The lead negotiator as he cautioned because their stark message to the insurgents to John Nickelson has made clear, reconcile or die. Ruben said this is not the way to start a dialogue with people whos entire culture is organized around personal and collective honor, which by the way is a much bigger factor in this war than socalled extremist islam. He added its obvious that this conflict has no purely military solution, even maintaining the current Military Involvement requires better political ties with afghanistans neighbors. Look at a map, ruben said, afghanistan is land locked and America Needs supply roots. The three countries that could help with access are pakistan, russia and iran. And we have bad relations with all three. Rubens chief advice is to work hard at diplomacy and recognize other countries have an interest in afghanistan and engage them, a successful outcome is entirely
dependent upon involvement from india, pakistan and russia and iran. So washington cannot keep fan at a sizing about overthrowing the iranian regime. It has to decide how much would involve india, which would shift the landscape all together. This is the difficult painstaking work of diplomacy that the Trump Administration so far tried to ignore, demean and defund. But if the president actually wants to extrick ate america from the unending wars, this is the only way out. For more, go to cnn. Com fareed and read night Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. Another day, another Head Scratcher Tweet from donald j. Trump. This time about immigration. It read in part, i would be
willing to shut down government if the democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security which includes the wall. The wall has been a long time obsession of sorts for the president of the United States. Listen to what he said in june of 2015. I would build a great wall and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. And ill build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and i will have mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words. What is the status of the wall from the mexican perspective . Joining me now is mexicos foreign minister, louis viterguay. Nice to be back. The need for the wall was even more urgent now because of the dramatic rise in crime in mexico. How do you respond to that . Well, first of all, its its not a mexican issue. Its not part of the bilateral
therefore, he says not being part of the conversation, ive been part of every significant negotiation since the Trump Administration started and we never discuss that because its an issue that we all know, i think they very well know whats mexicos position about it. It is not a position thats going to change. I dont think you would not find any mexican willing to accept the notion of that. So that is that is not an issue and certainly not an issue that defines the negotiations. Another joint problem it seems to me is the fact that mexico is now no longer really i think you yourself described it as such, a country that is exporting migrants as it is a transit country, this is to say there are more people trying to get into mexico from Central America than they are mexicans trying to get into the u. S. This would seem to be something that do you find the Trump Administration is understand sympathetic to this issue and tries to work with you on it . I think that theres a much
better understanding of what the actual numbers are for over 15 years, net migration from mexico into the u. S. Has been negative. That means every year there are more people coming back into mexico than people from mexico, mexicans trying to get into the United States. However, mexico youre absolutely right, has become a transit country. We are every year facing the fact that hundreds of thousands of Central Americans try to get into mexico, with the purpose of staying in mexico but to get into the United States. This presents as a significant challenge for every country involved, el salvador and mexico and the United States. This is a shared challenge and we should Work Together in share gs human rights that all migrants have treated well and its we cannot just address a problem by trying to enforce voter control. Thats part of the solution but the real solution is to invest jointly in development of Central America. This is something that our current president has been asking for, our future president is strongly proposing. I want to ask you about the election of the president , for the last 20 years mexico has been electing governments that have been very pro american in the sense of being pro trade, pro integration and good relations between the United States and mexico and that transformed the relationship which for many decades before that was add seversariadversari. When he was running for presidency, polling very low numbers. And then donald trump announces his nomination and starts blasting mexico. Do you think that mr. Lopez was elected president of mexico because the mexican people wanted to show a kind of an act
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counterpart hassan rouhani, never ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences, the likes of which few throughout his tri have ever suffered before. But then this monday, trump took a different tone saying this at the news conference. I would certainly meet with iran if they are willing to meet. I dont know if they are ready yet. They are having a hard time right now. It was a ridiculously deal. I have a feeling theyll end up wanting to meet. He went on to say there will be no preconditions to a meeting and at the end of the week iran conducted a naval exercise in the all important straits of horm hormuz, an action would antagonize the u. S. And others. What is going on inside iran . Joining me now to fill us in thomas hebring, New York Times. Thomas, what do you make of this naval exercise . This is of course Muscle Flexing by the iranians. They have always said if we want
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mentioned, china, irans only remaining customer for oil, plus irans main trade partner, would be hit very hard by a rise in energy price and shortage of oil. They would actually alienate the chinese if they close off the Strait Of Hormuz. What are iranians making of Donald Trumps offer, somewhat casually stated that he would be willing to meet with rouhani with no conditions . Well, what the iranian officials would say have said is something that is obviously pretty clear, idealogical and havent wanted to speak publicly to the United States in the past 40 years but i went on the streets and spoke to many ordinary iranians, a building construct constructor, lawyer, hair dresser and all said unanimously, why dont we talk to donald trump and of course, this remark comes from a certain background and background is
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