while professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut jamal wakim believes that the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country the united states being involved in too many crisis the resources are being drained and at the same time it's antagonizing russia china. iran even pakistan india and other countries and their attempt to maintain its head germany over global affairs but this is exhausting the. united states and i believe that it's leading it to overextension the way. they did. by the historian paul kennedy in his famous book the rise and fall of great empires so i believe that the united states is being overstretched it might lead to a big crisis within this country and of course it's wrong worldwide. in other news tonight police in the u.k. say the man detained after tuesday's westminster car ramming incident is being held on suspicion of attempted murder and performing an act of terror he has been identified as a british citizen of sudanese origin with more his and. we do know that the press here are saying that this

professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university of beirut jamal wakim believes the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country the united states is being involved in too many crisis resources are being drained and at the same time it's antagonizing. iran even pakistan india and other countries and its attempt to maintain its hegemony over global affairs but this is exhausting the united states and i believe that it's leading it to overextension the way. they did. by the historian paul kennedy in his famous book the rise and fall of great empires so i believe that the united states is being overstretched it might lead to a big crisis within this country and of course its role worldwide. to washington where the white house has just announced or trump has revokes the security clearance of the former cia director john brennan the president's also said to be evaluating the situation of a number of other officials. i'm a value waiting action with respect to the following individuals james clapper james comey michael hayden sally ates susan rice

city of gascony at the battle raged for several days prompting many to flee a political analyst jamal wakim says the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country the united states is being involved in too many crisis the resources are being drained and at the same time it's antagonizing russia china. iran even pakistan india and other countries and their attempt to maintain its hegemony over global affairs but this is exhausting the united states and i believe that it's leading it to overextension the way. they did. by the korean war of kennedy in his famous book the rise and fall of great empires so i believe that the united states is being overstretched and it might lead to a big crisis within this country and of course it's wrong worldwide your program continues at the top of the hour. america was never great to spend it on the rape and murder. and nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we're dealing with. people get sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing children. there was just no way that people are going

nations continues to maintain that could be no military solution to the conflict in that country jamal wakim a professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut believes the u.s. is exhausting its ability to provide stability in the country. the united states is being involved in too many crisis the resources are being trained and at the same time it's antagonizing russia china. iran even pakistan india and other. to maintain its hegemony over global affairs but this is exhausting the united states and i believe that it's leading it to overextension the way. they did. by the historian paul kennedy in his famous book the rise and fall of great empires so i believe the united states is being overstretched and it might lead to a big crisis within this country and of course. the u.s. says economic sanctions against turkey will remain in place even if ankara releases an american pastor who made it arrested on suspicion of terrorism ties after both sides impose further tariffs on each other and concerns over whether the situation has escalated too much were rais

live now to discuss this further is jamal wakim professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut a good to have you with us mr came now according to different sources the taliban now controls from between fourteen to about fifty percent of afghan territory given that it controlled any one percent as a result of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and one what has gone wrong here. well i believe it was mainly the efforts of the united states to antagonize countries that are neighboring to afghanistan like china russia and iran in addition to its role to do star belies the order to destabilize pakistan. in april the bali by two men over to win why it's the place of maneuverability especially that back in two thousand and one two thousand and two the united states was only capable of pacifying the country doing the logistical. intelligence. provided to it by these neighboring countries to afghanistan. and to fight terrorism so now the the united states is antagonizing all these countries in addition to withdrawing economic support to the afghani governmen