mostly where i'm at now, we're back in the discussion. i spent an entire year of not doing any interviews or op-eds and there's a lot of things to talk about. >> one of those long runs for the presidency doesn't intrigue you at all? >> we're taking this one day at a time. i'm very happy to be back in the discussion. >> so maybe, maybe not. we'll talk to you again closer to 2016. it's very nice to see you again. >> thank you. >> thank you all for watching. i'm candy crowley in washington. ing sure to set your dvr to "state of the union" if you can't be here live. fareed zakaria "gps" starts right now. this is "gps," the global public square. welcome to all of you around the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria.

a big week for american foreign policy, from obama's speech -- >> americans must always lead on the world stage. >> -- to edward snowden to the european elections. i have a great panel, david ignatius, nick kristoff, christa freeland and dan cenow. next, could afghanistan turn out to be a success? i will give you my case for optimism. also, from what to have for dinner and how to fix global warming, a revolutionary new way to solve problems from the freakonomics guys. and a woman who went from shoplifting anti-capitalist to founder and ceo of a major retailer. this self-proclaimed girl boss has great advice to help you succeed. but first, here's my take. let me read you something from a well-known analyst of american foreign policy. he wrote, "because of unsure and indecisive leadership in the field of foreign policy, questions have been raised on

all sides. the right added that the administration is plagued by a hamlet-like psychosis which seems to paralyze it every time decisive action is required." is this one of the many recent critiques of barack obama's foreign policy? actually, it is richard nixon writing about president john f. kennedy in 1961. criticizing presidents for weakness is a standard trope in washington because the world is a messy place, and when bad things happen, washington and the president can easily be blamed for them. but to determine what america and obama should be doing, let's first try to understand the nature of the world and the dangers within it. from 1947 until 1990, the united states faced a mortal threat, an enemy that was strategic, political, military and idealogical. washington had to keep together an alliance that faced up to the foe and persuade countries in

the middle not to give in. this meant that concerns about resolve and credibility were paramount. but the world today looks very different, far more peaceful and stable than at any point in several centuries. the united states faces no enemy anywhere on the scale of soviet russia. america's military spending is about that of the next 14 countries combined, most of which are treaty allies of washington. the countries that have been aggressive or acted as washington's adversaries are facing a tough environment. look at russia, china and iran. in this context, what is needed from washington is not another heroic exertion of american military power, but rather, a sustained effort to engage with allies, isolate enemies, support free markets and democratic values and push these positive trends forward. the obama administration is, in fact, deeply internationalist,

building on alliances in europe and asia, working with institutions like the imf and u.n., isolating adversaries and strengthening the international order that has been so beneficial to the united states and the world since 1945. all the while, the world has fought al qaeda and its allies ferociously. but a country that would intervene unilaterally would produce damage to its credibility that everybody is worried about. after all, just six years ago, america's closest allies were distancing themselves from washington because it was seen as aggressive, expansionist and militaristic. obama is battling a knee-jerk sentiment in washington that

anything that means anything is military force. just because we have the best hammer does not mean every problem is a nail, he said in his speech at west point. a similar sentiment was expressed in the farewell address by president eisenhower was a strong leader who refused to intervene in taiwan, confrontations and the hungarian uprising of 1926. blasted the president and wished he would be more involved. they called him weak, vascillating and tardy. but he held his ground and said, "i'll show you what leadership is. it's conciliation, education and patience. it's long, slow tough work.

it's the only kind of leadership i know, all i will believe in and practice." for more, go read my post column for "the washington post" this week. let's get started. you heard my take on the president's foreign policy, now let me bring in my panel. david ignatius is a columnist for the "washington post" and a writer of a book called "the director." it talks about his 25 years covering the cia. nick is a columnist just back from burma. christa is just back from ukraine. and dan ceno is the co-founder of the foreign policy initiative and was a key adviser to the romney campaign. so dan, let me give you first dibs, the case for the opposition. tell me why obama's speech was terrible.

>> well, first, i think he set up the straw man, the notion that anyone who is a critic of his policy just wants to go to war. my response is, point me to that person. most critics who have advocated a more muscular approach, more fore-leaning approach to the president's policy have advocated for some form of air power. it worked in the balkans when clinton did it, it worked in afghanistan when president george w. bush did it. >> and on afghanistan, the day before, what do you think of the two-day extension? >> i would personally leave 10,000 troops there beyond 2016, let the president's successor decide whether or not he or she wants to bring down those troop levels. i think going back to basically zero, with just enough forces to protect the embassy leaves his successor with very few options. also, he didn't really lay out -- what actually has changed? why did he increase the troops and why is now the time to decrease them?

it's not clear if conditions on the ground have changed dramatically. the strategy wasn't clear. >> nick, what do you think on afghanistan. i mean, if we stay until 2016, we would have been there 15 years. a long time. >> substantially more than other wars. i worry about afghanistan if we pull out, i worry about the role of women, education, all kinds of things. but at the end of the day, i don't think our troops will be particularly effective in advancing ourselves or the afghan people, and they've been enormously expensive in every possible way, so i think it was probably the right call. >> david, one of the things he did talk about in his speech was counterterrorism and a new approach of a $5 billion fund. and the idea, as i understand it, is we have all these threats from around the world, but they're smaller, diffuse, diverse, not all al qaeda central. so what i'm going to do is tell the cia and the military to help

other countries as they battle them. you know the cia backwards and forwards. what does this mean for the united states? >> i thought that was one of the more creative parts of the speech. he's recognizing that despite the rhetoric that the obama campaign used in 2012, al qaeda isn't dead. core al qaeda in pakistan and afghanistan, maybe, but it's morphed and these small offshoots are very dangerous. al qaeda has embedded itself so deeply in the euphrates valley all the way to fallujah. but it's a big counterterrorism challenge to get them out. what was new in the speech was first this idea of creating a fund so you'll have a resource to provide security services. all over, they're having al qaeda problems. finally, what's interesting in the speech, the president just hinted at it, but talking to

people you get more of a sense. the president would like to move the counterterrorism program away from the uniformed military and away from the cia. >> why? >> because first, there's the idea that the ct mission has eaten the ira hole. >> because the cia is becoming too much a kind of an armed insurgency operator rather than a -- >> these have been the corporate headquarters, but that's not their job. >> nick, you spent a lot of time in these countries like mali and somalia. what do you think on the ground the effect of the cia being in cahoots with the government or the military being in cahoots? >> i think there are times we can train local authorities. one of the problems has been if you're a local leader in a place like moritania, you can represent yourself as being

anti-terrorist, anti-al qaeda. you can make a lot of money and use it in ways to antagonize local population and make them more sympathetic to al qaeda. so, i think it has to be done on an ad hoc basis, very much listening to people, and it can be useful but has to be done really cautiously. >> krista, 30 seconds on all this and then i'll come back to you after the break. any thoughts? >> i pretty much agreeing with nick. i was thimking tolstoy, happy families are all alike, unhappy families are unique in their unhappiness, and that's what the world is like today. it's not a monolithic threat, we have to learn about each country and what's going on. i think people found that hard. it was nicer in a lot of ways intellectually inthe cold war when you could say, these are the good guys, these are the bad guys, this is how we do it. we actually have to engage, talk to people, figure out what's happening in either country.

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we are back with our panel. david ignatius, chrystia free land, dan senior and nick

cristophe. there is so much reporting out there, what struck you when you were there? >> three top takeaways. the first thing that was really striking is the people of ukraine, 90% of ukraine, are really united, really determined, united around building a democracy from the ground up around the western choice, around their new president. the second really big thing which we've talked about before is the idea that the kremlin was really pushing of there being this specter of a far right threat in ukraine. the election really demolished that. the two far right candidates got 1% each. meanwhile, there was a jewish candidate, independent candidate, who leads one of the big jewish organizations in the country, he got 2%. so we really have to put that to bed and understand that was something the kremlin was pushing. really not part of what's happening in ukraine right now. >> so it left you feeling quite optimistic. >> with the exception of donetsk, where the fighting is happening right now. i was in donetsk before the big fighting broke out, and i was struck by the extent to which state power in about 60% of that region has just melted away.

in that area, i think it's very hard to predict what's going to happen and really dangerous. >> your colleague said putin blinked. that if you look at what happened, putin is no longer trying to take over eastern ukraine. he's accepted the new government. he realizes he's going to have to cut a deal? >> it would be nice if he ducked a little more, but indeed, it's more promising than it looked a month ago. it looks like he's going to hang onto crimea, it doesn't look like it's going to march into part of muldova, for example, as it seemed he might. for now, i would say -- and it looks like poroshenko will be able to align the country more. things are more encouraging now than they were before. >> what did you think of edward snowden's interview, and what did you make of it? you know the nsa, the book has a lot about the nsa. >> the director is about the collision of hacking and espionage, which snowden has come to symbolize.

i thought his interview with brian williams on nbc this week was fascinating. one way to read it is the opening of a plea negotiation in which he's saying, you know, i'll come home, i'm plead to lesser charges. there's a suggestion he might even serve a short prison sentence, but the insistence i did nothing wrong, i'm a patriot, i was serving the constitution. actually very, very important and a spy. >> he's a person that really needs to show the world that he's important. touting his spy credentials. it was almost as if, i'm even more important and dangerous than you think. >> i use fake names. >> i was thinking to myself, you're world famous, what difference does it make what classification you had? it's now irrelevant. you're one of the most famous people in the world.

>> the issue i struggled with in this book is how we and how u.s. intelligence agencies are going to live in a world where -- this is a post-snowden novel. we live in a world now where these secrets that used to be the most precious secrets the united states government had had have been exposed, willy-nilly. what's the damage of that? it can be another snowden. what's the damage of that? we really don't know. >> european elections really startling, even though this is not a particularly powerful body. you had between 20 and 40% in some cases of the electorate voting for populist, anti-pro putin elements, and this is happening in france. this is big countries, not small, remote things. you say it's very important. >> i'm worried about it. if you look at the u.k. independence party, they came in first, beat out labour and the tories. in france, they did well. the second and third largest

economies in the continent. if you look at the themes of their campaigns, it's obviously deeply anti-immigrant, it's anti-globalization and it's anti-elites, which is brussels. there is a lot of that rhetoric in american politics on the right. i've not seen the republican leadership in this country develop yet a real middle-class-oriented populist agenda. if they don't do it now, i'm not saying we're going to have a crack-up here like they have in europe, but they should pay attention. parties throughout the u.s. should pay attention to parties and what happened there in the last week because there is a lot going on. >> you talk about inequality and globalization. >> i totally agree with dan. to me, this is the hollowed-out, middle-class vote. we're seeing it in the states, we're seeing it now in europe. i don't think it's even just a question for the right, i think it's a question for all political elites, and i think we

have to be really thoughtful to the extent that people in the middle are really being hammered and we have to work really hard to put together -- first of all, to listen and be aware of that and sensitive to that, and second of all, to put together some policies that address it. otherwise, the dangers of extremism, i think, are just huge. >> on that note, we have to stop. when we come back, i'm going to delve deeper into the future of afghanistan. is it possible that this nation that has been at war for 30 years might actually have a future? i'll give you the evidence of optimism, when we come back.

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headed to the polls in record numbers. the election went remarkably well. afghan security forces performed better than anyone expected. there were few reports of ballot stuffing or corruption that had marred the 2009 election of hamid karzai. since no candidate secured more than 50% of the vote, there will abe runoff in june. and two front-runners have emerged. guess what? they're both great. highly qualified, modern, reformist and articulate. compare them to the hardline shia thugs running iraq, and you will see a world of difference. abdullah abdullah, a former leader in the anti-taliban alliance and a trained ophthalmologist, secured 45% of the vote. ashraf ghani, a former world

bank economist, garnered 32% of the vote. i interviewed them and i was struck by how much they agreed on and how different they were from karzai. first, let's consider the bilateral security agreement. it would allow forces to remain in afghanistan after 2014. karzai first negotiated it, but ever since, he's refused to sign it. here's the front runner, abdullah, on the bsa. >> it has to be signed and it will be one of the priorities of the future government of afghanistan. >> and here is ghani. >> i'm on record that i will sign the agreement within the first week of being elected. i have weighed every word and consider it to be both in afghanistan's, in the united states and in the global interest. >> as for whether the leading candidates would bring the taliban into the political process to help broker some sort of a peace deal, listen again to what they had to say.

here's abdullah abdullah. >> absolutely. the continuation of the talks to the taliban of keeping the door open for negotiations with the taliban with a clear parameter and clear goals, it's important. >> and here's ashraf ghani. >> the taliban or afghans first must make a choice, and we hope that they will make that choice to sit down and discuss all key issues. >> both candidates are also less anti-american, decidedly so than their predecessor. abdullah refutes karzai's claim that american forces have wantonly and deliberately destroyed afghan villages. >> there is no way that that could be the case. >> ghani, a u.s. citizen until he gave up his passport to run for the afghan presidency in

2009, largely agrees. >> the overwhelming majority of the american troops in afghanistan are not going to be in combat roles. end with this new context and a definition of the civilian casualties and related incidences that will convey an unfortunate byproduct of the large number of troops engaged and combat would disappear. >> of course, it remains to be seen what the eventual victor does when he gets into office, but it all sounds promising and very different from iraq. >> good afternoon, everybody. >> so obama's announcement and the candidates' willingness to sign the agreement to keep american troops there means that afghanistan has a two-year head start. afghanistan has two years to develop a viable plan to engage in diplomacy with its neighbors

and to start putting the institutions and mechanisms in place to create a sustainable future. the director of studies on nyu center corporation and a great afghan scholar points out that if the taliban is fighting to get u.s. troops to leave, they will now no longer have reason to fight and they should start living peacefully with their fellow afghans. if it is only an excuse for another agenda, then they will now be exposed. and the fact that the u.s. will not have a military base in the heart of afghanistan in perpetuity should make regional powers, like russia and china, more willing to support the new afghan state. my optimism is mixed with caution, of course. but after 30 years of civil war in afghanistan, it's a pleasure to be able to even have a qualified sense of hope for the country and for its people. if you want to hear the afghan presidential frontrunners,

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how do you solve the big problems in your life at work or at home? well, my next guests say the way to do it is to think like a freak, which means think like them. they're better known as the freakonomics guys, and they just published their third book. really interesting, like the first two. it's called "think like a freak." what you really mean is think like a child. >> yeah, you don't really want to think like us, it can get you in trouble. thinking like a child, for instance, children have a natural curiosity. they have a passion for what they're passionate about. they'll come up with questions that most of us would think are not sophisticated or smart enough. so really, thinking like a freak is about trying to get rid of your preconceptions, don't use your moral compass to make all your moral decisions.

go in search of data to make all your decisions. we all have a moral compass, it's very valuable, but if you make big decisions based on what you think should be right or is right, you'll often miss the reality. >> so, start afresh. and you have an example of a hot dog eating contest where you have to redefine the contest, right? so, takeru kobayashi showed up at the world hot dog eating contest. everyone else was trying to figure out how to eat more hot dogs. could they stretch out their stomach by drinking water or fasting or bingeing? he asked a slightly different question which was how can i eat a single hot dog more efficiently and faster? he realized he should separate the bun and the dog, he should tear the dog in half. he came out there and he doubled the world record from 25 to 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes. and it was an unbelievable change and it's equivalent to

usain bolt running the 100-meter dash at 4.7 seconds. >> he didn't worry about what the previous record was. and you said we can do something like this with something like pushups. >> a very similar example of this is let's say you were out of shape, which you don't look like you are, but let's pretend you're really out of shape and you decide, i'm going to do some push-ups today. how many can i do? i'm going to try ten. and once you set that top in your mind, you get down, and when you start getting tired doing ten, at 7 or 8, probably, now you, the same person, decided, i'm going to do 20. when do you start to get mentally or physically tired? not around 7 or 8. you'll blow through 10 before you realize how out of shape you are. so that's why we suggest people figure out their limitations or barriers. >> one of the things you say is

think small. what does that mean? >> we write about these economists who write about education like a lot of people do, and they noticed that when you look at a class picture of gung su province which is poor, none of the children were wearing glasses. that's either because they don't need them or don't have them or there's no myopia here. they did some tests and found out plenty of children needed them but didn't have them. they provided free glasses. half the class they left as a control group, left them as is. half got the glasses. and after one year, the kids who got the glasses were basically a full grade ahead. does that solve the education problem? of course not. but it's an example of whoever is out there hearing this, whatever realm they're working on, if you peel off a small piece where you actually get

data, figure out what's going on, you can make some progress. i would rather have 100 smart people working on small versions of one big problem than 100 people shouting at each other about the big problem and getting nowhere. >> what you talk a lot about is incentive. economists always talk about this. the idea is that human beings are in some sense rational and we maximize, and one example is the child and m & m's. do you really think we should be bribing our children to go to the bathroom? >> it ends up backfiring. this is levitt's kid. it's a lesson for all of us. >> my child is 3. my wife had been potty training. every problem can be solved with incentives. i said to her, let me take over. i got down on my daughter's level. i looked her right in the eye -- her name is amanda -- i said, amanda, every time you go

pee-pee in the potty, i'll give you mnms. i know that's her favorite thing. she said, really? why don't i do it right now. she goes in there. for the next two or three days, perfection. not one accident. on the third day she said, daddy, i have to go. go the the bathroom. she went and peed, came out, m & m's. daddy, i have to go again. it turns out this girl who couldn't make it to the toilet to save her life three days earlier had such exceptionally fine bladder control now that she could turn it on and off for m & m's. i thought it was a great example because what i always tell people with your lawmaker, economist, whoever, you set up these incentive schemes. you think you're smart enough, you think you thought about it ahead of time, but people are going to outsmart you. >> good note to end on. thank you so much. pleasure to have you on. up next, how does a shoplifting community college dropout become a big-time ceo of

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we are in the midst of graduation season overflowing, as always, with advice on how we should live our lives. my next guest may not be a commencement speaker this year, but she has some unique advice especially for millenials and for the rest of us as well. a decade ago, sophia amaroso was a dumpster-diving, shoplifting, community college dropout with a clinical diagnosis of attention deficit disorder. today, she is the ceo of a company that does more than $100 million in business annually and she owns a white porsche. how did that transformation happen? a fascinating story with many lessons learned. sophia is the founder of the online clothing store nasty gal and the author of a new book "#girlboss."

thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> how did you go from that dropout to where you are now? >> well, it's been a long road. i grew up in the suburbs and i was very kind of unhappy with the public school that i was put in and decided that it was setting me up for, like, a very predictable life, which was not what i wanted. i, like, wanted to save the world and i kind of wanted to smash capitalism, and i thought it might be possible. and at a certain point, you know, decided that i was going to smash big corporations by, i don't know, shoplifting from them, which totally didn't pan out. i learned that the hard way, and decided that only sustainable hard work and without shortcuts is what works in life. and i actually had to learn it the hard way, which most people don't. and i had some time to hang out on the internet and myspace at the time, before facebook had really taken out, and i was

seeing ads of people that put vintage ads on myspace. i wore vintage at the time and i saw the prices they were getting. i had taken community college photo classes and thought, i can do that. so i bought "ebay for dummies." and the rest is history. >> you started selling stuff on ebay? that's really the start of this company. >> yeah, i watched roundtables of stanford business school discussions like pet peeves with entrepreneurs so i knew kind of what i was getting myself into. i bought a book called requesting how to be smarter than your venture capitalist." one of the things that's interesting about the company is really the heart of it is not manufacturing, it's customer service. like, you really tried to

address customer complaints demands. talk about that >> yeah. well, nasty gal kind of emerged out of conversation. so ebay, yes, there was the bidding and ebay i was the platform for the business, but it was through social media that i really connected with my customers and this was back in late 2006, 2007, when the business started and really began to take off. i was there behind the computer, answering every single one of their questions, reading what they had to say about what they thought about the product or the models and learning on a very qualitative level, like what -- what our customer liked and what she didn't. >> what are your pieces of advice to millennials? what do you think they need to know as they go in the world. >> don't act like you arrived when you're just receiving an invitation, which i think a lot of people do they get their first paycheck or first promotion, woo hoo, and main don't plan the innocence as well as they could. at nasty gal, i always socked

the profits away back into the company. i paid my first employee more than i paid myself for a good while. and it was just fun for me watching, i didn't want to do anything with it. i have a business and my very simple naive business at 22 years old was you sell things for more than you buy them for and then the company makes money and that is -- you know, i have now learned actually a very rare thing, especially in internet businesses. and something that the world is very surprised by. so i think there's something to learn from that. >> so i look at all of those kinds of pieces of advice, dress well, don't chew gum during an interview. it feels like you've come to these pieces of very traditional wisdom the hard and long and complicated way. but you say, straighten up, smart up, and -- >> it's actually really

old-fashion advice and it's only through not doing those things or thinking, oh, maybe people don't need to do those things and when someone shows up not wearing a bra or lean back in a chair and they say they have no questions which at the end of the day it's like, how interested are you in what we're doing. and there is very conventional things in the world that i've learned very unconventionally are very important to pay

attention to. >> thank you for your advice. what is the best job in america? president, banker, ceo? we will tell you the exact answer when we come back.

as a new crop of graduates enters the workforce, it brings up an interesting question. what should the workers of tomorrow major in? what field of study will best prepare them for a good job? that brings me to my question of the week. the job site career task recently released its annual job rating report. they ranked the best jobs based

on income, physical demands, and stress. what is the best job in america in 2014? is it mathemetician, software engineer, investment banker, or doctor? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. make sure you never miss an episode of "gps." ask one of the college kids or even high school kids, they can all help you, i'm sure. this week's book of the week is steven's "maximallist." this is the best book that i have read on foreign policy in a long way. sctanovich talks about the tendency to get too involved and regressive in the world and then trench from it. the book is fair and balanced enough, to coin a phrase, that you can draw your own conclusion. and now for the last look.

the government announced that the u.s. economy sha rank in the first quarter. that's the first year in the red for three years. it's certainly not catastrophic but had me wondering if the mafia could help us on this one. i'm not suggesting that organized crime make offers that american ceos can't refuse. instead, maybe the u.s. wants to take a page from italy's book. there is essentially the track record of the u.s.' until recently. the fourth quarter was the first time italy's economy grew in two years. so italy dipped into the shadows this week. the shadowy economy, that is. starting in 2014 and going retroactively, italy has said it would add the dealings to the gdp and anyone who makes money in the black markets, drug dealers, prostitution,

smuggling. analyst say that this will boost the gdp a good percentage point or two. you might laugh, but the black market is a big deal. a 2011 analysis found that if the worldwide black market where a national economy, it would trail only the united states in size totalling some $10 trillion a year. another study found that america's underground economic activity was worth about $2 trillion. that's more than 10% of the gdp. there are many other countries reported to have large underground economies, like russia, where the formal economy is doing badly these days. in fact, maybe adding the mob to the gdp is the one thing that washington and moscow could agree on right now. the correct answer to our gps challenge question is,a, ma

mathmetacian. the worse rated job of the career according to career cast is lumberjack. so don't do that. thanks for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. hello, i'm dana bash in for fredricka whitfield. the presidents say they are ecstatic their son has been released. they are expected to speak to the media in one hour. this comes after their son leaves afghanistan after nearly five years in captivity. the details on where he is now, next. and a fiery crash leads to

two people dead. allegations that phil mickelson is facing coming up. the last american soldier held hostage has left the middle east for the first time in five years he's a free man. we're expected to hear from bowe bergdahl's parents today. there's no word on his condition but defense secretary chuck hagel said that the rescue operation saved his life. he was recovered yesterday in a s.w.a.t. negotiated with qatar. five guantanamo detainees were released. that has some u.s. lawmakers up in arms. but for bergbahl's parents a