Charlie Rose

peoplepower  08/04/2012 05:55 AM Report

At least we get to see a human side of this man rather than the non-objective reporting that is coming out of syria now. How many fake photographs and videos have been shown on the news. I mean the whole war crisis began when BBC showed hundreds of dead bodies saying that Asad killed his own people when in fact the photograph was from Iraq. How can anyone be for or against anyone there when we are all getting falsified news? It is only in the best interest of the BIG Financial centers to keep countries sustaining war. We need more critical questions, critical thinking please

Saultxyca  04/25/2011 07:04 AM Report

What a difference ten months make. With the gruesome killings and rampant human rights violations in Syria since Good Friday, President Bashar al-Assad joined the ranks of a small, exclusive club of physicians with political power, who will go down in history for their infamous lack of respect and mercy for human life. There is such a breathtaking disconnect between Assad's words in this interview and the vile deeds on the ground in Syria right now that, if the situation weren't so alarming, this interview would be funny.

Assad is not a leader or savvy politician, as anyone can see. But isn't it fascinating how dictators never seem to grasp that their people may hate them for good and obvious reason?

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frances_starn  02/22/2011 05:08 PM Report

Having recently visited Syria I watched the excellent 2006 interview & looked forward to this one. No sound, as I believe is noted in one comment below. Sad: Bashar is a very impressive Middle Eastern leader & needs more exposure.

AntonioFR  10/07/2010 08:19 PM Report

I cannot understand how an intelligent man like Mr. Rose on every interview he has with an important Middle East political figure he keeps repeating, mechanically, the same questions. About Iran's WMD ambitions, about Syria's miltary support of Hamas or Hezbollah, etc. When will he learn to look at these people in a way other than the US Goverment State Dept.? He constantly talks with intelligent people who offer him wise and alternative views to these issues but nonetheless he goes on and on with the old and tired litany about the "bad guys" in the Middle East. It beats me.

sronan  06/04/2010 12:12 AM Report

As of June 4, there seems to be a problem with the audio. Unlike every other segment, on this one there's no sound.

BENEZRAA  05/31/2010 03:45 PM Report

FIORANGELA, THE BACK STORY ON THE HEZBOLLAH ATTACK ON THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH BARRACKS IS THAT HEZBOLLAH ASSASSINATED PHALANGALIST LEADER BASHIR GEMAYEL LESS THAN A MONTH AFTER HE WAS ELECTED TO THE LEBANESE PRESIDENCY IN AUGUST OF 1982. The revenge killings in Sabra and Shatila were no less outrageous than the assassination and both are to be condemned. Israel has a permanent blot on it's record in that it occurred on Israel's watch, and Sharon has paid dearly for this, despite his admirable service in other venues. But in the tit for tat of terror and revenge, the assassination of Gemayel is culpable for the chain of events that lead to the Marine Barracks massacre.

As far as the maturity of Hezbollah, Hamas, etc. you make my point for me. The ugly head of renewed global jihad gathers wind and fuel. That is the point of my warning this Memorial Day. Or do you long to fly the flag of Jihad, bow to Mecca, speak Arabic, and have no rights other than granted to you by Islam?

Fiorangela  05/31/2010 02:31 PM Report

Ben Ezra, You should include the back story on Hezbollah's attack on the Marine barracks, namely, Sharon presiding over the Phalangist massacres in Sabra and Shatila. Israeli and Phalangist brutality brought Hezbollah into being, just as Israel brought Hamas into being in an attempt to neutralize Arafat; Israel is its own worst enemy.

Moreover, Hezbollah has matured to a serious and significant element in Lebanese politics and culture. Hezbollah is not going away. And al-Assad narrated that Hamas is growing in maturity and sophistication. Israel and US, meanwhile, are stuck in 15-year old mud, perhaps projecting onto Syria and Palestine that Israel has reverted to an Irgun/Haganah mentality. In reality, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran left Israel in the dust some years ago, while Israel bent its efforts to swindling weaponry from the US and terrorizing its own population into believing that Israel can only survive if it behaves in a murderous fashion.

Every action has an equal reaction -- that's not just a theory, it's a law, take it up with Newton if you disagree.

Perhaps if Israel acts differently, not belligerently and aggressively, then Israel will see a different reaction. So far, Israel does not seem to have learned that basic lesson.

Goya57  05/30/2010 04:38 PM Report

Fabulously informative interview ... enthralled for entire hour ... didn't move once! Charlie, here's a suggestion: would you be so great as to continue this "series," a la Judith Miller's "God Has Ninety-Nine Names?" Meaning, doing interviews (as you are doing SO well) with said leaders of those ME states which JM had in her '05 book, i.e., doing 2010 updates? With Judith's complete and total permission and, perhaps, co-interviewing as well???!! I'm very biased as I'm a total inveterate Middle East addict! VAD

Goya57  05/30/2010 04:38 PM Report

Fabulously informative interview ... enthralled for entire hour ... didn't move once! Charlie, here's a suggestion: would you be so great as to continue this "series," a la Judith Miller's "God Has Ninety-Nine Names?" Meaning, doing interviews (as you are doing SO well) with said leaders of those ME states which JM had in her '05 book, i.e., doing 2010 updates? With Judith's complete and total permission and, perhaps, co-interviewing as well???!! I'm very biased as I'm a total inveterate Middle East addict! VAD

sromero  05/30/2010 06:41 AM Report

I have always been impressed with this man. I hope America opens their eyes and develope a good relationship with Syria.

marcos  05/30/2010 05:37 AM Report

he has a clear vision to current affairs,i watched his interview in 2006 and he was honest and clear about all affairs and he is today 2010

marcos  05/30/2010 05:37 AM Report

he has a clear vision to current affairs,i watched his interview in 2006 and he was honest and clear about all affairs and he is today 2010

robdverity  05/29/2010 06:04 PM Report

Unconscionable that CR's minions have not assured that of all Charlie's interviews that this one in particular would be immediately available and trouble-free. Bloomberg most assuredly gave Charlie prior approval. Even Charlie's Zionist monitors should have been warned-off ahead of time to not obstruct its availability. Now it's too late; anything you want to imagine has possibilities.

maryellenmarino  05/29/2010 05:15 PM Report

I agree with Albert Charles that it is about time we heard from Gaza and Hamaz. But I have spent an hour or more logging in and agreeing to everything, but I have not heard or read the Meshaal interview. Have the right wing American Jews silenced this as they tried to silence my program in Princeton two weeks ago?

Mary Ellen Marino

I am a new subscriber and I sent in a contact complaint form. maryellen.marino@verizon.net

albertcharles  05/29/2010 09:00 AM Report

Along with Khaled Meshaal's interview on May 28 you are to be commended for airing alternative views and opinions concerning the disastrous situation in Israeli/Arab relations. Both sides are responsible for atrocities but the American media has been so biased, and censoring, of Arab and in particular Palestinian views that it is a mockery of our free press. The hyperbolic pro-Israeli comments are wearisome tirades we've heard for far too long.This doesn't mean one supports the views of al-Assad or Meshaal but it damn well means I want to hear what they have to say before ANY group or person tries to prevent that right.

Charlie, thanks for elevating your journalistic coverage to the highest form of seeking out unbiased truth, or at least opinions.Congratulations!

enwr77  05/29/2010 07:03 AM Report

President Bashar al-Assad is a very intelligent and factual man. I am sick of the Bush era rhetoric regarding this region in attempts to keep tension in this area to control their oil. Iran has no desire to attack us or start a war, Syria and Iraq the same. We did supply weapons to kill Iranians. We need to stop being the exporters of war (WMD’s) and hate. History will judge what we are doing in this area of the world as it has with what we did here to the Native Americans. We called them savages for fighting back and now we call these people terrorist for fighting back. This has more to do with the western aspect of our country. The rest of us recognize continued and spread oppression. If Israel has the right to exist, so does Palestine. As a member of an oppressed group, I was raised not to and refuse to oppress others. Israel should learn the same.

jgarbuz  05/29/2010 12:12 AM Report

If the Arab capability to wage war was as anywhere nearly as good as their ability to wage propaganda, Israel would never have come into existence at all. Even Goebbels and Hitler would have been astounded by the capabilities of the Arabs to distort history and the truth. If words were bullets, the Arabs would have won long ago. The fact is, that League of Nations in 1922 ruled that Palestine is the Jewish National Home, and the UN General Assembly voted in favor of the creation of a "JEWISH STATE" and an "ARAB STATE" in what was Mandatory Palestine in 1947. The Arabs refused to accept the decisions of the League in 1920 and started terror against Jewish immigrants, and refused to accept a Jewish state in 1947 and invaded the Jewish state in 1948. Long before 1967, Israel had to fight many wars and lost hundreds of civilians to terror, before there were these so-called "Occupied - I call them Liberated- territories." Zionism is the liberation of Jewish land from foreign occupation. The occupation of Jewish land by Arabs is not considered an occupation by most of the world, even though the League of Nations and the United Nations both ruled that Palestine is the Jewish homeland.

alharir  05/28/2010 11:20 PM Report

Charlie;

This is another excellent interview.

robdverity  05/28/2010 06:09 PM Report

Our "ally" and their protagonists seem all too ready to incite (veiled as self-fulfilling patriotism - Semper Fi etc - of course) the US to take out Iran's nuclear capability and Hamas support in passing. Or reverse? They'll do the right thing I'm sure and offer to hold our coat.

To arms, to arms. It's what we know best - each of us.

BENEZRAA  05/28/2010 04:21 PM Report

CONGRATULATION CHARLIE ROSE ON A BRILLIANT INTERVIEW.

taleiran  05/28/2010 03:43 PM Report

What a travesty of civilized journalism to allow Bashar Assad to use Charlie Rose, one of the most respected and intelligent journalists, to promote and justify his support for terrorism veiled as "support for a common cause" (against the very existence of Israel. And you let it go on unopposed, not even a hint that may be, just may be, he is blatantly and craftily lying in your face, and through you to your viewers' faces.

It was your second worst performance (in my memory of your program since 1993) after you were pawned by Ahmadinejad. I am curious what will happen today with the Hamas leader. It appears to me that when you are adhering to the rules of civil behavior while your counterpart is allowed to lie freely and unopposed then the result is abhorrent support of their "cause". What a shame.

DavLev  05/28/2010 01:55 PM Report

This dictator needs a new set of glasses it seems.

His country attacked Israel in 48, 67 and 73, even after it was created along with a Palestinian entity (in Western Palestine) out of the British Mandate. In 67, Syria fabricated Israel troop movements on it's borders, which led to the 67 War (read Michael Oren's The Six Day war), Had the Arabs won, no more discussion. In 1973, even though there were cease fires, Syria/Egypt fooled Israel and send 100,000 soldiers across the Canal into the Sinai. Thanks to

A. Sharon, they were ultimately repelled, but with great loss to Israel (over 2,500 tanks to Russian supplied anti-tank missiles). Dozens of captured Jews were emasculated by Syria. Israe took the Golan Heights in 1967, the best tank

trap according to US generals.

Now, Syria is demanding Israel give up the Golan as a pre-condition to talks. That's like a defense attorney admitting

guilt before the trial begins. I mean come on. Syria

was offered all the Golan, except for a few meters along the sea ( for Israeli access) and turned it down. Syria

is now supplying Hezbollah in Lebanon with Scud Ds, and other missiles (in violation of UN1701, which ended

the brief but violent confrontation 2 years ago. It is also

fortifying Hez from the borders to south Beirut..and north, with defensive bunkers..to thwart any Israeli counter attack

once the "final jihad", the "mother of all battles" long threatened by the Palestinians/Arab League/Cleric begins.

In essense, Syria started all the wars with Israel and broke every cease fire. It has illegally armed terrorist groups. It has raped what was once a proud Christian Lebanon. Ask Brigett Gabriel for the truth about Lebanon

and Syria. (see her websites). Syria is a dictatorship,

allied with our arch enemy Iran, and aiding US defined terrorist groups, while it's people live under the heavy heal of a dictatorship, blaming we Jews for all their ills.

REMant  05/28/2010 01:52 PM Report

The Arabs believe the Palestinians deserve their territory, at least that before the 1967 war, while it is clear Israel does not, and considers the outcome of the war to have given them the right to it, and that resistance is evidence of further aggression. It is a rather old-fashioned view, and one even then not very often encountered, and even less when the actual aggressor was the winner. The Arabs believe the way to peace to be to revert to the prewar situation, while Israel wants to perpetuate the armistice, as a means to further their aggrandizement. Some on each side argue that the other side has no claim to the land, but the Israeli position on that score is at best very weak, even taking into account Biblical history. Further Israel wants to assure peace by keeping its neighbors in extremis, which it can only do with US aid. This issue is driven by Israel's supporters in the US, and it is reasonable therefore to consider them as much extremists as any others, and the US as a partner to the conflict, not a peacemaker. When the Democrats are in power the Jewish lobby controls the situation, and when the Republicans are in power the evangelicals do, which is clearly yet another reason why voters should consider a third party. I see no possibility that greater "engagement" will make any difference. It is a religious, cultural, and economic impasse, and not likely to be resolved without either the application of overwhelming force or the collapse of one side or the other, unless the UN can take control of it, which seems impossible. Some fanatic dropping a bomb on the place might be doing the world a big favor.

BENEZRAA  05/28/2010 01:10 PM Report

AS THE U.S.A. MOVES FORWARD INTO THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, THE U.S.A. AS A NATION OUGHT TO TAKE TIME OUT FROM THE HEAT, FROM THE HOT DOGS, AND FROM THE SOFT-SPOKEN SOLICITATIONS OF DESPOTS WHISPERING SWEETLY SEDUCTIVE NOTHINGNS INTO OUR EARS. WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS, WHO DIED AT THE HANDS OF SUCH DESPOTS, AND BASHAR AL-ASSAD -- HIS FATHER'S SON -- IS SUCH A DESPOT.

Under the name "Islamic Jihad" in it's formative years it was Hezbollah, the deadly terrorist organization linked (like Hamas) to Syria and Iran, which organization was responsible for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombings in Beirut, Lebanon, claiming the lives of 241 American servicemen and 58 French servicemen, there in Beirut as part of an international peacekeeping force. This was during the reign of Bashar Al-Assad's father. Just two years earlier in 1981 the Iran Hostage Crisis had occurred, led by a despot now at the center of the world stage of despots, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmajinidad.

The growing alliances between Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt ought to be an alarming wake-up call to the USA. These countries smell blood in the water and the command ship is Iran. These nations sense that once Tehran has The Bomb -- and it will be soon that it does -- a renewed Era or Power shall begin for the world of Islam. It was not so long ago that Islamic Power dominated the largest part of the world of the four continents: Europe, Africa, India, and Asia.

The more Israel is blamed for the problems of such countries as Syria, America must see that, while the tongue wags unrelentingly against Israel, the hand up the puppet is in Tehran. The sooner the USA deals with Iran, the sooner tensions in the Middle East will abate, making peace a possibility. Scapegoating Israel is not a new historical tactic, nor is deceit about history in terms of who aggreessed against who and why and when. If one knew no history one would find Bashir Al-Assad quite amenable. But, we do know history, and therefore we do know Bashir Al-Assad to be a softly spoken, dangerouse despot.

Semper Fi and Happy Memorial Day (and the day after....)!

IN IT'S FORMATIVE YEARS IT WAS HEZBOLLAH (UNDER THE NAME 'ISLAMIC JIHAD') THAT BLEW UP THE AMERICAN MARINE BARRACKS IN BEIRUT, LEBANON DURING THE REAGAN WHITE HOUSE YEARS, MURDERING 241 AMERICAN SERVICEMEN AND 58 FRENCH SERVICEMENT, SOLDIERS PRESENT IN LEBANON AS PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO TONE DOWN THE VIOLENCE OF THE CONTEMPORARY LEBANON CIVIL WAR. BASHAR AL-ASSAD IS A SOFT-SPOKEN, DANGEROUS MAN WITH WHOM AS A NATION WE MUST ENGAGE WITH GREAT CAUTION.