of course my good friend juan miranda.this is obviously at the beginning of a very serious discussion. the questions that we have to face and face the horror, is this all coming to a quick visit to little? can it get the job? is this a realizable goal? or is it a naÏve dream? these have to be face. how do you engage the private sector. juan miranda is done by bureaucratic organizations. finally, above all, how will the government of afghanistan and businesses in afghanistan leadership in afghanistan continue their engagement were they've after all been the pioneers of this and the years to come us in the changing environment in which the country assumption. so obvious and many many other -- much more plentiful questions i'll have to be addressed, we hope, to be one of the settings in which that might occur. thank you very much for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> less than a year after dia's creation, it faced its first great test when the cuban missile crisis brought the world to the edge of war. >> in a fe

juan miranda. [applause] >> good afternoon everyone.hank you for inviting me and inviting us, and thank you minister speaking from delhi in our offices and secretary hormats. i enjoyed both presentation very much. they were well-structured. they were good. so what i will do is not read the presentation which i had but to show slides that i produce and to share with you a few observations and then maybe have time to change notes with the audience here. i thank you very much again for the invitation. now one of the messages i want to convey to you, the first one is to convince you, and i'm sure that you are, but i will try anyway just in case because i don't want to run any risk. the regional cooperation matters and it matters a lot in this part of the world. .. but particularly, it delivers a message about the mission. and why is that important? because we have not been sitting in our laurels for the past 10 years. we haven't been doing that. we've been actually acting, all of a sudden they made state and other countries on the type of p

of course my good friend juan miranda. this is obviously at the beginning of a very serious discussion. the questions that we have to face and face the horror, is this all coming to a quick visit to little? can it get the job? is this a realizable goal? or is it a naÏve dream? these have to be face. how do you engage the private sector. juan miranda is done by bureaucratic organizations. finally, above all, how will the government of afghanistan and businesses in afghanistan leadership in afghanistan continue their engagement were they've after all been the pioneers of this and the years to come us in the changing environment in which the country assumption. so obvious and many many other -- much more plentiful questions i'll have to be addressed, we hope, to be one of the settings in which that might occur. thank you very much for [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> up next former russia specialist who served in the state department and the national se

of course my good friend juan miranda. this is obviously at the beginning of a very serious discussion. the questions that we have to face and face the horror, is this all coming to a quick visit to little? can it get the job? is this a realizable goal? or is it a naÏve dream? these have to be face. how do you engage the private sector. juan miranda is done by bureaucratic organizations. finally, above all, how will the government of afghanistan and businesses in afghanistan leadership in afghanistan continue their engagement were they've after all been the pioneers of this and the years to come us in the changing environment in which the country assumption. so obvious and many many other -- much more plentiful questions i'll have to be addressed, we hope, to be one of the settings in which that might occur. thank you very much fory. -- it is washington, your way. host: we're back with cliff guffey, the president of the american postal workers union, here to talk about the future of the post office. let's begin with how ma