time on the diplomatic and other strategies to reduce the threat whether it is in europe, north east asia or the middle east and on developing the conventional capabilities yet to play the conventional capabilities and building the collective result to be to work and take action against threats of the level they arise. nuclear deterrence, why don't we have the nuclear weapons and do this ciro stuff the nukes will willis out but they won't and there's a reason we had a lot of wars while that nuclear weapons. they are usable only if the threat of national survival. anything short of a threat of national survival we are not going to use nuclear weapons because using the nuclear weapons puts our survival of risk so you don't do that unless your survival is already threatened. in all of the other conflicts we are talking about they are not threats to national survival so the nuclear weapons are not going to be what we use and deter challenge is to deter those kind of threats for which and nuclear weapons are not ideal. and in our of we think that this is one of the unintended consequences of t

that's why secretary clinton set forth her vision of how to deepen multilateral engagement in east asiafor economic growth, security and to address transnational threats. as secretary gates observed several years ago, the united states is a resident power in the asia pacific. and the obama administration is determined to play an increasingly active role in working with the countries of the region. from our allies to emerging powers like indiana, indonesia and china, to shape a peaceful prosperous future for the billions who live in this increasingly central part of the world. this framework of security alliances, bilateral ties and multilateral engagement provides the framework through which we are approaching the most urgent and dangerous challenge facing the region. the danger posed by north korea's nuclear missile programs. and the longer term challenge of peaceful reintegration of the korean peninsula. so let me conclude by saying a few words about our approach to this challenge. and where things stand in our effort to restart the six-party talks and move toward the goals shared by

the recovery is stronger in east asia. this in some of the g-7 amd g-20 discussions. unemployment is likely to remain high in the developed economies. this means we have to be alert to second order effects on the financial side, we are talking about high unemployment. bernanke said we will have time with -- we will have trouble with credit card loans, people paying mortgages. they do not have their jobs. commercial real estate is a market he has emphasized over the past months. this will, of course, create different problems for some of the financial institutions and other business models. we will see some institutions do very well overall and some struggle with bad losses. i had an opportunity to listen to my friend pascal. as he said, so far we have dodged the bullet of a strong protectionist response. but we have to be alert that anytime you have continuing unemployment one has to be careful about protectionism. political leaders will feel the pressure to do something. that is always a tempting tool. another issue we ar

the globalization supply chain by which i mean when we think about other areas of the world like east asia or latin america or eastern europe there are those economies produce things that are components to things built elsewhere and then are built elsewhere and ultimately are things you and i by. but if he went to wal-mart today you don't find too many things that say made in the arab world. there are not many components or things that have components that are built in the arab world. yes we trade with many parts of the muslim world. we buy oil for agricultural products and they by finished goods but that does not mean those economies are actually participating in the global economy in the manner that is a brazillian argentinian, caribbean and these other economies to. that is a very important fact. when we talk about a globalized world in which the large parts of the world is integrated economically and to one another. that production, trade, etc creates relationships and networks between people sitting outside of that global economic web does have consequences and those consequences i th

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you also mentioned east asia. >> i did not mention a station. >-- east asia.e world "global" will appear when we start talking about paa. what about the gulf states? today, studies are being conducted to see how we might apply the phased adaptive approach to the other parts of the globe. >> [inaudible] >> the co-comms are- -- we do what the war fighters one. i think i told you previously and i will come back to the paa. we have received a draft priorities capability listing which is a product of the war fighters, the co-comms, and stratcom. that document is in our hands. we had a flag officer review of it at the three-star level last week. it was agreed to go back to the drawing board and return the document. we then introduce it into our deliberations. we come up with the document called a capabilities listing that we send back in the document says, ok, there are 37 things in this pcl. here is the weekend to near term at midterm and far term -- and here is the stuff we can do near term and midterm and far term. these aren't the capabilities agreement report.

the economies on fire in the worm, china, india, brazil and east asia all of our jobs are there. >> seanrotections in place -- china using the fact they own all our debt, percentage as a weapon. >> leverage. >> that is why people are shocked when they see this film. if you take the event horizon down the road everyday we are getting in deeper. >> reporter: o' sqqxo+ frightening thing i saw when i saw the chinese military went out and said wait a minute, we are going to stop buying american debt, dump their bonds because we are supporting taiwan. >> that's right as a foreign policy mechanism to force us into taking a different run on our economy. >> sean: i want to go back to this issue. i'll use the car company as an example. it breaks my heart, good people, you want to talk about an industrial area where we ought to be thriving. we created this. we owned this it was ours. here comes government and they regulate safety and emissions and they regulate gas mileaggáu and regulate, regulate. >> big labor, big government and -- >> sean: washington or detroit? >> this is by far the hardest par

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the recovery is stronger in east asia. in some of the g-7 amd g-20 discussions. unemployment is likely to remain high in the developed economies. this means we have to be alert to second order effects on the financial side, we are talking about high unemployment. bernanke said we will have time with -- we will have trouble with credit card loans, people paying mortgages. they do not have their jobs. commercial real estate is a market he has emphasized over the past months. this will, of course, create different problems for some of the financial institutions and other business models. we will see some institutions do very well overall and some struggle with bad losses. i had an opportunity to listen to my friend pascal. as he said, so far we have dodged the bullet of a strong protectionist response. but we have to be alert that anytime you have continuing unemployment one has to be careful about protectionism. political leaders will feel the pressure to do something. that is always a tempting tool. another issue we are wat

i will miss this building mainly because in my old job at east asia bureau we had a terrific view ofhe river which we don't have anymore. [laughter] so you remember the office. i mean, you'd look out there and look at the potomac river and think of north korea. [laughter] but it's, it's all gone now, and in its place is a beautiful, beautiful facility which i really do believe befits the status and the tremendous mission of the u.s. institute for peace, the things you've done, your work and really all over the world. i've worked with usip in every different part, i mean, whether in the balkans or in east asia, but i particularly appreciate what you all are doing in iraq because you're taking on one of the major challenges there which is conflict resolution and getting people in the same room to talk to each other and getting people to sort of understand that there's a way through problems. and a way through by dialogue. i really appreciate the fact i saw ambassador bill taylor out there just a couple months ago, i think, and visiting and your office, i mean, you have a standing offic

i will miss this building mainly because in my old job at east asia bureau we had a terrific view ofhe river which we don't have anymore. [laughter] so you remember the office. i mean, you'd look out there and look at the potomac river and think of north korea. [laughter] but it's, it's all gone now, and in its place is a beautiful, beautiful facility which i really do believe befits the status and the tremendous mission of the u.s. institute for peace, the things you've done, your work and really all over the world. i've worked with usip in every different part, i mean, whether in the balkans or in east asia, but i particularly appreciate what you all are doing in iraq because you're taking on one of the major challenges there which is conflict resolution and getting people in the same room to talk to each other and getting people to sort of understand that there's a way through problems. and a way through by dialogue. i really appreciate the fact i saw ambassador bill taylor out there just a couple months ago, i think, and visiting and your office, i mean, you have a standing offic

i will miss this building mainly because in my old job at east asia bureau we had a terrific view of the river which we don't have anymore. [laughter] so you remember the office. i mean, you'd look out there and look at the potomac river and think of north korea. [laughter] but it's, it's all gone now, and in its place is a beautiful, beautiful facility which i really do believe befits the status and the tremendous mission of the u.s. institute for peace, the things you've done, your work and really all over the world. i've worked with usip in every different part, i mean, whether in the balkans or in east asia, but i particularly appreciate what you all are doing in iraq because you're taking on one of the major challenges there which is conflict resolution and getting people in the same room to talk to each other and getting people to sort of understand that there's a way through problems. and a way through by dialogue. i really appreciate the fact i saw ambassador bill taylor out there just a couple months ago, i think, and visiting and your office, i mean, you have a standing off

what we have seen is a shift in economic power and wealth from the west broadly speaking to the east, asia, middle east, and so on comparably speaking. and that is a good thing. it is a good thing because it is a reflection of the fact that asia has cut and wealthier. i think that will ultimately translate to a currency movement, and asian currencies will ultimately become more valuable forces western currencies. it won't be an immediate swing, but actual the this movement we have on that the more pressure we are going to have on the protectionist issues and the more difficult it will be to resolve them. >> trichet. >> questionable to say the future. it depends on us whether we are a success are not. and we all agree, i would say, on behalf of all central banks, we have an immense stake in the success. immense. not only for the global prosperity, stability. it would be the worst enemy in this respect. again, it depends on us. we have all to work. what he said was right. to have the most lucid possible public opinion to understand that there is an interest. >> it is very hard to keep forcin

through strengthened international cooperation with allies and partners in europe, east asia and the dle east, the united states seeks to create an environment in which the development, acquisition, deployment and use of ballistic missiles by regional adversaries can be deterred. in addition to strengthening and expanding regional cooperation in this area, the united states will also be seeking to engage russia and china on missile defense and in strategic dialogue. next slide, please. i'd like to step back, now, and describe the security environment that we assessed going into both of these reviews and really provides a foundation. our view of the security environment begins with the wars that we're in, in which we see not as aberrations, but really as harbingers of a dynamic and complex future landscape. the rise of new powers, the growing influence of non-state actors, the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and a series of global trends continue to pose profound challenges to international security. and these strategic trends will create can a very challenging operating environ

what we have seen is a shift in economic power and wealth from the west, broadly speaking, to the east -- asia, middle east and so on -- and that is a good thing. it is a good thing because it is a reflection of the fact that asia has got wealthier. i think there will ultimately translate through to currency movement. asian currencies will ultimately become more valuable be estop western currencies. it will not be an immediate neat, smooth, unidirectional path, but actually the less movement we have a map, the more issue -- the more pressure we are going to have on the protectionist issues and the more difficult it will be to resolve things like doha. >> mr. shay? -- mr. trichet? >> to say that the future is not written, it depends on us that doha would be in a successor not and that we can achieve what we want. we all agree, and i would say not only on my own behalf but on behalf of all central banks, that we have an immense stake in the success of the doha round -- immense not only for the global prosperity, but also for maintaining appropriate price stability because protectionism would be

what we have seen is a shift in economic power and wealth from the west, broadly speaking, to the east -- asiaof the fact that asia has got wealthier. i think there will ultimately translate through to currency movement. asian currencies will ultimately become more valuable be estop western currencies. it will not be an immediate neat, smooth, unidirectional path, but actually the less movement we have a map, the more issue -- the more pressure we are going to have on the protectionist issues and the more difficult it will be to resolve things like doha. >> mr. shay? -- mr. trichet? >> to say that the future is not written, it depends on us that doha would be in a successor not and that we can achieve what we want. we all agree, and i would say not only on my own behalf but on behalf of all central banks, that we have an immense stake in the success of the doha round -- immense not only for the global prosperity, but also for maintaining appropriate price stability because protectionism would be the worst enemy in this respect. it depends on us, and we have to all work to convince our own peop

i've lived a lot of places in the world including the middle east and asia and the idea of america being hated in my old age as it were compared to what it was when i was a used to get almost personally. i mean, the berlin airlift is who we are, not the torturers, and i wanted to bring that story out to the extent i can to reevaluate who we are, where we came from, what we do and what we don't do, and i think that that was the way, that is what was tapped in the america of tom brokaw's america, the greatest generation and your talks about considering it not the first battle of the cold war. but the last battle, last year battle of world war ii. but so in the and if i represent the american people in my heart these are a people i want to be. >> it is a marvelous -- it is a marvelously and we've just scratched the surface with it tonight. but i think we have time for questions and what we would like to ask you to do is if you would come to -- is there just a microphone on the one side? come here and que up, as the british say. i'm sure that richard would be happy to take questions. >> [ina

if north korea keeps its program, other countries in east asia will get a nuclear weapons. if iran gets nuclear weapons, other countries in the region, saudi arabia, egypt, turkey, maybe others will get nuclear- weapons. the risk of proliferation will continue dramatically. the multilateral system of international order reason -- organization is powerless when faced with the dealing with countries like iran and north korea. >> they know that in the current administration they do not have an equal partner. they have somebody they think they can roll. they are acting on that basis and are going to continue to act on that basis. when you look at these critical areas that we have talked about , the administration is projecting weakness in a very substantial way. it is important that we look at otherÑi issues that will develop over the next several years, because of the danger is even broader than in the field of terrorism and proliferation. at some time this year, probably sooner rather than later, the administration will announce an arms control agreement with russia, the deal

thoughts about the impact, particularly as you look at developments in the uk on the, on the east pacific rim, asia, in terms of acquisition procurement policies. if you're gone the public, private policy and with the partnership industry and burden sharing driven heavily by the investment in these areas, is that a role looking forward particularly with austerity in the economy, around the budgeting right now and looking how do you balance, then, the investment for the two wars and still keep the long-term investment going around strategy, and if so, or if not, rather, you know, how does that then affect the transatlantic relationships when the criteria for the businesses in europe we want to integrate are changing against the fiscal course and the budgetary constraints they're under? >> i'll try the first question then maybe jeff you can go for the second. i don't know. pfis and such and the partnerships that are going on around there rely on a long-term contracting arrangement. and now there are energy savings performance contracts in the u.s., which are ten years long. a little longer, then othe

through strength in international cooperation with allies and partners in europe, east asia, and the hich the development, acquisition, and use of missiles can be determined. in addition to expanding -- can be deterred. in addition, the u.s. will seek to engage russia and china on missile defense in its strategic dialogue. next slide please. i would like to step back out and describe the security environment we assessed going in to both of these reviews and provide a foundation. our view of the security environment begins with the wars we are in, which we see not as aberrations but as harbingers of a dynamic and complex future landscape. the rise of new powers, the growing influence of non-state actors, the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and a series of global trends continue to pose a profound challenges to international security. these strategic trends will create very challenging operating in part for the u.s. military. first, as the secretary alluded to it, or fare is becoming increasingly difficult to categorize along the traditional spectrum of conflict. adversaries will

if north korea keeps its program, other countries in east asia will get a nuclear weapons.gypt, turkey, maybe others will get nuclear- weapons. the risk of proliferation will continue dramatically. the multilateral system of international order reason -- organization is powerless when faced with the dealing with countries like iran and north korea. >> they know that in the current administration they do not have an equal partner. they have somebody they think they can roll. they are acting on that basis and are going to continue to act on that basis. when you look at these critical areas that we have talked about , the administration is projecting weakness in a very substantial way. it is important that we look at otherÑi issues that will develop over the next several years, because of the danger is even broader than in the field of terrorism and proliferation. at some time this year, probably sooner rather than later, the administration will announce an arms control agreement with @@@@@@@ @- limiting our ballistic missile defense capabilities. it should not pass our attent

for terrorism, for violence, both in muslim expatriots in the west and muslims in the middle east or south asia is diminute shalling. and dramatically diminishing. and strangely enough, ironically enough in the past when we have seen this contrast of a protest counterculture, the violence has increased at the tail end of that movement. so perhaps what we have seen this uptick, may be due to the last remnants who are in a sense frustrated by the lack of effectiveness of the protest counterculture and decide to do things themselves out of, you know, certain moral outrage happening in the world. >> warner: marc sageman, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: again the major developments of the day. president obama sent congress a budget for the coming fiscal year that tops $3.8 trillion. it includes a projected deficit of nearly $1.6 trillion. a suicide bomber in baghdad killed at least 54 iraqis and wounded more than 100 others. and the u.s. military resumed medical evacuation flights from haiti. the newshour is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. pre

proliferates conventional weapons and ballistic missiles to a number of countries in the middle east, south asia and africa. which leads me to terrorism. when it comes to supporting terrorism and very recent years, very recent years, since 2005, north korea has provided weapons and training to both hezbollah and xml tigers. in fact, north korea was providing everything from small arms to artillery to naval craft for the demille tires almost right up until the time they were destroyed by the sri lankan army. then of course the north koreans lost. north korea is now well documented as having built the tunnels in lebanon for hezbollah to make it so difficult for the idea to get at them during the 2006 war. they've also provided small arms to hezbollah including rockets that are fired into israel. the evidence points to the dealing with hezbollah continuing to go on right now. the north koreans have dealt your hezbollah largely through the searing and in the iranians. but especially through the iranians and particularly through the ir gc, their key intermediary. so let's get to that. and the quesadi

himalaya could lose its glaciers by 2035, flaishiers -- glaciers which feed rivers across south and east asia is a dramatic and apocalyptic one after the intergovernmental panel on climate change said such an outcome was very likely in the assessment of the state of climate science that it made in 2007. onlookers, including this newspaper, repeated the claim with alarm. in fact, there is no reason to believe it to be true. this is good news within limits for the indian farmers and bad news for the ipcc." the "economist" finds that -- "this gives the ipcc's critics a lot to work with." seth borenstein with the associated press, a reporting whose objectivity i have questioned at various times, asked the ipcc to respond to glaciergate. borenstein reported in his january 20, 2010 article entitled "u.n. climate report riddled with errors on glaciers," he said -- quote" the credibility of the ipcc depends on the thoroughness with which its procedures are adhered to. the head of the u.n. framework convention on climate change told the associated press in an email quote -- "the procedures have been v

they also proliferates from weapons and missiles to a number of countries in the middle east, south asia and africa. which leaves me to terrorism. when it comes to supporting terrorism in very recent years, very recent year since 2005, north korea has provided weapons and training to both hezbollah and the tamil tigers. in fact, north korea was providing everything from small arms to artillery to naval craft for the jamel tigers almost right up until the time they were destroyed by the sri lankan army. and then of course comes the north koreans lost a customer. north korea is now well documented as having built a tunnel for hezbollah that made it so difficult for the idf to get after the 2006 war. they also provided small into hezbollah including brackets that are fired into israel. the evidence points to the dealing with hezbollah continuing to go on right now. north koreans have dealt with hezbollah largely through this theory and in the iranians. but especially through the iranians and particularly through the ir gc, their key intermediary. so let's get to that. in the case of the ira

plenty of matches that didn't have it at the top and the east, and this is part of what we now call the pacific and china, and india, and central asia, and the middle east, and europe up here, and then this, is the most famous part of the map, north america up here, and gulf of mexico here and the ieltdz of caribbean and the region, columbus explored and the big, big, long, thin line, that is south america. the dominant visual impression you get from looking at the new world is this giant southern place, and that is really what was making an impression on europeans in the early days of discovery, it wasn't so much the westness of the new world, it was obviously, columbus pioneered a new route across the atlantic but he thought he reached asia, he and just about everybody thought he confirmed old geographical ideas. south america, which amerigo vaspucci wrote about, extended far into the south, part of the globe people tended to think there was not any land in and that made a big impression and we'll get back to that in a minute, and what dominates the map is the southern part and that is why the cartographer put the word, america, o

that we continue to have strong developing economy growth, strong demand from asia in particular, but also the middle east is going to be a stronger consumer. >> reporter: deutsche bank's paul sankey also expects strong energy demand this year in the u.s. and abroad. but he thinks generous supplies will outpace demand. >> there's a lot of oil in inventory, there's a lot of oil stored at sea. additionally, we have some good supply growth projects coming particularly in opec itself. >> reporter: for sankey that extra supply means lower oil prices ahead. >> we've seen enough strength this year to date, particularly with the cold weather, to have some upside pressure on our forecast of $65 average for the year. but, certainly we are looking for prices to fall from here into the $60 range. >> reporter: for now, it appears that supply-demand fundamentals are fueling at least some price forecasts. of course, it's still possible that mother nature, geopolitical events, or speculators could make the forecasts fuzzy. suzanne pratt, "nightly business report", new york. >> tom: still ahead, hilary kramer is back as o

on the east pacific asia in terms of acquisition procurement policies to repel the public-private partnership model and impact that ultimately comes down on a partnership with industry and government burden sharing which is driven heavily by the investment environment in the areas. is that apr looking forward in the economy with austerity on the budgeting right now and looking at how to balance the investment for the two wars and keep the investment going around and if so, or if not rather how does that affect the transatlantic relationship when the criteria for the businesses in europe want to integrate our changing against the fiscal course and budgetary constraints they are under? >> i will try the first question and then maybe jeff, you can go for the second. pfi and such and partnerships going on around there rely on a long-term contract and a ranch that and now there are performance contracts in the u.s. which are ten years long. they are getting a little longer and a few others like that. but in the last few years what we see is the bank of contracts going down so you are going to have

they also proliferates from weapons and missiles to a number of countries in the middle east, south asia and africa. which leaves me to terrorism. when it comes to supporting terrorism in very recent years, very recent year since 2005, north korea has provided weapons and training to both hezbollah and the tamil tigers. in fact, north korea was providing everything from small arms to artillery to naval craft for the jamel tigers almost right up until the time they were destroyed by the sri lankan army. and then of course comes the north koreans lost a customer. north korea is now well documented as having built a tunnel for hezbollah that made it so difficult for the idf to get after the 2006 war. they also provided small into hezbollah includingb)(i two documented terrorist or terrorist supporting groups. hezbollah and the ir gc. this is well-known and continues today. so it is rather disturbing at least to me that north korea has not been put back on the list of nations supporting terrorism. dealing with hezbollah and the irgc is not a minor infraction and the dealings with these two o

proliferates conventional weapons and ballistic missiles to a number of countries in the middle east, south asiand africa. it leads me to terrorism. when it comes to supporting terrorism in very recent years since 2005, north korea has provided weapons and training to both has blocked -- hezbollah and others. they have recalled -- they have provided a number of equipment to the tigers, up to the time they were almost destroyed by the sri long been army -- sri lankan army. they have built tunnels for the hezbollah. they have provided them a small arms, including rockets that are fired into israel. the evidence points to the dealings with hezbollah continuing to go on right now. they have dealt with them largely through the syrians and iranians, especially through the iranians and particularly through the irgc. in the case of the iranians, the north koreans have dealt with hezbollah primarily through the irgc, a relationship that appears to be ongoing. they also deal with and collaborate with them on a variety of arms deals with iran. it is well known for this. thus, when it comes to supporting te

east. religion is used as a club to deny the human rights of girls and women from the gulf to africa to asiad to discriminate, even advocating the executions of gays and lesbians. religion is used to enshrine in law intolerance of free expression and peaceful protest. iran is now detaining and executing people under a new crime, waging war against god. that seems to be a rather dramatic identity crisis. in the obama administration, we are working to bridge religious divides. we are taking on violations of human rights perpetrated in the name of religion, and we invite members of congress and clergy and active citizens like all of you here to join us. of course, we are supporting the peace processes from northern ireland to the middle east. of course, we are following up on the president's historic speech in cairo with outreach efforts to muslims and promoting interfaith dialogue. of course, we are condemning repression in iran, but we are also standing up for girls and women who, too often in the names of religion, are denied their basic human rights. we are standing up for gays and lesbians

east. and vast amounts of africa and asia where people today, even in places we think of as relatively civilized, suffer tremendous sufferings because of this. in iran, young, gay men are hanged in public because they are homosexual. and this is based on religious doctrine, first of all. it is based in this country on the bible. and i think it is silly to deny the fact that the bible does explicitly condemn homosexual facts. i'm not one of these people who are trying to pretend he doesn't. leviticus is very clear on this matter. roman seemed to be pretty clear that it's not kosher. [laughter] >> i hope that isn't going to be interpreted as anti-semitic. [laughter] >> does this work today as a politics? does it appeal to the bible? it is one of the dominant themes of the religious right. it was adamant eve, not adam and steve. you heard the slogans. the bible is clear on this isn't the word of god. we must take the bible literally seriously. well, my response of that is simply this. leviticus is clear. a man shall not die, shall not lie down with a man, but it is also clear the penalty is executi

over here is the east and this is part of what we now call the pacific. this is china, india, central asiathe middle east, africa obviously this is the most famous part of the map, north america up here, the gulf of mexico here, the islands of the caribbean, this is the region columbus explored and then this big thin line is south america. the dominant visual impression you get from looking at the new world is this giant southern place and that's what was making an impression on europeans in the early days of discovery. it wasn't so much the western new world, it was obviously columbus pioneered a great new route across the atlantic but he thought he reached asia so he and just about everybody thought that he confirmed old geographical ideas. south america, which he wrote about in the late 14 nineties and early 1500's extended far into the south and part of the globe people tended to think there wasn't any land and and that made it big impression and we will get back to that in a minute. what dominates the map than is the southern part and that's why the cartographer put the word american

thoughts about the impact, particularly as you look at developments in the uk on the, on the east pacific rim, asiarivate policy and with the partnership industry and burden sharing driven heavily by the investment in these areas, is that a role looking forward particularly with austerity in the economy, around the budgeting right now and looking how do you balance, then, the investment for the two wars and still keep the long-term investment going around strategy, and if so, or if not, rather, you know, how does that then affect the transatlantic relationships when the criteria for the businesses in europe we want to integrate are changing against the fiscal course and the budgetary constraints they're under? >> i'll try the first question then maybe jeff you can go for the second. i don't know. pfis and such and the partnerships that are going on around there rely on a long-term contracting arrangement. and now there are energy savings performance contracts in the u.s., which are ten years long. a little longer, then others, a few others like that, but in the last few years what we're seeing is t

central asia, the caspian, the caucuses, the far east and the near east meeting in the mideast, if you will. afghanistan is at the center of all that. if we remember back not so long ago. i see many people are here bold enough to remember. back in the 1980's when the u.s. was fighting a war in afghanistan against the soviet union. the afghan war was a proxy war. one of the hot battlefields. it was not called for anyone in afghanistan. during that time what we saw was that the interest was not so much in what afghanistan had but where it was. and then, of course, after the end of the cold war when the soviets had been defeated in very much the same way we are currently being defeated. you are doomed to repeat history. but after that part of the war when the war among the warlords who we had arms, when we left we left our arms behind. the only thing we left behind. we did not leave any development, but we left an awful lot of guns. .. only education they got was a very extremist formfñ of madrassas funded by saudi arabia and carried out in pakistan. that was all the education they had.

chairman of the foreign operations subcommittee that the united states help, and europe and asia, the middle east and the far east people are helping. it must continue. for this small group of vermonters who went down there, lives were saved, lives were changed. children were rescued. and we vermonters are proud. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from vermont is recognized. mr. leahy: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. leahy: i ask unanimous consent the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of martha johnson occur at 2:45 p.m. with the time until then be divided equally. with the provisions of the order governing this nomination remaining in effect. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. leahy: mr. president, i ask further unanimous consent that upon disposition of the nomination of martha johnson, the senate resuming legisla

we are promoting human rights from africa to asia to the middle east, the rule of law, democracy, internet, fighting poverty, hundred and disease and working to ensure economic growth is broadly shared principally by addressing the rule of girls and women and i want to applaud the chairman and subcommittee chairwoman barbara boxer for putting this issue on the back of the foreign relations committee. our agenda is and vicious because our times demand it. america is called to lead. i think we all believe that. and therefore we need the tools and resources in the 21st century to exercise the leadership wisely and effectively. we can very our heads in the sand and pay the consequences later or make hard nosed targeted investments now. let me just highlight three areas where we are making significant new investments. first, the security of the front-line states. in afghanistan we tripled the number of civilians on the ground, civilians are in bed with our troops and marja in areas going on. when an area is cleared they are a part of the american team along with our international allies who go

spent her entire career reporting on global affairs with a particular emphasis on southeast asia and the middle eastfç the islamist result -- revolution. we will be right bcb. >> to the and "book tv" for a three-day prison as the weekend. henry paulson talking to warren buffett. on "after words," historian and poet to prizewinner on how the atomic bomb changed the presidency and the role of the u.s. in the world. it read airs sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific, and all day monday, books on american presidents. fdr, president obama and our culture, creag shirley on ronald reagan. for the complete schedule go to book tv.org. >> his film "hillary: the movie," it was the focusçw> "washington journal" continues. host: here is robin wright on the screen. she is with the institute of peace as a foreign policy analyst. she has reported from more than 140 countries for six continents for papers like "the washington post," and others and author of several books

the countries of europe, asia, latin america, and before long the middle east, are going to be competingahead. if you want to stay with them and remain a vibrant growth economy, we have to recommit to a strategy that drives the economic growth of the future. let me be clear. after the financial crisis short-term measures were a necessary part of economic policy. the stimulus package passed by congress last year, for example, undoubtedly steered the economy away from much more serious problems. my biggest concern, though, is that so much of the spending is targeted to occur in 2011 and 2012, well after most people believe that the crisis will have passed. other countries, most mostly china, manage to put stimulus funds to work much faster and are benefiting from that today. but stimulus spending is not a substitute for forward-looking investments that help create the underpinnings of economic growth. and perhaps the most important of those is education, an area in which international test scores continually tell us we are failing to be competitive. but it doesn't have to remain like that.

it is broaden itself not only in south asia but in parts of africa and the middle east and encourages other groups to form at least a network kind of alliance. in many ways this is in fact what 21st century terrorism is. does not about a unitary organization with a command and control system. is about it network of organizations that enable each other, that support each other, that may not necessarily always be 100% aligned, but will certainly be closer in their world view and closer in their efforts than makes it comfortable for the west. so we have seen for example the somalia, another area that is poorly governed, has become a save covin for al-shabaab, and al qaeda linked group that has in one way become very successful as a recruiter of westerners to come and and train and actually carry out terrorist attacks. we have seen a greater presence of al qaeda in yemen although this again has been a feature now for a couple of years. and even in democrat, north africa, we now have the phenomenon of al qaeda in maghreb which is the successor to some of the terrorist organizations in nort

the countries of europe, asia, latin america, and before long the middle east, are going to be competinghead. if you want to stay with them and remain a vibrant growth economy, we have to recommit to a strategy that drives the economic growth of the future. let me be clear. after the financial crisis short-term measures were a necessary part of economic policy. the stimulus package passed by congress last year, for example, undoubtedly steered the economy away from much more serious problems. my biggest concern, though, is that so much of the spending is targeted to occur in 2011 and 2012, well after most people believe that the crisis will have passed. other countries, most mostly china, manage to put stimulus funds to work much faster and are benefiting from that today. but stimulus spending is not a substitute for forward-looking investments that help create the underpinnings of economic growth. and perhaps the most important of those is education, an area in which international test scores continually tell us we are failing to be competitive. but it doesn't have to remain like that.

the countries of europe, asia, latin america and before long the middle east are going to be competingh us and every sphere of the economy and the years ahead. if you want to stay and remain a vibrant growth economy we have to commit to a strategy the tribe's economic growth in the future. let me be clear. after the financial crisis short term measures were a necessary part of economic policy. the stimulus package passed by congress last year for its simple undoubtedly steer the economy away from much more serious problems. my biggest concern though is it so much of the spending is targeted to occur in 2011 and 2012 well after most people believe the crisis will have passed. other countries most notably china managed to put stimulus funds to work much faster and are benefiting from that today. but stimulus spending is not a substitute for forward-looking investments that helped create the underpinnings of economic growth. perhaps the most important is education. an area if international test scores continually tell us we are failing to the competitive but it doesn't have to remain like

east and beijing. this coming march, we will open up one, rededicate one in paris for europe. mumbai for india and southeast asia, and then in africa. and the idea is very simple. it is to provide opportunities for students and faculty to work on serious projects that are defined by the local, regional institutions, including government. grounded with working with local institution, universities, eths, to try to get us out there and more importantly to build up the experiential level that will then need to the expertise level that will also generate the general knowledge levels that we need to deal with the world as it is. so that is our strategy. that is how we are thinking about it. thanks. [applause] >> thank you to all our panelists. this is point where we hope to send it over to all of you. before we start the question and answer, i should say that the acoustics in this room are -- they are fine up here but i think they will be challenging. if you could stand to answer your question, i think there'll be microphone's going around. it might be good to wait for the microphone to arrive. please. >> who had been

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it is broaden itself not only in south asia but in parts of africa and the middle east and encourageso form at least a network kind of alliance. in many ways this is in fact what 21st century terrorism is. does not about a unitary organization with a command and control system. is about it network of organizations that enable each other, that support each other, that may not necessarily always be 100% aligned, but will certainly be closer in their world view and closer in their efforts than makes it comfortable for the west. so we have seen for example the somalia, another area that is poorly governed, has become a save covin for al-shabaab, and al qaeda linked group that has in one way become very successful as a recruiter of westerners to come and and train and actually carry out terrorist attacks. we have seen a greater presence of al qaeda in yemen although this again has been a feature now for a couple of years. and even in democrat, north africa, we now have the phenomenon of al qaeda in maghreb which is the successor to some of the terrorist organizations in north africa and th

it is broaden itself not only in south asia but in parts of africa and the middle east and encourageser groups to form at least a network kind of alliance. in many ways this is in fact what 21st century terrorism is. does not about a unitary organization with a command and control system. is about it network of organizations that enable each other, that support each other, that may not necessarily always be 100% aligned, but will certainly be closer in their world view and closer in their efforts than makes it comfortable for the west. so we have seen for example the somalia, another area that is poorly governed, has become a save covin for al-shabaab, and al qaeda linked group that has in one way become very successful as a recruiter of westerners to come and and train and actually carry out terrorist attacks. we have seen a greater presence of al qaeda in yemen although this again has been a feature now for a couple of years. and even in democrat, north africa, we now have the phenomenon of al qaeda in maghreb which is the successor to some of the terrorist organizations in north af