berger she's at the american jewish committee here in berlin and john tesh now you have the richard holbrooke form at the american academy here in berlin to both of you welcome to the day this is an open letter. but you must have had certain people in mind when you wrote it to whom is this letter addressed. we were very concerned a course about the impact of the current us administration on chairman policy we have a new government it was clear that a new government was coming in germany and we very much hope that those who are negotiating a coalition agreement take notice of what we're saying so dressed to the new government the new government is one of the target audiences quite clearly there is a dynamic now you know a negotiation process has just started about forming a new government but of course there are other target audience as well you know there is of course this this group of people that were addressed in the quote that you just used the people that are actively thinking about basically turning their back on the u.s. and this is a tremendously dangerous trend as we think it is and

dieter berger she's at the american jewish committee here in berlin and john to show you heads of richard holbrooke form at the american academy here in berlin to both of you welcome to the day this is an open letter. but you must have had certain people in mind when you wrote it to whom is this letter addressed. we were very concerned a course about the impact of the current us administration on chairman policy we have a new government it was clear that a new government was coming in germany and we very much hope that those who are negotiating a coalition agreement take notice of what we're saying so it's addressed to the new government the new government is one of the target audience is quite clearly there is a dynamic now you know a negotiation process has just started about forming a new government but of course there's other target audience as well you know there is of course this this group of people that were addressed in the quote that you just used the people that are actively thinking about basically turning their back on the u.s. and this is a tremendously dangerous trend as we think it

deja verger she's at the american jewish committee here in berlin and john to show you heads of richard holbrooke form at the american academy here in berlin to both of you welcome to the day this is an open letter. but you must have had certain people in mind when you wrote to whom is this letter addressed. we were very concerned of course about the impact of the current us administration on chairman policy we have a new government it was clear that a new government was coming in germany and we very much hope that those who are negotiating a coalition agreement take notice of what we're saying so it's addressed to the new government the new government is one of the target audience is quite clearly there is a dynamic now you know a negotiation process has just started about forming a new government but of course there's other target audience as well you know there is of course this this group of people that were addressed in the quote that you just used the people that are actively thinking about basically turning their back on the u.s. and this is a tremendously dangerous trend as we think it is

are the key players in undermining afghan democracy at that because it all they know is clear richard holbrooke those are individual un mission in afghanistan be to go are a few years he was appointed by the united states there robert gates the defense secretary there to know that well he was a decent gentleman but the others you mentioned ambassador i can bury the late. and god great they were the tools of the us administration for this purpose. individually have i don't blame them they were serving their government and any official who would do that once instructed to do to take a certain. policy through the united nations office were used very much but there were also individuals within the united nations for example the head of the united nations at the time in afghanistan through the present of the seclusion all coyote who was under immense pressure but his truth up to him and he took. very much under the circumstances the middle ground was you know here he is he's retired or he took a middle ground which meant he sided with us. with would rightness righteousness i believe that's. probably

richard holbrooke rightly said we have to have a place they can be so we can engage them. this is done in coordination with the united states. the reception for them come the security, everything else i think met our standards. the same with one or more of their mosque leaders who are there because the uss them to be. >> that is more the exception than the role. >> yes. it you have to be careful not to undermine the arguments or the points, if you will, by what we said are not accurate. is there is enough i think otherwise. i think the point you made her very reasonable. and i do think for what it is worth, you and i both i think maybe more than others, are the recipients of lots of communication from either side beenis discussion in have able to ferret out for ourselves i think what is fact and what is not so factual. and, look, i think they are quite intent to this point and living by that mo you. i wish the u.s. would declassify. they have told me, very sievers you can get, they believe it should be because of fight and they would like to see the mo you may public. they

richard holbrooke rightly said we have to have a place they can be so we can engage them. this is done in coordination with the united states. the reception for them come the security, everything else i think met our standards. the same with one or more of their mosque leaders who are there because the u.s. asked them to be. >> that is more the exception than the rule. >> >> yes. it you have to be careful not to undermine the arguments or the points, if you will, by what we said are not accurate. i think the point you made is very reasonable. and i do think for what it is worth, you and i both i think maybe more than others, are the recipients of lots of communication from either side in this discussion in have been able to ferret out for ourselves i think what is fact and what is not so factual. and, look, i think they are quite intent to this point and living by that mou. i wish the u.s. would declassify. they have told me they believe it should be declassified. -- allowful that we that to take place and let everyone see it. i think there's a reasonable probably all of t

richard holbrooke i think rightly said we've got to have a place where they can be so that we can engage them. this is all done in coordination with the united states, the reception for them, the security and everything else i think met all of our standards. and the same with one or more of the hamas leaders who, again, are there because israel and the u.s. asked them to be there. it's not say all the others and all the rest of this -- >> that's more the exception than the rule, i would say. >> yeah, but you've got to be careful not to undermine the arguments or the points, if you will, by those that are not accurate, because there's enough, i think, otherwise. i think the points you made are very reasonable. and i do think, for what it's worth, having -- you and i both maybe more than others are the recipients of lots of communication from either side in this discussion and have been able to ferret out for ourselves, i think, what is fact and what is not quite so factual. and, look, i think they are quite intent to this point in living by that mou, and i wish the united states would dec