the more that they can trust that alliance with the united states perhaps that. less likely they are to find themselves in complex i think alliances can also be a source just quickly respond to that state's a source of stability ok john i'll go to you first then i'll go to nick you want to rebut that go ahead john so you know this issue of alliances causing those countries to have more restraint is belied by history what's going on right now for example in the asia pacific is that the united states is boosting military and economic support for its for all of china's neighboring rivals so if you think about for example the maritime and territorial disputes that the philippines has with china the philippines has been you know pushing out its navy and provoking chinese naval ships and china has been doing its own kind of aggressive actions as well but in a normal situation the philippines which is a tiny tiny nation would never be so bold as to challenge a rising regional great power like china the only reason they're doing so is because we have a security agreement

what's provocative about what the united states has done? >> well, in trying to put pressure on the government. basically inciting violent acts -- >> rose: demonstrations in the streets in kiev are because of the united states government? >> no, not because of the united states government, but when the government tries to take measures in order to prevent people from destroying downtown kiev and the united states says riot police should be withdrawn from downtown kiev, knew could be viewed. like threatening sanctions -- like to place sanctions on government officials or like completely disregarding the acts of those people who are trying to destabilize the situation in ukraine this is a very disconcerting policy. first of all, it's a policy which seems to be regarding very lately the interest of the ukrainian people. >> rose: what is your government's position about gays in russia? >> no discrimination. we do not discriminate anybody. we do not differentiate -- >> rose: but do you have laws that are not enforced? >> we have a law about which

hispanic resurgence in the united states. the program is about an hour. >> of >> host: the felipe, thank you for being with us. >> guest: thank you for taking an interest in my book. >> host: we can start by talking about the population of hispanics in the united states. in 1980 there were about 15 million hispanics in the united states and by 2012, nearly 53 million, and by 2020 we expect 128 million hispanics in the united states. your book helps to give the foundation and explain how this population arrived in the country and how it potentially -- we will talk about where it's going by the time we reach that 128 million. >> guest: you think of the recent period and which profile has been revolutionized by the resonance of the global phenomenon which is migration and that is a very long one and which hispanics have to be long and in the united states but by virtue of the first one that has a long history in this kind of reverting to that now. the statistics you mentioned are restoring the united states but more and more a s

possible to avoid criticism while applying critical thinking to american role in foreign affairs the united states has a democracy and one of the responsibilities of citizens as i see it is to speak out and try to influence policy and that's particular the case when the policies that are being followed are either unrealistic or counterproductive. and in the middle east in particular u.s. policy has been pretty consistently counterproductive in recent years so i don't see a contradiction at all between my service for the u.s. government. own view of myself as an american patriot and criticism of my government's policies now many of the policies that bureau i analyzed in your book america's misadventures in the middle east tend to have some sort of recurring patterns you know some of the mistakes tend to be made over and over again and yet i think. there is so little self reflection on the part of both the american public and the american decision makers i wonder why is that we are a continental sized country of three hundred and fifteen million people very self-absorbed we are. slated from the worl

save the maliki government well the answer is no and not that anything could actually help the united states state spent nine years applying hellfire missiles and drones and automation and attacks of all sorts of kinds and none of that worked it is the definition of of mental illness to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results introducing weapons into iraq at this time from the united states. will likely have as much success this time as it did the last time ok richard if i can go to you in new york i mean this is kind of deja vu all over again do you do the same thing again we try these united states and its western allies try to stabilize the region that it actually installed in the first place. well like a tin of tit was elected it has behaved in competently in terms of reaching out as a majority shia government to these sudanese over iraq and it's paying. a heavy price for that it is repeating mistakes that we made ourselves during the occupation but we have an obligation you know so i think so an obligation to. those that don't are for the investments we'v

part two of your book we begin to see the rise of what you call institutionalized racism in the united states and now the have blacks, hispanics, blacks, hispanics, spanish, indigenous folks years of now this is becoming a much more complex racial demographics that the of his state's is starting to deal with. tell us about that. what was the rise of institutionalized? give us some examples. >> it happened partly because we reject common feature of you did psychology to seek people you can identify with as well as those that you exclude from communal tensions are those that is the attention of you would psychology. if you want to sympathize with some people to it differentiate from others. but the basis of that you talk about with a particular historic period beattie and 20th centuries because science endorsed it it was supported by pseudoscientific analysis with the relatively uninvolved and relatively more involved. you can see racism at the expense of black people with the saving which and the deep south and was transferred to hispanics by people from those regions. so icy to with the peopl

first of all in terms of obligations by by the united states to the iraqi people if we could we should go back to the fifty's and undo the damage that was done to the developing a society then when we manipulated events so that the bath is ended up in power because they were afraid communists of socialist would end up in power so you had with the ba'ath this trend over time still the development of a civil society a secular society a material base for you know a decent economy and then the united states decided to involve iraq in its project to undo the iranian revolution and so it had iraq go to war with iran and the iraqi people suffered there again when that was over they weren't satisfied there was a fabrication of babies being murdered in a nursery and a bunch of other things and apparently saddam hussein exerted more influence than washington had ceded to him in you know any kind of a grant occupied kuwait and that became a reason to go to war again then there was the period under clinton with the iraq economy was made to scream in a way that would drown out the screams of chalet

the ball game but they have good reason to fear the united states. that time because we had about overwhelming if we talk about the missile gap deployed back to. the beginning of his administration to find out what the reality was of the missile gap they found that there was a missile gap but the united states was far ahead of the soviet union by the time of the cuban missile crisis we had about a ten to one advantage with every capability more on cuba right when we get back. thank you. for three to. slow motion housing time by the way of the british economy over what. he says twenty fourteen will be a year of hard truths the hardest of all being that many must lose so that the few marginal seats that are seen needs a win at the property roulette wheel so the hard truth for twenty fourteen is that in the property market never must supply meet demand for the libyan foreign market pricing you know so hurry. now to get the job they need to get a loan because if you don't get the government back scheme will face a year of osborne's hard. truths. imports

and for the united states in your book you mentioned. you know that the lack of that caution and we have seen in some of the misadventures that your country has been engaged into over the past. several decades and i think one common thread that we can see in your book is that regardless of how valid the policy objective may be it seems that it often lacks a thought through reality based implementation strategy you know the united united states proclaim some certain goal but it never follows through and never of brings it to any sort of completion and you give the example of the first iraqi war which you believe was a tactical success but a foreign policy failure simply because it was sort of abandoned half way and i think we can see the examples of that in many other american adventurist so if you don't mind me comparing the united states are finding a matter for four b. years foreign policy with comparative person with a the age the who is eager to start many new things but that sort of abandons them halfway because he lacks i don't kno

tonight we talk about china and and the united states with cui tiankai, china's ambassador to the united states. >> i hope the united states will have a better understanding of china's history, culture, china's past, china's present, and maybe china's future. and i do hope that the u.s. will not be so much worried about possible challenge or threat from china. we have no intention to assert everybody. the so-called rise of china is rise from our own past. it's not to prevail over anybody else. certainly not the united states. >> rose: we conclude this evening with kate tempest. he is the a brilliant and eloquent poet and former rap artist. >> i came from a school of rap and of rhyming and telling poems where you just knew it. you put it -- you commit it to memory so that you can go anywhere and be doing it with people and so the idea of reading something from a page, it putsing? between me and you. and if i want to tell you a poem i want it to be almost occurring spontaneously. and if you commit it to memory so well that you don't even have to reach for the words it's just -- you can jus

despite the fact that the united states is providing assistance to the free syrian army. at the same time, other countries must play a larger part in accepting syrian refugees. for example, the conservative government of the united kingdom has said it won't accept a single one. none of the gulf arab countries have committed to accept syrian refugees. these countries need to step up as well and do their part. you heard the statistics. but it's critical to recall behind those numbers are real people. a number of the syrian refugees are here today. i'd like to take a moment to introduce a few of them who have been fortunate enough to find refuge in the united states. t reyab, please stand. him and his wife are journalists from damascus who took part in a nonviolent protest movement. he was arrested, tortured by the regime for publishing recordings of the regime's violent response to peaceful demonstration. her life was threatened as was the life of their 4-year-old daughter. the family fled from syria in january, 2012, and he came to the united states with the state departmen

that's the only way to get things done in the united states senate. in the last decade, when i was chairman of the finance committee and republicans controlled the senate, we wanted to actually get things done. in order for that to happen, we knew that we had to accommodate the minority. we had to have patience and humility and respect for that minority, attributes that don't exist on the other side anymore. and we had some major bipartisan accomplishments from the largest tax cut in history to the medicare prescription drug program to numerous trade agreements. those kinds of major bills don't seem to happen anymore. the senate rules provide that any senator may offer an amendment, regardless of party affiliation. each senator represents hundreds of thousands. in the case of california, 36 million of americans, and each has an individual right to offer amendments for consideration. the principle here isn't about political parties having their say, but duly elected senators participating in the legislative process. again, it is part of our duty to rep

country whose foreign policy has oscillated more between idealism and cynicism than that of the united states many american presidents began their times in office with blah just to make the world a better place and finished with the world uttering never again what needs to happen for american foreign policy to become more pragmatic and in touch with reality while to discuss that i'm now joined by the cast freeman a distinguished american diplomat who also served in various capacities in the state and defense departments ambassador freeman it's a great privilege to have you on the show i'm glad to be here you know every time when we try to examine the u.s. foreign policy we get a lot of responses from and graham merican accuse as few as bashing and maybe my being a russian invited some of those at his. ations but you're an american me you gave thirty years of your lives to the service of your country and yet some of your views on the american foreign policy a pretty solid bearing i wonder how do you distinguish between critical thinking and criticism and is it possible to avoid criticism while

we can start of a talking about the population of hispanics in the united states. in 1980 there were about 15 million hispanics in the united states and by 2012 nearly 53 million by 2015 we are expecting 128 malignant. your book helps give the foundation and explain how the population are right in the country and we will talk about where it's going by the time we reach that 128 million. >> guest: that's very kind of you to say that. you think of this relatively

invaded iraq through lowish to iraq you took advantage of the presence of the united states now the war shifted more than against it for occupy l.a. but then secondly that purpose for i agree with you that's history but if we look at syria right now again the united states to one degree or another is supporting groups that a take the mantle of al-qaeda and because the united states wants assad to go i mean i just don't get this here ok there's some good al qaeda in there some bad al qaeda. well that's what's funny peter. and i don't let you go ahead like you are i'm speaking answer this one i will go quickly back to dan you go ahead sir go ahead first of all the united states you know the u.s. has been criticized all over the united states and the president is reluctant to be involved in syria in order to avoid inflating the support for al qaeda because of its invasion and he's being criticized i think the united states is very cautious not to interfere personally in the. conflict in syria and be it there are elements of al qaeda i mentioned two of the groups that have been most

able over time to basically bring them into the al-qaeda ideology of attacking the far enemy, the united states. >> our community is chiming in. nick agrees . . . and lisa we should add yemen as well. and al-qaeda's number 2 said al-qaeda's most important strategic goal was quote seize control of a state or part of a state somewhere in the muslim world, and without achieving this goal our actions will mean nothing. and another goal is for the united states to achieve death by a thousand cuts. does the new al-qaeda share those goals? >> absolutely. they do share the same goals. as to the first one we can see this by the fact that they do control some territory. in northern syria, it has been controlled for quite sometime. in somalia, al-shabab, they still control some geographic area in the southern part of the country. and when they do, one of the first things they try to do is establish their very harsh version of sharia law. as so the second their goal was instrumental. there was a good study done by a g jihadist think tank. if he were to target the saudi regime, they would have the saudis do

which us officials deemed the vehicle was to inspect the united states. in two thousand eight a us court ordered the dvd release. some of the nice that he did at salvador switzerland island east and often dollars china has previously due monday. we used to be returned to china. the us government says i will not do so because they face prosecution in bed. we could see all the topix speaking most people. china's restive far eastern region of cgi many believe is shaped and restrictions that culture language and religion the government insists it wants them to proceed in this region has been beset by violence. she's ninety one people including seven police have been killed in august can see john. since april according to steve to get the bolts. china has seen some of the violin so it's not just militants had connections to foreign groups including al qaeda. teen who the war. i am. thus the acting united states by its statement on the net that isn't measured by china its nz and while the autonomous region. chinese foreign ministers of the united states the bac

now safe the united states doesn't change its policies toward cuba and these countries are just not going to go along with the united states has put it's symptomatic as part of a broader international lessening of u.s. influence we see what's happening in the middle east and i say can really influence these situations are war making we've got this powerful military the most powerful military in the history of humanity and it doesn't work since world war two you look at korea you look at vietnam you look at afghanistan you look at iraq i mean we we can we can invade grenada and we can defeat a couple dozen cuban construction workers and reagan can go on television saying it's morning again in america the united states is back and standing proud but this the military solutions don't work to any of these problems even in libya the situation there is falling apart we need some we need to rethink how we approach the world as much joy and really truly truly not as the dominant partner but as we would. take an active enormous middle you believe and i don't know president can we . on th

but the united states certainly is. and the reason -- one of the big reasons we've been able to become the most free -- until obamacare, perhaps -- but the most free nation in the world with the least government dictation and intervention in our private lives and been the most blessed country, i believe even more so than solomon's israel, is because we're a nation of laws as the founder's described it. a nation where no one was perceived to be above the law. i even paid a parking ticket because people perceived i had violated a law in a national park -- and a national park policeman who did not know the law, was ignorant of the law, decided to give -- it was easier to pay the $25 thans to have help teach the national park policeman the law on parking in washington, d.c. nobody is above the law. nobody is supposed to be above the law. and there are verses throughout the old testament and new testament so many of the first ndred years of this nation's existence had scriptures quoted from the old testament and new testamen

fundamentally destabilize the country the united states just completely disassembled the iraqi state as it existed and not only didn't really put anything in place but actually set up a structure which made it sort of bit official for forces to become more at the serial to divide along sectarian and other sorts of lines of what we're seeing now is the real fruits of all of these time bombs land mines that were set by the u.s. occupation all coming to fruition all at the same. we saw two thousand and thirteen one of the most deadliest years over eight thousand people died in iraq and i think this situation of pollution the body is very related to that horrific and i think it seems like you know a lot of people that comes to their head when they hear the word because of course travesty after a travesty during the height of the occupation we heard that as one of the main heller's of the war why are cities like fallujah and ramadi so bloody specifically in those cities yes and i think that's something that really resonates the americans actually a former neighbor of mine died the b

not against the united states it's the united states and the saudis had the same goal in syria which was to overthrow the assad government now you see because of a possible shift in that way the united states is approaching the middle east but saudi arabia fears isolation they really cannot carry out in independent foreign policy because of their regimes limited strength endure a billet it fears an islamic revolution or a secular revolution it fears isolation and now it's now it looks as if it's primarily the ally of israel i mean you can't look for a worst outcome for a regime in the arab world mark replied to that because it does look like it tell of the axis now developing and there's been lots of sound and fury that they could collectively could attack iran if the united states and western powers continue their dialogue with iran go ahead. well first of all i want to say agree with the first part of what brian had to say with regard to the fact that yes the third is migrant workers yes they're paying off people with oil wealth but the idea that all your baby is somehow a cl

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. >> i think my message to washington and the people of the united states would be twofold. number one, can jong-un only carries about wanting. he will do anything necessary internally and externally to maintain the regime and has proven not since he's been in power and his father before him. secondly as people talk about the status quo, the ring that goes a provocation, my message has always been you have to think about that not a status quo, that is a line that is becoming increasingly more dangerous because north korea is gaining to build a nuclear capability and a ballistic missile capability. so i believe that we in washington and i'm confident the republic of korea needs to think about the threat of korea, north korea along those two different axes and be prepared to defend south korea, be prepared for instability within north korea. i do not believe that kim jong-un will change in the regime and open out. >> you have the longest perspective on north korea. what are your views? >> well, first thing i will say in dealing with north korea is hope is not a method. the fac

series untold history united states thank you so much. really. and that's it for our show tonight you guys thanks for watching. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough to. say where it's a story. it's just this guy like you. but smear about john stead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media are working for each other bribe writers vision. they did rather well. i know c.n.n. the most obviously i have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admired their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth to mike think. it's because one call attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. at our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. i feel about. you guys talk to the jokes i will handle them it's not that i'm. well the. science technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the fut

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also in the united states. it conveys the feeling that they won't have any choice in the matter when suddenly a new system wheel will take over it. to which they'll have to abide this worries me a great deal an instinctive worries other of the countries in the region. i think that's why you love. you know i know there's been great unhappiness. in beijing about the so called commitment to asia this. i think so that they do what needs to be understood is this is not only motivated by any us designer. this is desire of countries in the region whether of korean origin pastel tones usually in the vietnam other south east asian countries who fear even though they enjoyed the economic relationship with china um they fear that of the growing strength and power light of the chinese military. can be used. to revisit the days of chinese dynasties when the surrounding neighbors swirl tributary states. i think they want to avoid that kind of scenario. hence the battle over the south china sea and on the territory there the

end of the deadline set by the united states has lost. the visiting officials gave no indication of how much longer the government might tweak. i'm still sort of seeing releasing the business would try to find his name. the talks and talks. gates said he was optimistic that it would soon be reached on the long delayed by lax security agreement. off to the meetup site i'm convinced. its result of our long meeting with karzai we have narrowed those differences. and i believe that we can look forward to designing the city and in the implementation of that sooner rather than later the state's only recently songs. isn't it the wrong done that so often did to become citizens of dancing with the government and non stop which is fighting. i didn't want to sit and see the united states dollar has this to handing over the facility. the goals of the individual to consider that they do this. he is. it says that this is said to be the response of the full moon day of getting fifty seven dollars and sixty us pull its troops. billions of dollars it will

united states. i'm not sure most americans feel that way, but that was the saudi argument. they promised to give the government of lebanon $3 billion worth of arms, and to buy them from the french. that is also somewhat supposed to be a spike to the united states that we won't get the arms from the united states. and the media is filled with saudi anger and disappointment for the united states. but at the end of the day the united states-saudi relationship is not broken. this is our oldest alliance in the middle east that dates back to 1945. they continued to function in many ways despite public irritation. the reason it does and the reason we don't have that much leverage is we need each other. saudi arabia not only is important global energy supplies, it may not provide very many americans with their oil anymore but it's critical to the functioning of the global economy. and without saudi oil being distributed at a reasonable price, they would be severe financial energy disruptions. secondly, thei

what's in it for the united states? i actually got a tweet from the chairman, merideth, from california, who is a loyal streamer. he said: so it's a summary of what's happening in egypt. and you can continue to tweet us. >> to pave the way to democracy is upon us. the military now in power, and introducing reforms to roll back freedoms that egyptians had hoped for, is it is this a return to the mub artic era? the support of the egyptian military, despite opposition and a law that prevents it. we'll get into that. 49% of americans are against further aid to egypt. only 7% believe that it's good for the u.s., and 43% say that it has been bad for american interest. so as u.s.-egyptian relations are put to the test, does the u.s. have to regret its choice of friends? to talk about this, steven cook, council of foreign relations. david rhodes, held by the taliban for eight months. he wrote beyond war, imagining american influence in the middle east. and david pollock, a former state department official, and now for institute

there was every indication in thetext agreed between united states, russia, and the united nations -- accept the invitation, you accept the conditions that are there. so iranians were prepared to accept the invitation -- >> but when they asked if they accepted conditions, they refused to say so? >> wait -- asked, they were said no. >> they did not say no. they said they were not prepared to come without preconditions. all other participants, some of them have interpreted the geneva communiquÉ completely differently from what was said. but they were not required to swear in blood that they were not going to differ from the communiquÉ. the requirement was only made exclusively of iranians. >> secretary kerry suggested they had troops on the ground and in syria. >> the united states was very reluctant about iran. but i have reason to believe that the united states understands the iranians need to participate in this. it is very encouraging in the interview shown yesterday on american television between the foreign minister of iran, he indicated iranians are prepared to participate in the

the united states government has been undertaking some action. we have seven actions before the world trade organization with respect to china, most revolving around the chinese government and subsidizing favored industries. as sillies, for example. it was important that we follow up on those sections. the bilateral investment treaty is not finalized yet. china is engaging the united states and bringing to a bilateral investment treaty which recognizes the national treatment which helps. we spend a lot of time trying to get china to sign that. it agreed with it into the wto. as not yet fully signed on to the procurement agreement because the terms of wants to sign up with are inadequate or insufficient. is just keeping to chip away, keep working of the problem here and this bothers me as much as it does you. >> thank you. i appreciate your commitment because this is -- the size and magnitude and economic power that they have is a real problem glad to your commitment to that. i would urge you to urge them in the strongest terms that they have got

it's something very widely assumed in the united states.i was quite shocked to find that people have this attitude towards the country. it's completely contrary to all of the historical. you don't need to have one language to share a common allegiance or to collaborate. i do predict in the book that hispanics won't maintain their language in the future and i greatly regret that and i think that is a terrible shame because if this were a genuinely binding country it would be twice as a good because [inaudible] you know how this enriches your life and how it doubles your vocabulary and opens up the different possible faults and gives you access and the literatures and it is life. the united states doesn't understand and they think it means teaching -- then you could have a bilingual country and would be culturally so much more exciting to live and generate. i suggest it would generate so much more achievement and look at every other great society and the history it had more than one language. >> host: if that projection is true, one of the th