today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the obama policy in the middle east wasn t naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous. and the governor didn t stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left iran s radical regime emboldened. to date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was wasting precious time on a naive policy of outreach to both the iranian and syrian governments. let s discuss the president s diplomatic challenge and governor perry s political gambit. cnn s david gergen and gloria borger. let s start first with the policy challenge. the president was at the united nations. the president was not scheduled to meet with the palestinian leader abbas, but they will have that meeting wednesday. david gergen, how critical is it for the president to try to convince president abbas and what might there be as a
street. but it is trying to negotiate some compromise so that it doesn t come to that. that s tough enough. and now add in this in your face political chal friend the republican presidential front-runner. texas governor rick perry who came to new york city to accuse president obama of fumbling middle east diplomacy and undermining israel in the process. we are equally indignant of the obama administration and their middle east policy of appeasement that s encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. simply put, we would not be here today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move. the if the obama policy in the middle east wasn t naive and arrogant, misguided, and dangerous. and the governor didn t stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left iran s radical remember emboldened. to date we have fumble our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was