Reed Discusses Middle East

After returning from a trip to the Middle East, Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.) says that there is a dispute about a census between the Kurds, Turks, and Arabs, but "underlying all this is oil," says Reed. (2:15)
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"Obama administration...no different than the Bush administration"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

Eugene Bird, President of the Council for the National Interest made this distinction at a public hearing today held by the Council for the National Interest on the implications of the current U.S. Military Aid to the Middle East. He said, "The Obama administration with regard to the re-supply of Israel, regardless of what she does, regardless of how she uses the weapons, is no different than the Bush administration.”

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"That was not a war"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a public hearing on current U.S. Military Aid to the Middle East, retired Ambassador Edward Peck said that the fighting in Gaza is not a war. He said, "That wasn't a war. There are not two armies fighting there. There was a huge powerful army, armed, financed and equipped by us, kicking the crappe, that's a French word, c-r-a-p-p-e, kicking the crappe out of a helpless, defenseless people, who had nothing to fight back with."
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“We do not sell arms to Israel, we give arms to Israel"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a public hearing on U.S. Military Aid in the Middle East, retired Ambassodor Edward Peck said “We do not sell arms to Israel, we give arms to Israel. There is no purchase involved. Which is a nice thing, it’s a blank check and as you know that blank check is delivered on the first day of the fiscal year, October 1st, and the Israeli’s can then earn interest on this money while they decide how to spend it...the Israeli’s decide how to spend that money anyway they want with no controls of any kind whatsoever, which is not necessarily in our interests.”
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"The American public knows nothing about the Middle East"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a public hearing on U.S. Military Aid to the Middle East today, retired Ambassador Edward Peck said, "The American public knows nothing about the Middle East and because they know nothing they are not very interested, and because they’re not very interested they don’t know much, because nobody is going to tell them.”

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Inaugural Radio Row: Dr. Harlan Ullman

International Affairs Correspondent Blanquita Cullum talks to Dr. Harlan Ullman Senior Adviser Center for Strategic and International Studies about the Bush administration and Obama as the new president. (5:33)
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