of syria i'm joined by summer already in washington he's a foreign policy manager at the arab american institute in pittsburgh we have rick francona he is a middle east expert and author of how i to adversity and i witness account of iraq's fall from grace and in chicago we crossed the answer to barak he is a member of the syrian national council or a gentleman this is cross talk you can jump in anytime you want but first marcia syria's experiences bloodiest day and it's been exactly eight months since it all started at the u.n. says more than thirty five hundred people have been filled with thousands more injured yet there seems to be no plans to take military action to protect civilians and despite outside pressure to end the crackdown there's been no let up and violence the u.n. security council has been at odds over how to respond to the uprising despite continued pressure from the european union. the european union and will continue to press for strong u.n. action to increase international pressure and all members of the security council to assume their responsibilities in relation to the s

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it is a priority and that on her watch, supporting democratic institutions and values is at the very heart of american foreign policy. the arab democracy movement is only one area, many where our secretary of state has acted in a timely and effective way to keep our alliances together, maintain the nation's commitments, debt and our security, and uphold our ideals. it gives me great pleasure to introduce one friend to many others. please welcome secretary of state hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> if everyone could offer our sympathy for the death of a really remarkable mother, welcome. >> thank you very much. thank you. well, it is a great pleasure for me to be here this evening. i thank my friend and my predecessor madeleine albright for not only that kind introduction, but for her extraordinary leadership, and in particular, of ndi. thank you also for inviting me here today. i want to began by an eid ubarak to muslims around the world and in the room. the national democratic institute was already on the ground building relationships, supporting the voices that would turn a long era of winter into a new arab spring. we

what we do is a priority and that on her watch supporting space institutions and values is at the very heart of american foreign policy. the arab democracy movement is only one area among many aware our secretary of state has acted in a timely and effective way to keep our alliances together, maintain our nation's commitment, defend our security and uphold our ideals. it gives me great pleasure to introduce one friend to many others. please welcome secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton. [applause] >> i might say everybody in this room supports you and offers our sympathy for the death of your really remarkable mother. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. it's a great pleasure for me to be here this evening, and i thank my friend and my predecessor, madeleine albright, for not only that kind introduction but her extraordinary leadership, and in particular of ndi. thanks also to sherry bronson and ken will look for inviting me here today, and i want to begin by wishing mubarak to the muslims are not the world. i think it's important to recognize that backed when the streets of arab cities were quite, the national democrati

is a priority, and that our her watch, supporting democratic institutions and values is at the very heart of american foreign policy. the arab democracy movement is only one area among many where our secretary of state has acted in a timely and effective way to keep our alliances together, maintain our nation's commitments, defend our security, and uphold our ideals. it gives me great pleasure to introduce one friend to many others. please welcome secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton. [applause] [applause] >> i might say, everybody in this room supports you, and offers our sympathy for the death of your really remarkable mother. welcome. >> thank you, thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. well, it's a great pleasure for me to be here this evening, and i thank my friend and my predecessor, madeleine albright for not only that kind introduction, but for her extraordinary leadership and in particular, of ndi. thanks, also to sherry brian and ken wallock for inviting me here today, and i want to wish two muslims here tonight and around the world. it's important to recognize that back when the streets of arab cities

arab groups. our interest in the middle east is israel. and our interest is to ensure that iran does not go nuclear. >> i'm katherine zimmerman from the american intersurprise institute'states adopted a policy of disengagement with somalia after its retreat following black hawk down. today an al qaeda affiliate al shabaab controls significant tear tore ne that country. what can the united states do to prevent al shabaab from posing the same threat that al qaeda did from afghanistan ten years ago? >> congressman paul? >> you're talking about al qaeda, correct? you have to understand who the al qaeda really is. the al qaeda responds in a very deliberate fashion -- as a matter of fact, paul wolfowitz explained it very clearly aft after 9/11. he said that al qaeda is inspired by the fact that we had bases in saudi arabia. so if you want to inspire al qaeda, just meddle in that region. that will inspire the al qaeda. he went on to say that that was a good reason for us to remove the base we had had for 15 years in saudi arabia and that we should have done response. al qaeda responds to that and they are quite annoyed with us. if you have a no-fly zone over syria, that's an