interests and destabilize our allies. pulling out of the nato operation would also undermine our nato partners who after years of producting by -- prodding by us have finally begun to take more responsibility for ensuring security and stability in the region. how could we then argue that they must maintain their commitments to our allied efforts in afghanistan when we have just pulled the rug out from under them in libya? we must not let our frustration with the president's contempt for congress cloud our judgment and result in our taking action that would harm our standing, our credibility, and interest in the region. but clearly we must speak out. this resolution offered by speaker boehner would send an unambiguous warning to the president that he must either change course in his dealings with congress and the american people or have the decisions regarding u.s. involvement in libya taken out of his hands. it states a fundamental truth that i assume most in this chamber agree with that u.s. forces must only be used to d

they are our allies, but it's an antiquated organization. the united states is paying 75% of the cost of nato and nato can't even take out a two-bit dictator like gaddafi? why. because we have enabled our allies, providing their defense for them, for decades. and instead of spending money on their defense as ty said 2% of their g.d.p. they are spending the money on social programs, their money on lower corporate tax rate etc. i would say yes, gaddafi is a bloody dictator. he's a terrorist. he did not attack us. let us remember who left the lockerbie bomber out early as well. we need to get out of libya. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from florida. mr. rooney: i yield one minute to the distinguished gentleman from ohio, the speaker of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio, the speaker, is recognized. the speaker: let me thank my colleague for yielding. let me say that i'm disappointed that we have reached this point here today. mr. speaker, it didn't have to come to this. nearly

certainly, the allies didn't think they could be trusted to do what they wanted. i'm sorry it's a poor answer, i'm just not qualified to answer any better. >> thank you. >> i think if i know my history fairly correctly that the role of israel after world war ii which was the implementation of the darfur treaty or agreement, what was eisenhower's view of the reluctance of israel to withdraw? um, from, you were saying from the gaza? >> yeah. that you're asking about that, you're not asking about the creation of israel? >> no, no. i'm asking about, you know, when he was president and, um, they were, you know, going through what, you know, how israel was taking over some of the territories that were not involved in the agreement. um, what was his feeling about that? >> if you're talking about the balfour agreement, i only know about the suez situation in if gaza and the gulf in particular. i'm not qualified to speak about the rest of it. but he certainly put enormous pressure on israel to withdraw after the suez crisis. and he appealed to the congress on february 20th

today just five of 28 allies, the u.s., u.k., france, greece along with albania exceed 2% g.d.p. spending on defense. regretfully, but realistically, the situation is highly unlikely to change. the relevant challenge for us today, therefore, is no longer the total of defense spending by these allies, but how these the dwindling resources are allocated, and for what priorities? while some have funded military that do not meet the 2% threshold, some have managed to punch well above their weight because of the way they use the resources they have. in the libyan operation, they have provided 12% of allied strike aircraft and yet have struck about 1/3 of the targets. del whichmen and canada are also making contributions to the strike mission. these countries have and their constrained resources found a way to do the training and buy the equipment and field the forms to make a military -- a military constitution. and despite need support ongoing missions, as has been evidenced, too many allies have been unwilling to fundamentally change how they set priorities and allocate resources. t

interests and destabilize our allies. pulling out of the nato operation would also undermine our nato partners who after years of producting by -- prodding by us have finally begun take more responsibility for ensuring security and stability in the region. how could we then argue that they must maintain their commitments to our allied efforts in afghanistan when we have just pulled the rug out from under them in libya? we must not let our frustration with the president's contempt for congress cloud our judgment and result in our taking action that would harm our standing, our credibility, and interest in the region. but clearly we must speak out. this resolution offered by speaker boehner would send an unambiguous warning to the president that he must either change course in his dealings with congress and the american people or have the decisions regarding u.s. involvement in libya taken out of his hands. it states a fundamental truth that i assume most in this chamber agree with that u.s. forces must only be used to defe

and its european allies are having its way in putting this through to the u.n. consultations are continuing behind closed doors security council members to introduce a draft resolution that has been co-sponsored by france germany and portugal that calls for an international condemnation of the syrian government. down of anti-government protesters it urges countries not to sell any weapons to damascus it also calls for an independent investigation into what has taken place in syria over the past three months but these are these consultations are ongoing because there hasn't been a consensus reached despite the aggressive campaigning that has been taking place by britain and france we do know and we have heard in the past officials from russia saying that they do not support and they don't think it's in the best intentions to slap syria with a resolution we did hear from the russian ambassador to the u.n. to try to work in saying that he believes that diplomacy should be used for solving political problems not creating new armed conflicts and here's a little bit o

allie rasmus is in again for sal this morning. allie, how's traffic so far? >>> it's looking good so far, pam. good morning to you. good morning to everyone out there. i'm filling in for sal this morning. let's go outside look at the east shore freeway 80 eastbound as you head towards the bay bridge everything looks good there. same story over at the toll plaza. an easy time getting on to the bay bridge if you're traveling at this hour. no problems over there. but over on eastbound highway 4 there is a report of a traffic collision just west of franklin canyon golf course. chp is on their way to the scene there. time is 4:39. here's steve. >>> all right, allie, thank you very much. little north wind right along the sonoma and marin coast. point rays lighthouse a northeast wind from south golden gate it's clear. temperatures come up today. warmest day of the week. inland we could see our first 90s of the season. very mild lows compared to where we've been lately. little cool for some. 52 san francisco. 59 concord and 58 fairfield. still a westerly breeze thoug

allie rasmus back again in for sal. good morning, allie. >>> good morning, dave. so far so good out there on the roadways. that earlier traffic hazard we told you about on the peninsula has now been cleared away. let's look at some of the bridges starting with the san mateo bridge. things look good there. no delays to report. same story over at the toll plaza as you make your way on to the bay bridge. shouldn't have any problems or any trouble there. over at highway 4 at bay point it's a little busier than when we last saw it. but on highway 4 west of here west of this picture near franklin canyon golf course, the chp is still in the process of cleaning up an earlier accident. at last check they were calling for a flat bed tow truck to head out there. be aware of it in that area. it's 5:08. here's steve. >>> allie, thank you. very good morning. some fog but not nearly as much as we've had the past couple mornings. high pressure is nosing in. and from the pacific now it's not a whopper or anything, but it will give some of the first 90-degree temperatures since ear

let's go back over to allie in for sal today. any problems, allie?lot of people may be on vacation this week because we haven't had any major problems to tell you about all morning long. look at the san mateo bridge. traffic moving smoothly. lit crowded as you head east but no problems or delays in that direction. at 280/880 in san jose no problems. 280 northbound highway 17 top part of the screen you can see traffic zipping along there as well. over to the east bay on 24 and lafayette no problems as you make your way towards the caldecott tunnel. time now 6:20. here's steve. >>> allie, thank you. sunshine, warmer weather today for many. a little tricky by the coast. just a little tricky north of the golden gate. fog is getting chewed up. san francisco has some sun but still low clouds over the bay. question of how far south will that go go. could be a little longer but over the bay as well it will get chewed up. high pressure is our fair weather friend. also the first time in a long, long time. how long, steve? about five weeks that we'll see any 90

is taking its allies in the region. well i would be a little less strong in my terminology going to very loyal us ally ok. ok fine give you more details than i can but he is someone who we could work with who was on again off again not not the greatest ally actually and part of that is that many elements in the country don't want you to have a role there don't want to be fighting al qaeda and he's not that strong i mean yemen is a very difficult country to rule and the central government's writ doesn't go very far so he never was great shakes from the american point of view and now he's even less useful than i i joined the ambassador in doubting that he actually is complicit with all carter or benefiting from carter but that certainly is an accusation from his opponents that in both jobs and zinjibar two towns that are now under arrest on this rule that he has fomented this has has allowed this to happen i doubt it but that is nonetheless a an important accusation in yemen these days mr ambassador is salo a worth a wort

that took the allies by surprise. virtually everybody. in the published version of patton's diary he has an entry of nov. twenty-fifth, nineteen forty-four, where he says furthermore the first army is making a terrible mistake in leaving the eighth court static as it is highly probable the germans are building up east of them. in fact what happened was the germans were building up piece of them. the eighth corps was the epicenter of the great bulge attack that took everyone by surprise some three weeks later. patton obviously had quite a sense of what the germans are doing even though that wasn't part of his sector. but we look at the hand written page. these are both library of congress. the right page which has the quote about the first army making a terrible mistake, and the typewritten version of the diary. box 1 has his handwritten diary which contains no entry about the first army, about any mistake of the first army or the germans building up. it is hard to find the genesis of the discrepancy. obviously at some point patton knew hi

and its western allies believe that syria is attempting to build construct a covert. structure in the area that. specter's want to go to to build possibly nuclear weapons this is what is going to be discussed in the security council now if a resolution once a resolution is proposed if it is adopted syria could be slapped with sanctions obviously this is a lot of political pressure that is being placed upon syria by the u.s. and its western allies and so at this point we should mention that there was only seventeen states that voted yes to push this through from the i.a.e.a. to the security council there were six knows including china and russia and about eleven its abstentions so we see that there is a divide here by the u.s. and its european allies are are having its way in putting this through to the u.n. . draft resolution condemning government clubs demonstrations is that right thing to be passed any time soon. well we could see we could tell you that consultations are continuing behind closed doors security council members those consultations began a day ago when

how's it going, allie? >>> pam, i think there are a lot of people on vacation or drivers taking the day off because there's not a lot of traffic out there. show you the cameras outside starting with highway 4 at bay point. no delays as you head westbound. and over on the east shore freeway it's a little crowded as you make your way towards the bay bridge toll plaza. but traffic is moving at the speed limit there. and over on the san mateo bridge traffic moving nicely in both directions. time now is 6:10. here's steve. >>> allie, thank you. we have fog out there but high pressure going to nose in for about two days, maybe two and a half. so warmer monday and tuesday. wednesday's kind of questionable. i've seen a couple forecast projections. one says that's it screeching halt starts to cool things down. another says hold on inland for one more day. no doubt about it for monday and tuesday although there's still plenty of fog. this is an inland warm up more than a coast or bay. 52 to 58. low clouds and then al

or are allie-- our allies' training? >> the exact year would be hard for me to pin down, but there has been a training effort almost as long as we have been there. my own personal experience is that it was well underway although under-resourced in 2006 and 2007. >> who has gone through the training program that we have had? >> about 300,000. >> so, currently, according to the information you gave that we have in front of us, we have 305,000 total target end strength by the end of this year for the ansf. so, we have trained 300,000 and we sitll h -- still have 300,000 and nobody has walked away like they did in iraq? you are saying we have 100% retention? >> no. we do have retention problems. >> i would like to get that number when you have the chance. >> yes, ma'am. >> my second question comes to the whole issue of a corrupt government. i start from the standpoint that the first time i met president karzai, told him i thought -- i was reading in "newsweek" article that called him the mayor of kabul. in my last visit ther

i don't think, you know, the soviet union at that time was our ally. don't think there was any -- i think they did what they could, but thanks to the germans the russians were where they were. and i think short of suddenly making war on our ally who had just defeated the germans, it makes no sense to me. and certainly, i mean, roosevelt famously thought that his charm could, perhaps, manipulate stalin to some degree. i think he underestimated the degree to which stalin was psychopathic about things and impervious to the sort of charm that roosevelt could exert. um, but there's a lot of evidence if you look at roosevelt's correspondence, certainly, toward the end of the war that he was under no illusions about either stalin or soviet intentionings at the end of the war -- intentions at the end of the war. now, where that would have led, i mean, i tend to think the truman administration was the roosevelt administration as it would have proceeded. it certainly was many of the same people. um, so to answer your question, i think that roosevelt was, um, his

and its western allies pressure political pressure is mounting the u.n. and i are clearly being used as tools and avenues to crack down on syria but as we just heard from ambassador churkin not all nations agree that there is this much pressure is going to help the circumstance it might even exacerbate it but of course we'll keep our viewers are dated on any developments as they take place. we've just heard the u.n. atomic watchdog is looking into syria's alleged nuclear activities claiming a facility distorted two thousand and seven was an undeclared nuclear site. from the institute for democracy and cooperation says the move is intended to turn up the heat on damascus. i think what we're seeing are the western powers ratcheting up the pressure they're trying to increase their room for maneuver so in the draft resolution you have crimes against humanity you have a threat to international peace and security and in parallel you have this cranking up now of pressure from the international atomic energy authority so i think this is a way of increasing the nu

let us not repeat that message to our nato allies, to our european allies, to all the world that america cannot be counted on. at the same time congress was voting to undermine their mission as they flew to kosovo. in recent months people across the middle east have bravely stood to demand that their government respect their fundamental rights. i have stood with the gentleman from indiana on half of human rights around the world. the libyan people who have been subject to the dictatorship of muammar gaddafi has more blood on his hands of american bloods on his hands than any other person than osama bin laden in the last three decades. we're among those who insisted that enough was enough. gaddafi responded by unleashing widespread violence and threatening countless lives, publicly promising to go door to door and kill those who stood against him. in response to this threat against gaddafi against those civilian people, the european union, the arab league, united nations security council and a unanimous nato called for action to protect libyan civilians. the united states is participating

empire and allies launched nine days ago and already has more than 10 million users. nbc bay area's business and tech reporter scott budman has a look at the game. >> reporter: the latest advance in social gaming or the next bur barrier to you getting anything done at work. zynga is launching its newest game "empire and allies" in 12 languages with even more islands for you to defend. a mix the game's executive producer calls citiville meets risk. >> empires and allies really blends a lot of the familiar mechanics that our players have become accustomed to in cityville like city building and managing resources with a more traditional, more hard-core game play elements like fighting, being involved in a single player campaign and telling this great involving story with many different characters and villains. >> reporter: it's true the new game brings new experiences. you can help your friends or fight your friends. it's zynga's biggest launch yet. >> and players can spend points on tanks and airplanes. they can also spend those points to progress past quests that they

let us not repeat that message to our nato allies, to our european allies, to all the world that america cannot be counted on. at the same time congress was voting to undermine their mission as they flew to kosovo. in recent months people across the middle east have bravely stood to demand that their government respect their fundamental rights. i have stood with the gentleman from indiana on behalf of human rights around the world. the libyan people who have been subject to the dictatorship of muammar gaddafi has more blood on his hands of american bloods on his hands than any other person than osama bin laden in the last three decades. we're among those who insisted that enough was enough. gaddafi responded by unleashing widespread violence and threatening countless lives, publicly promising to go door to door and kill those who stood against him. in response to this threat against gaddafi against those civilian people, the european union, the arab league, united nations security council and a unanimous nato called for action to protect libyan civilians. the united states is participati

and key allies but whether u.s. members. since 2009 this has improved for renewed emphasis on proliferation security initiative is important now more than 96 member states and now they're members i have to improve training during exercises and improve coordination and focus on following the money. that is where we can hit north korea purpose u.s. rock japan and other allies need to work international law enforcement to get this done. we must go after not company by company but networks and friendly nations and individual north koreans known to support proliferation analysts said activity is. some of you probably saw in the news that there was a russian built georgian registered car craft -- craft with the equipment bound for iran that was caught in thailand. it went through five front companies. one of those was registered in new zealand. i am not saying they want to do business with north korea but that shows north koreans are willing to go through all of these elaborate steps tactics techniques and procedures to throw us o

many allied nations went through similar reforms some two decades ago.re ready to provide our assistance if we are asked to do so. the debate will not end this week, but we do need to start the debate now because now the tide has turned against qaddafi and we all need to prepare for what comes next. >> and with that, i am ready for your questions. >> please do not forget to introduce yourselves. >> secretary general, you just said that you could not imagine nato playing a dominant role following a ceasefire. what do you mean by this? do you mean that it would be the u.n., the african union, the european union or whoever else but not need to know who would provide the controllers and observers on the ground required for verifying the implementation of a cease-fire? >> allow me to underline the following. firstly, it is about the libyan people. it is up to them to shape the future of libya. they are to do so in working with the international community, and more especially with the united nations. my answer to your question is this. it is said to the u.n.,

allie, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, pam, it appears firefighters are now getting a handle on this fire. if you look behind us, this is the building we're talking about. this is the kappa sigma fraternity near the san jose state university campus. and you can see that there are no longer these big orange flames shooting from the roof of the building. there are three area ladders pointing their water hoses directly onto the building. we saw a little bit of smoke a short time ago. let's show you what it looks like live right now from overhead in news chopper 2. there is a lot of damage to this building, but you can see the flames for the most part seem to have been put out, and at this point they're kind of shooting water on some of those hot spots and making sure nothing flares up again. now, there were 75 firefighters working this fire at one point. san jose fire department had to call for mutual aid from santa clarita because this -- santaclara, you can see from the pictures about an hour ago, at one

ally. that prompted the understatement of the day. >> our relationship with pakistan is extremely important. it is also complicated. >> reporter: on capitol hill there was outrage. >> how long do we support governments that lie to us? >> most governments lie to each other. that's the way business gets done. >> do they also -- do they also arrest the people that help us when they say they're allies? >> sometimes. sometimes. >> not often. >> and sometimes they send people to spy on us and they're our close allies. >> reporter: rooting out the enemy in pakistan may now be harder than ever. >> if the united states doesn't have local pakistani informants, then it's going to be very, very difficult for the united states to stage operations inside pakistan. and that's exactly what the pakistani government wants. >> reporter: with the u.s. handing over control of the war in neighboring afghanistan by 2014, gates says at least there is an end in sight. daniel andll right, >> all right, john, thank y

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but we do have allie rasmus here. she's going to help you get to where you need to go. >>> that's right. i'm in for sal. sal works very hard and needs some much needed r and r. i'm filling in for him. let's show you the cameras outside. this is the east shore freeway as you make your way towards the bay bridge toll plaza. it's not open like it was an hour ago. there are more cars on the road but everyone moving at the speed limit. no problems there. taking a look at the toll plaza. this looks pretty empty. just a few cars, few headlights coming over the bridge there. but in the opposite direction check out our camera overlooking 101 going through san francisco. it is very foggy as you make your way east towards the bridge. so drive carefully because the fog could affect your visibility. that's something that steve has been talking about all morning, there's a blanket of fog out there. >>> that is correct. thank you. yes, we have more in the way of fog. now some of it's low clouds but it will burn off much sooner today

and her allies leave. and and how amenable will cause i need to negotiate with the taliban how strong will his government be to what extent will tribal factions really start to erupt because it henry kissing a wrote a fantastic op ed piece in the new york times herald tribune last week or a couple weeks ago in which he talked about the way to get out of afghanistan and he said and kissing and his inimitable way back through history and he says afghanistan. and always pulls together to fight off any kind of foreign occupation and once the foreign occupiers leave then it comes back to its own tribal factions and so really i think the real question is i'm sure it's very difficult for offices in the u.s. army and the u.s. forces and other armed forces that have been serving in afghanistan to see that we're negotiating with the taliban i'm sure that it's very difficult for those families of soldiers that have been lost to see that but i think the real question is to what extent does cause i and his all ministra

now let's talk about relations with hamas you have been criticizing most who you call your allies for its relations and contacts with comments but the the the a policy of isolation of hamas has proved to be counterproductive venture. you know even among friends there are differences it is very clear allows that we have differences in some ways. as a u.s. administrator and as your communities and i will be so busy to reason it's not suddenly where we show it is the last two years we have differences we although we share the same interests as we believe talking about us fighting to always in dealing with radical islam economic interests and so forth we might have differences and it's us regard yes we we argue was a calm us and still organization is a radical islamist movement calling actually for the destruction of the state a phrase that can't be tolerated and by anyone now we don't. you know we don't control anymore the gaza strip and it had become as a result of a mystery turn a situation to be the second dislike entity in the region the first is in iran and the second is in gaza sle

for many allied nations these were the first military casualties they have taken since the end of the second world war. frankly, four years ago i never would have expected the alliance to sustain this operation at this level for so long, much less add significantly more forces in 2010. it is a credit to the brave isaf troops on the ground, as well as to the allied governments who have made the case for the afghanistan mission under difficult political circumstances at home. over the past two years, the u.s. has completed the dramatic shift in military priorities away from iraq and towards afghanistan, providing reinforcements to allies who courageously had been holding the line in the south. these new resources - combined with a new strategy - have decisively changed the military momentum on the ground, with the taliban ejected from their former strongholds. while president obama is still considering the size and pacing of the troop drawdown beginning in july, i can tell you there will be no rush to the exits. the vast majority of the surge forces that arrived over the past two years

that they employ and we have seen in the past the united states allies. have been to that fact on treat such as iraq. and i look. we might so. any american intervention in the region the united. international community should morally support the democratic movement in the region so democracy on stronger in the middle east and north african region let's talk about the context of the asio and its member countries and its relationship with the u.s. in many ways because yesterday i was hoping that russia and china has opened up avenues for russia and china to get more involved in central asia and the middle east is that at the expense of a friendship with the u.s. it's actually causing friction with the last all the friction in. russia and china are sending powers into the world and that goal unfortunately the united states and the west their allies are extending to economic problems. economic tensions that they have what the u.s. what the china and russia do not. as being the most problem is that china is very much interested in central asia and. in the midd

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