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What is the Goal of Mounting Middle East Protests?

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    Republican Strategist Ed Rollins, FNC Middle East analyst Dr. Walid Phares and AEI V.P. of Foreign and Defense Policy Danielle Pletka on the anti-U.S....

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Hello everybody I'm Gerri Willis the fallen heroes of the Libya consulate attacker brought back home on US soil tonight here -- the pictures.

As violent and now deadly anti American protesters sweeping across Middle East and North Africa.

Governments across the region including ours are struggling to contain the crisis which only seems to be growing with more on this.

Ed Rollins Republican strategist and Fox News contributor.

Doctor -- -- a Fox News Middle East analyst and author of the coming revolution.

-- -- -- -- Vice president of foreign and defense policy at the American enterprise institute and a former staff member on the senate committee on foreign relations welcome all.

He will -- -- -- start with you -- thing seems to be spreading.

It seems to be going everywhere tonight we have reports that there were attacks on camp leather neck.

This is a base for both British and American forces.

Coming under attack tonight.

And and we're seeing these protests go everywhere now -- -- Khartoum the -- and Tripoli Lebanon what do you make of -- -- and is as simple little Internet video the cause of it.

You know not just this is a network the same network that did Abu Ghraib.

Guantanamo Bay -- Koran burning.

And everything else is the same -- -- now now we see much clearer.

It began in Egypt because that's -- there's some office have the headquarters.

Move to Tripoli actually -- Libya and from there onto any other country the reason for why they're doing this basically is to put pressure on the United States.

To actually.

Concerned that -- the -- from the region they know we have a debate about withdrawing or engaging in the region and that's the political gold now the video itself of course it's insulting.

-- the level of religion.

But you know how many videos on there and you know how many similar videos have been criticized before but there was no demonstrations so this is more of a strategic move.

On behalf of the -- jihadist network in the want to push against us well.

And that and that video it's been out for weeks and nobody said anything so suddenly now out of the blue note.

But -- -- -- attorney you now to get you to respond to something the president's spokesman said today about this video.

And how they're responding here's a spokesman.

This is a fairly volatile situation and it is in response not to United States policy.

Not to.

Obviously the administration not to the American people it is in response to.

A video.

True or not -- That's really a disgraceful statement on the part of the White House spokesman I can understand where it's coming from.

There have been apple reports that that these attacks that in both been Ghazi and in Cairo -- -- days before.

The video has been out since July.

But even more.

Why he would justify the idea that a video as an excuse.

-- -- to attack on US soil because our missions are US soil and kill our ambassador and American citizens is just a mystery to me.

The president has been entirely in -- on a policy towards dealing with this growing violence is attacks against us is the entire thing has.