This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I am Fareed Zakaria coming to you live from new york. Today on the program, tensions and deaths mount in the middle east as the world watches and awaits israels expected Ground Invasion of gaza. Ill talk to former Prime Minister ehud barack who is also one of israels most decorated soldiers. Well talk about fighting hamas, a potential Ground Invasion and whether a divided israel has been united by war. Then retired general David Petraeus led the american militarys fight against insurgents in iraq, afghanistan and more. What lessons from those wars should israel take into its war on hamas. Ill ask petraeus and his coauthor on a new book, Andrew Roberts. But first, heres my take. The crisis in the middle east has revealed an important reality about the world. While american influence may not be what it once was, it is still true that no other country can replace the u. S. As the pivota
sometimes, matt, the truth is often stranger than fiction. could be. but i don t disagree with you, i think both sides are putting way too much stock in this mueller report. one side is expecting the president, the administration, to be completely vindicated, right? and then the other side is expecting a total indictment and to see the president in handcuffs, and i don t think either one is going to happen. i think it s going to be somewhere in the middle. go ahead, alice. don, i think matt uses a great analogy in his piece that i encourage people go and see it. but the overall premise is that this administration has clearly decided that they would subscribe to the drip, drip, drip mentality of getting this information out there, and from a commune cases standpoint, i scribe to the rip the band-aid off and get it all out there mentality to the degree they have said there s no there there, there s no xhugs, there s nothing to say there, then get