease-fire, means that, in one way or another, that'...

Should do next is to push the arabs to come in and do what they more or less promised us, namely that they would play an active role in this no-fly zone operation. they can't stand on the si sidelineds or play just a minimal role. they've got to come in and play a significant role. >> les, how exactly does the president go about doing that, pushing the arabs to be involved? >> he's got to get on the phone and call the arab leaders who were in the leadership of that arab league resolution and say, look, we did this in good part because of your blessing and bha because of the aennticipation tt t...

Victorious. so, essentially, it is a two-pronged plan, but it is complicated. it is not easy. >> i think part of the complication is people waiting and watching for arab nations to take part, right? so i don't know if you heard my conversation with the former assistant secretary of statement he said, prior to number one, president obama, you have to push the arabs to be involved. but how do you do that, gloria? >> well, i think when the arab league signed on initially, the president, the administration thought that was a huge victory and there's been some sort of confusion as to what they sign...