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Threats to say, taiwan, we have a long way to go to match our capabilities with our commitment. i dont see how we do this through europe, quite honestly. europe has virtually no meaningful military force to introduce in this part of the world and europe largely sees asia and particularly china through the eyes of economic and commercial ties. i think were going to run into real problems trying to line the europeans up it work with us. losing my voice here fareed, sorry. >> no worries. anne-marie...

Capacity to project any kind of military force without american help. and they dont seem that interested in having a kind of larger world role. theyre largely internally eu focused. is it a fools errand to try to get the europeans to play a larger, more active, strategic role? >> no. as i just said, the french after the united states have the largest naval experience in the south pacific. if we were going to make a deal with australia and britain, yes, i understand that we had better technology,...

Dependable, maybe now is the time to press, explore what we can get away with. this is clearly an america thats totally focused domestically and has little interest in maintaining a large world role or even a medium-size world role for much longer. it feeds a narrative and thats what concerns me. one other thing, beyond the humanitarian nightmare, we have pakistan next door, theyve provided a sanctuary to the taliban. but whats going to happen now is i think theres a decent chance that the talib...

That basically the costs of americas world role are far greater than the benefits. and its as if he were running a business, its as if he was only being looking at the cost side of the ledger r, hes never looking at the revenue side. >> you have any concern about the stability of nato? >> absolutely. comes out in the anoun nnymous . weve had more sustained fight with our allies than anybody. the president does a cost/benefit analysis. im a little concomfortabuncomf talking about it. but if youre...

My hands even more this gives me an even this gives me an even bigger card that i thought i had to play because here is my i dont want your car thats what theyre telling a little bit but i dont give a damn car oh come on the relationship between big business big banks and big politics is what it is they dont want things to change they like the status quo the way that it is but i bet you that if we went to a bar in munich the seedling i met some german car workers and had this conversation what t...

Continues on the streets below. >> we have to be able to say to the iranians, heres whats in it for you if you get back into the good graces of the international community on your nuclear program. >> will you be back in new york soon? >> i have long felt that we are spending too much time, effort, resources and energy on afghanistan given the realities out there. we watched history being made last friday as a dictatorship yielded to protests. i think were witnessing the beginning of a decade of ...

Hispanics. thats a serious statement. what do you say to that? >> well, the truth of the matter is that this entire visit really wasnt the citys idea. we basically were going to be in a supporting role. we were going to basically provide adequate security for crowd control and police presence and assure everybody was ordinarily and peaceful. due to the circumstances that were presented to us this morning and the fact that it the union had the rurg pullg pulled out from under them we rose to the ...

I have two expert watchers of politics on both sides of the pond. nicholas wapshott is a columnist for reuters. the founding editor of "the times" magazine in london. welcome both. nicholas, is what happened in britain with the british parliament the price for iraq? in other words, the disenchantment that the british public and, transfer, its representatives feel about the whole iraq and the fact blair led them into war or is it about more than that, the unwillingness to play any kind of a world...

Nicholas wopshot is a calm ul nis for reuters. the founded tor of "the times" magazine in london. welcome both. nicholas, is what happened in britain with the british parliament the price for iraq? in other words, the disenchantment that the british public and, transfer, its representatives feel about the whole iraq and the fact blair led them into war or is it about more than that, the unwillingness to play any kind of a world role? >> no, its the first preeminently. its about the fact that the...