host: another common here on the president's speech in cairo. richmond, va., and charles on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. when the founding fathers came to the new continent, they boughrought korans with them. slavery is islamic. when they left, most of the europeans did not delike slavery. the constitution of the united states had to be revised. people alws talk about how they wish they could go back to the old ways of the constitution. i'm a blacc person in america and. [inaudible] host: charles, there's a breath connection. andrew mccarthy, anything there you want to respond to? guest: despite the fact that slavery is the darkest chapter in the history of our country, it is a chapter that we overcame. the caller is thought that there is islamic scripture, which is approving of slavery, for that reason world. host: you argue in your book at president obama crafted his message and images for a muslim world. outside of the speech in cairo, give us a specific ongoing example of that. guest: the president follows the same practic

host: another common here on the president's speech in cairo. richmond, va., and charles on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. when the founding fathers came to the new continent, they boughrought korans with them. slavery is islamic. when they left, most of the europeans did not delike slavery. the constitution of the united states had to be revised. people always talk about how they wish they could go back to the old ways of the constitution. i'm a blacc person in america and. [inaudible] host: charles, there's a breath connection. andrew mccarthy, anything there you want to respond to? guest: despite the fact that slavery is the darkest chapter in the history of our country, it is a chapter that we overcame. the caller is thought that there is islamic scripture, which is approving of slavery, for that reason world. host: you argue in your book that president obama crafted his message and images for a muslim world. outside of the speech in cairo, give us a specific ongoing example of that. guest: the president follows the same pra

exactly one year ago, in cairo, egypt, president obama addressed the arab and muslim world in a landmark speech that in elegant and heartfelt terms captured the importance of our discussion today. i would like to quote just a bit of that speech. "america hoods in her the truth that regardless of race or religion or station in life, all of us share common aspirations education and work with dignity, to love oor family, our communities, and our god. but so long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace and promote conflict rather than cooperation that can help all of our people a chief justice and prosperity. this cycle of suspicion in this court must end." president obama may have been addressing one region of the world, but his words were as much as a guide for diapers committees today as they were for drivers commit -- diverse communities today as they were for diverse communities around the globe. those who sow hatred rather than peace must not prevail. allow it to happen. -- we cannot and will not allow it to happen. [app

i would like to know your comments on the european union about the speech in cairo when he talked about the constitution. thank you. >> as i said, he has been kind of all over the map in terms of trying to test the entire spectrum of potential reforms in libya that i think he would like the country to go in. the constitution, as far as i know, as been worked on foo the past several years. they started with -- has been worked on for the past several years, starting with scholars from the united tates and europe. they came to a document that seemed to be almost ready for prime time. there was a delay. i expect that, as he makes the decision as to how he will either take this new position or not take it, we will again seek talks and hopefully action about putting a constitution in place, as well as other reforms. >> and i asked you to go back to the question -- can i ask you to go back to the question about the briefing concerning the counter-terrorist program and the efforts the country has made in the reeducation of radicals and that whole aspect of what is going on in the country? if yo

exactly one year ago in cairo egypt, president barack obama addressed the arab and muslim world in aandmark speech that in heartfelt terms captured the importance of our discussion today. he said scott -- he said, "america holds within her the truth that regardless of re, religion, or station in life, all of us share a common aspiration to ve in peace and security, to get an education and work with dignity, to love our families, our communities, and our god. so long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who s hatred rather than peace, and in gender conflict rather than cooperation. this is a cycle of suspicion and discord must end." president barack obama may have been addressing another region of the world, but his words are as much as a guide for american 's dirse communities today as they were for communities around the globe last year. the special relationships between arabs and americans and non-arab americans shoulnot be dined by fferences. everyone here knows, we cannot and we will not allow that to happen. [applause] since becomingttory gene

i sent my colleague to cairo at 12:00 in the morning over at the 15th. when he signed the document, hamas said we have our rervations. we don't wanto sign. bay rays three, for reservations and we told them, even the egyptians told them tat we cannot opethe document because if we op that we will en it for everybody,or all rervions and it means it will be open forever. we think we areat pushing hmas to come sign it. afr that i think we can go directly to the elections, the parliamentary elecon and they will return back to the palestinian people. >> one of he things i think that is widely known and yu referred to it in an interview you did last nightith charlie rhodes, under the influence of iran, seems to be exercing a kind of veto of what the internal hamas seems to wa to do in terms reconciliation. is that fair? do you think this crisi will change anything? >> i don't know if it will change or not but >> i reported you curately? >> yes is accure. >> let talk a little bit about at you reported which i thought was very interesting, the negotiations wit wal

but there is a guy with a muslim name, muslim father also early on and went and gave the speech in cairoand went and cerinly if you read what he says about the great obama he was trying to encourage the sens of disillusionment if you thought america was going to change as strike forget about it all he did was increase the drone strike killing innocent muslims andso they are playing that card nd maybe that sense of disillusionment is playing into the equation a little bit. >> it didn't change al qaeda's approach. remember al-zahiri came up with a talk about him in the first year and was frankly a racist, it was pretty unsavory and as far as i can see that didn't gain a big audience, so there isn't the same easy trigger issue but in reality none of the policies of change, so i think it isn't difficult for them to make an argument but whoever you elective and the situation in gaza with israel and the palestinian question is not close to being resolved or looked at any closer during this administration. in afghanistan and remains active battleground obviously and have bee engaged d firing mi

leadership remain negative, too, and i think what we see there is a bad year after the president's cairo address, the u.s. faces continuing image challenges. host: next up, lincoln city, oklahoma, on our line for democrats. oregon, i'm sorry about that. caller: i was just wondering -- i did not know if the question is what they think of americans or obama exactly, but what are we doing to perpetuate the view of americans across the world? what kind of -- do they just see american tv? i their programs that bring americans into other -- you know, countries that give them a better view of us? a lot of times, i do not have a good view of americans, right? i see us as nationalistic, like we do not understand other countries. we put ourselves first, and it seems a lot of other countries -- they live in close quarters with each other, like in europe, and they seem a lot more open to other cultures than we do. i do not know what the question is, but can you just address any of that? \ guest: the u.s. government engages in strategic deployment efforts in order to enhance america's image abroad. t

trade, from isolation in cairo, just before they went to vote, president obama's message was that myle re willing to move forward. the question now is not what iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build. i believe this outreach is not unconnected. in fact, with the u.s. as a threat off the table as an issue in iran's elections, a big shift into economic issues. fiscal mismanagement, corruption , inflation. all togetter this had the effect of fracturing while bolstering the iranian opposition. by the fall, with diplomatic efforts firmly rebuffed, it became clear that something more than diplomacy would be needed, not just outreach. most prom neantly on the list of something more's are two things i think would be dramatic counter productive. military strikes. and brotherhood-based sanctions that would impact the cost of full for regular iranians. if the goal on the other hand is to stop iranian government from obtaining a nuclear weapon, i think we have to think of some other strategies. so, if those two aren't the answer, what can we do? this week the obama administrati

let me close by coming back to president obama's words in cairo. he echoed them on the campaign trail, actually. in the campaign, president obama said it is contingent upon us not just to talk about what the u.s. is against boat to articulate what we are for. it is incumbent upon the u.s., in our engagement in iran, where we have security interests, to articulate not just that we are againss the nclear program, but that we support things. what are we for? >> thank you very much. a pleasuret introduce micha. miael is a fellow of the washington institute. those of you arou washington may remember that he was a former senior director for the middle east afairst the nsc. is also taught at harard where he le the iran working group, at the kennedy school of governme. >> i want to thank the democracy counsel for putting on this important event. you see a lot of statements in the media that the green movement in iran is dead. i think it is important that events like this call attention to the continuing struggle going on in iran. i want to talk about what

exactly one year ago in cairo egypt, president barack obama addressed the arab and muslim world in a landmark speech that in heartfelt terms captured the importancefur discussion today. he said scott -- he said, "america holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share a common aspition to live in peace and security, to get an education and work with dignity, to love our families, our communities, and our god. so long as our relationship is defined b our differences, we will empower those who sow hatr rather than peace, and in gender conflict rather than cooperation. this is a cycle of suspicion and discord must end." prident barack obama may have been addressing another region of the world, but his words are as much as a guide for american 's diverse communities toda as they were for communities around the globe last year. the special relationships between arabs and americansnd non-arab americans should not be defined by differences. as everyone here knows, we cannot and we will not allow that to happen. [applause] since becoming atto

here was a guy who with a muslim name, a muslim and father, early on wednesday gave a speech in cairo, and yet, certainly if you read what al-awlaki says about the great sorrow, president obama, he is trying to encourage a sense of disillusionment. if you thought america was going to change its stripes, forget about it. all he has done is keep the same stripes, killing muslims. he is playing that card, and the sense of disillusionment is playing into it. >> it did not change al-qaeda's approach when obama was elected. it was frankly, pretty unsavory. there is not the same easy triggered issue that they have, but in reality, none of the policies have changed. it is not difffcult for them to make an argument that whoever you elect, the situation will be the same. the situation in gaza, the israeli-palestinian question is no closer to being resolved. iraq and afghanistan remain battlegrounds, obviously. we have been engaged in firing missiles into yemen. in addition to that, we have given a large degree of intelligence and technical support to yemen and services. even on that level, he i

i would like to know your comment on your opinion about safe speech and cairo, when he was talking about institutions. >> this has been you know, as i said, he's been kind of all over the map in terms of trying to -- to test the whole spectrum of potential reforms in libya that i think that he would like -- he would like the country to go in. and direct him. the constitution as far as i know was -- has been worked on for the past several years. they have had, they started with, with -- with scholars from the united states and europe. and -- as far as i know, they came to a document that -- that seemed to be almost ready for prime time. there was then a delay. and i expect that -- that as he makes the decision as to how he will either take this new position or not take it, that we will again see talk and hopefully action about -- about putting the constitution in place as well as potentially other reforms. >> ask you to go pack to a question that you had in your introductory marks and you did not say much about. it is the counter terrorist program and the country has made in the reeducati