Expert: International cooperation not feasible

Ashley Tellis, an expert for the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, explains how he believes that international maritime cooperation is not possible with rising nations, like China and India. He asserts such an idea because of the vastly different interests between the global superpower and the nations trying to supplant it. (0:38)
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Analyst: Negotiation will embolden North Koreans

Nicholas Eberstad, an analyst for the American Enterprise Institute, disagrees with Ambassador Bosworth's belief that America must negotiate with North Korea after their recent missile test. Eberstad thinks that such talks will be counterproductive in the long-run, could lead to even greater problems. (0:49)
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Bush denounces the "politics of personal destruction"

When asked what he would not miss about being President, Bush replied that he would not miss "the politics of personal destruction", and stated that while he intended to change the tone of Washington, he was unsuccessful (0:45).
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Car companies must pay less to workers

Kevin Hassett, Director of Economic Policy Studies and a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, says that labor costs must be reduced for automobile companies to survive. (0:34)
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Russia granted de-facto sovereignty over former Soviet states

Military historian and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Fredrick Kagan discusses what would happen if the U.S. took the same liberties as Russia and contends that the U.S. has allowed Russia to take de-facto sovereignty over former Soviet states (0:40).
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Key to transforming the Middle East: “be in the game every single day”

Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) says that if the United States wants to see a transformed Middle East with Iraq and Lebanon as “pillars of that transformed Middle East” then the U.S. must be “in the game every single day.” He said the U.S. has had a policy of giving pronouncements which are rarely followed by action, but that Iran is “in the game every single day.” (1:49)

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Kimberly Kagan, President of the Institute for Study of War, says Iran has been a force of instability in Iraq since 2003

At the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) Discussion on "Iranian Influence in the Middle East and Beyond," Kimberly Kagan, President of the Institute for the Study of War, says Iran has been a force of tremendous instability in Iraq since 2003, and has been involved in establishing groups that are hostile to the Maliki government, to the democratic government, and to the U.S. Government.

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Iranian blogger Arash Sigarchi says that it is easier to buy drugs in Iran than get access to information

Speaking through an interpreter at an American Enterprise Institute panel on bloggers in the Middle East, Iranian blogger Arash Sigarchi says that it is easier to acquire narcotics than it is to access information. (0:28)
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Lebanese blogger Tony Badran says blogs can also be used to spread propaganda

Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute panel on bloggers in the Middle East, Lebanese blogger Tony Badran says that blogs can be used both for dissent against regimes and also tools for disinformation by regimes. (0:30)
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