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Council on Foreign Relations president Dr. Richard Haass on foreign policy and the Middle East.
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Dot -- -- Senator Kennedy -- pretty well.
My hunch is you'll have a lot of consistency there.
I think -- -- biggest problem is going to be how do you deal with the Middle East without spending all your time dealing with the Middle -- -- lots of other things out there from a -- you know how do you try to prevent -- clash between Japan and China.
What do you do.
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And sovereign isn't much there's going to be potentially.
Commercial or something that looks a lot like just in future.
We've got a civil war victims or should -- cheerio Dakotas and stability of Jordan.
You've got Iran is continuing advance in the direction of nuclear weapons.
So even though he may want to spend this time on other parts of the world that's going to be awfully hard.
-- as a citizen or not regrettable wire we're -- There's expensive fighter -- student of.
It's good question I think it's one of those things where you want continue to maintain a relationship.
So you are particularly with the military -- you send them the darling of the hardware.
That's why that's the currency they care most about but I think in the case of Asia we've got to be extremely cautious in traditional control you and I know.
Six months these guys are going to be a pretty radical place.
The last thing quite honestly they really need is a lot of fighter jets.
That's not exactly the biggest security challenge facing -- -- that they're gonna you know somehow have to handle a massive influx of armed combat aircraft.
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Well again -- reminder that people run in this country but you're a true ago worried -- in jail -- in the streets.
And we don't know who they are we don't know.
What their real agenda is and that's why I think every inch of the way we ought to be really conditional saying we're only gonna support you -- help you if you start doing -- stopped doing why.
We ought to keep.
Being.
Good to keep it very very close to what not to be anything that remotely looks like a blank check the next say that not just that each of the countries like -- countries like Pakistan and others.
Where they're not exactly.
Friends and on a consistent basis.
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What sometimes is pretty much yesterday -- -- but current -- as our secretary of state has always been dealing.
Worth of the middle aged and I -- on all the other stuff pops up at.
And artists are go about it just similar before that even.
Direct what's changed -- you know it you're exactly right Kissinger had all of the shuttle diplomacy.
The -- interest thing about the rouge years.
It was that was trying to broker a peace deal between Israel and say one of the Arab countries Egypt Syria you're the Palestinians this is far more fundamental -- what's going on.
There's no longer peace process really worthy of the name going on.
What's going on in the Middle East is really revolutionary.
It's one of those odd time to -- up to look out the window and this is history being made this is this is radical by the time this is over.
We may see some very different borders reported seeing now revolutionary change in -- some countries.
I don't think it's inconceivable that in a couple years you have revolution in a place slide Saudi Arabia.
US energy dependence on this part of the world as is much diminished.
So this is we're harassing petitioners -- we were weaker in 90% of the Middle East police looks stable.
And we were trying to deal with this this on resolve conflict.
Now 90% of the Middle East -- it is is anything but stable it's really a revolutionary.
That's in turmoil.
And and a final analysis -- how this all.
Potential effects of Israel.
Can't be good news -- instability if you're an Israeli planner and you wake up you go oh my god you know are peace with Egypt.
Who knows where that's going Jordan -- king may not be in our new year to we've got civil war in Syria -- after the spill over you got his bowler running.
Lebanon.
You've got an Iran wants nuclear weapons -- it appears.
Palestinians the most powerful group Hamas which is Islamic radicals.
-- assured Israelis consider yourself while my strategic and -- my neighborhood.
-- got a hell of a lot worse over the last couple years and it could get even worse in the next couple years.
They're the ones suitable.
Well with the giants not and it's hard for me to get really emotional about it -- You know exposure should -- for the root for the of 49 has been true collector ravens a little bit -- like underdogs.
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