to intervene doesn't mean that we should do it and in fact the united states has such a bad record of military intervention over the last fifty years i think we should just stay out of all of these countries this is trade with all you know we have and let me say i'm determine their own futures. is what you want to report this is all right and i'm sorry to see you know and jump in go ahead in cairo go ahead jump in there i'm just saying i want you know i hate to intervene in in the debate about the american position and the administration and its critics if we bring the region's perspective here yes we would agree that intervention especially by western states in any arab or muslim country is not something that would be welcomed here but look at this it would have been much better if the international community very huge and the others intervened earlier on when political interventions could have been effective probably more effective and less costly in human life and in material destruction than this but they did it nobody did it and you know better than you know it is when they eric

as president obama wraps up his speech in the united states on the topic of libya rebels in libya trying to push westward toward the capital tripoli there are conflicting reports just how far they've advanced claims of controlling colonel gadhafi hometown of syria have been dismissed by reports on the ground which say the city is still held by government forces who've been putting up heavy resistance . russia's foreign minister says the international coalition is taking part in the civil war in libya beyond the limits of what's been allowed for u.n. resolution sergey lavrov has also expressed concerns about the protection of civilians which was the reason for the sole goal of the mission agreed at the u.n. security council. russian authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the general terrorist bombing at moscow's airport in which thirty seven died seventeen militants were also killed in a special operation by three different russian federal agencies in the southern republican. at the fukushima nuclear plant in northern japan are frantically trying to dispose of radioacti

that is the message for the united states. the problem you have right now in education and the budget, china plays a role in tangentially but it isn't a core issue with respect to infrastructure. it's about what america is doing wrong. solve those and you will remain competitive. if we don't solve the problems it doesn't matter. china might do relatively bad things were wrong things but she is on the right track and the united states is on the wrong track. >> host: it's like the joke these two guys are out camping and a buyer comes over and one guy starts putting on his sneakers and the other says you can't outrun the air. he says i only have to outrun you. [laughter] >> guest: exactly. >> host: i am sure you have heard the theory that china will get old before it gets rich. in other words like we have the demographic problems in the u.s. with our social security system in medicare and medicaid, china especially i guess the one child policy, they are going to have this chilling and version of the baby boom generation retiring a

the united states already corporate taxes is around 35%. this is much higher than the oecd average which is usually 25%. a friend of mine from denmark remarked recently how it's surprising because in denmark as we know, income tax at the private level is higher. it's 50%-60% tax places, but at the corporate level for corporate taxes to be lowered in a place like scandinavia and denmark is quite surprising. i mean, the united states really built on the idea of private sector, innovation, and incentives, so it is, i think, really a signal just how bad things have become, but the fact of the matter is there's going to be a mix of tax rises plus budget and spending cuts in order to get out of the situation. >> host: it is magazine. every -- it is amazing. they have lower interest rates by significant margin. more than 10 percentage points. back to education. you pointed out the u.s. used to be at the top or near the top, and now we're, what? 31oecd in the country? down around 20. we spend per pupil more than any country other than switter land -

it was for more longer of the united states or of any moment for me and so many countries in the north korea very rarely are that worked out for. kind of makes the point of american ritual. discredits you know heard of the trigger and it's being thrown because it appears the pirate was overthrown with the backing of the united states in the forces of freedom or domestic democracy we've seen. in addition what we're seeing in egypt and in libya. it's not clear these are pro-democracy movements or these are and. despotic which they want to get rid of a dictator but getting rid of a dictator from one of many countries doesn't mean necessarily that democracy that's a process in these countries will be very difficult we're going to go real democratic culture american adventure make it harder one of the point. if intervention is necessary should be the collective action of the united nations and this might not be a bad thing to the united nations was created in an effort to maintain pink's and to act as if there were a war and violence against the corporations so you know we're going to be in

that one of the reasons that obama has gone into libya is to distract people from the fact that the united states supports most of these dictators and certainly we don't want to have any sort of comparison with bahrain where we are supporting the government against the protesters and i mean in the military intervention in libya here i mean there was no public debate at least in the united states very little in europe i mean i can remember all of many of the wars all twenty three of the military interventions in wars since the collapse of the soviet union and this one there was no debate in the united states whatsoever we just woke up he said one morning and we have another military operation in the in the in the arab world i mean so they really can't even surface circumvented what bush did bush started from scratch drummed up a war and this time there was not even a media debate about it. that's right this is really unprecedented obama has built upon the usurpations of previous presidents and gone into libya without any approval from congress without any consultation really from congress a

and gets a resolution and the united states under the u.s. constitution the war powers are very carefully divided between congress and the united states and following not only the war but our historical practice the president has sold the case for going to war and no big numbers think about it that's what we're talking about here he sold the case to the american public gotten the support of the public and they've gotten congress' support what has happened to this effect forty eight hours ago we have the national security adviser saying the united states had no imperative to actually get it out of the center there in the. civilian population we're not trying for this sort of time there's not a better message on this writer i think and i think that term is wrong and misleading to the people i think there's a lot left i'll say they're here to use that term i think there's a lot to be debated here but unfortunately that's all the time we have right now the only thing that i will say is that a lot of questions remain and i don't know if we can rea

the united states of america is different. and as president, i refuse to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action. moreover, america has an important strategic interest in preventing qaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him. a massacre would have driven thousands of additional refuse refugees across libya's borders putting enormous strains on the peaceful yet fragile transition in egypt and tunisia. the democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power. the risk of the united nations security council would have been shown to be little more than empty words crippling that institution's future corrode iblt to upload global peace and security. so while i will never minimize the cost involved in military action, i am convinced that a failure to act in libya would have carried a far greater price for america. now just as there are those who have argued agai

possible justification for the united states or even the e.u. to get involved in libya there's just nothing in their charters or just there's nothing that would justify this it's an civil war in a different country in which the details are very murky which could america be a hop skip and a jump away from another war the white house is now saying it will wait for the when to lead the way in dealing with libya but with the habit of getting need deep into other nations affairs will america be able to resist the temptation this could be a rerun of iraq this is a rerun of humanitarian. and very very dangerous. for the west despite warning signs flashing some experts believe history is about to repeat itself iraq and afghanistan they warn suck the us much further into war then first anticipated the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results well in the case of the united states it would be doing the same thing dozens and dozens of times in trying to get different results in the united states. hasn't won a war

states this religion oh well the thing you have to understand is that even in the time when the united states was a protectionist economy as policy the academy was split on the question of the academic world yet and so what happened if it were true as you had a much older tradition such as it is called the american principles in political economy the american school of political economy which was alive and kicking in say abraham lincoln's time it was well known to educated people in this country. these cars kind of died out under the immediate pressure of the political need to indoctrinate everybody in favor of free trade and you also had various other trends in the discipline of economics which sound like they're not too important but things like the ultra math matteis zation of economics which didn't used to be a hyper mathematical discipline it creates a bias in favor of free trade thinking the same reason it created a bias in favor of all kinds of pure free market thinking because it's much easier to build mathematical models of a free market free trade version of the world because

the united states is going to be hard to get with the same time the united states is going around the world building countries i mean a lot of americans would like the american government to start rebuilding its own country you go ahead i mean nation building in the greater middle east outside intervention i mean we were in the last year i must i must speak as someone from inside the peace movement the united nations did not give me a mandate to change regimes in libya we as a revolution going on in north africa and the middle east. these revolutions are over through the teeters who have been supported by the west for the past forty years these revolutions must be made by the people of north africa if we're going to have a democratization process social justice and the billions of dollars used to provide employment for the people of north africa the united states cannot afford a military adventure in north africa as the did in iraq in fact opportunism of the pentagon is such that initially there were opposed to a no fly zone but now they're using this exercise as a public relations ex

guest: this is a very unsettling dangerous time for the united states in the middle east. we have core, a strategic interest that are being undermined while these revolutions proceed. what are those interests? the cornerstone is the bending and in forcing the egyptian is really peace treaty, camp david accords, and building a peace between israel and its neighbors. all of this is being made more difficult as a result of the revolutions in the region. we're watching 11 on slowly being annexed by hezbollah -- lebanon slowly being annexed by his belovhezbollah. and the price of oil is affecting everyone in this room and their parents, because the instability in the middle east creates instability in the oil markets. as long as there is instability in the middle east and countries are wary about what is going to happen, then it will drive up the price of oil. at every step of the way, while we are certainly interested in these revolutions, we need to keep sight of what the core strategic interests are in the middle east. i am afraid the president obama administration has taken

the libyan air force is never going to be a big problem for the united states and its nato allies the real thing they want to do is change the regime in there in that will happen with an invasion a ground invasion of eventually. and that is not the. that was not the a mandate and we must call on all members of the security council to go back to the secretary-general to ensure that need to withdraw as from libya we military objectives need to these objectives are not aligned to the political objectives of the transitional national council. or put in the room for western involvement in africa by any is the new stall and in fact two massacres of people ok if i can go to eighty. eight and i to ask you we look at this resolution that was passed by the united nations security council and it's open ended so where we can where the united nations security what i'm saying is the people that are implementing it right now the united states and and primarily nato countries they can say there's no there's no deadline for us to achieve what we want to be cheap so i mean the at this point the united

intervention i wish the united nations had more capacity to end violence and bloodshed in countries like libya but i think for the u.s. to intervene. would be dangerous because the countries in the region themselves it seems to me as we saw in egypt people in those countries need to take control of their own justinian and i have not followed libyan politics carefully but i think we're at a tipping point in that country with the forces arrayed against gadhafi will oust him in the next sure yeah i do think so you're seeing that so the u.s. would create a backlash in the region that could harm the possibility of future democracy in that very unstable and important region being ordered there was still more and more united states or agreement or in so many countries and worked. very were only worked out for. katrina makes the point american intervention. discredits the alternative to the tyranny of its throne because it appears the pride was overthrown with the backing of the united states forces in favor of domestic democracy or we've seen. any additions what we're witnessing in egypt and. i

well that's what i've always suspected i think the united states. returns on promise to control libya libyan oil remember that throughout the middle east there are enormous up evils and generally these up peoples are calling for democracy freedom and crucially for independence and democracy and independence goes contrary to us interests in the region getting controlling the region getting to cheap oil supporting israel and so on are all proud it is and i don't think protecting civilians is a priority at all as the facade that's the excuse that's being used to to wage yet another war remember what happened in iraq you think. oh hey sanny do you think that could duffy should remain and that he should be guarding his own people and committing atrocities on your own people as i would you know i don't think i should let me show it to be a serious issue i mean i had sammy going to let me finish you but you you interrupted me i'd interrupt you the path is a ruthless dictator but it's for the libyan people to overthrow gadhafi just like it's for the people t

how dangerous is a post-saleh yemen to the united states? >> i think -- i think it is a real concern. because the most active and, at this point, perhaps, the most aggressive branch of al qaeda -- al qaeda on the arabian peninsula operates out of yemen. we have had a lot of cooperation from president saleh and the security services. if that government collapses and is replaced by one more weak, we'll face additional challenges out of yemen. no question. it's a real problem. >> secretary clinton, on pakistan, they've been trying to block counterterrorism efforts in some regions. they continue to work with terrorists that attack india. it held a u.s. diplomat in prison for several weeks. as i don't need to tell you. has the relationship gotten worse? the u.s. and pakistan? >> it's a challenging relationship. there have been some problems. we were very appreciative of getting our diplomat out of pakistan. and that took cooperation by the government of pakistan. we have cooperated very closely together in going after terrorists who pose a threat

the united states of america is different. as president, and refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves take place before action. moreover, america has a strategic interest in preventing moammar gaddafi. a massacre would have driven additional refugees over the borders putting enormous strain on the peaceful yet fragile transition in egypt and tunisia the democratic and also is better doning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship. the oppressive leaders.. the rest of the dotted nations security just empty words of the united nations security council and future in cripplin its future credibility to uphold peace. i will never minimize the peace or cost of military action i am committed that a failure to act in libya would of. a farquhar price in america. far greater price in america- >> and also arguing against intervention in libya there are others that suggest that we broaden our military mission beyond the path of protectant just love the people and do whatever it takes to brin

[applause] >> next, remarks by the iraqi ambassador to the united states. after that, a panel on the impact of new media on the courts. then from the conservative principles conference, we will hear from congressman steve king then possible republican presidential candidates michele bachmann herman cain. >> on "newsmakers" the president of planned parenthood federation talks about the role of planned parenthood and the budget and political debate going on in congress. "newsmakers", sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. >> i am a numbers guy. >> as an op-ed columnist for "the new york times", he expresses his opinion using charts and graphs. >> i do not decide that i am going to talk about a subject and go out and look for data. i really do search for data first. if it is something interesting and something that agrees with an opinion that i have, or if it surprises me or surprises my readers. >> "q&a" sunday night on c- span. >> now from the howard baker jr. center for public policy at the university of tennessee a speech by the iraqi ambass

the united states. the united states of america this year will be the top nation in the world with the highest corporate tax rate of any nation. you want to know why jobs are getting out sourced from america? look no further than this figure. 35%. $3.8 million is the next number. that is the irs estimate of the number of words in the tax cut. how many of you are busy filling out your tax forms right now? this is something i know something about. when we call the irs, they could not give us an actual number of words in the tax code. you are liable under penalty of perjury and jail time to get this right. $3.80 trillion. happy reading. april 15 is coming. let's look at $1.20 trillion. that is the estimate that we spend in this country for compliance with regulations. i consider the regulatory burden in this country one more tax on the job creators of this nation. another figure -- the number one. in this administration has issued exactly one permit to drill in this country for energy since barack obama cam

the current unrest the united states isn't about the merits of democracy democracy is alive alive and well it's really about sort of spending and fiscal responsibility as relates to government this may be the issue of the decade in the united states to be perfectly honest with you democrats love to blame folks like george w. bush but in reality this situation dates back to over a generation when the johnson and frankly both coreys are culpable we're running a federal deficit of one point five trillion and national debt nearing fifteen trillion everybody knows we need to cut back but nobody wants to step forward to make the difficult cuts with that said if america wants to remain the world's economic leader it must draw a line in the sand right now and that's what we're saying with scott walker in wisconsin and case i can ohio ok steve i'm going to you a lot of people say a skeptic would say is that the banks can be bailed out wall street can be bailed out. big pharma big big everything can be you know protected but when it comes to the middle class who protects them. and that's exactl

the united states of america is different. as president, i refuse to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action. moreover, america has an important strategic interest in preventing gaddafi from overrunning those who oppose him. a massacre would have driven thousands of additional refugees across libya's borders, putting enormous strains on the peaceful yet fragile transitions to egypt and tunisia. the democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship. as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the way to power. crippling that institution's future credibility to uphold global peace and security. while i will never minimize the costs involved in military action, i am convinced that a failure to act in libya would have carried a far greater price for america. just as there are those who have argued against intervention in libya, there are others who have suggested that we broaden our military mission beyond the task of protecting the libyan

the audacity to say that the united states is the u.n. challenged greatest nation in the world. he wants to get rid of multiculturalism. th took turns beating on me. i am sitting there thinking, what is this hyperventilation about? aren't these things true? i will go further. i believe god guided our founding fathers. he moved them around like men on a chess board to ship this nation. we need to defend and uphold what they did. it is not just to protect what we had. it is not just to declared that the shining cy on the hill has been achieved. it has not. when and if it is, ronald reagan never said you can go home. he said we need to take ourselves to another level. we need to take this nation up to the next level of our destiny. i am hopeful that the next president of the united states, whose ideas and principles you help forge it today, will lay out an agenda and you can spe the plant and the platform for the next president of the united states, whose ticket will be punched out of i will and will be on his way to new hampshire. i hope we can link what we believe in on the whole

haitians in the united states. non-governmental groups have to play an important role because the haitian government is extremely week and doesn't have a great, a great deal of capacity. but in order to get to a point where it has greater capacity to deal and resolve its problems, i think non-governmental groups can play an important role. so you have to figure out a formula, ah, for all of these actors, ah, to work together. >> ray, should the u.s. government step aside and let others take the main responsibility in haiti? >> i think we have to play an active role. clearly, american tax-payer dollars are at work or involved in haiti. we have to have accountability. we have to have transparency. we have to combat corruption. ah, we cannot be, clearly, indifferent to what we're going to do. we've pledged to, ah, support with several, and i think the current supplemental is about two billion dollars. ah, that's almost the rest, that's almost equal to what we're spending in the rest of latin america. how we're going to

as a more serious accident for the one nine hundred seventy nine three mile island disaster in the united states so how will the fukushima disaster if that's the nuclear industry here in america and could age upin style crisis happened here at home and earlier i spoke with king who is the founder and creative director of dancing in productions about the crisis here's part of our conversation. the situation is very dynamic right now there were still waiting to find out is there going to be a nuclear core meltdown if so will there be multiple or a meltdown if so how widespread will the radiation be the problem with radiation of course that it's invisible you can't so it could be around for generations and the effects are long lasting and in india then not generally short term an obvious in many things so the nuclear industry as a whole if there are no immediate and obvious casualties from what's happening in japan it really depends you know how to go and now it's a situation did you need to escalate and become more apparent that there are dangers than expect estimates of the industry as a w

if the united states had been willing to allow iran to have pipelines back in the 1990's, if the united states have been willing to allow conoco to take that deal with iran back in the 1990's, wrong we would have the hostile relationship we have with iran today. should we continue this pattern because of the nuclear issue? if we want to get -- to end the russian no monopoly, if we want afghanistan to be prosperous, i think we do have to end this policy of blocking iran from having pipelines trying to discourage transit trade, you know, the late richard holbrook was so proud of the fact that he had gotten a agreement from pakistan to india. well, there should be routes that go there. it's in everybody's interest. i would refer people to fred star at johns hopkins sites. he's written extensively about the silk road. everybody can belt. turkey can benefit. all of the countries along the old silk road. >> this is one area where trance force is not unanimous. i have a great expect for barbara and the work she's done here. i think this this would be absolutely the wrong time to send that sign

between those that believe the united states causes all the region's problems and those believe the united states belignores all the nation's problems. those are false and do not reflect reality. today latin america is democratic. virtually all the people of latin america have gone from living under dictatorships to living in democracies. across the region we see beiber democracies from mexico to to lay-- we see vital democracies from as mexico to chile. the work of protecting them the market sees is never truly done. but this is the no standing -- outstanding progress that has been made here in the americas. today that america is growing. having a tough but necessary reforms, nations like peru and brazil are seeing impressive work. as a result, america whether the global economic downturn better than other regions. across the region people have been lifted from extreme poverty. a new middle class is demanding more of themselves and more of their government. latin america is coming together to address a share challenges. chile, colombia, and mexico are sharing their expertise. contribution

>> i hate the united nations. i hate britain. i hate france. i love libya. i love libya only. >> we are ready to give our lives for muammar gaddafi and for libya. >> the more intense fighting becomes, the more intense their loyalty to gaddafi. >> when they speak of the international community, they speak in different towns. >> the vote last night at the un has changed this conflict. it authorizes air strikes against ground troops, like these on the front lines, should they attack civilians. the libyan government does not want that, so, in contrast to what it says to the libyans, it said this today to the international community. >> therefore, libya has decided to have an immediate cease-fire, and the stoppage of all military operations. >> only yesterday, colonel gaddafi said his men were coming to benghazi. those who resisted would be shown "no mercy." has he changed his mind? president obama has spelled out what gaddafi must do to prove he is serious. >> he must got his troops from advancing on benghazi, pull them back from other areas, and establish water,

no war now there is a solution but nobody is prepared for war in the united states. till this problem is solved and they're going to be in a partnership an organization that you know steve speaks is a scholar of russian the soviet union but he doesn't speak about the enormous opposition even this modest reset has confronted in the united states you had again a republican party which forget cade's has supported bipartisan arms control treaties and how many republicans did you finally get seven i think at the most so the reset is modest i agree with steve's analysis of the ongoing problems but the fact that it's still under fire in america is a failure of both the duty of a solitary sister leadership this is one area where presidents of both. it's an enormous power and foreign policy gorbachev and reagan were opposed by their own parties but they overcame it and made you had a pretty stunning attack in moscow from the research obama there but this is where leadership from don't forget these guys inherited this problem and they don't spend should obama didn't expand they

it's more around here yes by the united states and libya. moammar gadhafi is. a bad man because gadhafi the very bad man and you agree with the president well i am the president we're there to. make sure they're cut off is taken out of power trying to get rid of gadhafi. trouble trying to rid of gadhafi. down the papers like move right now libya is right there here and why do you think we're in libya. well there's they're in civil war right you know so but i'm not sure exactly why we're there it's really sad the congress gave themselves a weekend off so that the president could go ahead and declare this war you know what do you know funny thing i have no idea. i really couldn't answer because i have not read the paper and vacation you know i haven't watched the news here today . we didn't know what do they. now. let me out let me live yeah you'll probably. hear us all the u.k. i particularly on the afghanistan right now because the reaction you're going to be whatever the commander in chief tells them to next go. the lords and you're from the congo right would y

the united states is helping to lead an international effort to defer the search for the file put in place unprecedented saying hold the gadhafi government accountable and support the aspirations of libyan people we are also responding quickly to the urgent humanitarian needs that are developing. but there's also another side this view of real politic that principle should be thank you for power and this is not a democrat versus republican issue even within his own administration there seems to be a difference in opinion here secretary of state hillary clinton earlier this week let's put aside the moral cumana ceria and do good side of what we believe in and let's just talk it out straight reale policy we are in a trap petition with china take papa would it be any huge energy find you go to one of senator lugar's very strong points exxon mobil is producing it china is in there every day in every way and joining me now to talk more about this is ohio congressman dennis kucinich and congressman let's talk about this you have hillary clinton the secretary of state on one hand thing you

and what's going on behind closed doors the united nations security council has called an emergency meeting to discuss the developments in libya we're going to have a live report on what prompted this this get together in just seconds. now the international minute military intervention in libya continues to unfold western powers you appear to have tightened their grip on libyan airspace following the latest wave of airstrikes now the ongoing bombardment in the libyan capital of tripoli comes as more forces arrive to take part in operation odyssey dawn but the united states france and the u.k. remain the principal participants among these allies are to polish leader is in tripoli and she joins us now from there with the latest paula good evening to you now what are you seeing what have what have you seen as the solution situation unfolded essentially before your eyes. what about half an hour ago it was a massive explosion here in the capital city of tripoli it sounded like it was coming from the south of the city i cannot see any smoke from where i'm standing at the moment but we are hearing

units one, too, and three were in operation at the time. units 4, 5, 6 were in a previously scheduled outages. immediately, after the tsunami, it appeared that there was no injection capability into the reactor vessels on units 1, 2, 3. on saturday, march 12, the hydrogen explosion occurred in a one, and the following monday, march 40, hydrogen explosion in unit 3 -- march 14. on the 15th of march, there were explosions in unit two and unit 4. at this time, it is our assessment that is likely that unit's one, too, and three have experienced some kind of cord damage. today, -- core damage. today, all three units appear to be stable. containment integrity, for all three units is also believed to have been maintained. some great smoke is limited from unit 3. the source of that smoke is a non. -- on known -- unkonwn. on a sign of some promising has been yet -- has been able to bring some power on to the site. it is of the border of units 1 and 2. there is early indication that there may be cabling problems within the units, so i understand that

at the united nations not in the white girls . i mean for you all know how decisions are made or is that really matter well but part of the problem in the countries we're watching in the middle east now is that the institutions of democracy have been so guarded and attacked over the last decades by the despots and power that it will take generations to build those institutions but in the same way the u.s. relationship with these countries has been so heavily dependent on military and national security relations that it has distorted our relations and so we talk a good game in the united states of support for democracy but we've really been supporting stability in support of oil or in support of other measures so i think we need a new national security policy or new thinking to use a term that was popular in this country in order to develop a relationship that would emphasize economic development which is going to be critical because so many of the protests in the region have to do with economic despair and joblessness and i think

now there is a solution but nobody is prepared to move forward in the united states. till this problem is solved. there are going to be no partnership in your research but you know steve speaks as a scholar of russian the soviet union but he doesn't speak about the enormous opposition even this modest reset has confronted in the united states you had again a republican party which for decades has supported bipartisan arms control treaties and how many republicans did you finally get seven i think at the most so the resort is modest i agree with steve's analysis of the ongoing problems but the fact that it's. under fire in america is a failure of both the c.e.o. of the solitary city are sure this is one area where presidents both had some enormous power and. gorbachev and reagan world posed by their own parties but they overcame and made better things being attacked in moscow from the reset obama there but this is where leadership is required but don't forget these guys inherited this problem of nato expansion obama didn't expand nato he did not hear in this problem it

osama bin laden and his war against the united states 10 years after 9/11. mr. scheuer spoke about his book at the philadelphia free library. >> good evening, everyone. i think it's perhaps a troubling time to be talking about this subject, but the events of the day of the past month perhaps, six weeks, requires us all i think he rethink how we stand in the middle east. so tonight i'd like to talk about the three threats to the united states that emanate from the persian gulf. iran, saudi arabia, and what i call al qaeda -ism. in speaking tonight about the persian gulf, and the war against the islamist militancy emanating from there, i want to start with words george washington used to describe the new national governments responsibilities to ensure that americans clearly understand the threats they face at home and abroad. i am sure that the massive citizens of these united states meanwhile, washington told john j. in 1796. and i believe that they will always act will whenever they can update a right understanding of matters. let me say that i share washingt

in the united states nowadays and do you think it's just there is certainly a level of islamophobia or just the all over the western world it's difficult to talk about the role of islam because it's not one thing to millions and millions of people it's a faith but inside the world of islam there's also a violent revolutionary movement which is a minority of muslims who take part in it if you can sympathize with it but it's there and that causes problems and to the extent that people are worried about violence coming from those groups that worried that worry is justified is that is a long war with no that would be a very mistaken and dangerous notion are you seeing a certain level of phobia when it comes to. well yes you do occasionally beat people who have bigoted opinions on it. i think it's one of the last forms of bigotry that is more or less respectable i mean you can't be an anti semites and be respectable but you can say that you can't stand muslims and you can still get invited to dinner is that an acceptable double standard no not in my view but it's it's part of the modern wor