cohen in washington he's a senior fellow at the brookings institution also in washington we have jacob hornberger he's founder and president of the future of freedom foundation and in islamabad we cross to i should say dk she's a pakistani political commentator and author of the book military incorporated inside pakistan's military economy all right folks crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want you know different points of view and i want my viewers to see it but first marcia tell us about the arab in this key strategic relationship well relations between the u.s. and pakistan have never been after the fallout from the u.s. assassination of osama bin laden the state of the alliance has gone from bad to worse admiral mike mullen one of the most pro pakistan officials in washington has referred to the country as the epicenter of world terrorism but his most recent remarks have added fuel to the fire. and choosing to use violent extremism as an instrument of policy the government of pakistan and most especially the pakistani army and i am sorry jeopardizes not only the

both presidents of the future freedom foundation jacob hornberger says that the most of behind washington's one sided approach to syria is then rid of the regime they once used to deal with. this notion that the u.s. is now part of this pro-democracy receipt regime is ridiculous but they're jumping on that ban away again as an opportunity to get out front of it and create this deceptive appearance while at the same time there's according the dictatorships that are aligned with them and the united nations and it's part of their empire and we look at libya you know they go in there the old colonial powers are coming back in their house the on days of the m r france great britain and now the united states affecting a regime change and there is no price there's no upper limit on the number of people they're willing to kill to affect that regime change there's another important factor to consider here to announce the hypocrisy that the us government aligned itself it harder to itself with the assad dictatorship you'll recall that that's where the cia rendition made. the canadian citizen a rendit

well let's get more on the situation around syria from jacob hornberger founder and president of the future freedom foundation joining us live from the u.s. and mr hornberger nato chief has been repeatedly saying that the alliance has no plans to intervene in syria and in fact the draft resolution it was presented was already a watered down version of why did russia and china though appear not to trust that i resorted to a veto. possibly because of the history that we have with these kind of things that they get a resolution appears to be limited in scope and then all of a sudden the next oh you know you got invasions and occupations and all sorts of things we we've gone down this road here in the united states with sanctions we've had a brutal embargo against the people of cuba i don't know sixty seventy years with the purpose of affecting regime change all that is done is brought misery to the cuban people as well as the desperation of rights of the american people to travel in trade we had sanctions against iraq that contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of iraqi chil