poverty is part of the answer, but some christians say it is also because cambodia endured a genociden the 1970s, during which children were forced to spy on and execute their parents, and the educated and religious communities were nearly wiped out. pastor don brewster believes cambodia suffers from a moral vacuum. >> these families will take a loan to buy a tv, which they know they can never pay, they can't feed themselves, let alone pay for a tv, but they know, hey, i have my ace in the hole, i can sell my daughter. >> reporter: the pastor runs a shelter here, where bella now lives and is finally getting help. >> because i can study and i can get love and i can have -- >> reporter: dan harris, abc news, cambodia. >> and dan will have more reporting next week on all of this. >>> and when we come back, the health care battle, pulses are pounding on capitol hill. we're going to take you behind pounding on capitol hill. we're going to take you behind the scenes. night, why would you go one more round using it ? pounding on capitol hill. we're going to take you behind the scenes. you do

maybe we can learn more from germany, netherlands, france and finland to figure god negative and cambodia. of the discovery's look at those countries there is an exception to every major democracy be stationed in europe and north of us to those of much larger sum sum subsidizing media and journalism a much larger sum a factor in a rare of 40 or 75 times. but we also discovered the largest per capita subsidies in the world and i had never seen any secret police were no one had been beaten up it seem like a free society and some say how can that be? we went back and looked at the economist magazine and a judge the rating of the most democratic countries and the six leading countries based on the most honest government and civil liberties and freedom were the countries that have the heaviest press subsidies and the world norway britain and germany japan. we were low on the list may be that do so because they crushed the private media that did not exist and they brainwash the people. looking at a group called freedom house from the private commercial news media and it was set up to monitor co

but the relevant issue to us is why we're always looking at pol pot's cambodia and he i mean you can't do. why not look at all the other democracies that have constitution, election, civil liberties can have similar to us into what they're doing but maybe we could learn from germany and netherlands, britain, france, finland than we could learn from uganda and pol pot's cambodia. what we discover we look at those countries is that without exception almost every major democracy in east asia and in europe and north of us in canada devotes a much larger federal national government some subsidizing wiccan community media. a much larger sum. a factor from anywhere from 40 to 75 times. this is quite striking when we did it. but we also discovered was my wife is a we can. we go there a lot. i had never seen any sicker please, no one had ever been beaten up by cops to my knowledge. it seemed like an incredibly free society. how can that be? why isn't it it like uganda? we look at the economist magazine that's rating of all the most democratic countries in the world. the economist magazine. in t

charter does not have the power to happen international tribunal it led to the cambodia tribunal and the court and launched a whole new era of accountability all because the state department legal advisor came up with some creative situations and solutions of what they call putting new wine into old bottles and in the book there are countless examples of international law is to be creatively employed an illegal advisers and recognize there are limits to what they could do defined by how our allies would respond and the international community would respond and how law professes will respond either by teeing and who roi a garmin and other journalists that will respond with the united states announces something that seems so clearly outside of international law. with that as our profits come odierno half-hour into the program will above to hear your questions and thoughts and comments. and ron will share some of the incites we have found. we have a microphone. >> probably a pretty simplistic question but who sets international law? >> it is at the heart of the whole issue where does it

american policies with respect to sanctions or rigorous standards and places like iran. , syria, cambodia and a number of other places. what i would like to hear is your thoughts with respect to those two relationships and syria to the extent that the relationships between syria and those countries have been empowered by our sanctions and also to the extent to which perhaps they have come about simply because of the syrian government today. in other words, where can we go from here? >> thank you, senator webb. let me say a couple more things about the relationship between iran and syria. this is a relationship that is troubling, frankly. for 16 years, going back to the previous syrian president, the syrian government has said that a peace agreement with israel, including normalized relations, could be in the syrian interest. i have never heard president ahmadinejad of iran say that. it is not clear where exactly that relationship, the syrian- iran relationship, how they would handle that. they perceive a difference in the states. there may be;yÑ opportunities there. i don't know. i don't

i worked in san francisco for 14 years with almost men, women and children in cambodia and salvador and refugees. i got into that word because i went through the jack caraway phase just hitchhiking across the country, at one point i picked up pneumonia and i landed in san francisco, weighing about 130 pounds in the indigent care hospital and you're guaranteed a bet at the shelter if you put down exercise mats. i did such a good job in the exercise mats that they had me for $400 a month full time. and that was my introduction to social work. it took me 14 years to realize i wasn't getting paid enough so went into journalism. [laughter] >> september 11 happened, and i was working at the "kansas city star" newspaper, and i realized that the clichÉ was true that september 11 among many other things was the d-day for the current generation. so i told my editor i've wanted to go overseas. i didn't tell him that i didn't know where afghanistan was. that i don't really know about it from rambo three your but i just knew i just wanted to go. and i figured out where i was going later. fortunately

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in malaysia and circuit boards that are produced in taiwan and some cloth that was sourced from cambodiawith initially having been grown in texas that then gets assembled partly in a plant in southern china and then gets shipped to a plant in northern china via hong kong within the council's export to hong kong and a hong kong export to china and then it gets sent to the united states, where was that they made? by a company who shares trade on the new york stock exchange or if it's a blackberry phone and you have the same thing, it is sent to the united states for a company that's incorporated in canada who shares trade on the new york stock exchange. national trade statistics to a batch of of capturing those realities. they also a great job of capturing emotions. you can see this more as a system and i want to do kind of a brief thought experiment and talk very, very quickly partly for a fact. and the numbers i'm going to give aren't actual, that they are representative. the one of the only sources of growth from about 2003 to about 2008 by wall street investment banks saw other than cr

the majority of folks that operated in cambodia had presence in vietnam at some point. to qualify, it does not require any stipulated number of days or location where. what i need to do is narrow down the folks who may have only served in cambodia, extracted by air, and find what that population is and get you a better answer. if i might, i will provide that for the record. >> thank you, sir. >> i want to give you the same opportunity we gave mr. berry. i would be happy to recognize you. >> i will try to make it brief. i have had a good visit with the secretary. i enjoyed the visit very much. we talked around a lot of these questions. the first question i talked about was backlog. if you discuss that. as a follow-up question, i am told that word is out that you are experiencing delay -- call your congressman and you will be paid within three to five days. while we appreciate the prompt response to our inquiries, i can only assume this practice puts everyone else further behind. at this point, we have cases of veterans being told their claims take up to eight weeks, whic

in addition, ward soldiers -- isaf soldiers from cambodia joint u.s. soldiers and marines and afghan troops in the recent combat operations and helmand province and more than a dozen isaf troops have died in that operation. we honor their sacrifice and the sacrifice of their families. at the same time, an issue i want to get into further this morning is the continuing shortfall by the nato allies to provide the additional trainers, the nato training mission in afghanistan needs to build the afghan national army and police. it is apparent growing the afghan security forces so that they can take responsibility for insuring their countries security is essential for the success of counterinsurgency strategy and meeting the july 2011 date the president obama said for the start of the reduction of u.s. troops in afghanistan. there is no shortage of recruits for the afghan army thanks in part to the july, 2011 date which is energized afghanistan's leaders to bring in more recruits. according to general bill caldwell, the head of our training mission in afghan

american policies with respect to sanctions or rigorous standards in places like iran, syria, burma, cambodiaer of other places. so what i would really like to hear from you today is your thoughts with respect to those to the relationships and syria and to the extent that the relationships between syria and those two countries have been in power by our sanctions and also to the extent which perhaps they have come about simply because of the recalcitrance of the government today in other words where can we go from here on both of those? >> thank you, center. let me say a couple things about iran and syria which this is a relationship that is troubling frankly. for 16 years going back to the president of the syrian government said that a peace agreement, a peace agreement with israel including normalized relations could be in syrians interest. i have never heard president mahmoud ahmadinejad of iran say that and so it is not clear where exactly that relationship with syria and iran with respect to this key question in the middle east how they would handle that stress they receive a different an

that's what happened in cambodia and a different way and it's happened and other parts of the world. part of a story. in afghanistan is surrounded by, when my system now that i don't just mean continuous neighbors, i mean countries in the region. russia still has an interest in the common border. india has a legitimate interest even though they don't have a border. iran and pakistan are the two lowest important countries with common borders. i just visited two of the others, uzbeckistan and tajikistan and i missed turkmenistan and only because logistics and i will go back. now, having said that i need to stress pakistan and india have historic relationships which people must respect. it is complicated. its origins go back to 1947 and before 1947 ayman and mature student of that history but i don't profess to know a lot about eight, but what happened then affects us today but i need to stress both countries have legitimate security interests, and if one country says the other has no interest, then it's hard to have a dialogue. that is why president obama said we encourage any sort of

not only in afghanistan and iraq but also in cambodia, the balkan, somalia, haiti, and other venues.as these cases illustrate, interagency coordination and the s & r domain revolves around three critical areas. the first area is crisis management, which is conducted by senior diplomats and policymakers. and is aimed at mobilizing international action in the face of looming threats or disasters. a second area is contingency planning and operations orchestrated mainly by functional specialists who span all the relevant areas, it security relief, rule of law, economic development. that are deemed critical for a given response. the third area focuses upon the mobilization and effective targeting of resources. not just the funding and authorities but also human capital. specifically, our capability to deploy teams of expeditionary civilian experts and military professionals who can work together in permissive as well as nonpermissive settings. to re-enforce coordination we have supported the development of common operating structures, familiarization with each agency's culture and opportu

not only in afghanistan and iraq but also in cambodia, the balkan, somalia, haiti, and other venues. as these cases illustrate, interagency coordination and the s & r domain revolves around three critical areas. the first area is crisis management, which is conducted by senior diplomats and policymakers. and is aimed at mobilizing international action in the face of looming threats or disasters. a second area is contingency planning and operations orchestrated mainly by functional specialists who span all the relevant areas, it security relief, rule of law, economic development. that are deemed critical for a given response. the third area focuses upon the mobilization and effective targeting of resources. not just the funding and authorities but also human capital. specifically, our capability to deploy teams of expeditionary civilian experts and military professionals who can work together in permissive as well as nonpermissive settings. to re-enforce coordination we have culture and opportunity to improve habits of cooperation. related to these efforts i understand you have had an