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cross-talk america's imperial presidency i'm joined by my guest michael kugel man in washington he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and in new york we cross to george simulations he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and author of the upcoming book bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it you know michael things go to you first we're calling this program the imperial presidency and i'm thinking back to richard nixon and that's what he was accused of but do you think when we compare like nixon to bush obama there's really not much of a comparison we do have something like an imperial presidency now well i don't know if i'd go that far i would say obama you know he was swept into power in two thousand and eight as a you know on change on hope he was very idealistic so originally he had foreign policies that were very different from what what what had happened in the past and he was sa

argues the conflict over the afghanistan policy has weakened america's ability to shape policy in south asia and the middle east. this program is about an hour. >> welcome to "after words" and especially vali nasr. it's a treat to see you after a long time away. i did enjoy your book for perhaps different reasons i will go through that but i wanted to thank you very much for coming in today. vali nasr is the dean of the school of the advanced international studies at johns hopkins and the author of the book "the dispensable nation," which i have here, american foreign policy in retreat. vali nasr is an american political commentator, scholar of contemporary islam. he has briefed president, congress, many influential and not so influential people. he was born in tehran in 1960 and his family's can't the united states after the evolution. he has a bachelor's and master's degree from the fletcher school of the diplomacy and earned his ph.d. from ny t. i won't go through your long list of accomplishments but i would draw attention for a great part of your book spent working under richard holbroo

myanmar, wedged between india, china, and southeast asia -- it is a connection, a gateway between south asiand east asia am a so that is strategically extremely important, especially because the united states have put all their military focus -- their renewed military focus on asian- pacific region because of china, who are beefing up their military in a big way, 175% over the last 10 years. this would be -- a friendly myanmar would be very help all for the united states. it does not hurt that myanmar has a lot of natural resources. >> we have seen a lot of sectarian strife flare up in the last few months. is that something the presidents are going to be talking about? >> that is something that obama has to discuss, although there is a bipartisan majority. he cannot just ignore that. a lot of humanitarian organizations still say that this visit comes to early because it takes off the pressure from the regime in myanmar. the obama administration tends to say that the glass is half- full regarding myanmar and it is not half-empty, because of what has been achieved in such a quick pace. >> dank

myanmar, wedged between india, china, and southeast asia -- it is a connection, a gateway between south asiand east asia am a so that is strategically extremely important, especially because the united states have put all their military focus -- their renewed military focus on asian- pacific region because of china, who are beefing up their military in a big way, 175% over the last 10 years. this would be -- a friendly myanmar would be very help all for the united states. it does not hurt that myanmar has a lot of natural resources. >> we have seen a lot of sectarian strife flare up in the last few months. is that something the presidents are going to be talking about? >> that is something that obama has to discuss, although there is a bipartisan majority. he cannot just ignore that. a lot of humanitarian organizations still say that this visit comes to early because it takes off the pressure from the regime in myanmar. the obama administration tends to say that the glass is half- full regarding myanmar and it is not half-empty, because of what has been achieved in such a quick pace. >> dank

america's imperial presidency i'm joined by my guest michael kugel a man in washington he is a south asia associate at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and in new york we cross to george simulations he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and author of the upcoming book bombs for peace nato is humanitarian war on yugoslavia or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it you know michael things go to you first we're calling this program the imperial presidency and i'm thinking back to richard nixon and that's what he was accused of but do you think when we compare like nixon to bush or obama there's really not much of a comparison we do have something like an imperial presidency now well i don't know if i'd go that far i would say obama you know he was swept into power in two thousand and eight as a you know on change on hope he was very idealistic so originally he had foreign policies that were very different from what what what had happened in the past and he was

troops out of the volatile state of the taliban it will gravitate to indian controlled kashmir south asia expert deep active party says the growing violence throughout the region is fueling concerns. his main concern is that. afghanistan will become much more unstable what's nato troops withdraw. and by the stunning intervention might increase there may well be another round of civil war and that will. turn afghanistan into much more of a breeding ground for terrorism and of course. it is an unstable part of india and once. barn and other militant groups in afghanistan iran and you can buy a stance tribal areas. become more and there's no control over them then they couldn't fool trade didn't break the numbers in kashmir and that's all of course all of the one following in the first steps of greece and spain portugal is unemployment has hit a record high this week and as artie's peter out of a found out of the disintegrating economy is forcing more and more people to seek a better living elsewhere leaving home in search of a better future it's not wanting to or outside portugal it's needi

withke a brief time ago the director of the south asia center of the atlantic council. targeted killing in the heart of , what does this say about the security situation in pakistan? >> there has been a well thought out campaign on the part of the militants in pakistan to try to disrupt the elections, particularly to scare away certain parties that they have targeted. the idea is to create terror, and to some extent they are succeeding. >> if we talk about the assassination of this prosecutor, there are many potential people with motives? >> yes. pakistan is a petri dish of conspiracy theories. it is very difficult to pin down the evidence until we have more information about the assailants. most of the early indications still point to the taliban and their affiliates. it could be a punjabi group. >> how important are these elections to pakistan? >> very important. they represent change from one civilian government to another, as opposed to an earlier change where you had a military led civilian government, which led to the previous government's arrival on the scene in

there for more it's the longest war the united states is ever been involved with and you know as a south asia unless i really worry what's going to happen in afghanistan in the next few years so you have blowback is definitely a concern but i think that the very concern is why obama has not wanted to go into syria right i mean think about what could happen the middle east is really a place where any time there's any sort of intervention you know there's going to be a spillover effect if there were to be some sort of u.s. military presence or action in syria there'd be implications for lebanon for iran for everyone and i think that the fear of that potential blowback is what is one reason why the obama government does not want to. pressure least now i know from not overtly ok virtually right i mean there's they're helping people on the ground there yes yes ok so the blowback could happen as well george george you want to jump in. yeah absolutely and as you said it's clearly this covert assistance taking place i mean clearly this is been reported in the in the media the cia is clearly helping t

i think particularly when it comes to middle east and south asia. we have come to a point where we decided foreign policy doesn't matter. it wasn't part of the 2012 elections. we're sort of don'ting an attitude that doing less in the region is better. and we don't need to sort of getting in to solving this problem. and we can focus on issues at home. and i think, you know, my aim to problemtize it. we thought sort of debate this much more openly, coherently, and, you know, -- so i think the president has done well in many areas of foreign policy with asia, latin america, and one can say those are success. i think there are two things i want to raise. one, how do we make the foreign policy. how do we balance between civilian and military? how do we actually set forth strategy interest and pursuant. are we at the right place? my sense is that if we're not at wrong place, it's time to get out and take gauge. secondly, we staninged with the middle east quite a 0 lot. over decades. and better part of 2001 to 2009, we really put it at the center of our gl

i am the director of the south asia center at the atlantic council. on behalf of my colleagues and our president, i would like to welcome all of you. we waited roughly a week to talk about a very important event in south asia, the elections in pakistan. we will be focusing on pakistan for the next few weeks, because there is so much happening this year in the region that affects inistan and what happens pakistan affects the region. i wanted to let you know that on monday afternoon, we will be having another session on packet 10, looking at economics and development and how the u.s. aid sees the changing circumstances and pakistan as opportunities to move things forward. then, on the third of june we will be hosting a well-known indian member of parliament, who in his prior existence of a diplomat and served in pakistan. he will be talking about the search for regional stability with a view to what happens between india and pakistan postelection. this is a recurring theme. today we have three excellent persons who agreed to help us ,nderstand where we

with foreign troops out of the volatile state of the taliban or gravitate to india control me the south asia x. where do bad to parties as are the growing violence or throughout the region is feeling concerns. his main concern is that. afghanistan will become much more unstable parts nato troop withdrawal and pakistani intervention might increase. there may well be another round of civil war that will. turn afghanistan into. unstable part of india and once taliban and other militant groups in afghanistan. and by the stones tribal areas become more and there's more control over them then they could influence trade didn't break the numbers in kashmir and that's all of course all of the what it looking around the world are some more of today's top stories a first to iran where paul for earthquake which has left a child did and that several other people injured it registered six point two on the richter scale and the epicenter was near a remote city in the southern province of hamas can be quakers soviet leader major around seventy villages and led to a series of aftershocks last month iran suff

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foreign troops out of the volatile state the taliban will gravitate to indian controlled kashmir south asia. party says the growing violence throughout the region is fueling concerns because main concern is that. afghanistan will become much more unstable plots nato troops withdraw. and understanding intervention might increase. there may well be another round of civil war that will. start into much more of a breeding ground for terrorism and of course. unstable part of india and once taliban and other militant groups in afghanistan. and by the stance tribal areas. become more and there's more control over them then they could influence train didn't greater numbers in kashmir and that's of course all over what it. looking around the world to add some more of today's top stories well first to iran where powerful earthquake which has left a child dead and left several other people injured it registered six point zero on the richter scale and the epicenter was near a remote city in the southern province of harmon's gone the quake severely damaged around seventy villages and led to series of af

intervention in syria it's a mali it's now spread to africa as well as to parts of the middle east and south asia so i think what's happening is the people opposing force unfortunately is small number of people see these kind of actions are somehow a way of dealing might disagree with that very much in terms of what should be done to oppose this was i believe in the policy through campaigning for demonstrating but i think is a sense of the frustration that people fail and they feel as well that most of the pay more and more team in the eyes in this country and elsewhere in europe and this is one of the responses that people have ok thank you very much we do have to leave it there but that's lindsay german from the war coalition live from london. now the alleged boston bombers who carried out the attack on the city's marathon had similar motives the message that joe the journalist left in the boat he was hiding in referred to u.s. military for a saying when you attack one muslim you attack all muslims and one of the learned the machete killers was shown on video saying his attack was an eye for an

failed states, and the pentagon if you would came up sort of each of america's middle east and south asia policies. so you're right about afghanistan, with iraq's overhang the military has an enormous amount of influence on the strategy for afghanistan big i think very early on the president succumbed to that and, therefore, the strategic review, according to which he decided to put troops into afghanistan versus the smaller number in january 2009, then and larger number in the fall of 2009. but essentially he ended up accepting the solution to afghanistan was to export the coin strategy from iraq. at that point general petraeus was head of said, but larger this was the united states vision of afghanistan. and then general petraeus a put on the ground to literally run the coin operation. so ended up going to afghanistan essentially taking the military as a forefront strategy. that by the civilians, the state department, the civilians at the white house essentially i would say on a marginal role. and i think within the white house the sensibility of the domestic political advisers of this

there is not just a historical, but contemporary looking across, for example, the middle east and south asia. we see difficulties too, and in our societies, and so there is a great burden. one thing that i wanted to argue for in that book was a different way of thinking about the ethical, which is to say all those questions we ask ourselves how we relate to one another, what our speedometers -- responsibilities are so they don't cause divisions. >> host: professor, hasn't religion helped define what good and moral is? >> guest: people say this. the young religions of the world, jew deism, christianity, and islam, and i say "young" looking back 2,000 years perhaps, but they are young, changing the way people relate to the world and one another dramatically. if you look at the systems they embody, all the very best, the adorations to care for widows, orphans are common to all the great ethical outlooks including the secular, non-religious one, and in covers to have anything special to them, they disagree with agreements to the other ethical outlooks, and that's where is rises. >> host: back to

there are things that they have to think about and look back when it comes to the middle east and south asia we have come to a point* we decided form policy doesn't matter with the 2012 election and we adopt the attitude doing less is better and we don't need to get into solving messy problems i think we make this more openly compare it to with on many foreign policy issues there are some things i wanted to raise. how do we balance between civilians and military and set forth strategy interest and pursue it? are we at the right place? even if we're not at the wrong place it is time to get out and second we have ting build with the middle east quite a lot and for the better part of 2001 through 2009 we put it at the center of global policy than me make some rattle call decisions about departing in doing things are not doing things there are some decisions we do almost like sleepwalking and do you really want to be this disengage with the arabs bring? maybe it is yes but we need to look at do we really need to think we're done? do we really want to take our relationship with pakistan completel

director of the south asia council on behalf of my colleagues, i'd like to welcome all of you.ebated roughly a week to talk about a very important event in south asia, the elections in pakistan and we are going to be focusing on pakistan for the next few weeks because there is so much happening this year in the region that affects pakistan and what happens in pakistan affects the region. i just wanted to let you know that on monday afternoon, we'll be having another session on pakistan, looking at economics and development and how the usaid sees the change in circumstances in pakistan as opportunities to move things forward. and then, on the third of june, we are delighted we will be hosting a well-known indian member of parliament, who in his prior existence as a diplomat that served in pakistan and he will be talking about the search for regionals ability to view to what happens to train in india and pakistan postelection. so this is a recurring team and i am delighted today we have three excellent persons who are willing to help us understand where we go now. particularly gi

countries issued by the literacy rate for pakistani girls is so much lower than anywhere else in south asia, et cetera and that drops down. but if you look at man, day rate has been rising. that's an issue. you know, this election was not fought on that basis. they always say, you know, the call for electricity and education and so on so forth. i don't think it was formed on that basis. i'm not sure what the education plan is. the only one that had an education plan within their manifesto was pti and a push to an abysmally low literacy rate and how we intend to. >> i know we've gone way beyond time. a quick comment from you and then to us questions together. >> education -- [inaudible] that is the main reason. secondly, they are certain systemic problems within our system. for example, it has not been decided whether it should be responsible for the education of the central role in that. these are issues which i think basically really to government and perhaps things will improve. >> last two questions. ms. grossman and the mental. i'm sorry that i could take all the other spirit go ahead.

involves addressing the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism, from north africa to south asia. as we've learned this past decade, this is a vast and complex undertaking. we must be humble in our expectation that we can quickly resolve deep rooted problems like poverty and sectarian hatred. moreover, no two countries are alike, and some will undergo chaotic change before things get better. but our security and values demand that we make the effort. this means patiently supporting transitions to democracy in places like egypt, tunisia and libya -- because the peaceful realization of individual aspirations will serve as a rebuke to violent extremists. we must strengthen the opposition in syria, while isolating extremist elements -- because the end of a tyrant must not give way to the tyranny of terrorism. we are working to promote peace between israelis and palestinians -- because it is right, and because such a peace could help reshape attitudes in the region. and we must help countries modernize economies, upgrade education, and encourage entrepreneurship -- because american le

involves addressing the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism from north africa to south asia. as we've learned this past decade, this is a vast and complex undertaking. we must be humble in our expectation that we can quickly resolve deep rooted problems like poverty and sectarian hatred. moreover, no two countries are alike. some will undergo chaotic change before things get better. but our security and our values demand that we make the effort. this means patiently supporting transitions to democracy and places like egypt and tunisia and libya. because the peaceful realization of individual aspirations will serve as a rebuke to violent extremism. we must strengthen the opposition in syria while isolating extremist elements. because the end of a tyrant must not give way to the tyranny of terrorism. we are actively working to promote peace between israelis and palestinians because it is right and because such a peace could help reshape attitudes in the region. and we must help countries modernize economies, upgrade education, and encourage entrepreneurship. because american l

afghan taliban will spill over into the volatile region of indian controlled kashmir expert on south asia after a party says the region may be overwhelmed by extremism. his main concern is that. afghanistan will become much more unstable what's nato troops withdraw and by the stony intervention might increase there may well be another round of civil war and that will turn of my star into much more of a breeding ground for terrorism and of course. it is an unstable part of india and one's fellow man and other militant groups in afghanistan and in understands tribal areas. become more active there's no control over them then they could influence trade didn't greater numbers in kashmir and there's a lot of of course all of the what it. and i had our t. takes a seat was a.j. jacobs esquire magazine editor at large the restless man of a gay male living experiment by selling everything from. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report on our. mission free accr

involves addressing the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism from north africa to south asia as we've learned this past decade this is a bass and complex undertaking we must be humble in our expectation that we can quickly resolve deep rooted problems like poverty and sectarian hatred moreover no two countries are alike and some will undergo chaotic change before things get better but our security and our values demand that we make the effort this means patiently supporting transitions to democracy in places like egypt and tunisia and libya because the peaceful realisation of individual aspirations will serve as a rebuke to violent extremism we must strengthen the opposition in syria while isolating extremist elements because the end of a tyrant must not give way to the tyranny of terrorism we are actively working to promote peace between israelis and palestinians because it is right and because such a peace could help reshape attitudes in the region and we must help countries modernize economies upgrade education and encourage entrepreneurship because an american leadership

country you find that the literacy rate for pakistani girls is so much lower than anywhere else in south asia. that drops the overall rate down. if you look at men, their literacy rate has been higher. andn has been very low relatively constant. that is an issue. i think thisat, election was not fought in that. there were people always saying, you know, calling for a electricity and education and so it was i do not think fought on that basis. i do not know what the education plan is. the only one who had an education plan within their manifesto was pti. they push for what you are saying. the abysmally low literacy rate and how we intend to improve it. >> i know we have gone way beyond time, but a quick comment from you, then i will take the two last questions together. there is a lot of noise about it. there are certain systemic problems within our system, for example, it has not been decided whether in regional governments who should be responsible for secondary education. these are issues which i think basically relate to governments. perhaps things will improve. [captioning performed bynat

subculture throughout the company regions so it's kind of move into eastern europe and russia, south america, asia now picking up on a culture which was a fashion that had come from the terms of the violence. >> host: what was your role in the icf? >> guest: we look into my background really. i was adopted and -- >> host: i'm sorry, adopted bananas? >> guest: dr. bernardo. it's an adoption agency. have six weeks old boy was taken in by the parents, my mother and father were both white and the nearest community was five towns away so this was before britain as multi-cultural pitting the line was about 11 all of these cultures. i was always a ball lead as a kid -- always bullied as a kid. because i was black and i was a bigger kid. it's pure racism but when you are brought up in the establishment of anything else was similar, the same problem, the more ignorance of the culture but it's not help and i found the quality only three fighting. something different happened. for once i wasn't seen as black. i went to school and it was an issue of black-and-white. i went to football and played and for the f

have to think about and look at because i think particularly when it comes to the middle east and south asia, we are -- we have come to a point where we decided foreign policy does not matter. it was not part of the 2012 election. sort of adopting an attitude that doing less in this region is better and we don't need to sort of get into solving the problems and can focus on issues at home. and i think my name, i think we ought to sort of debate this much more openly, coherently. so i think the president has done well in many areas of foreign policy. one can say those are a success, but two things that i wanted to raise. one is how we make the foreign-policy. how do we balance between civilians and military. how do we actually set forth strategy interest and pursue? are we at the right place? my sense is that even if we are not, it is time for us to get out and take a gauge. secondly, you know, we have tangled with the middle east when lot. and for the better part of 2001 to 2009 we really put it at the center of our global policy. and we are also making some very radical decisions about that

professor rivoli as we saw there were marchs throughout south asia. is this work generally badly paid and dangerous? >> well, i don't think we can make a general conclusion about that. there are good factories, there are good conditions. there are safe factories, and we have experience though at the other end of spectrum as well. of course, what happened last week was an example of conditions at the very bottom. >> suarez: what has changed about the rules governing gbal trade? how did bangladesh end up the home of the garment industry's -- it's the secretary largest garment industry in the world? >> that's right. in 2005, we did away with a system of apparel trade regulation in the united states that very tightly managed apparel imports into the country. so we didn't have a free market at that time. instead different countries were allowed to sell different quantities of clothing to the united states. when those regulations were lifted, we we to apure market system -- a pure market system. most flowed to china but however in the last couple of years w

. >> middle east, south asia, europe, the united states, where.. >> we did not at this time and in this report have what i would call actionable intelligence. >> i want to know when, i want to know where, i want to know who. >> we could not determine time, target and method. >> you know, i really wish i could tell you when and where but it's not that easy with the clandestine organization. if you just had more human assets, you did less analysis, then we would know all these things. well, that isn't true. >> you can say we're pretty sure it's going to happen but we can't make that decision to say you should do or not do. you can say our bottom line is it looks pretty dangerous. >> the headline says bin laden determined to strike in u.s. >> there were just warning after warning after warning all spring. >> well, you know, with the benefit of hindsight -- >> we knew something huge was going to happen. >> -- it would seem that this was a perfect warning in august of 2001 that the united states was about to be attacked. >> everybody was completely ten

growing up in a culture not their own which means many of these boys are from the middle east or south asia or in the case of the boston bombers from the caucasus from monday august and chechnya they're growing in a culture which sort of accept them and sort of doesn't so there's some resistance even in local culture but they fight by so many accounts they did it end. no diff as i said the fitting on one level on another level they don't just take the example of the two boston bombers or of the other previous homegrown terrorist they're hearing around them so much talk of islamophobia so one attacks on the religion on their koran on their culture not necessarily on a religious level so their response is not in islamic response necessarily it's also a cultural response the same phenomena can be seen in the u.k. where you have many of these young british born muslims growing up in the u.k. being accepted playing cricket going to the pub and so on and yet being involved in terrorism so they're not thankfully many of these but there are cases and these cases i really believe are a consequence o

fundamental and lasting democratization takes place in the arab world as it hasn't be sure, as in south asia, southeast asia, as it has in latin america, as it has in east asia, if it begins to happen in the air war, and i'm sick fundamental and lasting democratization, a day of reckoning could come for u.s. policy on palestine. we don't know if this'll happen. we can see the precarious situation in egypt and tunisia and libya and yemen, see the god-awful situation in syria. we have seen, and the situation in bahrain. it's clear there have been almost no impacts on most of the oil boppers of the oil gulf. however, if change begins to happen in this direction and if the policies of the arab states come to reflect the strongly pro-palestinian cast other people's views, i would argue the traditional idea on palestine would be in grave jeopardy. i'm arguing in this book that it's a distorted set of american priorities, largely directed at giving to the demand of israel and its local american visitors rather than to do anything to resolve the conflict of palestine has helped to produce a broad ra

countries, you find the literacy rate for pakistani girls is so much lower than anywhere else in south asia. that drops the overall down. if you look at man, women has been very low and relatively constant. that's an issue. i think this election was not font. they always say, you know, they call for electricity in education and so on and so forth. i'm not sure -- the only one had an education plan was in the manifesto. the abysmally low literacy rates >> i know it's gone way beyond time. a quick comment. >> education is important. there's a lot of noise about it. there are certain systemic problems within our system. for example, it has not been decided whether it is provincial governments responsible to the secondary level education or the role and not. these are issues, which i think basically really and perhaps things will improve. >> last two questions. ms. grossman in the middle. i'm sorry i couldn't take all the others. go ahead. >> i want to ask -- [inaudible] i want to follow-up and ambassador pickering's question about rapprochement with india, but in particular, looking at nuclear

i am the director of the south asia center at the atlantic council.on behalf of my colleagues and our president, i would like to welcome all of you. we waited roughly a week to talk about a very important event in south asia, the elections in pakistan. we will be focusing on pakistan for the next few weeks, because there is so much happening this year in the region that affects pakistan and what happens in pakistan affects the region. i wanted to let you know that on monday afternoon, we will be having another session on packet pakistan, looking at economics and development and how the u.s. aid sees the changing circumstances and pakistan as opportunities to move things forward. then, on the third of june we will be hosting a well-known indian member of parliament, who in his prior existence of a diplomat and served in pakistan. he will be talking about the search for regional stability with a view to what happens between india and pakistan postelection. this is a recurring theme. today we have three excellent persons who agreed to help us understand