we moved away from pakistan which had been our most allied of allies as some predict and impose sanctions on them. we just walked away even though the conflict went ahead without dustin a different form. we saw of course in the 90's with the taliban taking hold in pakistan giving space to al qaeda it was literally the road to 9/11. so we are backhanded engaged again both militarily and afghanistan and economically, politically in pakistan. so, if we think this war is costing too much and me to and involvement we need to think about what would happen if the after serious and compelling to attack us at home once had a clear field ahead of the mexican time. so, worse are expensive kirsten the lives of young men and women in the costs to the budget. the defeats in disengagement can be even more expensive and i think alice painful and expensive house our engagement is, increasingly less so in iraq because we helped bring that country to a better place but certainly in afghanistan the cost of disengagement would be far higher. >> host: dearborn heights michigan joe of the independent plan. >> c

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it takes allies. it takes partners.takes alliances to essentially move forward in the world we are living in. as we increase the number of troops that go into afghanistan, so did nato. that was much against the gramm of what many people thought would happen as recently as one year ago. from the nato commitments, they intend to commit a ratio of about two-one or 40,000 troops there now. they will go up as we have troops over the next year. in terms of our planning, we focus on this all lots. we are not starting from a clean sheet of paper. we have been focused on other potential areas for a long time. . that to give ample incentive it to cease developing nuclear arms. the assumption that you are clear in your mind that the iranians are engaged in developing nuclear arms? >> correct. i believe they are on a path, as strategic intent to develop nuclear weapons, and have been for some time. about striking iran, also has a destabilizing outcome. in both of those cases i worry about the unintended consequences. even for the o

this is the type of strategic reassurance our allies need, and is the key to stability in asia. with respect to the mpr, we must be caucus at the end of an additional reduction in our strategic capabilities will only invite china to seek strategic parity with the united states. in closing today, we'll hear about the need for candid dialogue and improved engagement with china. as you know, we made changes to the pentagon's annual report on china's military power in this year's defense bill to focus on those areas. while i believe that coming to the table is vital to avoid misunderstanding and this calculation, we must be mindful that it takes two to make a relationship work, and that our priority focus must always be on protecting america's national security interest. this is truly a time and time again and we appreciate your appearing to this point. thank you, mr. chairman. >> i thank the gentleman. a word to the members. we will be back in our old haunt, the community room, around the first of next month. so it will be much more convenient for us. it's going to look very, very

and burt brazil -- and brazil is one of our major allies.those countries that are economically stable, in particular chile, colombia, peru, we can work with them very well. there's probably no problem because economic stability has provided strong support of open democratic societies. countries like venezuela and ecuador have tremendous political problems and will always have them ver. host: arlington, va., on a republican line. caller: it is interesting because we are talking about the governmental systems of latin america. maybe we should be talking about their economic situation. most of them are socialists. brazil is a socialist country. zelaya tried to change the constitution in order to extend his reign and the military stepped in and ousted him. there is a cause and affect their parenere. \ hugo chavez in venezuela is a wacky gag paruy. the russians were playing word games with these guys and offering to build nuclear power plants for them. in exchange for natural gas. i think there is a threat there with russia and iran and with vene

of allies.osed sanctions on them. we just walked away even though the conflict went ahead without us in a different form. what we saw in the 1990's with the taliban taking hold in pakistan, giving space to al qaeda, it was literally the road to 9/11. so, we're back, engaged again, both militarily in afghanistan and economically/politically in pakistan. so, if we think this war is costing too much and need to and our involvement, we need to think about what would happen if the adversaries who combined to attack us at home once have a clear field in front of them for a second time. wars are expensive. first in the lives of young men and women, and then to our budget. but defeat and disengagements can be even more expensive. as painful and expensive as our engagement is, increasingly less so in iraq because we have helped bring that country to a better place, but certainly in afghanistan the cost of disengagement would be far higher. host: dearborn heights, mich., on the independent line. joe? call

the indigenous allies had severe leadership problems. this has often been ignored by senior officials in the united states. in vietnam after we entered the ground war in 1965 general westmoreland ignored the forces for several years and let them try to sort it out which is sort of nice in deference toward sovereignty. the reality was it allowed problems to fester. in iraq in the early years, they did not pay attention to the iraqis were choosing as police commanders with unfortunate results. smarter great power allies came up with the variety of genius ways to deal with this problem. some of them in afghanistan, i would emphasize the personal senior decisionmakers should have the greatest knowledge to look at the different officers in the past to look at what might work here. the highest risk and highest reward was the covert action to replace the chief of state. this worked sometimes. in vietnam it was a catastrophic failure. in 1963 we orchestrated the overview of south vietnam's president. he was better than a lot of people and the pe

and is responsible for some of the most serious events that take the lives and injury american and allied forces. there's no question about that. and we have discussed this and looked for ways to deal with it, and i see signs of movement forward, but i think with all respect to all of you that continued discussion of this issue in public works against the goal which i know all of you share in this room which is the reduction in the risk to our american forces in afghanistan. >> and i might add, our allies speaking of which we have the danish and the georgian ambassador here, and the georgian ambassador has a question. bahtu? >> [inaudible] you mentioned the neighboring country cans, an important role, and my question is how the processes that are developing in and around iran is affecting or maybe affecting the stronger role -- >> how the processes what, sir? >> developing in iran and around -- >> oh, in iran. okay. >> the domestic policy. >> well, first of all, before i answer your question since you're from georgia, i do want to acknowledge the batallion that's being trained now. when t

this is part where al ordinate their allies -- our nato allies, falling 90% short of their commitments i am hopeful that they can do better in terms of trainer. these people are not putting their lives on the line. these of the people that did the initial training away from the field of battle. there is no excuse why nato cannot do better than 10% of its committed trainers. there is a third chart which we just have prepared, which is this chart. without taking some of the -- we took off the numbers of some of those charts and added other numbers. this is in terms of the growth and capability of the afghan army. we tried to put it in one place where we can see whether or not the afghan army and the police are making the progress which is so it is central for them to take responsibility for their -- which is so essential for them to take responsibility for their own country. how many in the army, how many combat troops, but a capability of those battalions, those numbers represent battalions there -- various levels of capability. how many are partnered? we took those numbers off the char

this is the type of strategic reassurance our allies need and is the key to stability in asiab a word to the members. we will be back in our old haunts, the committee room, around the 1st of next month. so it will be much more convenient for us than it's going to look very, very good. i'm very pleased with what i saw yesterday. each of the witnesses today, as i understand it, have statements to make and we will call on admiral willard first. admiral? >> thank you, chairman skelton, representative mckeehan, and members ever this committee. chairman, thank you very much for introducing my wife donna who joins me today. she's been a military spouse for 36 years in addition to being a mom and a grandmother, and she's now very much a joint spouse at pacific command with oversight of the needs of army, navy, air force, marine corps and coast guard families. as well as families of our civilian workers with pay com. i'm pleased to have her here as we. thank you, sir. i've now been in command of the united states pacific command for about three months. and although i may be new to pay com, i'v

and a group of cartoons on hitler's allies which are very telling. this was not a debate that was taking place, the american -- the new york times followed the government line. the others were on the other side. the american public's ruthless anti-japanese bias in the cartoons, even dr. seuss, are filled with caricatures of the japanese. pictured as being ready to attack the u.s. and a fifth column, people who should be put in concentration camps. by contrast, the nazi silver shirts were constantly being protected by the supreme court whenever the government tried to crack down on them and there was an intent to do all sorts of criminal things. none of these criteria were applied to the japanese, were moved into concentration camps. as some of you may know, in hawaii there were too many japanese to do anything of the kind and nothing ever happened. there was no hint of activity. no word of possible sabotage. a controlled experiment between hawaii where the japanese were in greater numbers and closer to the homeland who were totally patriotic american

and he did not have the backing either of the spanish communist party, or of the allies. and so they were doomed to being exterminated, which is what happened. so the whole question of the future of europe, was a major theme in the pages of pm and the cartoons of the whole group of cartoons here on hitler's allies. which are very telling. but this was of course not a debate that was taking place in main street u.s.a., and it was not a lot of debate taking place in the press. the "new york times" followed, and this is not the talk of the hearst press and the others who were so far on the other side, that they were at going. the final thing, of course, with pm was much the fault as the rest of the american public was in its ruthless anti-japanese bias and the cartoons, even a dr. seuss are filled with caricatures of the japanese that are pictured as being readied to attack the u.s., ready to be a stiff column, people who should be put in concentration camps and so on and so forth. and as we know, by contrast the nazi -- the german silver shirts and others in yorkville were

allies that have supported us.who are anxious to continue to support us and to see stability there particularly in the gulf area and not see it -- not see it break out into any kind of conflict. um, briefly, i talk about the -- what i call the best military i have served with since 1968. our young men and women that serve right now. extraordinary. people who sat and paid the ultimate sacrifice, have been wounded. and whose lives have changed forever. who have families. that have been there. unbelievable in terms of support. whout whom we won be close to where we are and in either of the two fights. and two to whom i believe particularly for those that have given so much. we owe an eternal debt this. is the kind of thing that we need to focus on. i think as a country to make sure that those that sacrificed so much, are well cared for not just by the department of defense or the va, when they return but literally by communities through the the land. they have gone to war, is sacrificed much. done what we have asked t

allies, u.s.s allies would only moderate influence and fund the strategy shaped and led by afghans themselves. we got to come up with way to do that simply. and that simplicity -- has to be based on an intimate understanding of these folks, so that we could stop losing the game of let's you and him fight. looking forward. and the next 18 months. i don't believe and i'm late to this, that we ought to cut and run. and if you asked me a few months ago, i would have said get out. i do believe that we must transform ourselves. and we have got some how to get to the point where we could afford this involvement, the -- notwithstanding the polls and in afghanistan, and polls in the united states. and they indicate that we have a very limited time. with which we could continue to invest blood and pressure. we have to address the structural problems, i don't know if we could do this. the way that we have gone to war, there are -- there are thick field manuals and regulations, army regulations, on how to dea

a reliable ally. what america needs to do with pakistan is a policy of constancy and consistency, of controlling, encouraging, pressuring, supporting, helping, correcting, screaming at -- engagement at all times and at all levels, bearing in mind that we should always keep the civilian government at the top of the agenda of who we deal with. the stakes in afghanistan and pakistan today are enormous. they are enormous not just in south asia, but they are enormous for americans. this is the place from which the attack of september 11 was planned and coordinated. recent events have underscored the risk that we continue to run. they may have been orchestrated in yemen this time, but the head of the snake, as far as we know, remains in pakistan and afghanistan. the stakes are also enormous for this president. wars consume presidencies. this is now america's longest war. it is bound to consume this presidency as well. the president's advisers,. gigolo a those who worry about domestic issues and health care

cultivate allies, neutralize opponents. you are not going to get very far on issues you care about that you want to influence if you are not cultivating allies. it could be trying to cultivate alleys who are decision makers but also allies in town to build that coalition of support. other companies or other interests, it is not unusual for us to reach out on the immigration issue and have conversations with the labor unions to try to find common ground that we can work out on these issues. cultivate allies to move it forward. it doesn't have to be a trade association. building those allies are important. neutralizing opponent to. if your opponent is espousing one line of attack, if you are doing your job and lobbying and you think that line of attack doesn't hold water, point those out. they are trying to do the same with your approach. neutralize opponents, do your homework. bring it to the decisionmaker and let them make a decision. lend a hand on other issues. a company like ours learns over time that it is not just abou

one of his chief allies in the senate, -- accepted an apology tonight from one of his chief allies in the senate, senator harry reid. harry reid had said america was ready to elect a light skinned african-american. today, harry reid issued a statement, saying he sincerely apologize for offending any and all americans, especially african-americans. it >>> people in northern california are a bit shaken up after 6.5 earthquake. the u.s. geological survey says it was centered about 30 miles off the coast. it shook buildings and knocked out power to several coastal communities, but no reports of injuries or any major damage. >>> the phrase "there is no use crying over spilled milk" had new meeting today and nature. some drivers could not believe with assault on a highway overpass. a tractor-trailer overturned, spilling thousands of gallons of milk. it froze and look like ice cream covering the road. >> wow, messy situation. >>> the cold weather in the northeast and mid-atlantic, all the way to florida. miami today, only 40 degrees, wind chill advisory, wind chill warning because it may dro

and that impact is already being felt by friend and foe, ally and adversary. if our ultimate aim is to earn a place as a good international citizen, we must abandon any signs of arrogance, any act of prideful self-assertion and begin to constrict and constrain our often irresponsible power and act as one among many. to do that, we must undertake two things. first, for giveness of past since and outreach and it has been engaged in relentlessly. that's the apology tour, from president's eisenhower's role in 1953 to the first use of the atomic bomb and mistreatment of native americans for allegedly disparraging and disrespecting europe by not recognizing its quote leading role in the world and and might that be because it has lived under america's protection for 60 years, but i digress. above all, we must apologize for showing insufficient respect for the muslim world, this from the leader of a nation that has conducted five military campaigns in the last 20 years, each of which was intended to defend defenseless muslims against -- and to deliver them from their

allies, u.s. and its allies with only moderate, influence, and fund the strategy shaped by afghans themselves. we have got to come up with a way to do that simply. that simplicity has to be based on an intimate understanding of these folks so that we can stop losing the game of let's you and him fight. looking forward the next 18 months, i don't believe, and i am linked to this, that we ought to cut and run. if you had asked me just a few months ago, i would have said, get out. i do believe that we must transform ourselves. we have got somehow to get to the point where we can afford this involvement. now polls in afghanistan, polls in the united states indicate that we have a very limited time which we can continue to invest blood. we have to address our s tructural problems. they don't know if we can do this. the way that we have gone to war, there are field manuals and regulations, army regulations on how to deal with contractors on the battlefield. the united states agency for international dev

export control procedures and laws in order to enable that, and the willingness and ability of our allies to buy our equipment. that will go a long way to determine how affordable our programs are. >> a lot of your headlines in the coming year will be about corporate strategy in the defense industry as a reaction to and in response to the things we're talking about here, including interest rates and other phenomenon in the general economy. i think this will be a year where the capitalization of the industry turns over, i don't know what the net of that will be, but there will be a lot of new capital in and capital out. >> lot of private equity money. >> private equity, basic positioning issues at stake, how much if at all will diversify, whether anybody will try a g.e. 1992 focus strategy. big news on that front. >> however, i think a lot of us thought we were going off a cliff and now what the numbers indicate we're not. it might be a soft landing for the sector so there could be less pressure for consolidation, so that's why the comment has been made that given the lag times everybody h

district judge, and the xt step is ally motions. there will likelbe motions by the defense tsuppress statements that the young man-made to the fbi shortly after heas arrested, before he was represted by counsel. there is alslikely to be motions for discovery. the defense will be trng to find out extly what evidence theovernment has. and m told that the lawys if they don't already have thewill have to get probably securi clearances bause some of the discovery in this ca ll be classified inrmation. >> suarez: paul eganrom the fedel courthouse in detroit,hanks a lot. thank you, rain. >> woodruff: next, how the nearuccess of that would-be terrort has raised questions of how well intelligences being gaered and analyzed. it began last novemb, with the massacre at fort hd, texas. the accused nman, army major nidal hassan, haescaped the notice of u. intelligence ofcials, despite signs of his growing islamiradicalism. then came ristmas day, and the failed attempt to blow up northwest airler. again, the suspe, umar farouk abdulmutallab, andis

the darkest days of world war ii that guantanamo provided the greatest service to u.s., cuba and alliednterests. in 1942, and for much of 1943, guantanamo serve as the caribbean hub of an interlocking convoy system that provided protection for allied ships, particularly ships, marine, merchant marine ships coming up from places like a rube that were carrying oil or other precious strategic supplies that we wanted to go either to new york or to halifax, to aid the allied cause. the sheltering of these merchant marine ships with a destroyer escort, in some cases planes flying overhead, turn guantanamo into the caribbean hub of this interlocking convoy system. and eventually it persuaded admiral donuts of the third reich to withdraw back to their home port in germany. for time, guantanamo was the second only to new york as the busiest port in the western hemisphere. and because the convoy system worked, strategic wartime material not only controlling them with bok side and sugar, and the u.s. military presence in cuba also incurred the fascists and nazis from trying to turn cuba into a car

al qaeda has allies, people in the military speak of a syndicate. there are very few al qaeda core people in afghanistan now. it's probably in the tens. chris: right. >> on any given day. but there are hundreds and hundreds of people who work with them, where -- who are their proxies, from the networks that i mentioned. and they're coming at our people. and they go to school on us. they are running operations against the agency. this is a perfect example. there are other examples i could give you, of sloppiness at c.i.a. bases around afghanistan that were known last year, that raised warning signals, that people didn't do anything about. chris: wow. >> the other thing is this really affects the afghanistan war plan. iean, a central part of this war plan was to raise -- between a quarter of a million and 400,000 afghan national security forces. now we're not so sure where we're training forces for our side or we're actually training people from omar. chris: speaking of afghanistan our matthews meter, 12 of our regulars whether wars in iraq and afghan

cams run by germany's allies and satellite states. five will deal with another set of cams under another branch of the ss. six will deal with forced labor camps not under the ss run by pry firms and other organization and 7 will be a catchall thing that didn't fit in anywhere else. >> were the folks who did a lot of your research, did they things, anything in the german archives? >> oh, yes. yeah. >> else sp -- especially volume one most of the information comes out of german archives. >> is it well documented these camps? >> it depends on the camp but generally yes. >> host: and what kind of documents would you find? >> guest: we'd have documents setting up the cams. documents testifying to who was sen there. how many people what kinds of prisoners. what kinds of work they did. things of that nature and then we have prisoner testimony about what life was like in the camps. what kinds of treatment they received. people who were killed that sort of thing. >> what's your goal? with these encyclopedia. >> it is really twofold. one is to

or its allies or close to being killed? >> i think you know, the evidence is that tora bora we came close to finding him, getting him and capturing him. intelligence is working every day on this. i'm not going to go into that. but there are some dedicated men and women, and i think just the events of this past week, the they should be treated, prosecute them if we have the information available, transfer them back, but make sure if transferred back the countries take the appropriate steps to president's position both in terms of language he uses and the actions he's taken or he's -- it doesn't speak well of what the vice president is doing. clear evidence is that this president has been very, very >> is it anything less than a failure eight years after 9/11 osama bin laden is not captured? >> this has bedeviled this government. we're going to continue to hunt him down, we'll get bin laden, the others, there has been a strong track record over this past year and in fact over the past number of years of finding these operativ

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america has not been a remarkable ally. what america needs to do is a policy of constancy and consistency. of helping, supporting, correcting, screaming at, engagement. they are bearing in mind that we should always keep the civilian government at the top of the agenda of who we deal with. the stakes in afghanistan and pakistan today are enormous. they are enormous nudges for a south asia, but for americans. this is the place from which the attack of september 11 was planned and coordinated. recent events have underscored the risks we continue to run. they may have been orchestrated in the yemen this time. the head of the snake remains in pakistan and afghanistan. the stakes are enormous for this president. wars consume presidencies. this is now america's longest war. it is bound to consume this presidency as well. the president's advisers, many of them who worry about domestic issues and health care and rebuilding the badly damaged american economy for good reason to not want to say america bog down in an endless war. that

green and emerging jobs, allied health -- many of those will be about i.t.loyment program set up? who is responsible for making sure those who are unemployed get the money? guest: it is a cooperative effort between the federal government and the states. the states are ultimately responsible for making certain workers get the check they deserve. the federal government as the backlog, the loans. but also bringing states together along with associations to get best practices out there. especially with technology. you will hear some problems states have had implementing the new extension programs because of their antiquated technology. the states are working on that. our role is to help them get the most they can without an insurgents of new money. host: our next call comes from green bay, wisconsin. trevor is unemployed. caller: hello. during the election process obama talked about not find a free trade agreements. i was wondering why nothing has been mentioned about that since he has taken office? host: how long have you been unemployed? what you think free tr

i think israel is a key ally. it is a democracy in the middle east that we have supported not on the establishment of, the defense of israel for decades. the israelis are our friends, our allies. the work very closely with them. it is a dynamic society. there is a lot of innovation that comes out of israel, do not forget the minefields like medicine and other parts of technology. and it is an important society in the middle east. are -- i think our allegiance with israel is critical. i think we have got to deal with the fact that not only is israel under siege, but others feel threatened by the existence of israel. i think one of the challenges in the peace process is getting people to actually agree that israel has the right to exist. that is the problem with potential dealings with hamas. that is the reality of the chartered instruction with the state of israel. israel is a recognized nation state with the u.n. i'm not sure why we should feel any compunction or any problems with supporting israel. i think they a

and that impact is already being felt by friend and foe, allies and adversaries.n a place as a good international citizen, we must abandon any signs of arrogance coming any act of tribal self assertion, and began to constrict and constrain our often irresponsible power, and act as one among many. did did that, we must undertake two things. first, the expiation of past sins, and then outrage and accommodation -- out reach an accommodation. the expiation has been indulged throughout the last year. that is the apology to our for president eisenhower's role in the coup in iran, but a first use of the atomic bomb, for our own racism and treatment of americans -- native americans, were allegedly disparaging europe are not recognizing its "leading role" in the world. might that be because it has lived paris said it placed under american protection for 60 years? but i digress. -- might that be because it has lived paris sickisitically under american protection for 60 years? but i digress. this country has delivered defenseless muslims -- muslims from their present, boston

as we saw on christmas, al qaeda and its extremist allies will stop at nothing in their efforts to kill americans. we are determined not only to thwart those plans but to disrupt, dismantle and defeat their networks once and for all. indeed, over the past year we've taken the fight to al qaeda and its allies wherever they plot and frame, be it in afghanistan and pakistan in yemen and somalia, or in other countries around the world. here at home our intelligence, homeland security, and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests. from denver to texas, from illinois to new york, disrupting plots and saving american lives. these successes have not come without a price. as we saw last week in the loss of our courageous c.i.a. officers in afghanistan. but when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on christmas day, the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way. it's my responsibility find out why and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the

we end up double crossing car allies in the war on terror by insisting fighting the war -- our allies in the war on terror by insisting on fighting the war on drugs with them. if >> one member of the president's cabinet is not in attendance tonight. there are actually two. hillary clinton is in london. the member that is in an undisclosed location is the housing secretary. >> this could regenerate some of the hope for change, which he campaigned on. i was disappointed that he talked about nuclear power and drilling in some of his energy options. i am very much against that. it would go against the environmental thing he is doing. >> and live at the view of the capital. -- a live view of the capital. >> i was impressed on how he it stepped up to leadership and how the american people -- the tiredness of the electoral system. how they need not to live from election to election. >> he will travel with joe biden to speak about high-speed rail. next is dan from minneapolis, republic and mine. >> i think he said a lot of things that people wanted to hear. it is just a bunch of rhetoric as f

challenge will always be higher than that of the mom allies?i think these are very practical questions the project has raised as part of its effort to evaluate specific terms as was mentioned in the joint statement. in some cases, the studies we have commissioned we feel there are considerable asymmetries between their respective capacities of the united states and south korea to tackle the items on the international agenda. i think to a certain extent although he didn't explicitly mention a climate change is one of them. overseas development assistance is another. but that doesn't mean that there isn't a potential for limited cooperation in these areas and ways that reinforce the mutual interest. and so maybe the best way to illustrate that is to make some specific comments on each of the presentations. i think the paper on climate change provides an excellent test whether the alliance can cooperate on newly emerging functional issues. i think actually climate change presents an issue where the situation is very mixed. at the same time the pap

it is allies, too.hen i look and the fact that germany, saudi arabia, israel, all key partners with the united states, have each rebuffed this administration, whether on economic policy, national security policy, being part of a new game plan in the middle east -- i think these are red as a measure the united states has -- does not succeed, then you would not see ellis be paved the way they are. finally, -- would not see allies be paved the way they are. finally, on settlements, i thought it was too narrow a window to go forward. it would remove the ability to have latitude. once the decision was made, you could not as president of the united states afford to lose, and unwittingly or consequently, the failure of barack obama to see the battle through, which ended up being a contest, turned an ally into the khrushchev of this administration, the finding doesn't limits of the united states -- finding the limits of the united states, and the united states has to find its way out of that box. i agree iran i

what of our guest is jack holliday the outgoing chairman of dupont and longtime ally of u.s. cap who has been eloquent on this subject and i want to give him a chance to comment. >> thank you. first day agree with his answer about cap-and-trade to get the initiative going. we have seen enough examples of resources need to go to the right places but every country has the same objective so little bit country that's find creative ways working with businesses but it clearly over the next three or four years the countries that can leave can created true green jobs of the future. . . at the front, at the same table. >> thank you. i am suzanne from the guardian. i really wanted to follow-up on lisa's question about the change in the world order from the g8 to this c5 because specifically we didn't see at the table in that picture is europe or any european representative when they had sordid taken a leadership position. gordon brown in sarkozy endless the amounts especially. >> berry, a very noticeable. i would suggest a couple of possible explanations. they certainly were immediatel

and, in 1944 after the allies invaded italy, and hall is on a train from training as an engineer back from the east coast to oregon, he pence the letter that says to the oss, if you drop me behind the lines, i can accomplish all of these things. and, it is kind of remarkable that that train line exist to this day. it is called the empire builder and it runs from chicago of the way to seattle or organ. on that long train ride, hall brody letter that changed his entire fate and destiny. the oss, just to back up for a second is effectively the first cia or central intelligence agency but it was far more than that during world war ii. it was also for special operations troops. they dealt with propaganda. they also dealt with research and analysis which took all of the human intelligence that was out there and collated it and then analyzed it. it was sort of an entire agency with everything under one umbrella, which in many ways brenner assignment as well as what is going on today are still, it is a very back to the future problem. we are dealing with human intelligence issues and everythi

to defeat outcry debt and its allies. this is mostly done for the destruction, so we have not defeated al qaeda. al qaeda is not dead as was shown last week by the killing of the cia officer. what is the surge going to do for the next 18 months it is going to depend on implementation, and it is going to very -- vary. some will be good, and those will be trumpeted in washington. those that are bad and will be trumpeted. what we really should be able to do is isolate the foreigners from the locals, especially the taliban. this is much easier than defeating the taliban. now that we are in afghanistan, what is our goal there? our goal is threefold, and they are all political. one is to provide security. second is to help develop a good government company and third, to stimulate their economy. in terms of security, i believe the surge will increase security, and perhaps it will temporarily prevent a civil war within afghanistan. in terms of good government -- what do i mean by good government? is administration to provide just

as we saw on christmas, al qaeda and its extremist allies will stop at nothing in their efforts to killmericans. and we're determined not only to thwart those plans but to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat their networks once and for all. indeed, over the past year we have taken the fight to al qaeda and their allies wherever they plot, be it in afghanistan and pakistan, in yemen and somalia, or in other countries around the world. Ñihere at home, our intelligenc, homeland security, and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success, gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests from denver to texas, from illinois to new york, disrupting plots and saving american lives. these successes have not come without a price, as we saw last week in the loss of our courageous cia officers in afghanistan. but when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on christmas day, the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way. it is my responsibility to find out why and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the

as an unofficial allied that we lost interest. will, that isn't how it happened. first, the u.s., having -- well, having embraced pakistan in the 1981, after the soviet invasion, pakistan then made a commitment to the united states. the gender came and said pakistan does not have the intention of developing a nuclear explosive device. congress put this into law, and i had a lot to do with that, actually. that was simply putting his promise, his commitment, which nobody made him offer, into law. they knew that if they crossed the line on the nuclear program, that weapons and aid would be cut off. and they did and it was cut off. and we now are in deep apology mode for their breaking their commitment. and that reflects, i think, the larger problem of the relationship. which is that we have always viewed it as, pakistan is doing something for us, and we have, therefore, and therefore, you know, we are not sufficiently grateful. and that more or less is the pakistani narrative. but the soviet invasion of afghanistan was a lot bigger threat. and we might have crunched

by blocking the land real income better and routes into the city of leaving the allies with the option of trying to feed more than 2 million people by air and by air i mean planes like dc-3 which could hold only three times and d.c. four, 54 which could hold ten tonnes i also mentioned i wrote this because i was looking to write about a subject i felt was about the american that we, i grew up in that i thought of being an american as opposed to many people think now and there could never be a better example of us at our best in this great humanitarians adventure which a great political implications but also was down basically to save the people who had been trying to kill us and we have been trying to kill and these newsreel's give you a sense of what it looked like during that time. in june, 1948 blockades, trains and royte traffic and work stopped. the threat of starvation for 2 million citizens in west berlin blockade imposed by the communists to force withdrawal of the western allied forces. >> is it possible the americans will be forced out of berlin? we are not going to be forced

or its allies or close to being killed? >> i think you know, the evidence is that tora bora we came close to finding him, getting him and capturing him. intelligence is working every day on this. i'm not going to go into that. but there are some dedicated men and women, and i think just the events of this past week, the tragic death of the seven cia officers underscores the bravery and the risk that these courageous men and women who put their lives on the line every day on behalf of their fellow americans, and we have that throughout the intelligence community. i think we have to remember who the enemy here is. the enemy is al qaeda. as this is going on in washington, the partisan politics and agendas, frankly i find it very disappointing that people would use this issue, issue of tremendous import of national security and forget that it's al qaeda that is killing our citizens. >> we'll leave it there. mr. brennen, thank you. we are joined by two members of the bush administration's national security team. former secretary

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these are reading as a measure that you would not be seeing allies behave the way that they are. when i watched the engagement of barack obama over the settlement issue, i am not one that supported the administration's perspective. nonetheless, once the decision was made, you could not afford to lose. unwittingly, for consequently, the failure of barack obama to see that battled through, it turned that nomura -- netanyahu on a different path. we will see whether or not the united states has made any progress on that. if not, then the world will be sensing that we are not -- that we are in serious economic decline. [applause] >> thank you very much. i also want to thank my panelists for leaving me in the area of domestic politics. i will try to touch on some things we have not talked -- talk about -- talk about -- talked about. he views his historical -- >> let me start by saying i am really impressed by disguise ambition. he has set in motion big changes across a spectrum of some of the most fraught impasses in america. i think this president deserves extra credit for the degree

israelis are our friends and allies.y closely with them. it is an important society. i think that our allegiance with his role is critical and i think that we have to deal with the fact that others feel threatened by the existence of israel. one of the challenges in the peace process is to get people to realize that israel has the right to exist. israel is a member of the un. i am not sure why we should feel any compunction or any problems with supporting israel. i think israel is an important ally. >> thank you. >> good morning, i am from south lake university and my question for you is that you mentioned an opinion in the washington post. my question for you is, what would to revise in fixing this legally and to prevent the reemergence of former detainees from once again reserving -- reverting to terrorist activities. >> it needs to be recognized that the bush administration was trying to close guantanamo bay. we had to solve the problem with how to deal with the prisoners first. this administration is starting to talk

danish officials also tied him yesterday to an african militant group allied with al qaeda. officials say the suspect is a somali man who tried to break into the cartoonist's home friday night. the cartoonist reportedly hid in a panic room until police shot and wounded the suspect. this cartoonist is known for his controversial depiction of the muslim prophet mohamed. >>> a delta flight from boston to new york returned to logan international airport when a pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. a delta spokesman says the pilot turned back eight minutes into the flight. the odor was gone by the time the plane landed back in boston. all 34 people on board were rebooked on a later flight. now, delta is investigating the cause of the smoke smell. >>> iran has issued an ultimatum over its nuclear program. it is threatening to enrich nuclear fuel on its own if the west does not renegotiate a u.n.-backed deal by the end of january. the demand came two days after iran defied a deadline by the u.s. and other security council members. the west has been trying to get iran to swap its enri

if allies come onboard and give things to america in concrete terms, then system of these storylines could be different at the end of these years. chris: let's take a look at the more afemoral ones. that obama's a push over. the passing of health care that was supposed to be done until last august and slipped all the way until now. and the white house is chicago style very stuff. here's john boehner making this point . >> this chicago style politics is shutting down politics and demonizing. chris: how can he be both the problem? >> sure. president obama and the white house, may have a problem with that they've set themselves up. for instance, they've come out and saying that we're the most open white house. we're very open. we're releasing these visitor logs. blah, blah, blah, and the reality is, it's not that open. you saw what happened late last year when desiree rogers would not go and testify on cop to hill. you know there are so many different times where the white house has not been that open that's a storyline that could actually arm them. chris: we'll be out of gitmo. we'll b

as the administration or some of its congressional allies propose. as we continue to pursue this global network, we will rely more heavily on intelligence personnel. a point that was recently underscored by the decemberth suicide attack that killed seven c.i.a. employees in afganistan. we mourn the lost of these -- loss of these brave americans. their sacrifice, along with the attempted christmas day bombing and recent plot to attack the u.s. subway system reminds us that the threat from al qaeda and other other extremists has not -- i repeat not diminished. but in its