Do you know how certain people
on the Internet are fond of formulations like “Everything you need
to know about ____________”? It is of course an asinine statement,
since it is impossible for any single human to judge any other
human’s precise need for knowledge, let alone presume to have
amassed the precise quality and mix of the stuff. Nitpicky
throat-clearing aside, if you have an interest in and worry about
the tumult in the Middle East and North Africa, and you don’t
consider yourself an expert, then chances are very good that you
will find something useful in tonight’s theme episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three and five hours later).
“Friends, Enemies and Chaos” begins with a series of
backgrounders from Wall Street Journal multimedia
explainer Jason
Bellini, Fox
News Middle Eastern specialist Lisa Daftari, and Michael
Weiss of The Interpreter. Who are the teams? From
where did those ISIS scaries emerge and what do they want? What is
the nature and import of the Sunni/Shia schism? You’ll likely know
more going out than you did going in.
As for what, if anything, the United States should do about the
chaos, both short term and long term, we tease out some scenarios
with The Blaze national security chief (and former CIA
employee) Buck Sexton,
KABC radio host (and multiple-theater combat veteran) Bryan Suits, former
Reagan-administration deputy defense secretary K.T.
McFarland, and Heritage
Foundation Director of National Security Policy Steven Bucci. And because this is
The Independents, there will be a mid-show game you can
compete along with at home, plus a dash of at least some
long-term optimism, in a discussion about whatever the hell
happened to the Arab Spring.
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