states and that the laws that affect the lives of these people and too often today in the united states is anyone standing up for the rights of decent people who have come to the united states and whether they're citizens or residents deserve at least the respect to be treated fairly and not as some oklahoma representative recently said shot out of the sky with helicopters this is the kind of rhetoric that's being heard in the united states it's damaging it's not good i do give kudos to newt gingrich i had breakfast with him and interviewed him not long ago in south florida i asked him about this and he agreed with me he said it is wrong to deport or expel people from the united states who have lived here for. more than decades have essentially lived an exemplary life and he says i would change that that's the first person i've heard say something like that even president obama really is taking a backseat to mr mr gingrich's philosophy on this all right you know you've got to give mr gingrich kudos at least there whether he'll do it or not i don't know but he was bold enough to say it t

the united states can fix this with an election. the 5xeunited states can fix th we've done it before. i'm more worried about europe. europe has to make decisions about what it's going to be in the future. so it is absolutely crucial, i do worry about europe for the reasons you have cited. but also because we now have a situation with russia, which is an opportunity, what is shift wkyc putin at the moment. we have an opportunity also with turkey. turkey has become hugely more influential in its region in the world. >> right. >> but we need europe reaching out, being more self confident not so internally focused but externally focused with us. >> let me turn to your book. i want to talk about that. it is a fantastic book on the economist list of top books to read so congratulations on that. >> thank you. >> what you did extensive research on, for the book. what did president kennedy do right? what did he do wrong. >>> and how did 1961 change it? >> the most controversial point in the book and the book that i think has caused the most

the united states has the latter. so i am very optistic about the united states' position in the world going forward. and i think you do have to think about this in a, you can't think about this in a static way or in a one dimnsional way going forward. >> charlie: iran. where are we because you get the feeling that somethingbeyond threats are going on, become sanctions or clearly van impact. oil sanctions may have a deepening impact, there's covert action that's clearly had an impact. we don't know who is responsible but we have ideas about that. is there a sense that the iranians are feeling that and they really do want to have serious negotiations. >> i can't answer the last of the questions but i can address the lead up to it, if i might. i do believe that the ranians arfeeling a tremendous amount of pressure. when we came into office, there was really, iranian was internally no threat. it was on a rise in the region and it had divided the international community. a lot of questions about should we give the iranian

states that a treaty gets 300 votes, i think it means a lot for panama, for the united states and for the whole world. for panama, it makes it clear what the importance of our country to the united states for the world. for the world, it makes it clear that everybody wants to better world trade. and the united states, they get together after other things, the two political parties could get together on something invoked, 300 congressman for the treaty. >> what is at the heart of the economy of panama? is it services, agriculture or? what is at the heart of it? >> it is service. we are not and agricultural country. we are mostly services. our canal is one of them. our country is close to $1 billion a year to the government. we have tourism, banking and of the maritime sector. >> americans always when they think of panama, they know about the canal and there is a big project going on right now. talk a bit about the panama canal -- spain had the dream, france tried it and the united states did it. is that right? >> exactly. the panama canal is now going through an expansion, what is real

the thing is the united states i don't know whatever the united states. it's created size if it intervenes in syria and overthrowing the regime and let's say establish a democratic government and government syria they would say that it's intervened union lottery if it doesn't there was a united state is not reacting i think the united states has really. done the appropriate steps to condemn the assad regime it was one of the first countries to condemn and said the regime use of brutal use of wyler's and i think it was one of the counties who pushed for a sanctions on syria so i don't know what is only. can we run out of time we go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what awaits syria state r.t. . if. it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile cards is still not over. my. opinion if you. still. want to. welcome back to cross talk you know ab

the united states is the... one of the largest destinaons for chinese outside of europe as a whole and outside of asia. but we also have about 160,000 chinese students studying in america every year. and i believe that exposure to our democracies, our freedom, our openness as a society whets their appetite, quite frankly, for similar freedoms and progress and openness within china. >> rose: what the people in the arab spring call universal values. >> yes. and i think that appetite for universal human rights is growing stronger in china everyday. >> rose: so what do you worry about? >> well, i... the united states and china are becoming interdependent economically. so much of... china has a great interest in a rising prosperity in america. a strong, economic economic recovery of our economy because the reality is that so much of what americans buy is made in other countries and a good percentage of that comes from china so that china knows that their economic health depends on a strong world economy and with euro

states and the united states wod do that for iran. there is no doubt about that. >> rose: exactly. but where is it you would say to us, this is where we are your -- we have a shared interest and we are not trying to undermine you at every step? first of all, we have to define interests. >> and that is important and your interests are not necessarily our interests. you have a sphere of influenc >> we may argue about interests, but, but, but regardless of those definitions, thereare many areas ofntert, and common interests, regardless of the legitimacy of those interests or not, but there are many iues as i mentioned. for example, the cooperation between iran and the united states brought the karzai government to power. do not forget that. we also said several times and it was going -- >> rose: the karzai government, you said? >> yes. >> in afghanistan you remember that. so it was anexample of cooperatio between iran and the united states as well as a couple of heotr players. >> we have said -- the stability is something that both count

states or come from long lines of families that come from the united states. we know we see this difference along the spectrum. let me highlight a couple of points that i think make a big difference. realize we have a cohort population between 8 million and 11.5 million of individuals in the united states who are undocumented, who some say are illegal or not lawfully present. they are in a group that is cut off in part and formality from the main economy. this is unwise because immigrants, both skilled and unskilled, in this case, that 8 million to 11 million, provide the innovative engine in the economy in these relatively dark times. i'll address the issue of unemployment. but in these difficult economic times, they provide a certain component to the economy which allows us to innovate and grow at a rate that we otherwise would not. in short, immigrants of all types unaverage are net contributors to the economy, help the actual pie grow bigger, provide more of a pie to split among us all and in turn try to goose innovation in a couple of unanticipated ways.

perception of israel in the united states would you agree with. well i don't think there is more to a picture of israel than other countries in the world the thing many americans are not very. sophisticated when it comes to world affairs and i'm not sure if there's any reason for them to be more knowledgeable about world affairs i do think however that these will indeed be came. within the united states and within the american political system and that is not because of the candidates of knowledge or because the candidates have the wrong views or their neocon views or there are impacted by some kind of lobby the lobby for israel within the united states is the american people and any few go and read the polls year by year month by month the american people show support towards israel much more than any other. religion for years i'm going to go short i want to go to a short break here going to short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the g.o.p. and israel state party. wealthy british scientists. like. markets. come to

we also saw this week, the united states sort of announced at it is redirecting its focus. both in terms of its military focus as well as bringing some austerity to the pentagon, does the world welcome that? do they believe at long last the united states should be preoccupied with asia and with change in asia? >> well, publicly in the middle east, of course, they will say they welcome it, privately a lot of pokes don't. in asia, the america's asian allies have en begging for it, and singapore and japan, of course, and vietnam and indonesia, they have all been saying, look, we wantsome commitnt. >> rose: we e worried about the china being our partner. >> i tell you, shin with a, the chines state media came out a few hours agand said the united states, that this new peagon speech, america was going to be a wl in,ull in a china shop, i can't imagine they meant that intentionally, asia ashe china sp but nonetheless the chinese clearly are feeling very, very insecure and defensive about the fact that the americans are now focusing laser like on asia as the key area for security.

states and a lot of the united. prison time no the united states supported the dictatorship not the muslim brotherhood they were actually sure by the way and i'm sure that the us administration is not i'm sure the us administration is not is not happy by the share of the seats one by the brotherhood party and by the newer party which is the vehicle by salafist. but i think that we've known i mean if we had a clear look at what was going to happen from the first day of the arab spring we knew that the brotherhood was going to be the group that inherited power and post mubarak egypt and they haven't given any indication so far the they're going to pursue. for a tarion party is in fact they're playing the sort of more moderate foil to the to the nor party and i think it would really benefit the united states to work closely with with the freedom and justice party and its leadership to try to hammer out some kind of a loose consensus of. foreign policy goals and things like that it will be a more contentious relationshi

states, arrogantly or foolishly rebuffed by the united states. this is not a regime that supports terrorist groups, tries to kill a saudi ambassador. perhaps is justifiably incurred the -- the resentment and fear of its neighbors. >> all right. let me ask you, vali, you were in the state department when the issues were debated. whether the u.s. should be -- should be reaching out in some way or the other. how is this going to end? because if you put all this pressure on them, is there a strategy for some kind of negotiated outcome? because otherwise the pressure builds, and if the iranians as you say kind of match pressure with pressure, you know, things can get very, very risky. i mean, if you look at the price of oil, i'll struck by this. in a global recession with this huge slump, the price of oil is $110 a barrel. the price of oil in -- the beginning of 2007 was $50 a barrel. with every economy booming in the world. so it has to be -- the fears of political risk that are doing this, and so where do we go from here? >> going from here? if the

you can see this in the case of the united states. the united states was the most product i economic power in the world by the beginning of the 20th century. at that point it remained an international debtor, but during the first world war, and as david said, it's always wars that bring this about, during the first world war as the belligerence went very heavily in the united states, the united states tipped from being a debtor nation to the world's largest creditor. and the era of america's creditorship, when it was the cert of the world from the 1910s to the 1908s. and it was -- 1980s. and it was during that period that the dollar and american diplomats wrote the rules of the international financial system, specifically the bretton woods system that originated at the end of the second world war. at that time america's industrial production, america's industrial gdp was roughly equal to that of the rest of the world combined. and with that kind of leverage, the united states was in a position to dictate to the rest of the world. the

states never joined the league of nations and wilson's great effort as far as the united states was concerned was a failure. so roosevelt lived through that period. he was part of the wilson administration and he was absolutely determined that he would not suffer the same fate. and so that reason that he reached out to the republican constituents to try to people his administration both in the '30s, but particularly in 1940 when he creates a coalition government in the prosecution of the war. president obama has done some of the same, of course he kept secretary gates on as the secretary of defense. so he included a republican representation in his administration. but i will say and i think this is accurate that in some respects, president roosevelt had it easier than president

and i couldn't disagree with christian more i mean look at the united states military is greater than all the other militaries combined in the rest of the world practically and a little bit of a cut here and there isn't going to hurt us ability to the center sells i read the document to me the document is as belligerent as ever and while the united states is going to fight two ground wars at the same time it is prepared to fight one ground war and clear obliteration of any other enemy that might raise its head it's very ironic that obama had made a big pitch for getting rid of nuclear weapons in a famous speech in prague and now he's saber rattling those weapons more than ever . to you frank one of the criticisms of the new strategy is that the united states because it's more reliant on nuclear weapons than ever before is that the right path the united states should be taking i mean other countries arming themselves and we still have the issue with iran on the table i mean iran will say well i mean if the americans want to rattle those kind of weapons why shouldn't we have them as wel

of the united states seeking war and you know. they're not ready for negotiations that's also a cartoonish mischaracterization president obama is right today seeking engagement with his russian chinese french german and british partners with iran they're trying to get something going to try to find a negotiated way hard to market and yes they are when i was worried about their answer to that question what about you know i mean you have sanctions on the one hand and they want to have negotiations on the other hand i mean aren't they kind of antithetical. you know i think that sanctions can strengthen the negotiation hand. ok i understand there's an impact on the other side that doesn't like the sanctions but throughout diplomatic history negotiations between the cold war the united states and the soviet union there were sanctions after sanctions and yet there were negotiations successful on arms control yes the two paths can be followed at the same time ok it's interesting so i'm going back to negotiations isn't really the problem

states -- the united states took a back seat role but played an integral role in terms of being the back bone of the operation. is there a will to start to address some of those backbone short comings whether it's in isr or aerial refueling precision munitions, et cetera that libya evidenced on the european side? >> i wouldn't say u.s. has take an back seat role. all nations have contributed in the operation of libya albeit directly or through common funding of assets or common manning of a command structure. everybody has played an important role. but the way the u.s. has this time not led the whole operation from scratch has been i would be a wake up call and take into account in the way we develop capabilities right now in various parts of the alliance. >> there is a question that folks have about a capability gap. obviously long time discussion between the united states and europe. but there is a fear that this gap is going to widen given that europe is likely to spend less than the united states. obviously at any point. as the united states starts to shift its emphasis and focu

>> skoda car, which is not imported to the united states. but the reason is it would compete with passat tremendously, so there is sort of a conce that divides the market. >> is it a good car? >> i would argue that it is as good as passat, so this is why they don't want them to compete with each other on the american market. you can have a little bit of an idea what kind of car is that if you see a volkswagen passat, an equal brother. >> are you into the equipment, machinery? from natural resources, you have coal, timber, steel, iron. >> we have uranium. >> uranium? >> yes. >> evidently a very educated country. 99% literacy rate. in one report that i read, it said that you come out 15th best educated in the entire world. how did that happen? >> i hope that is still the case. of course, the world is changing and we have to do better in our higher education to make it more competitive to use the opportunities that are for young people to travel to study abroad and to really get most of it, that is not to be the case in my generation give them

states is doing they know that the united states is responsible for their dictators for decades they know the united states is even now as it has pretty lip service attempting to prevent democracy there as well and what that does is that it increases levels of anti-americanism even higher than what they already are which makes sense i mean if a certain population knows that there's a form our preventing them from moving freely in autonomous lee of course that citizenry is going to hate resent that foreign country from doing that so the more that we impede democracy the worse it ultimately becomes the united states because the more anti-american sentiment there is in the citizenry's and we can only suppress democracy for so long adventure lead they're going to have their say and when they do the behavior that we've engaged in and continue to engage in preventing them from living for you and democratically is really going to come back to haunt us on the longer we do it the worse it's going to be definitely something that needs to be said are you're right. the consequences will not be g

those deaths were curtailed by the free food united states sent over after the war. the economy recovered and we cut the federal deficit during 1946 through 47. slightly because the revenue so much exceeded expectations. what i say is we have a lot during gold were to four lessons for today what works and what doesn't or the taxes we have come to expect, the economic bill of rights, the right to education was a student loan program, it changes with the housing to a decent home going with urban renewal than the community reinvestment act of the '70s to promise very low interest rates to poor people so they could have homes to a accelerate the mortgage crisis that becomes an hinge to and the right to medical care so i simply say the politics of today have happily shaped from world or to but if you study more carefully, said we got out of the great depression by freeing up the economy to cut tax rates not by following the prescription to increase and perpetuate the high economic growth that we experienced during world war ii. thank you. [applause] >> host: thank you. no

in the united states, the protesters. and then he conspires to provide this information to the syrian intelligence service. these are targets of his demonstrations. these demonstrations have been going on. maybe you missed them, i'm not sure. the information is sent to an unidentified co-conspirator, and he is providing the reports by e-mail andin -- emailing them to the syrian embassy in washington, d.c. audio recordings, links to web pages for protesters in the united states. a list of who is missing and dead date demonstrations that he is collected. a collection of telephone numbers, email of the protesters in the united states, the kind of information that would beof great value for the syrians to crack down, which they did. a good example of the things -- the cause and effect -- syrian composer and pianist in washington, demonstrating for protestersn july. and they went into his house, and this is what they did to his mother and father. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] they have actually come t

he is, of course, the secretary of the treasury of the united states. this will be on television as well in a slightly different format, where we will have a conversation and then open it up to questions. if you could just -- for those of you watched the republican debates, hold your applause and your boos. if he says some particularly controversial, don't boo. it is a great pleasure to have timothy geithner, the secretary of the treasury. let me start with an easy question -- what is the united states economy going to grow at this year? >> it is is still a pretty uncertain world, but the conventional view of the u.s. now is that we're growing between 2% and 3%. i think that is a realistic outcome, as long as we see more progress in europe and as long as we don't see a lot of risks from iran on the oil front. >> does that scenario of two%-3% growth -- it seems a little different from what ben bernanke thinks growth is going to look like. if you read the statement that said put out, it was a very bearish statement, and to guarantee that rates would be ke

from the united states the i.a.e.a. basically kowtows to american foreign policy is a political tool even of that it did not say that he ran his weaponized thing so i don't know marc you may have information you would like to share with the i that not not from the terrorist cult that mossad and israel are supporting them which i had enough and america is considering of the listing as a foreign terrorist organization may be not information from them but if you have genuine information that iran is weaponized thing then i think is it your duty as a citizen of whichever country you belong to to presented to the world because that is just the way as far as. i was not you were and you were libeling me here i know there are forty five paragraphs in the i.a.e.a. report that detail all of the urgency of our nuclear weapons related work or work the very much appears to be nuclear weapons related now that is what iran has to respond to you asked me what does iran have to do answer those questions and follow the i.a.e.a. rules abo

the united states. not just the states that signed the compact although they are the majority of life for all votes. i don't know how a candidate for a political office could stand up in front of their constituents and say we don't have a problem. candidate with the least number of votes can win and it happened four times in history and that is not a problem? the fact the we have 36 of 38 states that totally ignored in the election process and that is not a problem? the fact that states -- voters in california don't have the same status as voters in ohio is not a problem? i think it is a serious problem. we have the ability to change it. we have the public will to change it. what we afraid of? change? we can't be afraid of change today. let me tell you three things that happened in this country in the last three years. occupy wall street, the ipad -- there's one other one. and the tea party. those three things. talk about change. we're talking like this will -- has been a great system for 200 years. fou

absolutely not basically this is going to be very difficult for the united states to pull off i mean in my opinion pakistan is the biggest problem facing united states more so than iran at the moment and if we knew the talks the talks have to be you know they have to appease pakistan afghanistan and the taliban as well as with me very difficult but the time of these talks is you know very but for obama right now they're actually you know they're not calling them discussions or their preliminary discussions like you said or trust building measures that you know as you might as you will but if the talks summary talks go well they're talking about possibly releasing some full on tunnel bay prisoners and it's been a big sticking issue for obama who has promised to close a prison where as much it is an election year they're talking about you know possibly releasing some prisoners and at the same time this might give the united states a way to end a war you know saying we made peace with the taliban in afghanistan and. pakistan have to come on board as well but it could be a way for them t

acts of the sort so i mean there were actually worse state of war between iran and the united states americans would be able to target scientists who's working on a nuclear weapons program that would be legitimate under the laws of war even though quite distasteful. but so in the meantime let's say that some evidence were to come out and that there is no war that is declared then that's just part or it's not or either there's no question about that what's going on right now is murder if they were to nab someone who was involved like the man who was riding a motorcycle who attacked this magnetic bomb to the car that killed a scientist yesterday you know he could be charged with murder and anyone else who was assisting him who gave him the explosive device or who trained him but could also be charged. now you know i think that some people out there also brought up a good point jeffrey goldberg for example today said that if you really are trying to attack iran nuclear program in an effective way if you want to stop it and you think that just killing a few nuclear scientists is going to

nancy pelosi said this about newt gingrich's chances of being president of united states. are going to be president of the united states and that's not going to happen now let me just make my prediction and stand by it isn't going to happen why so sure there's something i know they were public hence if they choose to nominate him and that's their prerogative i don't even think that's going to. there's something i know so the question is what does nancy pelosi have a newt gingrich. possible answers a she knows that he asked his second wife for an open marriage with fannie mae before he discovered the fannie mae was a mortgage lender or he knows that when she knows that when calista said she was bringing home tiffany's new thought he hit the jackpot was going to have a threesome or c. she knows newt pays alimony to his ex-wives in food stamps what you think or other possibilities i think you know newt is jonah goldberg wrote today in its new villa and the way that he disappears is he self destructs i mean i think that he's his own worst enemy and. self up well i mean i'm jus

you know the the united states and nato have been trying for a few years to reach out to the taliban but they've been in some cases fooled by people who posed as taliban intermediaries who were actually working for the tell about and then we've had cases where taliban. supposin taliban members came and actually were hiding suicide bombs in their clothing as we sew the assassination of burned and burned the bunny back in september so i think that this office will give the legitimacy to the taliban government or to the taliban officials in any case and it will give people a place to meet outside of the war zone a lot of mixed reactions when we talk about afghan president hamid karzai especially by those who actually live in afghanistan what is your sense i mean especially just having come back from there what is this deal this sort of new found relationship mean for those who live in afghanistan. yes which relationship to me with a good humanizing ship between the u.s. and the taliban i think that this is karzai has been saying for a long time that that's how he's called the taliban ou

i'm president of the united states. i'm not going to eat it anymore. >> neil: but all of the presidents wear their emotions to varying degrees on their sleeve. not barack obama who prefers cool over i guess crazy. because emotional people are crazy. like the robot of "lost in space" until dr. smith does something stupid. you haven't seen that many time? then danger, will robinson, danger! this, if it's caught on tape. caught on tape. well, that will do it. have any of you heard this? take a peek. originally scientists thought the dolphins were singing whale songs. not so. we found out they're singing "cavuto." "cavuto." we i know they are making a big splash with the florida primary ra

bruce babbitt from arizona ran for president of united states. and i come from arizona, ran for president of the united states. arizona may be the only state in america where mothers don't tell other children that some day they can grow up and the president. [laughter] i am very honored to be here with my friend john kerry. as he was talking, i was thinking about when he and i first came to the senate not to far apart, there were a number of senators who had served in the vietnam war. at the beginning of 2013, there will just be two of us remaining. i would again point out that our effort on behalf of normalization of relations between the united states of america was driven by the fact that back in that, time into the 1980's, the war was over 1973, into the 1980's and 1990's, the wounds of that war were still fresh and unfortunately still divided our country. in many respects, it prevented a lot of our vietnam veterans from being able to come all the way home. i am very proud of the work john and a. i did if you live long enough, most and i thin

the united states army lives in germany. if you like the german welfare system, as many americans do, good for you because you're paying for it. you free up the german military budget so they could beat their swords into welfare checks. now we have decided, we have decided we would like to live like them, but without the sugar daddy to take care of us as we took care of europe. we live on a planet in which north korea is assisting the iranians with their delivery systems and the iranians are promising to share their nukes with saddam. north korea has and undetectable gdp. it does not just have a lower gdp. it has a gdp that is not statistically measurable when you compare it with a ball. there is no gdp. all they export our nuclear technology and knocked off viagra. you cannot measure north korea's gdp, but it is a nuclear power. we faced the prospect of a world in which the wealthiest societies in history, from norway to new zealand, are incapable of defending their borders while third word basket cases go nuclear. how long

the united states constitution is the rule by law. the rule by law is to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. it is the classic definition of law. now, the rule of law is what justice kennedy and justice roberts recently spoke about. in their opinions, one was involving the flag-burning case. texas vs. johnson. the other one was by justice kennedy. the other one was by justice roberts very recently in the demonstrations of military fit -- demonstrations at military funerals. they both said the same thing. they said, we don't like what these people did. as a matter of fact, what they did and their beliefs are abhorrent to most americans, and to us personally, but unless we protect their rights, all our rights are in jeopardy. and that is why the concept of a constitutional democracy is so important and must be preserved, but is not understood today. it is not understood by many americans. why? it is not that hard to understand. we live in a democracy. a democracy is supposed to be governed by a majority opinion. so, w

state is not reacting i think the united states has really. done the appropriate steps to condemn the assad regime it was one of the first countries to condemn and said the regime use of brutal violence and i think it was one of the con is a push for a sanctions on syria so i don't know what. can we do a lot of time we go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what awaits syria state party. when comparable question leads to a grave accusation. who is more xeno following. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. someone asking him why do you make a secret of it when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. we began experiencing very serious problems to the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three but. that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were all from peace and up and humiliated in public when the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger that we have been deprived. i don't the o

states and the united states he really believes that. eventually he started negotiating -- the accommodator in chief. that is what the book is about. why he does that. an incredible difference between him as president and as a candidate. >> your first book, bullish on the couch. >> what we learned about bush is he really was very much a person who had once been an alcoholic. a dry drunk. those are people who are impulsive and suddenly given to blaming other people and one of the things about him that was so powerful is when he made up his mind he never change this. he was an either/or president. your with us or against us. he lived in a very different world where he says i don't deal with it. obama and only does not want. we have the opposite two presidents back to back. >> when you write

i believe it is united states policy. i do not accept the argument made by many in the region, as you well know, that the united states is incapable of serving as an arbiter or mediator or the intervening party in this context because it is so biased toward israel. it is true that the united states and israel are close allies and that we are committed to israel opposes security and existence behind defensible borders, but it is precisely because we believe that israel opposes security will be enhanced by an agreement that we think that there ought to be a palestinian state along with the believe that the palestinian people are entitled to self-governance, as are people everywhere, as our declaration of independence so eloquently states. yes, united states -- but i cannot speak for the president. i am not in the government anymore. i believe the president is fully committed to a palestinian state and in the colloquial terms that you and jeff for years, that he likes the palestinians. >> looking ahead to the coming year, th

open into war and long occupations the utility of it is has very real limits and so the united states ought to take. the advice of people like me who have been there and bring the wars to an end it's in our best interest and it's in the best interests of the people over there as well so you know but what you're saying is the u.s. trying to fight terrorism but images like these are all encouraging it. yeah it's absolutely right and the reason is because images tell a bigger story images do great things to influence the psychology of. people that see that i mean and we can't control the media that. militants use in other parts of the world and so they see this in the on all the all that the militancy is anti muslim anti arab anti pashtoon sentiment coming out of u.s. soldiers and and let's let it be known that the u.s. military is not a representation of what these people are but these people are a product of war and when you go to war barbaric human nature is brought out and i mean this isn't new the native americans how it were subject to scalping and did scalping themselves and there