i think dr. hamre was alluding to some of what i was going to say about how the character and the tenor of the discussion on missile defense changed over the past couple of decades. over ten years has passed since missile defense became operational in alaska. i think during that time as missile defense has gone from infancy to adolescence, you've got a lot more bipartisan and much more widespread support. not as divisive an issue. it is a question of how much missile defense we can afford and what kinds and what priorities and what balance we put into it. so this is an exciting time for it. a lot going on in the missile defense world. you're going to hear over the next several hours, over the next three panels, about both homeland and regional missile defense and technological and other steps that we can be taking along that -- along those lines. our first panel will be on policy and operations. our second is on international dimensions. and third on future directions. i'll be directing traffic. and fi

you know, one thing that dr. hamre mentioned issues sorted influence of american media and how that affects how communities you americans. that's a challenge for us because how we are portrayed as a people is not very attractive. frankly. and so our volunteers can support each other. what our volunteers are doing is offering alternative view of america, which is such a wonderful thing. >> you talked about how difficult it is if you overwhelmed someone with a bunch of written material and expect them to digest it. what is the threat of the peace corps training as they worked with adult learning experts to figure out what part of this can be put online and what is the best system before people start their service what can we do that is part of their preservice training and pre- service training and what can we do a disservice, how can we reinforce messages rather than assuming they will remember from this point how can we reintegrate the important messages, so it is not cutting it so much on the volunteer to learn themse

john hamre: have to limit it to one question. dr. kim: let me take what i think i understood your question to be. you know, on the one hand, if there is one thing i think that has changed most dramatically about the world bank group, it is the extent to which we engage our clients in discussions about the -- in the early 1990s i was part of a group called 50 years is enough. we were on the streets trying to argue for the closing of the world they grew. we lost that argument and it is good because i have this job now. and i have to tell you, i have not seen any institution that is open to the world bank -- that is as open to the world bank and taking criticism and changing its practice over time. now the world bank group works closely to try to figure out what they want in terms of their own development. secondly, we are now aggressively moving forward so that every single project for beneficiary feedback. in other words, the people benefiting the program , we will get feedback directly from them. we have also worked on programs that

john hamre: i wish i could start every day with that. thank you. dr.im has a board meeting and will have to leave at 10:25 p.m.. when he said this was not about spending billions of dollars, it is about spending trillions, you are speaking about the profit-seeking private-sector. governments usually know how to work with the nonprofit sector of the private sector, that they do not know how to work with the profit-seeking sector. what are your thoughts? dr. kim: if you look at the numbers, john, official development assistance, foreign aid, was about $130 billion last year.