during that war iran supported armenia against shiite azerbaijan. >> jon: why?ecause, again 40,% of the iranian population are arab and in case of azerbaijan winning a war and azerbaijan is a turkic country and they have a strong relationship with turkey they feel they're going to be surrounded. >> jon: how did this war get snuck by us? i don't remember this war. do they not tell us about wars unless we're doing the bombing? do we not hear about these other wars? >> i think this region was. >> jon: well, it is very difficult to say. when you said that i was about to say god guess there you but i didn't. i held back. the situation in syria now is what's perplexing me. if the u.n. can't formulate a resolution to condemn what's happening in syria, is... then they are basically... it's like not formulate ago resolution that cape upton is kind of hot. (laughter) it's obvious. how did china and... how did that... >> russia. >> jon: how did china and russia block that? and why? >> well russia has historical relationship with syria. not just with bashar assad but also h

and for this, the people of armenia gave wilson this wonderful painting called hope. the largest object in the room, aside from the piano, is the tapestry. the tapestry was a wedding gift since wilson married edith in december of 1915. he chose not to have a large, elaborate white house wedding. they had a small private ceremony from edith's house on 20th street, however, the gifts were certainly quite magnificent. the french ambassador sent this tapestry over to mrs. wilson to chose after she returned from her honeymoon. ike hoover who was the famous celebrated usher, chief usher at the white house for over 40 years called mrs. wilson down and said, madam, the french ambassador is here, and he has some gifts for you to chose as a wedding gift. edith says, oh, well, by all means, escort the ambassador upstairs, and hoover said, no, madam. you'll need to come down to the east room. that should have been an indication that it was no small gift. the ambassador had brought along three tapestries here at the united states at the panama pacific exposition in san francisco i

suddenly, border disputes between the successor states erupted into small wars in, for instance, armeniand georgia. within these new countries, the ethnic divisions aggravated by population transfer produced violence, instability, and quarrels over citizenship. the absence of the legal and customary foundations of a free economy led to a distorted robber capitalism dominated by the combined forces of the mafia and the old communists with little appeal to ordinary people. the moral vacuum created by communism in everyday life was filled for some by revived orthodox church, but for others by the rise in crime, corruption, gambling, and drug addiction. all contributing to a spreading ethic of luck, a belief economic life is a zero sum gain, and an irrational nostalgia for a totalitarian order without totalitarian methods. in these conditions primitive political ideologies which have been extinct in western europe and america for two generations surfaced and flourished. all pedalling fantasies of imperial glory to compensate for domestic squaller. no one can forecast with confidence where th

the leader of armenia, they were taken out by his own people.r assad to decide, does he want to live or does he want to give up power and let syria return to a united society. >> you say it will be a when, not if. i want to talk about when in terms of the world. when and if assad falls, what should washington and the rest of the world be doing that they aren't doing now to try to save all these lives? 6,000 lives lost last year, according to the u.n. >> he will definitely fall, because the fear factor is no more there. the uprising started a peaceful demonstration and he started to crack down on them, and then it turned violent. there is near insurgency in the country and a civil war in some parts. we don't want a civil war. we don't want a regime committing massacres on its own people. what we need is a resolution that will not only decide on his leadership, but such as bosnia where a community delegated a safe haven. they were protected with air power, and i think that's one way of going at it. >> but -- if i can throw a but in there, we saw w

macedonia, georgia, the country, not my home state, rwanda belarus, saudi arabia, armenia. these are the countries based on a static list of economic models of rules and regulations and opportunity on economic success, places it is easier to succeed in today than in america. that's outrageous, mr. speaker. the president knows. if we're going to create jobs in this country you got to start where most jobs do, that's with small businesses. that's what he says but what he does is preside over a decline of opportunity in this country that puts us now below macedonia, saudi arabia, rwanda and belarus on the world economic stage. mr. speaker, from the department of labor, we see entrepreneurship in america has reached a 17-year low. entrepreneurship in america is at a 16-year low. business startups are at the lowest level since data was first collected in 1994. business startups at the lowest level since the data began to be collected at the department of labor in 1994. mr. speaker, this isn't a chart about business success. we all know that business is hard. you probably are mor

harriet tubman was born in approximately 1822 in dorchester county, maryland, and given the name armenia mini ross. she spent many years in slavery. she worked on a number of different plantations on maryland's eastern shore and as a teenager was trained to be a seamstress. as an adult, she took the first name harriet and when she was 25 years old maryland john tubman. in her late 20's, she escaped from slavery in 1849. she fled in the dead of night, and a half debating the maze of tidal streams and wetlands that to this day compromise the eastern shore landscape. she did this alone, exercising incredible courage and strength. not satisfied with attaining her own freedom, she returned repeatedly for more than ten years to the places of her enslavement in ambassador chefort and caroline counties where under the most adverse conditions she led away many family members and other slaves to freedom in the northeastern united states. she helped develop a complex network of safe houses and recited abolitionists, sympathizers residing along secret routes connecting the southern slave states and