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it's not afghanistan and you know it's not afghanistan. >> you see, the answers are clear. when there's a claim made by the u.s. government it is too well to accept it. but when mr. bush killing a million people in iraq does anybody talk about human rights violation there is? i mean, there seems to be a major contradiction here in a selective memory that i'm speaking of here and when it becomes selective, it becomes this... not honest. and when it's dishonest it cannot be accepted. so we have to speak of the mistakes that have been made and then we'll move forward 30. years ago around this same time saddam attacked us back there there was no speak of hamas and hezbollah, they didn't exist and there was no such talk of a nuke beer bomb and why did the u.s. government choose saddam over us choose to support saddam against us? what did we do? and it went full force behind saddam and the war against us. if yo go to china and japan or africa or south america and ask kids in elementary school what the problem between iran and the united states is, is it the nuclear bomb that perh
it's not afghanistan and you know it's not afghanistan. >> you see, the answers are clear. when there's a claim made by the u.s. government it is too well to accept it. but when mr. bush killing a million people in iraq does anybody talk about human rights violation there is? i mean, there seems to be a major contradiction here in a selective memory that i'm speaking of here and when it becomes selective, it becomes this... not honest. and when it's dishonest it cannot be accepted. so we...
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>> the goal is a stable afghanistan. a at peace with its neighbors that is not a haven for terrorism. that can take responsibility for its own security. and obviously we will be providing help and support for afghanistan. it's just for many years things like our international aid budget, through the training support we offered to the police and the armed forces of afghanistan, brought what we want to see an end to is the presence of combat, british combat troops in afghanistan and you know, we have's said by 2015 that is what we want to see. >> how long have you known david cameron. >> how long i have known david cameron. i first met him in the early 1990s. i was a junior researcher in politics. i got involved in politics and he was already quite well established in that world. >> as a what? >> as a-- he was working in the home office which was our security department. homeland security department. >> jim baker was a former political guy without also was secretary of the treasury before it became secretary of state. it w
>> the goal is a stable afghanistan. a at peace with its neighbors that is not a haven for terrorism. that can take responsibility for its own security. and obviously we will be providing help and support for afghanistan. it's just for many years things like our international aid budget, through the training support we offered to the police and the armed forces of afghanistan, brought what we want to see an end to is the presence of combat, british combat troops in afghanistan and you...
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iraq, afghanistan, palestine, syria, lebanon. and beyond. >> rose: and how is it using that leverage in your judgment? >> i don't think it's using it to the full extent possible but i also think that the three plus three group three years ago when we presented our offer to iran we included deliberately a section which said we also want to cooperate with iran on regional issues. what we meant was the need to recognize iran's interest in the region and without giving iran any preferences compared to other countries to allow iran to participate on equal footing with others in regional discussions and then convinced iran wants it. and if we all are reasonable and if we all recognize that there are security interests of iran just like there are security interests of other countries in the region, if we recognize that iran must cooperate, we fully remove any reasonable doubt, any doubt at all regarding its nuclear program. and if we engage iran on these grounds, if we develop a package which would oblige iran to do what we all wanted t
iraq, afghanistan, palestine, syria, lebanon. and beyond. >> rose: and how is it using that leverage in your judgment? >> i don't think it's using it to the full extent possible but i also think that the three plus three group three years ago when we presented our offer to iran we included deliberately a section which said we also want to cooperate with iran on regional issues. what we meant was the need to recognize iran's interest in the region and without giving iran any...
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for instance, america is dealing with afghanistan. america is dealing with middle east. america is dealing with balkans. america is dealing with terror and energy transportation. diversification of energy source s. we have the same agenda. we have been dealing, also, with these issues. it's good that we are being coordinating it. we have the same views, you see. so i don't think there are many companies in the world that they have the same agenda. >> rose: you also have a good relationship with iran. >> iran is our neighbor. and they have different regimes. we are democrat and we are trying to be member of the european union so this is different, of course. but if you have a neighbor definitely you are... you want to be friendly and you want cooperation with them. we've had a very stable border with iran since 1659. so there's no border problem. there's no conflict. >> rose: you don't support sanctions against iran. >> u.n. sanctions is binding us also. >> rose: right. >> so therefore we are are applying this. we are arguing our reports to the u.n. committee. but since w
for instance, america is dealing with afghanistan. america is dealing with middle east. america is dealing with balkans. america is dealing with terror and energy transportation. diversification of energy source s. we have the same agenda. we have been dealing, also, with these issues. it's good that we are being coordinating it. we have the same views, you see. so i don't think there are many companies in the world that they have the same agenda. >> rose: you also have a good...
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it's the same problem we have in afghanistan now. why is afghanistan so difficult? not because the afghan people want to make it difficult. they don't. they don't want... i cannot believe they want rule by the taliban. of course they don't. it's an appalling reactionary regress i have regime that kept the country in the most abject poverty. >> rose: stones people and disrespects women. >> absolutely. it's not... this is... in the end this is why this thing is difficult because you're fight ing and ideology that is prepared to use this terrorism. look what they're doing in pakistan. they go and kill 50 people at a religious service. this is muslim on muslim violence. >> rose: central to your decision making here, you believe that saddam, even though he did not have weapons of mass destruction, intended to get them as soon as he got passed the sanctions and he had the scientists and he had the know how and he was going to once again notwithstanding what anybody else said about the fact... >> central to it was the belief that he was a threat on this eschew and that you
it's the same problem we have in afghanistan now. why is afghanistan so difficult? not because the afghan people want to make it difficult. they don't. they don't want... i cannot believe they want rule by the taliban. of course they don't. it's an appalling reactionary regress i have regime that kept the country in the most abject poverty. >> rose: stones people and disrespects women. >> absolutely. it's not... this is... in the end this is why this thing is difficult because...
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is afghanistan an opportunity cost, for example? >> reading about president obama and his $50 billion infrastructure rebuilding program, rebuilding the highways, that's a lot of money, he may have trouble getting it through the congress. but then the thought came to my mind we've spent $750 billion in iraq. as anybody who travels in america knows, there are bridges and highways to be rebuilt. what could we-- i speak we generically here because i live on the mid-atlantic fault line-- what could we have done with $750. >> rose: in terms of our infrastructure just one example. in terms of medical research as another example. and you have to weigh those national security issues versus what's football. >> on the other hand i think it's... i feel looking at these protests which are preventing tony blair from even signing copies of his biography. >> rose: when tony blair talks about this he says this is a very few people who protest. this is not, he says... a lot of people oppose my position out there but they're not the ones out there pro
is afghanistan an opportunity cost, for example? >> reading about president obama and his $50 billion infrastructure rebuilding program, rebuilding the highways, that's a lot of money, he may have trouble getting it through the congress. but then the thought came to my mind we've spent $750 billion in iraq. as anybody who travels in america knows, there are bridges and highways to be rebuilt. what could we-- i speak we generically here because i live on the mid-atlantic fault line-- what...
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is this quest for democracy and change is grassroots and it's not from above, it's not like iraq or afghanistan where it's imposed by the government, it's actually kind of a secular movement. a people's movement has happened over the past couple of years. grassroots. and i think that's what's important. it's also important because it's strategically placed. it has oil. it's close to the persian gulf. it's got a lot of influence in the region. but other than that -- >> charlie: borders with efshg, almost. >> it borders -- >> charlie: borders with everybody, almost. >> it has a dynamic, educated population. >> iran is the bell weather state for the middle east, for the past 100 years everything has happened in the middle east either in iran, turkey or egypt. read the bible. read herodotus. the two two canonical texts about civilization. in the bible, there is no nation that plays a more significant role in the freedom of jews, in the building of jerusalem than persians. iran is not two-bit hustlers who rule the country now. iran is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. it has produced haf
is this quest for democracy and change is grassroots and it's not from above, it's not like iraq or afghanistan where it's imposed by the government, it's actually kind of a secular movement. a people's movement has happened over the past couple of years. grassroots. and i think that's what's important. it's also important because it's strategically placed. it has oil. it's close to the persian gulf. it's got a lot of influence in the region. but other than that -- >> charlie: borders...
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. >> when you're doing this, whether making decisions about a budget or about war and peace or afghanistan or whatever it is or whether making decisions about what is thought to be the nature of the health care reform package or the financial reform package, are you getting at people who walk in and say and are you listening to people from your staff or elsewhere who say no don't do it that way. do it this way. >> there's plenty of healthy debate. >> charlie: is there? >> yeah. there is plenty of healthy debate. now i think one of the... just returning to some of the discussion we had earlier one of the questions is were there enough different perspectives in that debate so there was plenty of healthy debate. whether the spectrum.... >> charlie: was wide snuff? well, was it wide enough? probably not. the fact that you would entertain the idea means it wasn't wide enough. >> i think that would be a reasonable interpretation. >> charlie: here is the other thing that fascinates me about being at the level of government that you were at. do you have time to do some of the things that would hav
. >> when you're doing this, whether making decisions about a budget or about war and peace or afghanistan or whatever it is or whether making decisions about what is thought to be the nature of the health care reform package or the financial reform package, are you getting at people who walk in and say and are you listening to people from your staff or elsewhere who say no don't do it that way. do it this way. >> there's plenty of healthy debate. >> charlie: is there?...
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that this change must present itself, must show itself in iraq, it must show and happen in afghanistan. it must show and happen in palestine. it must show with regard to iran, now please pay attention. i am trying to help here. i'm trying to help you. i'm trying to help america here. those who are behind this seize or within the u.s. administration in the obama administration are moving things in a direction which will make mr. obama to take radical positions, especially with respect to iran. some members of the permanent members of the u.s. security council little also doing the same thing. pleading-- leading mr. obama to a position that is irreversible vis-a-vis iran. as soon as mr. obama enterers into a series of behaviors that resembles mr. bush's behaviors, two things will happen. first, mr. obama's time is over. in other words, when mr. obama becomes radical in his behavior, what that means is there is no change. and therefore he has been defeated. he has failed. and his presidential term will be not useful. secondly, america's most important-- historical opportunity will be-- op
that this change must present itself, must show itself in iraq, it must show and happen in afghanistan. it must show and happen in palestine. it must show with regard to iran, now please pay attention. i am trying to help here. i'm trying to help you. i'm trying to help america here. those who are behind this seize or within the u.s. administration in the obama administration are moving things in a direction which will make mr. obama to take radical positions, especially with respect to iran....
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the west which is against islam, and so the narrative is there, and if you look at what happened in afghanistan, in iraq, also all these wars and then also what is going on in palestine and then what is going on in the west, we were talking about what is happening in the states, where as you know this controversy around the community center burning the koran and then also in europe when you are building mosque, in my own country, switzerland banning the minarets, there is the pressure on muslims and this narrative is there. we should -- and this is where i agree with him that there is this narrative. the first, i agree with him on that and with many other muslims -- we should, muslims, come back to the fundamentals and be critical. this critical engagement of muslims -- self criticism, critical mind, this is something which i have been talking about for the last 25 years. we need muslims with deep faith and critical minds to be able to look at our own failures from within and to build and not to be the victims, not to play the victim mentality, not to be the object of history but to be the subj
the west which is against islam, and so the narrative is there, and if you look at what happened in afghanistan, in iraq, also all these wars and then also what is going on in palestine and then what is going on in the west, we were talking about what is happening in the states, where as you know this controversy around the community center burning the koran and then also in europe when you are building mosque, in my own country, switzerland banning the minarets, there is the pressure on...