nail iran for exactly what s it s doing at this moment. we know what it was doing up until 2003. will they ever say, we have a nuclear weapon and have it ready to shoot? the big issue is do they develop a capacity like the japan model and not actually build a weapon? that s a compromise, isn t it? that s a compromise and the type of thing that gives them the sense of security or power in the region but would make it much more difficult to attack because they want to test a weapon if they actually when we pull out of iraq, bob, interestingly, the president and vice president visiting in iraq today. once we pull out of iraq, they control their airspace completely. if the iraqi government decides to not give israeli planes the right to fly over there and attack iran, to go after the missile sites, how do they do it? they go through saudi arabia. it s clear at this point the saudis the saudis are terrified where iran s going.
the influence it s going to have in iraq. what it s doing in bahrain and kuwait and lebanon which is controlled by hezbollah. i think under the right circumstances saudi arabia would let them come over and it would happen very quickly and there s not much this administration could do about it once they decide to do it. do we need to play any role, any instrumental role in this? we re going to play a role in it no matter what. do we play an instrumental role? do we have to play a role in terms of logistics, flyover rights, any refueling could we be completely hands clear of this thing? clean of this thing? no. the point is we re going to get held responsible by the iranians and the iranians will respond. they will respond in iraq and in the gulf and they will rocket israel from lebanon. you know, the problem is nobody s intending to turn this into a general war. it s just the risk of escalation which should scare everybody. robin? i don t think actually we re going it hato
this summer. is it possible at the the end of this summer susan, your laughing. they actually have a convention to say, wait a minute, this stinks what we ve been doing. we ve been picking one loser after another. why don t we have a big convention and open up the vote and pick the best candidate. i m for that, you re for that, not going to happen. chris, any chance of a real convention like the old days? no, susan is right. but i would say, chris, look, four months ago, if we were on talking about the renaissance of newt gingrich, newt gingrich as the hot, young thing in the republican presidential race, we would have laughed a lot more than a republican convention. this is an unpredictable electorate in an unpredictable election cycle. i would agree 100% with susan. it s not going to happen because the republican party poobahs won t let it happen. but this is a very unpredictable year. this is the scariest vision i ve come across since ebenezer scrooge spotted jacob marley
rebellion across the islamic world. and bob bear, a former cia officer in the middle east. he writes a column for time. thank you both for joining us. first of all, do we know who those people are, robin, who grabbed the british embassy today in tehran? i don t think anybody knows for sure, but the british certainly suspect that this was a part of the revolutionary guard called the basij. these are paramilitary guards that works for the militia. by the way, how many students are on campus are sitting around thinking about economic sanctions? usually that s the sort of thing that the government ministries are focused on, right? absolutely. and they unleash. bob, do you have any other views on that disparate or the same about whether these are not we had to put up with the word students for a year there. i always wonder what had that meant over there. is that grad students still hanging around berkeley a year or two later? are these guys students or thugs? they re hired by
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