Mckinney continues now on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Welcome. The Smoking Panel is certainly timely giving the rising crisis with a around. Well get to that subject eventually. The mic of the book entitled seven pillars, and the discussion heres a look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability and middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with around. The region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of forest and tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure of billions of dollars, this policy has more often than not a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to find. Its been an absolute failure at the basic game was to foster stability and a better live for the people of the region. Of course the was ultimately responsible for our country news success or failure, are the people who live here. Let the catastrophe of todays middle east, raises a lot of q