is this a lug wrench? maybe? you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. shepard: a fox report. police have arrested a man in a murder of a teenage girl more than three decades ago. officers say they found 61-year-old michael hand in north carolina. they say he will face charges for killing a 15-year-old way back in 1986 near kingston, massachusetts. fighting in syria has gotten worse since the united nations demanded a cease fire. more than 1,000 people have died in the past few weeks.
force tomorrow. shepard: we will bring in michael hand long from the brookings institution in washington, dc, an independent think tank. you just got back from turkey; that right? guest: that is right. shepard: i guess this has the potential to be his moment as a headline read from over the weekend, egypt is the largest population in the region holding the greatest sway here. they are either going to go one way or the other and that is the biggest issue. guest: you are right. egypt s role in the broader middle east could not be overemphasized. i am hopeful the president morsi is trying to make the right calls. i am not sure he made the right one here but the back story, even more, the courts are largely mubarak-appointees. they have been by some accounts interfering with the effort to create a new constitution.
the fall, we re still there hammering them like we have been. shepard: the general says that could wind up being a very good way to basically get inside the taliban s head or that s the goal. major garrett our senior white house correspondent live on march that s vineyard where the first family is vacationing. how damaging is this sort of assessment? analysts think it s very close to damaging. not completely wrecking. not a total pot shot of president obama s strategy but something that does raise concerns and may be an effort by general conway to push the debate forward possibly within the pentagon and the white house as to what to say in the future about how concrete this july july 2011 deadline is i talked to michael hand loan an expert on iraq and afghanistan with brookings institution. take a listen. it s a pretty strong statement. i think it s a border line call. the tough issues about what active duty military officers and leaders should say. do i share general conway s ap