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it also reminds us that your country twice came to the rescue of the free and democratic world when itd military disaster. on each occasion, after the end of those destructive wars, the generosity of the united states made a massive contribution to our economic recovery. today, the united states remains our most important ally. our two nations contribute to the security and prosperity of our peoples. and of the world through shared national interests. but our relationship goes far beyond our military and diplomatic ties. in your inaugural address, you spoke to the american people of the values that lay at the heart of your nation's success. honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism, and of the sturdy alliances and enduring convictions with which your nation had met past challenges and would meet future ones, too. if i may say so, these values underscore much of the life of the united kingdom, also. together, with our alliance, they continue to guide our actions as we confront the challenges of a changing world. it is unfortunate that

he delivered a very big speech about the need for more open democratic arab world. it is not a coincidence. there was a lot of hope that things might change. i don't know that anyone thought it would come so dramatically and as fast as we have seen it. he was seen as inspiration. it is gone tricky. president obama has found you have this often difficult choice between u.s. values and u.s. strategic interests. at times, they can conflict. i think the president's -- people in this part of the middle east and north africa do look to the united states. they are kind of wondering, would get full support to democratic opponents but does that mean military support? will we stand back of the obama administration is still figuring out its policies. people have the same issues. guest: in addition to president obama's speech in cairo, you have to go back to condoleezza rice who gave a symbol speech in cairo, talking about how u.s. policy in the millie's has long favored stability over democracy. she stated that the new doctrine of the bush administration was that they would fa

it also reminds us that your country twice came to the rescue of the free and democratic world when it facing military disaster. on each occasion, after the end of those destructive wars, the generosity of the united states made a massive contribution to our economic recovery. today, the united states remains our most important ally, and our two nations contribute to the security and prosperity of our peoples and of the world through shared national interests. but our relationship goes far beyond our military and diplomatic ties. in your inaugural address, you spoke to the american people of the values that lay at the heart of your nation's success -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism, and of the sturdy alliances an enduring convictions with which your nation had met past challenges and would meet future ones, too. if i may say so, these values underscore much of the life of the united kingdom, also. together with our alliance, they continue to guide our actions as we confront the challenges of a changing world. it is unfortun

world. we should work with the democratic forces in pakistan to make sure they are doing everything they cano combat extremism. >> let us speak to ever world affairs correspondent in london. the skepticism is there and here as well. >> indeed. david cameron it meant there are questions about some kind of collusion with the pakistani intelligence services or their military. he says he does not want to kit drawn into the incrimination is over this. he is worried over the future and other leaders should rally around the president and prime minister there to help them rather than talk about them in a destructive way. >> not too much celebration either. >> there is a note of caution, because they are worried about reprisals and they want citizens to be vigilant. caution is also found on the subject of afghanistan. david cameron does not want to raise false hopes that british troops can come home earlier. he has set a debt -- date of 2015. he does not one to offer any hope of purchased troops coming home in the earlier -- a british troops coming home any earlier. >> things. almost $1 billion of il

one, on the democratic city, the u.s. world was a major democratic newspaper. by 1869, in washington, that's the apex

you know i think i think the the notion that you can introduce democratic reform that with the speed it's a terribly mistaken one the arab world is not the prepared united states has been pushing for democratic reform and is that going to work and is the other institution exactly what mike is. that is absolutely true either institutions are developed in particular i would say. economic development for example if you take egypt you can introduce all the political reform you want when you have fifty p. million people under the poverty line these are not going to provide what the people want people want jobs and opportunity once they feed their people and education this is the time that institution you have to create concurrently as you move towards some kind of political reform but they would have to be rather gradual reform but moving fairly as explained this is the on economic development specifically sustainable development to empower the people from the bottom up again you want to jump in there i would disagree with yeah chicken and that's as much true of the england developed the first democracy starting with the magna cart

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you know this is this is not just working democracy our job is to have the world saving people and sad bad government democrats are saying to us that we have about one hundred sixty degrees in the world out of one hundred seventeen times that say we killed him and some of that of those hundreds of the countries none of them can say that almost every terror. it's attack it's emanated against the west has had some ties back to the apple spain can see that germany can say that the united states can say it was begun when say it went in bomb and was vegas you saying that was vegas and say that almost every terrorist attack is emanating against western targets and countries and we need to back a lot of a gift no i don't actually i don't think that you can say almost every terrorist attack we've had we've had a whole bunch of them here in just in the last couple of years and you know it's all of them have come back you know my history and most of them have gone back to glenn beck and right wing crazy no no no i'm still reviewing the facts and the law the rights of promises about killing that is now we know so much mo

ten years on from the terrible tragedy of 9/11 with the end of the london and the democratic awakening across the arab world we must seize this unique opportunity to deliver a decisive break with the forces of al qaeda and its poisonous ideology which caused so much suffering to so many across so many years and i commend this statement to the house. islamic mr. speaker think the prime minister for his statement and i join him in the express yesterday of president obama. this side of the house wholeheartedly supports the action taken by the united states to bring osama bin laden to justice. we are grateful to president obama for taking the decision and to the u.s. special forces who carried it out. at this time we remember the harrowing scenes of the death and destruction of 9/11, and we remember, too, all together on atrocities carried out by al qaeda before 9/11. including my robie, bali, istanbul, madrid, and of course the 7/7 bombing in london. the world as a better and safer place without bin laden commanding or inciting acts of terror. we should never, mr. speaker, fall for the idea that the community

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is in deep trouble because of the rise of democratic movements and the success of democratic movements in the arab world and we see that with fatah and. hamas getting back together again the israelis so quick to respond by saying they won't give money that's owed to the government so really bad times ahead for israel as the arab spring continues and in the last twenty four in libya another nato airstrike targeting a gadhafi compound their lives continuing to insist it's not after his life that does seem to be some inconsistency there. i think the big inconsistency i think prime minister vladimir putin put it quite well when he went frankly what a no fly zone got to do with bombing palaces this is a complete disaster we don't know we don't have the confirmations get that it is the three granddaughters of khadafi and his youngest son killed in an age of attack moreno ocampo is going to be from the international criminal court is visiting new york to the u.n. security council on tuesday around the same time as as clinton comes for the room contact group meeting i wonder moreno ocampo will raise any objecti

world. the peaceful democratic revolution is taking place in tunisia, egypt, libya, and syria are the true repudiationdeniwsm. contrary to what bin laden prophesied, his extreme ideology is the weak horse and democracy is the strong horse. to rid our world of bin ladenism, it is critical that we, together, now do everything in our power to help the democratic forces in the middle east succeed. for it will be enhanced of his fellow arabs and muslims that bin laden is firmly consigned to the ash heap of history. senator collins. >> thank you. let me just echo senator lieberman's comments by starting with my tremendous gratitude to everyone who was involved in this critical mission, from the president and his national security team, to the extraordinarily courageous and 80 steals and intelligence operatives -- navy seals who executed this dangerous operation flawlessly and with great courage. i could not help but think last night when i received the call from the director of the national counter-terrorism center that that center had not even existed prior to our 2004 intelligence reform and terrorism pre

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one, from the democratic press in new york city, the new york world was a major democratic newspaper. and by 1869, in washington, it's sort of another up next of radical reconstruction. you have for the first time african-american men are sitting on juries. there are seven wards in washington. each ward has at least one african-american councilman sitting on the council and the new york world is aconfused about it and they do the series of articles about the negro nomination and they talk about washington as an exemplar for all that is bad about reconstruction that is bad. and this is the summerth 15th amendment is passed in the winter of 1869 and off of the summer when it's ratification and the 15th amendment was -- said nobody could be prohibited in the state -- nobody could be prohibited from voting on the race, color and previous condition and so northern states particularly the democrats were saying, oh, well, and they had to ratify, they were supposed to ratify and the new york world says do you want an example when we allow african-american men to vote. look at washington. and

one, from the democratic press in new york city, the new york world was a major democratic newspaper. and by 1869 in washington it's sort of the apex of radical reconstruction. you have for the first time african-american men are sitting on juries, there are seven wards many washington, each ward has at least one african-american councilman stating on the city council. and the new york world is ap to protect tick about it, and they sort of do this series of articles about the rise of negro domination in washington. and so from -- and they talk about it as washington as an exemplar for all that is bad about reconstruction. and, actually not coincidentally or whatever, relatedly, this is the summer that the 15th amendment is passed in the winter of 1869, so during the summer is when it's up for ratification to the states. and so the 15th amendment was the amendment that said that nobody could be prohibited in the states, nobody could be prohibited from voting on account of race, color or previous condition. so northern states, particularly the democrats, were saying, well, and they had

which the main purpose of that speech was to send a clear message to the arab world about america's embrace of the democratic movements there. and instead now the day after they're embroiled in these disputes with the israelis. i cannot imagine that's what they really wanted. there are some sharp differences here. but i do think the differences between bibi netanyahu and obama are exaggerated, i think mark was right about that, especially on the 1967 borders. >> you think exaggerated. but the last i can remember where it's been so public the disagreements between an israeli leader and an american president or israeli government and an american administration, we'll go back to george h.w. bush, when jim baker was trying to go to the region, there were some tensions there. do you remember a time since when it's been so open? >> well, they got into pretty sharp disagreements over the settlements issue early in the obama administration, when the israelis felt that the president made demands of them that no prime minister could accept regardless of political background and the israelis pushed back really, really

world as realm. just because a country is a democracy doesn't mean they put the promotion of democratic values first and foremost in policies. we support saudi arabia because they have oil, not democracy. that's a fact of life. i think, you know, and it's interesting actually that a lot of newer democracies like india, turkey, brazil are also different from the united states because they actually don't regard the projection of democratic values around the world, you know, with the same -- as the same imperative that americans do, and it's interesting why that's the case. >> going to take everyone who's in line to the questions, and then we'll have to come to an end. everyone who is in line gets to ask. >> i think this is a volume three questions. [laughter] given the supernational organizations, u.n., world trade organization, world court, and a lot of regional organizations, can i coax you into commenting on the prospects of a world state? >> oh, sure. [laughter] i think the prospect is zero. [laughter] i mean, no, i just think that, you know, if you look at, if you look at a political system, it h

world. it's being led by young people wearing jeans, and facebook, twitter. they want an inclusive society, a democratic society. they want to be part of the world order. they don't want to blow up america or israel or whatever. >> but are you saying that osama bin laden was kind of yesterday's leader? >> conceptually, yes. bin laden is suddenly to me, as an analyst writing about the muslim world for the last several decades, overnight he seems almost like a dinosaur. his methods failed, his vision still resonates. muslims would still like to have justice and dignity and so on. but his method of achieving these means seems to be dated and irrelevant in today's muslim world. >> but in this country he was a very, very much an important figure. >> the dominant symbol of 9/11. because rightly he was linked to this terrible event and then the chain of events that followed which resulted in, over this decade, the deaths of literally millions of people, displacement of millions of people. >> and kim, in this country? >> well, i was going to say that i've been hearing from a lot of american muslims who were say

were very excited about this because until 1848 the united states was really the only democratic nation in the world. and we were very concerned about this experiment because if you're the only one, it is an experiment. and with pashtun with this expanded succeed or fail. if other nations are following your lead, that's good news. that's wonderful news. the problem was, of course, that these revolutions eventually failed and the regimes that replaced the revolutionary regimes in many instances where much worse than the regimes that the revelation had gotten rid of that. there was also a revolution in the streets of american cities. here we have a street riot between two rival gangs, one posit and one catholic, in the city of new york on july 4, 1857. this right was immortalized in martin scorsese's movie gangs of new york. this relates to the fact that in many cities of america in the 1840s and '50s, especially as irish immigration increased, it is not much different than the way belfast was in 1970s and early 1980s with protestant and catholics fighting each other. if you'd walked down the streets

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brazil, are also different from the united states because they don't regard rejection of democratic fund around the worldthe same, as the same imperative that americans do. it's interesting, why not that's the case. >> everyone who is in line gets to ask a question. >> this is a volume three question. given the super national organizations, u.n., world trade, organization, the world court and a whole bunch of regional organizations, can i coax you into commenting on the prospects of the world state? >> oh, sure. [laughter] i think that prospect is zero. [laughter] i mean, i just think that, you know, if you look at comment if you look at a political system, it has to be based on some minimal degree of consensus about basic rules of justice, of values, and so forth. and in a big diverse democracies like the united states we're having a lot of trouble with that. in rural louisiana people think differently from san francisco where, you know, close to where i live. it's hard enough to manage that within an american context, but when you start talking about the diversity of levels of development and cultures

where the stakes are high, as tunisia was at the vanguard of this democratic wave and egypt is both a long standing partner and the arab world'sns can set a strong example through free and fair elections, a vibrant civil society, accountable and effective democratic institutions, and responsible regional leadership. but our support must also extend to nations where transitions have yet to take place. unfortunately, in too many countries, calls for change have thus far been answered by violence. the most extreme example is libya where moammar gadhafi launched a war against his own people, promising to hunt them down like rats. as i said when the united states joined an international coalition to intervene, we cannot prevent every injustice perpetrated by a regime against its people, and we have learned from our experience in iraq just how costly and difficult it is to try to impose regime change by force, no matter how well intentioned it may be. but in libya, we saw the prospect of imminent massacre. we had a mandate for action and heard the libyan people's call for help. had we not acted, along with our nato allies and region

world. president obama says that the democratic changes in the middle east and north africa were a moment of opportunity. the choice he says was for hatred and hope. popular uprisings have dislodged the two leaders this year, one of them in egypt. president made his landmark speech two years ago. so much as changed since then. they're disappointed that the promise offered at the time has not been fully realized. a >> they were greater expectations. when he came as the guests. his speech at the university of reached out to muslims around the world have promised renewed attempt to find lasting peace in the middle east. >> i have come here to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world. one based on mutual interests and mutual respect. >> he has been confined to history, swept by a popular uprising. egyptians have been disappointed with u.s. policies and said they show the opinion of the u.s. and other arab nations have also worsened. many people believed washington was too slow to back the protesters and elsewhere. the perception many people have is that human r

democracy we live in i can honestly say that i will have strong doubts whether democratic values even exist in this worldif the international community doesn't acknowledge what is going on today in ga. ga's opposing voices say they are under some of the most intense pressure they faced in years weaving their government's attempt of wiping them out of a largely surfer it was in the square in tbilisi which was the flashpoint for this week's violence there she says dark cloud still hangs over the city. but what we're hearing is in the aftermath of that protest wednesday nights is that the crackdown on a opposition is continuing so we were hearing as he says they said it was a day of independence military parade and certainly this is very subdued there was a heavy military and police presence remaining on the streets many of the streets were closed we saw a lot of the people at that parade itself were military personnel they were civilians turning out to watch that certainly very severe and what we've been hearing since is that this crackdown has continued now artie's cray have actually received a text for s

. >>> in europe today president obama paid tribute to poland, citing its democratic transformation as a model for the worldincluding the changes sweeping through the arab world. more tonight from nbc's chief white house correspondent, chuck todd. >> reporter: on the last day of his european tour president obama honored the elders of poland's solidarity movement and again hit on the issue near the top of his agenda all week, the arab spring. >> your actions charted a course for freedom that inspired many on this continent and beyond. so we want to encourage all states undergoing similar experiences to learn from poland. >> reporter: and at a press conference in warsaw the president made the case to americans why even in these tough economic times the u.s. has to play a leading role. >> we've got to leave room for us to continue our tradition of providing leadership when it comes to freedom, democracy, human rights. ♪ >> reporter: earler in the week, during his speech to the british parliament, the president addressed the growing concern in some corners about the slow progress in libya. >> we will not relent

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michael trying to back you in durham i mean good is the military in the in the arab world a good midwife to bring stable democratic societies in your opinion and we don't have enough information there. i would go farther than to say that the military is not a very good midwife i actually think i'm ocracy may not be a very good midwife the united states in urging countries to have elections before they really have the other institutions that make a lections possible i think maybe making a mistake if i close my eyes and think what is it that makes the western system of government actually work what allows people self-determination it's not the ballot box it's an independent judiciary and the rule of law so i'm worried that if we urge countries to have elections before they have any kind of institutions that are ready to do so it will be won the election done it's interesting daniel i mean how do we marriage that you because people are actually people are looking for change is ok and the west is a wild guess there kneejerk response is elections maybe elections are not going to really start solving a lot of these prob

. >> reporter: democrats charged profit margins are up. >> when the world price goes up, the after-tax profits of your companies go up very significantly. >> raising our taxes will not reduce the price of gasoline. >> reporter: but to balance the budget democrats want big oil to pay more. they'd end tax subsidies. >> in light of massive deficits and you have massive profits -- >> reporter: the red ink is rising fast. the execs said higher taxes would hurt -- >> arbitrarily punishing five u.s. oil and gas companies by raising their taxes will generate far less government revenue than if we were allowed to compete and produce our nation's own resources. >> reporter: democrats went after conoco for a news release calling higher taxes un-american. >> it's simply beyond the pale. so are you willing to apologize for what you -- >> senator, the tax proposals under consideration were a question of fairness -- >> reporter: ranking republican orrin hatch went after democrats. >> gas prices too expensive? i've got it. let's raise some taxes. >> reporter: hatch called the whole hearing a dog and p

must support countries making the all-painful transition to democratic rule around the world. >> themerican people need to understand we've got to leave room for us to continue our tradition of providing leadership when it comes to freedom, democracy, human rights. >> alan: mr. obama south sought to build his case that america and the international community have a vested stake in the arab revolt that its redefining the middle east. >>> coming up. higher fuel prices will hit you in the wallet even if you dent hit the road this holiday weekend. a look at how much more we're paying for the typical cookout feast. >> alan: the reported safety concern that led to a change in command for the blue angels, and the clouds have rolled in, and the rain has gun. leigh glaser will let us knknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknknkn