"An American Killed by a Stray Bullet" - C Span June 14 2010

John Negroponte was guest on Washington Journal.
At about 8:15 am, a caller said "looking at the video it's obvious that the passengers were intending violence. Israel is always criticized; the Muslim street is inflamed. A stray bullet killed an American.
Isn't there some way US can work with moderate Muslims?

Negroponte: "When I was in UN Israel constantly criticized. We had to use a few votes to oppose the anti-Israel resolutions...."

8:27 am: Call pushing back against Negroponte's comment about Israel in the UN.
Negroponte deflects it: "there were resolutions against Israel in the UN stacked up like airplanes on the runway. It's a question of balance: Palestinians do bad things too, they fire rockets.

9:20 am, Ryan Crocker. First Question: Hezbollah: "we must engage them; best way to mess with their minds."

9:48 am: caller, Lech: I am a Polish American, I just listened to Polish news; Poland is pulling its troops out of Afghanistan because the war is being managed badly. Instead of killing people we need to be building the country and giving the people control over their own country.

9:50 am: caller: We gave nukes to Pakistan, India, Israel, but condemn Iran.
Crocker: "We sanctioned Pakistan; we disengaged and 9/11 happened. It was a failure of engagement based on a failure of imagination. "we know how that movie goes and I don't want to see it again."

9:55 am: "I am infuriated with our country. Our troops are protected the drug lords. We started the Taliban, Israel started Hamas. [says something obscene, is cut off.]

9:56 am: I love Bush, most people feel there were weapons in Iraq, Bush should have done something sooner. Just because they didn't find WMD doesn't mean they weren't there.... I hope the school does well.

9:57 am: "Papa Bush started this by bombing Reagan created Osama...fact that you can casually defend your ridiculous behavior no business
we're using israel as our hezbollah [cut off]
Crocker: I was director of Iraq task force, I take a different view: Bush decision to liberate Kuwait was a critical step in establishing that US would be decisively engaged in a post Cold war world order: we would not stand back and emphasize that adversaries of our would Persian Gulf war was important, Papa bush got it exactly right and I'm glad he did."