i'm very pleased to introduce my guest today john sponsored oh he's a professor of religion and international affairs and islamic studies at georgetown university he has served as a consultant to the u.s. state department and other agencies stopped response that overrode a number of books on islam dr thank you very much for making yourself available glad to be here i was looking at poll numbers saying different muslim countries and their opinion of the u.s. now is either the same as under george w. bush or much worse as is the case in pakistan in egypt for example four years ago seventy five percent of egyptians had an unfavorable view of the u.s.

now it's seventy nine percent in pakistan used to be around seventy percent now it's around ninety percent these figures have nothing to do with the infamous anti islamic film where do they come from in your opinion well i think if you actually take a look at you know data from the muslim world i'm associated with the gallup organization gallup did a world poll of and that included thirty five muslim countries from all over north africa to southeast asia and what we discovered was that majorities of muslims. while they admire. america's economic and technological development its freedoms the rule of law among other things resent with they see as an intrusive foreign policy as a foreign policy when it comes to the promotion of democracy and human rights based on double standards now what happened was that when president obama gave his speech

in cairo then his numbers really spiked up countries like egypt and others what was happening throughout the obama administration is that you had rising expectations those expectations not filled and then the numbers start really going down one of the risks that you have when you are it seems to be a president or. one is that if you raise the bar you'll be judged by that obama had the genius and the insight to present a vision that was significantly different and claimed to be significantly different from that of george w. bush on a variety of issues whether it was palestine and israel whether it was the use of military force etc but the reality of it is that in many ways of a fair number of the obama policies are are similar to the bush administration's i was listening to a conversation on fox lately here and it was about whether the u.s. should stop meddling in the affairs of the region in the world was divorced from

the region and the anchor at the question that he was that he was asking but what if we divorce what if russia and china come in and then it will end up in boldly ran so that was like in a very conversational manner very short question and i thought that that phrase might have spelled out the complex that washington has when it comes to interventions after the vietnam war there was a sense that you could see it in our culture in our news everything was more local than global that americans were sick of war and didn't want to invest any more in terms of our our our human beings the number of people were killed in terms and wanted to emphasize domestic you know economy and development well and that's why i mean one of the influences when george bush was elected he wasn't interested and made it clear he was going to be dealing internationally it was ok to deal domestically that's what the american people want with global terrorism if you're global terrorism you then develop

a policy which is very complex it's not just going after global terrorism but a complex of really going into vengeance and intervention like and also you know occupation etc it's clear that the american people are sick of the carnage. in iraq and i've got a. i don't mean the american people i mean the conflicts in the heads of the policy may well the policy makers are concerned about being elected and reelected and they know that the american people many of them are saying we don't want more intervention simply because we don't want to see more americans dying because we have a real economic problems at home so why are we going to be you know. spending so much on going to you know going to war i want to get get. if you could help me to the bottom of this complex is it that is it is it the sense that if if we don't intervene someone else you know we're going to lose influence someone else will say

it was our influence cold war mentality or not potential i don't i don't think so i think that there are people who exaggerate me for example desire to have more influence to forge better alliances which could be in benefit if you know they're in favor of the u.s. that's what i mean i think that you know the u.s. is path. it has to be to ford's better alliances with the peoples of the region it cannot simply be motivated by simply saying well there are alternative emerging powers here you know or reemerging powers depending on how you view things with regard to russia let's say as compared to china we can't we can't simply develop almost a new cold war mentality here and say well you know if we don't play it quite right they're ready to sweep in and take everything off i think that what you're going to have and what we have is a competition over spheres of influence ok we see that already oh i think china

certainly china's china is very present in many parts of the world from sudan as the world we're talking about from sudan to pakistan you know developing its foreign diplomacy and its fears of influence i think clearly feel for russia. there's a concern about you know it's fears of influence in the region and for the u.s. they will that's what will keep us in the region i mean i don't see how how we could ever talk about divorcing us selves from the region if a no other reason given the push in u.s. policy you still have two primary drivers in terms of national interest and that is oil and israel. you know given given american politics you see it's not a matter of an intellectually american politicians the majority of american politicians we've seen this time and time again are absolutely convinced that these are two negotiable priorities not only as a matter of principle but as

a matter of being reelected oil and israel meaning guess prices and a lobby. concern if you look at american politics the concern of most politicians in congress ok the concern is not only out of commitment to the state of israel but also in terms of you know the ability to be reelected and you also see it in our campaign now look at how me and obama ok have been courting the jewish vote and concerned about it obama has to be concerned about losing what is a you know a long time tradition of american jews voting democratic obama what happens with obama in the last two years the administration has backed away from it's putting pressure on the netanyahu government remember after the cairo speech obama went toe to toe head to head with netanyahu on the settlements wouldn't back off and went back and forth back and forth but then you know look at

what happened the last time netanyahu was here he speaks before congress and congress gives him what was a twenty seven or twenty nine standing ovations plus a lot of sitting ovations what's the message there the u.s. congress on a previous visit of netanyahu as netanyahu was coming in a confrontational situation with with the american president the u.s. congress the majority drafted a a letter to netanyahu expressing its support not only for the state of israel but for the netanyahu government so they know the politics when the convention came up the democratic convention what did they try to out all of a sudden the democrats were talking about movement of the embassy to jerusalem so they know that that is a reality and so all politic. regardless of parties have believed this for decades and will continue so for the foreseeable future that's not going to change much obama was the guy who gave the impression with his cairo speech and others that he was willing to begin to renegotiate america's policy. on

israel and palestine but in fact when it came down to hard political realities has backed off do you think there's a crack between the white house and tell me over iran or is it just like good cop bad cop demand a game that they're playing out it is complicated i mean the same place i think that i think that. netanyahu who's. from my point of view netanyahu who's arrogance which he's always had. has been enhanced by the kinds of things we were just discussing his ability to take obama on. his duty to come to the united states regularly. and how many situations would you have a foreign representative in effect coming in and saying i don't care what the president thinks i'm going to go to the congress and try to get what i want and now he is pushing the u.s. to war that's right and netanyahu the second was lecturing or this administration

in say the red lines are not drawn strongly enough when it comes to a military attack. what other leader could be dictating to the president united states who feel that he could do it. i believe that obama has been working it very carefully because of elections ok but that obama has alternately tried to communicate yet we're going to be strong on iran and we will be even stronger and stronger if iran doesn't. back away but but he's made very clear that he's not willing to talk about and put on the table significant threat of military intervention and that's what's bothering netanyahu netanyahu would like to be able to communicate to the world that. the israelis are ready which he has to attack and that it will be done with the full support of the united states and he's not getting that he'd like to believe we've had enough instances in the past

where israel could go in and raid a country we have seen it from when it went into iraq when it went into lebanon etc and the u.s. would sit on its hands you know or into gaza and i think what he wants to do i want to do is create a context for that you know where you keep laying the groundwork you keep painting iran as this evil empire that you're going after and you keep putting pressure on the united states because what you're what you're doing is saying we're going to have to do this because israel faces extinction and you're hoping therefore to put pressure from within the country from both the hard line christian zionist right from from apac the jewish lobby and also from from our congress but i think the ultimate the ultimate potential goal is that there is a danger that you mean rhetoric is not helping you know why do you really think that there is that a bigger threat to israel's existence coming from and i think i think that israel

is exaggerating the imminence of that threat there's no doubt about it and there is that yeah i mean there is a point it could be made but then as you had said this a long time long time ago when he makes these threats he also when he came to the u.n. had a private meeting at the u.n. that a number of us attended and it's not that i believe anything said but he did say something that was pretty logical at the time which was look if we engaged in any kind of nuclear attack we would be inviting the decimation of our country because they would be a counter attack and just the other day in the american press it wasn't that was saying it but somebody else that was sort of saying well if the iranians were to do this obviously iran would be the one that would really suffer so when. when netanyahu acts as if it's israel that faces such a degree of a threat and extinction that it would justify a preemptive strike it's just hard to believe that he really thinks that the

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on tehran that's reports say it's the the radian people that are bearing the brunt of the move reeling from soaring in the big hall. as the headlines say up next it's all the latest from the world of sport without injury. hello there thanks for watching and these are the headline tour de france legend lance armstrong is the key to using banned drugs to fuel his victories in a detailed report released by the u.s. and to doping agency. plus progress both novak djokovic and larger federer through to the next round of the shanghai masters without dropping. pedal to the floor ferrari's fernando alonso prepares for this weekend's careen grand prix as he tries to hang on to his press carries lee at the top of the drivers' championship. but

first the reputation of seven time tour de france champion lance armstrong lies in tatters this morning the u.s. anti-doping agency has released its report detailing how he took drugs on a massive scale to secure his victories and accuses him of being the ringleader in the most sophisticated doping conspiracy in sporting history central to the reported testimonies from against armstrong from eleven of his former teammates from the u.s. postal service is team armstrong is accused of using a cocktail of banned substances am blood transfusions and he's also said to have threatened fellow riders with the sack if they did not follow a doping program orchestrated by disgraced italian doctor michele ferrari the u.s. anti-doping agency also says armstrong aided and abetted a massive cover up between nine hundred ninety eight and two thousand and five a period when he won the tour de france seven times according to the agency's chief executive the proof is conclusive and undeniable. just the overwhelming evidence

and different categories of evidence whether it's eyewitness testimony where it's first hand direct hit missions or my answer armstrong said of the others on the conspiracy. the scientific documents that are there the financial records the emails it paints an undeniable well of fortunately the deepest and most sophisticated professionalised drug program that we've ever seen a team run. well the u.s. anti-doping agency has now sent its report to the sport's governing body the international cycling union that has twenty one days to appeal or comply with the agency's decision to strip armstrong of his top titles the forty one year old has always denied taking performance enhancing drugs but chose not to contest these latest allegations which is lawyers have dismissed. the process is completely rigged i don't care what travers target. you can choose only from usada approved

arbitrator's number one so you know that you're going to get at least two against you and as i told judge barks at the time the christians dealing with the lions in rome had a better record than athletes when they arbitrate with usada. now let's move to ice hockey where there's been a nine go through in the k h l who sends a newly in coming up with the win if we're told in the five four win over bodies to stun our amazingly the five thousand fans that lesion you've got had to wait until the second period for the first goal it was about ace he took it to go late thanks to go from constantine and brandenburg chen ski but by the end of the period torpedo had got the home fans celebrating with robert nielsen lose in netting the in the last two minutes of the frame to make it two in the third it continued to school. and dimitri mccourt of this time giving them

a two goal advantage however there are still plenty of fight left in body says they claw their way back with two strikes from the vaccine at arsenal phillips they have but torpedo had the last say as a newly popping up with their dramatic win a five forty told p.t.i. the final score to give his team win in a right. elsewhere in the k t has got a shootout win over spartak moscow the muscovites in georgia to go cushion after underway here and an attorney to call in said netted but a double from live each in the third period sent a match into overtime. and when it came to the heat at all to me in the extra point the fetus both teams had nineteen points from fifty games. and other matches to be decided. away in the shootout that. afterwards. least five one on home ice elsewhere you. haven't guard defeated in the moscow region

over time. elsewhere in tennis it's been an action packed day the shanghai masters the second man thing the top three seeds all progress world number two you know about djokovic barely broke sweat is he beat a highly rated ball guerin young city going to meet three of in straight sets next to spaniard for the china lopez six three six two with the school as the looks to leap to federer at the top of the world standards. there is a. goal but you know there are still few big ones to call them and then obviously long them season finale the maybe. maybe can be this either but we'll see united try to take it's the most french major wilfried to tsonga also booked a place in the third round seven six seven five victory over compact when was reading. and checked on this but it also didn't drop a set he beat and that he set italy six three six three. where the top seed

roger federer beat again sin of you. in straight sets and the recently crowned u.s. open champion andy murray progress without playing after for emaar pulled out for the real injury. by golf fans will have to wait a little longer to see the showdown between the top two ranked plays in the world this after thunderstorms perspire in play on the second day of the world golf final in turkey both rory mcilroy and tiger woods lost their matches in the eight player event on cheese day placed extra significance on wednesday's me morning matches tiger woods bounced back with a five shot win over fellow american matt koocher while mathur royce still has an outside chance of reaching the semifinal suspended his one shot defeat to south african child swartz all the players ranked one and two in the world were made to go head to head on wednesday afternoon but after the skies opened the session was pissed with those matches now taking place on thursday.

mean more one of the officials at the center of the cricket corruption allegations has strenuously denied the accusation that he was prepared to fix matches india t.v. claims pakistani. and five colleagues from sri lanka and bangladesh were prepared to fix matches at the recent t twenty world cup the international cricket council has launched an investigation but he claims the accusations are no more than the van then death or. they could be here. today i have spoken to p.c.b. officials and told them everything with proof and that this conspiracy is a total blackmailing by the indian lobby they just want to do three in pakistan cricket sometimes they blame the players and now they are targeting officials trying to almighty allah there is no other such problem in my ten year career but i have remained on the i.c.c. panel for a decade i am satisfied with myself i'm confident that any decisions will be made

in my favor. formula one attention turns to this weekend's currying graham pray for his fernando alonso still lays the driver's championship but has seen his advantage cut to just four points in recent weeks the same time former champion has crashed out in two of the last four races with red bull sebastian vettel now closing in on the lead there are just four races left after this weekend you expected ferrari to keep pace with the red bull and mclaren this year but misfortune and technical woes for their rivals have helped a long stay in contention for the world title. and finally cheerleaders from around russia convened in the country's capital to participate in the annual cheer dance tournament the u.s. is of course the leader in the sport but michael crabb chamber went to check out russia's potential. cheerleading has come a long way since it first started out as a person vocally urging a crowd to support the team the united states with their break riddled sports like

american football and basketball as chair. the art of cheerleading morphing it into an entirely new and separate sport and with it attracting a whole bunch of enthusiastic followers around the globe including russia because we have so many teams here who otherwise support the sport clubs who perform at corporate and social events we probably cannot compete with the united states of the moment but i believe we're definitely bring in our own distant the russian touch to it it's a very physically demanding sport much akin to gymnastics in atlantics where risky moves are par for the course this event however was all about the show element of cheerleading and had plenty of talent and commitment on display including two silver medal winners from the two thousand and twelve european cheerleading championships i decided to cheer on it like it and. now seeing music and i think it's a very cold and in russia that a lot of girls that they want to take wasn't in a competition since your allegiance. in russia we also want to hear today's

cheerleader is a far more visual character and carries an image that many recognize and when you couple that with russia's notoriously beautiful women it's a surprise cheerleading hasn't taken off sooner something the girls know all too well about very much we can definitely boast about our muti of course the level of american cheerleading is there mention mark but we're slowly but surely moving in the right direction. definitely started off as an american tradition but as you could see cheerleading has sceptical global since then of course russia's doing new to the whole aspect of physical side vocal support but with sochi twenty fourteen olympics next year and the world cup in twenty eight teams there's plenty to cheer about. the project. brings to the end of the sport's more in a cup about five.

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