Bob Baer has spent 20 years with the CIA. He specializes in the Middle East.

Bob, World War III -- by the way, hi, Bob, how are you?

BOB BAER, FORMER CIA AGENT: Hi. How`s it going?

BECK: Very good. World War III breaks out. Who is actually going to have the spine to stand with us?

BAER: Right now the only country that we`re allied with in this whole equation is Israel. And everybody else is standing by the sidelines.

BECK: Well, hang on just a second. And I would say back to you what about Great Britain? What about India? What about Pakistan?

BAER: We`ve got Great Britain. We`ve got India, and we`ve got General Musharraf, the president of Pakistan. But they`re not sending forces in. The British do not want to touch this war in Lebanon.

And I agree with you, this is -- could be the trigger for World War III, and it`s not going to look like World War II at all.

BECK: OK. All right. Well, then help me out and tell me who my friends are and tell me why, more importantly, these people are our friends or our enemies or they`re just going to stand on the sidelines and stab us in the back, because they`re spineless worms? Let`s go through -- let`s go through Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia, there`s no way these people are our friends. Are they our -- are they our allies, axis or are they spineless?

BAER: They`re spineless. They do despise us at all levels of that country, the royal family included. They would like us to go away, but right now they`re terrified of Iran. And they know that if things go badly in Iraq or much worse or go badly in Lebanon, the only people that can protect them is the United States, and this is why they came out against Hezbollah.

BECK: OK. Now Egypt is also coming out against Hezbollah, which it looked like a hopeful sign. Are they allied, axis? When the crap hits the fan -- I`m talking -- I`m projecting out here and saying OK, we`ve had our Archduke Ferdinand moment. Are they allied, axis or spineless?

BAER: Spineless. They will support a Palestinian insurrection in the West Bank and Gaza.

BECK: Egypt. I`m sorry, China?

BAER: China is a major culprit, and this missile that hit the Israeli boat on Friday was made in China. It`s based on the Silkworm. It`s a missile that`s very hard to defeat. It was sold from China to Iran, to Tehran. The Chinese knew what they were doing.

BECK: It went from China -- it went from China to Iran to Hezbollah?

BAER: To Hezbollah. That`s the route. And we know -- we`ve been watching this for years. The weapons are either coming through Syria or Turkey, going directly to Hezbollah, and no one has stood up and say stop this.

BECK: OK. So wait a minute. So what do you put them at? They`re axis or are they spineless, China?

BAER: I think they`re part of the axis. They want to see us go down.

BECK: OK. Because I`m having a hard time -- I`m having a hard time deciding what`s the difference between axis and spineless, because you just said Egypt was spineless but yet they`re going to support. I mean, that`s not -- that`s not, you know, Switzerland. I`m looking for Switzerland. Spineless. The people that you have talked about are going to support our enemies.

BAER: Absolutely they`re going to -- they`re supporting them. Russia is today. It`s simple. The Russians are saying, "Listen, if we can humiliate the United States in the Middle East, close off the oil taps, that leaves us and our oil." They continue to send weapons to the bad guys and so do the Chinese.

BECK: Let me try to find -- I`m going to try to move through some of these quickly. England, are they spineless in the end, or do they send troops when the crap hits the fan?

BAER: They send -- they send troops, but they can only -- they`re limited in the help. We`re basically alone there.

BECK: What happens to -- what happens to countries like England if the crap hits the fan with their Muslim population? I mean, these guys are in real trouble, aren`t they?

BAER: They`re in real trouble. I was just in England talking to these people, and they were less open than Hezbollah was with me, Hamas and all the other Palestinians. They were deeply hostile to the United States and to the British government. They cannot count on the loyalty to these people, because they`re Muslims first with their Muslims dying.

BECK: So wait a minute, Bob. We have more countries. We`re just going to have to pick it up some other time, because I`m sensing a real problem here. We`re alone. I mean, we`re alone. How do you possibly win that?