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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote recently that "to win the war on terror, we must win the war of ideas", but there is some evidence we’re losing ground. A panel joins Diane to talk about popular support for radical Islamists.
Guests
- Amb. Richard Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations and author of "A War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars"
- Shibley Telhami Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, and author of "The Stakes: America in the Middle East" (Westview Press)
- Ahmed Rashid Pakistani journalist, writer, and author. His books include "Taliban" and most recently "Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia"
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