comparable to the claims of iran towards bahrain. comparable to the potential claims of iran vis-a-vis qatar regarding their offshore oil field, comparable to iran vis-a-vis debate. comparable to iran vis-a-vis kuwait and saudi arabia. so oman has a special niche and it needs to be seen as exceptional in the aberration but with reason for its own strategic national interest as it formulates them. and so oman is for not interfering any further than the dccc countries have with the language they used in their communique. >> another question from the audience. please tell us about the dccc's decision to form a regional security force is in front real rhetoric who's going to finance it? who's going to pay for it? >> that's a good question. i think like a number of other wishes, the expectations exceed the likely near term achievements. at the end of the liberation of kuwait in 1991, one of the dccc countries proposed that there should be a pan-dccc force built on top of the other one that existed in northwestern saudi arabia to 100,000.

when you are the parents of a soldier stationed in bahrain and are not able to contact them do to unusual circumstances, what can a veteran of vietnam do to contact his son? guest: this is a horrifying reality for parents and families of loved ones. we spoke earlier of the list of u.s. bases around the world. some bases are not even included in the list. cochrane, for instance. only one in bahrain, and none in saudi arabia are listed because of political considerations of the government of the countries who do not want to acknowledge u.s. bases there. it may be that organizations like military families speak out, an important organization of families and friends of active duty soldiers that are trying to end the war, to stop the soldiers from being at risk and to take care of them when they come home. they may have some ideas. you can reach them on their website. i wish i had a better recommendation for you. perhaps your member of congress would be willing to try. sometimes it is special forces troops, but sometimes it is ordinary troops on bases the u.s. does not want to a knowledge are

there are two that go from saudi arabia into bahrain. the switching station or the modern thing of the central station are the three relay stations in saudi arabia. why did they do this? so as to protect an image of forward-looking, infrastructure- looking, trying to find additional ways to raise themselves economically, tried to work in advance of power outages and shortages, tried to show that they were willing to share what they had with each other, trying to reduce the economic out late for having spare capacity, because all six would have to do that, whereas now they can reduce their spare capacity by 50%, and that protect some $4 billion in savings as a result of just making this, even though it is taken down that long. related to that was an agreement on a pan-gcc railway. correct me if i am actually in error on any of this, it is not yet to salah, the southernmost province. and it will not necessarily hug the coast but it will parallel the coast, and therefore in eastern arabia, northeastern arabia from kuwait all the way to oman

there are two that go into bahrain. the central station of the three relay stations are in saudi arabia. they did this so as to protect an image of being forward- looking and long term looking and infrastructure looking, trying to find additional ways to integrate themselves economically, try to work in advance of power outages and brownouts and shortages, trying to show they were willing to share what they had with each other, trying to reduce the economic ballet for having spare capacity because all six would have had to do that. whereas now they can reduce their spare capacity by 50% and a projected $4 billion in savings as a result of making this even though it has taken them that long. related to that was the agreement on a pan-gcc real way. it would go from kuwait to no. -- northern oman. it will parallel the coast and the inland and therefore in eastern -- northeastern arabia all the way to oman. they are thinking in ways that i do not see or read or hear americans thinking, the terms of reviving railway use. thi

when you are the parents of a soldier stationed in bahrain and are not able to contact them do to unusual circumstances, what can a veteran of vietnam do to contact his son? guest: this is a horrifying reality for parents and families of loved ones. we spoke earlier of the list of u.s. bases around the world. some bases are not even included in the list. cochrane, for instance. only one in bahrain, and none in saudi arabia are listed because of political considerations of the government of the countries who do not want to acknowledge u.s. bases there. it may be that organizations like military families speak out, an important organization of families and friends of active duty soldiers that are trying to end the war, to stop the soldiers from being at risk and to take care of them when they come home. they may have some ideas. you can reach them on their website. i wish i had a better recommendation for you. perhaps your member of congress would be willing to try. sometimes it is special forces troops, but sometimes it is ordinary troops on bases the u.s. does not want to a knowledge are

when you are the parents of a soldier stationed in bahrain and are not able to contact them do to unusualwhat can a veteran of vietnam do to contact his son? guest: this is a horrifying reality for parents and families of loved ones. we spoke earlier of the list of u.s. bases around the world. some bases are not even included in the list. cochrane, for instance. only one in bahrain, and none in saudi arabia are listed because of political considerations of the government of the countries who do not want to acknowledge u.s. bases there. it may be that organizations like military families speak out, an important organization of families and friends of active duty soldiers that are trying to end the war, to stop the soldiers from being at risk and to take care of them when they come home. they may have some ideas. you can reach them on their website. i wish i had a better recommendation for you. perhaps your member of congress would be willing to try. sometimes it is special forces troops, but sometimes it is ordinary troops on bases the u.s. does not want to a knowledge are there. host: pal

when you are the parents of a soldier stationed in bahrain and are not able to contact them do to unusualwhat can a veteran of vietnam do to contact his son? guest: this is a horrifying reality for parents and families of loved ones. we spoke earlier of the list of u.s. bases around the world. some bases are not even included in the list. cochrane, for instance. only one in bahrain, and none in saudi arabia are listed because of political considerations of the government of the countries who do not want to acknowledge u.s. bases there. it may be that organizations like military families speak out, an important organization of families and friends of active duty soldiers that are trying to end the war, to stop the soldiers from being at risk and to take care of them when they come home. they may have some ideas. you can reach them on their website. i wish i had a better recommendation for you. perhaps your member of congress would be willing to try. sometimes it is special forces troops, but sometimes it is ordinary troops on bases the u.s. does not want to a knowledge are there. host: pal