lobbyists are hiring our public relations firms so we're barak's egypt features prominently in my book khadafi features prominently in my book syria is in the book. all of these people who most americans when they think of foreign policy they think well who are the real bogeyman out there iran even has foreign lobbyists working in the u.s. and so when you whenever you think who is the sort of bad guys are in the world chances are they've got a lobbyist fighting for them right now. you know i didn't even know that this was happening to the extent that you really lay out it was really shocking for me i mean is that legal i mean what are these legal cobbett that cobbett that people are going through to do this yeah unfortunately in our current system it's perfectly legal if you're a foreign government you're prohibited from making campaign contributions so you can directly donate money to u.s. elections however there's a really big loophole you could simply hire a lobbyist hire a public relations for as long as that person is a u.s. citizen they're free to make all the contributions they want wit

assad government and other forces within the syrian government that their fate will be the fate of khadafi mean sodomized and murdered by a mob of course that leaves little incentive for the syrian government to sit down and negotiate but these forces within the syrian opposition have never wanted to negotiate there were forces that did want to negotiate did seek to have change and reform in syria but without foreign intervention and without civil war and they have been pushed to the side by the syrian the free syrian army and i sort of say they've also been pushed to the side by washington and by the nato powers who really only wanted civil war as the main method to carry out the regime change in syria the syrian president says only the ballot box can determine his future insisting he has the support of his people and the army had warned against foreign intervention in syria saying the western powers have picked him as one of their bogeyman sophie shevardnadze spoke to the battle leader in damascus. that he is not a western puppet he also denies the fuck that civil war is taking place in

helped contribute to an outcome which will probably be better for libya in the long run than continued khadafi rule would have been ok charles where do you communion on this. well i think that you know democracy promotion has been part of the american creed since the very beginning regionally it was more a by example than by coersion and then after world war two the united states has become somewhat more forceful in the terms of export democracy part of it is moral and ideological the view that people should have a right to choose their own governments and part of it is material that is geo political interest the view that a world that is dominated by democratic states will be more peaceful stable and prosperous than the alternative i think the real difficulty is in turning those principles into practice we have some examples such as the occupation of germany and japan that went well you have stable successful liberal democracies but in the middle east it looks much more difficult and the interventions in libya and in afghanistan and iraq i think are are much more nuanced much more ambiguous a

love life i could have just picked up and left like been a leader for example you know this is now khadafy for example and the thing that really marked me the most is how really how much more complicated situation inside syria from what we see in the media because i talk to people yes the country is divided and even the people who didn't like assad before this conflict started are now so scared that fundamentalists will come to power fundamentalists who are fighting on the side of the free syrian army and syrian people are not about that and this is like the only. secular that had a lot of different religious groups always living in peace with each other whether it's sunni or shia. or all the way or christians so they're really scared that if the army will fall apart and then you know you'd have the sixth remiss muslims coming to them and asking them to basically be just like them and we actually saw a twitter for the. free syrian army and they had the targets the people that they want to target to kill for example which is really a famous actor that got killed today were there and he got

assad government into the forces within the syrian government that their fate will be the fate of khadafi being sodomized and murdered by a mob of course that leaves little incentive for the syrian government to sit down and negotiate but these forces within the syrian opposition have never wanted to negotiate there were forces that did want to negotiate did seek to have change and reform in syria but without foreign intervention and without civil war and they have been pushed to the side by the syrian the free syrian army and i sort of say they've also been pushed to the side by washington and by the nato powers who really only wanted civil war as the main method to carry out the regime change in syria well the syrian president valid he will not go into exile and this in an exclusive interview with our team president bashar al assad said only the ballot box can determine his future insisting that he has the support of his people and the army. all of you who have thought about. leaving supposed to contribute safe or not so the thought behind you but would be fighting us here i think for t

exists now in libya and the various groups armed groups because the stockpiles of weapons from the khadafi regime are now open and available to to all international terrorists so yes indeed if we talk about the situation in northern mali we certainly have to talk about the situation in libya but we also need to talk about the situation in algeria and this is very important algeria has been undertaking all sorts of military and security operations against insurgencies and rebellions and and internal threats internal struggles for over a decade and it is a paradox that it would be in fact the success of these military and security operations in algeria that has pushed a number of international now international terrorists into into mali so definitely it is a regional issue it is not a situation that mali government however of national unity it may be that is going to be able to to handle that i also have and i have expressed a certain number of doubts as to the capacities of echo us definitely it is important that this is seen and there's a lot of international pressure to see this as an ech

khadafi or some other leader he's definitely not crazy he's very well read and educated and i was very surprised to find that out. he's very well informed contrary to what many people may think i think. barbara walters interview for a.b.c. that was recorded probably really freaked him out because barbara was asking him precise questions about precise examples of. cartoonist to guard his arms broken or. who got his throat slashed and he really wasn't aware of those. things that she was telling him and i think that freaked him out so much that after that he asked to be informed of everything that's going on so i do believe he understands how complicated this situation is do i think is remorseful i don't know the only thing that i gathered from this interview is that this is a man who is determined to stay there. till the death if that's what it takes. barbara walters interview and. it was a little more than a year ago and she was spoken to about another anchor on her network on a.b.c. about her experience and i want to play really quick what she said. what you're really. george there wer

when they were trying to pull khadafy out libya came for a killing zone. if it weren't for secretary clinton and ambassador rice pushing obama, it would have been worse. we need to be training a libyan army to replace the militias. i went in september of last year with marco rubio and john mccain and myself went to libya. we came back and said the biggest threat to libya making it is these militias. we need to help the libyans train a national army. they were willing to pay for it. in egypt we really led from behind. this idea of having a hands off policy toward syria is about to blochb the whole region up. the war is coming to israel. it's affecting turkey and other places. so i believe that if they don't lead from the front that syria and iran are going to coming together and we're going to have a major conflict in the mideast. >> what was the best thing we got out the arab spring so far? >> the fact is authoritarian regimes have been overthrown the likelihood they will simply be replaced by other authoritarian regimes or some in some cases, yemen and li

when they were trying to pull khadafy out libya came for a killing zone. if it weren't for secretary clinton and ambassador rice pushing obama, it would have been worse. we need to be training a libyan army to replace the militias. i went in september of last year with marco rubio and john mccain and myself went to libya. we came back and said the biggest threat to libya making it is these militias. we need to help the libyans train a national army. they were willing to pay for it. in egypt we really led from behind. this idea of having a hands off policy toward syria is about to blochb the whole region up. the war is coming to israel. it's affecting turkey and other places. so i believe that if they don't lead from the front that syria and iran are going to coming together and we're going to have a major conflict in the mideast. >> what was the best thing we got out the arab spring so far? >> the fact is authoritarian regimes have been overthrown the likelihood they will simply be replaced by other authoritarian regimes or some in some cases, yemen and li