the beginning of the cold war with the soviet takeover of eastern europe.a dramatization when churchill said that an iron curtain has descended across europe. he was trying to end the cold war and very efficiently with that speech. people in eastern europe demand the fact that major challenges had been mounted one at time weather in hungary in 1956, and czechoslovakia in 1968, or pollen in 1980-'81. coordination was, however, impossible. even if they manage to meet they had little chance of globalizing populations. they did pad have access to communications that could have provided the possibility of coordinating a simultaneous defiance of soviet imports rulers. the amount of force required to maintain communist power was much less when expectations were low that it was when expectations were aroused. they were very high in hungary in 1956 and if anything did beacon still higher throughout eastern europe. first one country and then another effectively brought with communist rule. the hang darien's also destabilize to the east german regime by allowing east

this in eastern europe gave us the impetus for "operation last chance" if focused on eastern europe in the effort to try to find nazi as we did not know about. of the adr was actually from the founder and head of the foundation out of miami. someone was a very strong supporter and have gone with me to all sorts of places in the world like costa rica looking for not cease and that was obvious. i did not need him to show me that the some of them were proactive. it was my decision to go to eastern europe and maybe this way we will find nazi war criminals we did not know about. in any event it started in the baltics and also one other interesting thing. over the years we realized some of the potential witnesses are the perpetrators. because in many cases the victims never knew the killers. that is true of the robot killing units in the murders were very often carried out away from bystanders. if you don't have victims are bystanders the only people left are the perpetrators. if these countries were already brought to trial by the soviets, and many were cart -- cotte were given harsh senten

we all welcome changes in eastern europe and agree that the community should continue to give them every possible help. >> and the particular urgency of poland and's hungry's needs was recognized. the europe council in just over two week's time will decide on the additional help that the community can of. and carving not just financial help but further food supplies and training. and we shall also consider the possibility of extending european community programs, and in areas such as technology and education to eastern europe. and britain's recent suggestion of looking at various options for bringing eastern europe into closer association with the community will also be studied and discussed further. and at the same time, mr. speaker, the same time mr. speaker, we agreed that naito -- nato and the warsaw pact continue to be the basis for defense. their boarders are not on the agenda and that we well continue to abide by the helsinki final act. indeed without nato and the european community, these great events would surely not have happened. hear hear. this is an excellent meeting and a v

recent events in germany and eastern europe have shown that history is a constantly moving pageant. it was john kennedy whose words we all recall of the last few days of the berlin wall. he said " some men see things as they are and ask why. i dream of things that never were and ask why not." it is because i believe that the program is in accord with the spirit of that message. i have no hesitation in commending him for the house. >> during the course of the previous speaker statements, he made reference to serve clarence. -- to assert clarence. i had many arguments with him. he is the occasion to make a snide comment about someone who is no longer here. even though i disagree with him, he was a good member. >> even before were televised, the house will have heard me say that we have freedom of speech, but every honorable manner -- hon. member -- order. the question is that an humble address be presented to her majesty as follows. most gracious sovereign, the commons of the united kingdom in parliament assembled offer mumbled thanks to her majesty for the gracious speech which her m

. >> and i welcome the commitment to support the remarkable changes taking place in eastern europe. and speaking in poland last month, the german chancellor said that moscow and warsaw and prague and budapest and vina, he made no mention of lip-sync. [laughter] and that was as marge a -- as much a part of europe as london and brussels and paris or berlin. dr. coal was echoing deville's famous content of a europe perching from the atlantic to the euro. it is a concept which i share. i am strongly in favor of the free movement of people, goods and capital, within the 12 countries which make up the community. and but i have no confidence in the presumed superior wisdom of the commission in brussels. and that's as compared with the judgment fallible as it is of this elected house of commons. >> yeah. >> recent events in eastern europe have reinforced that view. and if we look forward to the day as i do, when the whole of the european family can share in that freedom and democracy which we enjoy, then the long-term enlargement of the community is more likely to come about if the nation s

as participation was verboten to or you're going to have these communist party surrogates in eastern europeand the kind of -- they're kind of romance about what politics should look like. they recognize after masaryk's death was just back, a romance that had no basis in reality. >> there is an odd continuity and personnel also and it's a foot mount, but after pm and stop it was succeeded by a magazine called compass in the star. >> the star was. >> the star was more or less the same paper. >> but the money, marshall field, pulled out and they started again and they've tried valiantly to continue for a few months and then the star continued. one of the editors of the compass was joseph bonds zero ping as it has -- as it happens was a ghost writer of wendell willkie is a book one world and had worked for the zero ss during the war. he made the mistake when the allies entered italy to write broadcasting we're bringing you democracy and he told me himself that he was severely criticized by his bosses were talking about a democracy in italy. when the government was going to maintain a once you h

can you give me a yellow umbrella that you cannot get in eastern europe? then the second woman said i have little yorkie terrier i cannot find this scissors. so i was going to berlin for monday on the festival i was close to find a yellow umbrella and a scissors which would be hard and anyplace. [laughter] i did find a blood missed seeing my film so i go back to prague i open it is paper and they said i won the gold but i was not even there to win it. but it was one of the good things. because all of a sudden everybody knew we in innovation and i was invited to make films in london and switzerland and the animation film director but the people and prague could add travel and at -- at all and those who could not go back i had a pass for and i could fly and i was confused because i would see in london tomatoes then i would go to prague and sa can i have a pound of tomatoes and nobody would have those in april. it was creating problems and i remember coming to the bar in is iraq is like the wild west for somebody said i am buying drinks for everybody not just

i welcome the commitment to support the remarkable changes taking place in eastern europe.or mentioned warsaw, poland, and made the image of lights. there's no part of europe as london, paris, rome, or berlin. the concept of europe stretching from the atlantic to the europe. it is a concept i share. i am strongly in favor of the free movement of people and capital in the 12 countries, which make up the union, but i have no confidence in presumed superior wisdom of the commission in brussels as compared with the judgment of this elected house of commons. recent events have reinforced that view. if we look forward to the day, as i do, when the whole of the european family can share in that freedom and democracy of which we entered, then the long term the enlargement of the community is more likely to come about if the nation state of the 12 do not succumb to the halting ambitions of the super naturalist. mr. speaker, i also welcome the commitment to defeat terrorism in northern ireland, in great britain, and in europe. we often send a message from this place to friend and foe

which i mean when we think about other areas of the world like east asia or latin america or eastern europe, those economies produce things that are components to things that are built elsewhere and alternately are things that you and i by. if you went to walmart today you don't find too many things made in the middle east. not too many things that have components built in the arab world. we trade with many parts of the muslim world. we by oil or agricultural bias and they by finished goods. that doesn't mean those economies are participating in the global economy in a manner that favors these other economies. that is a very important factor. when we talk about a globalized world in which large parts of the world are integrated economically into one another. production and trade create relationships and networks between people. sitting outside of that global economic webb has consequences. those consequences have a lot to do with the reality on the ground in the muslim world in profound ways. one of the most important consequences is in many parts of the muslim world in middle-class, that w

proceeding had this kind of fervent wish that popular front government would be established in eastern europe and real popular front government. in other words, not government run by the time his party with other parties being declarations, but total -- told governments of the left. it was actually maza rexx suicide, if indeed it was a suicide in czechoslovakia that brought lerner and another guy who was writing columns into open despair about what was going to take place in eastern europe, that it was clear that she popular front for politics is not going to happen. you either going to have capitalist governments in western europe where communist participation was verbose, you know, or you're going to have these communist party moscow surrogates in asia and europe. and the kind of -- they're kind of romance about what politics should look like. they recognize after his death was just that, a romance that had no basis in reality. >> there's an odd continuity and personnel also, and it's a footnote, but after "pm" stop, it was succeeded by a magazine called compass in the start. >> the star wa

i welcome the commitment to support the remarkable changes taking place in eastern europe. speaking in poland last month, the german chancellor said that moscow, warsaw, prague, budapest -- he made no mention of leipzig, as london, brussels, paris, rome, or berlin. dr. cole was echoing general demill's famous concept stretching from the atlantic to the euros. it's a concept which i share. i am strongly in favor of the free movement of people, birds and capital in the 12 capitals that make up the community. but i have no confidence in the presumed superior wisdom of the commission in brussels as compared with the judgment fallible though it is, of this elected house of commons. recent events released in europe have reinforced that view. if we look forward to the day as i do when the whole of the european family can share in that freedom and democracy which we enjoy, then the long term enlargement of the community is more likely to come about if the nation states of the 12 do not succumb to the vaulting ambitions of the super nationalists. mr. speaker, i also welcome the comm

talk about passing this information on to people who knew that were writing in soviet occupied eastern europeand hungary. >> you said that he spent time in 14 different countries. >> is it 14? i had forgotten the number. >> give us a broad view of where it was. >> he grew up in hungary. his family was thrown out in 1919. they had reacted against a short lived communist occupation. he went to school and university in vienna. vienna was saturated with anti- semitism at the time. he became a zionist. he then moved to palestine. he was failing in his university studies. in his autobiography, he covered up the real reason. he actually left to get away from his parents, but one could leave without going all the way to palestine. he had a very adventurous spirit. as a zionist, he wanted to see the promised land for himself. it was there that he became a journalist, writing for an obscure paper. >> who is that other fellow in the picture with him? >> this is an unknown fellow journalist. it was taken in jerusalem in 1928. at the time when he had just begun working for the press company. >> some of th

you see similar sentiments throughout eastern europe and the soviet union. one thing that emerged clearly to me is that there is a real dichotomy between the people who cause the event in new because the event and those who gave the -- who caused the event and those who gave the reaction. that really happens to a small group of people. we have not talked as much about economic issues. they should be considered as well. if gorbachev had gotten his act together with european leaders who are pacifists and wanted the lesson of the cold war to be that central europe to be permanently demilitarized and become a neutral zone -- the only leader of east germany was strongly opposed of going into nato. the foreign minister resigned. if they came up with some coherent alternative, that could have perhaps jailed. begin ge-- geleone of the greats that it is already there. you did not waste any time conceptualizing. people know what they were getting. they wanted it. they saw the benefits of it. they saw the western livestock. when push came to shove, which is the endgame

even in emerging eastern europe there are some stronger economy is beginning to show signs of vigor, such as poland. the third factor, a big unknown, is the turnaround level to occur in the corporate sector. one way of thinking about the downturn of 2009 is we had corporates adjusting very aggressively. in so doing turn their potentiafootage a position to of borrowing to substantial surplus. maybe that position will remain for the next six months, but my suspicion is that will increasingly turn into more corporate activity. whether on the capital spending side or the employment side. the test me to my fourth and final point. we will get a turn in the global employment picture. -- that takes me to my fourth and final point. desmond is the high unemployment and weak labor market as a reason for extended weakness. i would turn it on its head and say as the economy picks up in the u.s. we will see a turn in labor market conditions. we already see it in the high- frequency indicators. it will become global. in some of the hiring surveys we look at we see the global employment picture pote

complete grasp on jewish history at the hands of murders and they had seen many jews died in eastern europe and other parts of the world. >> host: talking about the controversy then and the buck but on a personal level rating about this come obviously must have been, i don't know, ad hominem attacks, but what was it like when the book first came out in that context? >> guest: it was my first book. i was in my 20s when i started it and it came out 1984. i had been the editor of a sitting magazine but it was never exposed on the international stage. the book was published worldwide. people were shocked surprised confused. there was a town hall meeting set up in chicago to discuss this. it was supposed to be in some little j.c. see social room and by 1:00 so many people had made reservations they moved it to a large synagogue. then they moved it to to a football stadium. [laughter] i had 1100 people waiting to hear me talk about this. it was rough. they said all muammar qaddafi was financing me. i had picket lines and said my parents were from kuwait. polish survivors day hired a psychologist

some special cases of countries where the cost of capital does not matter, like china, or it eastern europe, where they have a bigger problem with russian gas and a brother trying to cut them off, you will not try to find unsubsidized plants being built. there it -- there are cheaper and safer ways to attack the problem. let me turn to the real experts. gary, what is your forecast for 2010? >>please make it clear and short and witty. [laughter] >> by the end of 2010, there will be a new set of urban indicators focused on health, health equity, a social equity, and stability that will allow more of the world's population to enter into the conversations of climate. >> great. >> i will start with a facetious one that you will not have to write down. president obama will attend the world cup in south africa. the u.s. will lose and obama will be played. the realistic one is that 2010 will be the hottest year in history. >> as the economic recovery gathers strength around the world, especially in gathering countries, we will return to an economic scarcity with rapidly rising prices for resources,

jewish history of the worthlessness of jewish life on the hands of murderers they saw many die in eastern europe and other parts of the road to seven fast toward we're talking about the controversy of the book. on a personal level exposing with this in dealing with it and writing about it obviously must have been, i don't know ad hominem attacks or whatever, what was it like when the book first came out in that context? >> guest: this was my first book. i was in my 20s when i started it and came down 1984. i was the editor of a city magazine but i had never been exposed on the international stage. the book was published worldwide. people were shocked, surprised, confused there was a town hall meeting set up in chicago to discuss this. it was supposed to be in a little gcc social room. by 1:00 so many people had made a reservation they had moved to a large synagogue then they moved it to a football stadium i had 1100 people waiting to hear me talk about this it was rough they said muammar qaddafi was financing me. i had picket lines and said my parents were from kuwait but of course, they are pol

a menu of the italians and a huge wave of from eastern europe and so on.and these people act differently and proper drinking habits with them. in a lot of cases that violated but the temperance movement.what he meant to be a good american. in this country here we don't drink. we're middle class, proper peace and people into catholics need to behave. so a lot of cases your temperance was really targeted at the catholics to try to reform their ways. prohibition actually went into effect a year after the 18th amendment was passed. and so, and went into effect january 16, 1920, so 90 years ago. on the eve of prohibition, all the drives in the country had one last chance to buy alcohol. and the majority of state that point. down in northville, virginia, there was a mock funeral for john barleycorn led by a man named billy sunday was an evangelist and these false start and is not funeral he preached the eulogy. in his eulogy he said goodbye john, you were god's worst enemy and the devil's best friend. farewell. i hate you with a perfect hate and by the grace of

he sought to work with russia by not proceeding with ballistic missile defense installation in eastern europe. i do not think that worked out very well. the focus of the administration's policy with russia is antiquated. it is focused on the arms control of the cold war when the cold war is over. it no longer matters very much to this country how many warheads russia has. we should be reducing our nuclear arsenal beyond its current levels, but we should do that unilaterally. there is no reason why our implementing what is strategy should be a different calculation. we have a diplomatic establishment. the president reflects that. i hope we will have a plan b period the president's remarks on receiving the nobel prize, which are extraordinarily different from everything he said before, in fact it puts one in mind of jimmy carter, that the world was a harsher place that he had previously understood. i am encouraged to think that president obama may be discovering that sometimes forces necessary. sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. sometimes engagement is not feasible or cannot be effecti

don't think of the fact that what transformed china, transformed india, transform latin america, eastern europed stable, prosperous democracies was the middle classes in those countries that were dependent on private sectors, that were integrated global economies. and we don't think in the muslim world, you're not going to get them to where brazil, argentina, taiwan, or korea are unless the same class that got those countries to where they are also become empowered in the muslim world. so we are looking for a solution in the muslim world without looking at what is the force that's supposed to produce the solution. i think the change agent!"w ine muslim world ultimately will have to come from the middle-class and from the capitalist business sector associate with the. >> vali nasr, author of "forces of fortune." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> in his book, "obamanomics," timothy carney says that president obama presents himself as a chicken of the average american. but is more on the site of big corporations and wall street. it's about an hour. >> the book, "obamanomics," the thesis is diff

even in emerging eastern europe there are some stronger economy is beginning to show signs of vigor, such as poland. the third factor, a big unknown, is the turnaround level to occur in the corporate sector. one way of thinking about the downturn of 2009 is we had corporates adjusting very aggressively. in so doing turn their potentiafootage a position to of borrowing to substantial surplus. maybe that position will remain for the next six months, but my suspicion is that will increasingly turn into more corporate activity. whether on the capital spending side or the employment side. the test me to my fourth and final point. we will get a turn in the global employment picture. -- that takes me to my fourth and final point. desmond is the high unemployment and weak labor market as a reason for extended weakness. i would turn it on its head and say as the economy picks up in the u.s. we will see a turn in labor market conditions. we already see it in the high- frequency indicators. it will become global. in some of the hiring surveys we look at we see the global employment picture pote

don't think of the fact that what transformed china transformed india, transformed latin america, eastern europe and asia, that created stable prosperous democracies was the middle-class is in those countries that were dependent on earth and were integrated into the global economy. and we don't think that in the muslim world you're not going to get them to where brazil, argentina, taiwan, or could we are unless the same classic got them to where they are also becomes empowered in the muslim world. so we look inward for a solution in the muslim world, without looking at what is the force that supposed to produce blue shin. i think the change agent and the muslim world ultimately will have to come from the middle-class and from the capitalist business sector associated with it. >> author of forces of fortune. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. it is a pleasure to evacuate his magnificent building, this 18th century library, which i think it's one of the architectural models of the united states and everybody should come here to see it. and i'm delighted to be back here aga

but the way i did it when they published now in europe and in prague and eastern europe, people got upsetcause of how i do it. it's like there is america. this is like the western european everything is good here and everything else in the east is bad. i'm guessing it wasn't my intention. but some people like to get -- that is geographical. this is more spiritual for me. this is how my life changed in new york. i thought i would be -- i wasn't interested in making children's books but i thought i will make one book, two books, 250 laypeople in america can't be problems to sell you a million books. i thought i would be making animated film out of it. i realize i have to pay for the apartment, and somebody said you could do editorial illustrations. so in 1984, in june, i pointed "new york times" and they gave me first assignment, which changed my life because they gave me two pictures to do. i gave him three options for each picture. i said i can do it in one line which would take 10 minutes or half an hour, one hour. but everybody was doing the. i wanted to make sure i've reduce something

but you'll also get ukraine, hungary, the eastern periphery of europe is likely to be in trouble.st one word on the situation in china. china has surprised us in a very positive way by it's very rapid growth in the p 2009. and that was really achieved through massive fiscal stimulus policy, massive easying of monetary policy. but the question that i've thought is whether in 2010 we're not going to see problems emerging from the global economy from the chinese situation. what i'm referring to is much of the stimulus package went to be building up additional excess capacity which is going to come on screen in 2010 at a time that europe and the united states are going to be having very high unemployment levels. i'm not sure that that is going to be a very positive development for the world economy. what we're going to see is height and protection as pressures which you've already got right now. if china is going to be providing additional supply, that's really going to make life rather difficult for the u.s. and europe. >> thank you. my final panelist on this question, what is the ex

at latin america and asian economies emerging markets they delevered a lot but if you look at eastern europed former republics there are causes for real concerns just whether this assumption that emerging markets have weathered the storm. >> and there will be defaults in emerging markets? >> yes. >> will there be defaults in rich countries? >> i doubt it. >> austin, what is your -- >> the good and the bad? >> the good and the bad. mine has a twist of good and bad. the good is there will be little sign of up turn in inflation in 2010. >> there will be no inflation? >> there will be no upturn, which is good but that is a different way of saying there is not going to be humongous growth, you know, 10%, v-shaped. >> there won't be 10% growth. >> my prediction that they can write down there will be no upturn of inflation in 2010. the negative prediction is productivity growth will come back down to some normal growth rate. we have had productivity 5% to 9%. it will come back to something more normal like 2% to 3%. that is bad because ultimately our standard of living is determined by our producti

it's sort of drawing upon now multiple visits to yemen and also to africa and to eastern europe to do the investigations into our clients cases. and a sort of -- it's a reflective piece on some of the challenges that we face in doing this work. and the challenges we put our clients through in particular in doing this work. and the title of the chapter is called endless questions. why, for example, will the government acknowledge the names of some of the individuals it held in cia custody and not those of others like our clients who it has released? if the government believes as it claims that its program is legal, why does it attempt to shield scrutiny of its activities in the nation's courts? why does the government ask for a privacy waiver from our clients when the very reason we have to file the request for information on their behalf is because the government violated our client's privacy without permission? why is it that when we sit down with mohammed and trace on a world map where he was held for 18 months of his life that our fingers still can't draw a straight line from where

reemerging in places like erin europe, where the baltic countries, just to mention, one area just looks like it's heading for a full blown crisis. you also get ukraine, hungary, the easternriff row of europe is likely to be in the trouble. just on the situation in china, china has surprised us by it's rapid growth in 2009. and that was really achieved through massive fiscal stimulus policy, massive easying of monetary policy. the question that i have in whether in 2010 we're not going to see problems emerging in the global economy from the chinese situation. what i'm referring to is much of the stimulus package went to be building up editional excess capacity which is going to come on screen in 2010. and at a time that europe and the united states are going to be having very high unemployment levels, i'm not sure that that is going to be a very positive development for the world economy. what we're going to see is heightened protection pressures which you have already have right now. and if china is going to be providing additional supply, that's really going to make life rather difficult for the u.s. and europe. >> thank you. my final of this question what is the explan

if i was eastern europe and i said let me import this it to the states because this is going to be big> it's the right thing to do to be wearing a hat this morning. >> although it's much warmer this morning i'm here to tell you, i can tell. it's balmy compared to yesterday. >> it's nothing compared to what the northern states are going through. >> i'm with you, balmy, nuts. >> sweater, turtleneck, a blanket she stole from somewhere, a poodle. >> welcome back to "the early show" on this chilly morning. coming up, we loved her in dharma, with you we love jenna elfman even more as billie in the sitcom "accidentally on purpose" on cbs. we'll check on the progress of her show and her praeg innocence city. >> is everybody on the show with child on this network? >> it is in the water. >>> also we take you to a resort where health and wellness reign supreme. part of our new series where we show you how to take small steps to improve -- that's a bigger step -- improve your step. >>> plus the cooking school back in session. katie lee is here to show us her secrets for roasting the perfect chicke

some special cases of countries where the cost of capital does not matter, like china, or it eastern europe, where they have a bigger problem with russian gas and a brother trying to cut them off, you will not try to find unsubsidized plants being built. there it -- there are cheaper and safer ways to attack the problem. let me turn to the real experts. gary, what is your forecast for 2010? >>please make it clear and short and witty. [laughter] >> by the end of 2010, there will be a new set of urban indicators focused on health, health equity, a social equity, and stability that will allow more of the world's population to enter into the conversations of climate. >> great. >> i will start with a facetious one that you will not have to write down. president obama will attend the world cup in south africa. the u.s. will lose and obama will be played. the realistic one is that 2010 will be the hottest year in history. >> as the economic recovery gathers strength around the world, especially in gathering countries, we will return to an economic scarcity with rapidly rising prices for resources,

we chose russia over eastern europe and what did we get in return? cooperation with iran? nothing. and from china? from china, we received explicit statements that they would oppose any sanctions on iran in the security council. what have we gotten for our pressure on israel? the complete breakdown of negotiations. for 16 years, the palestinians have negotiated with israel without a settlement freeze. until obama arrived to re-invent the world. the arabs now refuse any negotiation as they prefer logicically to sit back and let the united states extract unilateral concessions from israel. this is only the beginning. in his first year, we have only begun to see the fruits of obama's internationalism, but the signs are unmistakeable. should this policy continue for the next three years yet alone for the next seven, it will have profound consequences throughout the world. it would consfute a growl american restreet -- constitute a grad you'll american restreet. obama insisted that the restreet begins there as well and will have consequences easily stated. when allies see the american u

we chose russia over eastern europe, and what did we get in return? cooperation with iran? nothing.xplicit statements that they will oppose any sanctions on iran in the security council. what have we gotten for our pressure on israel? the complete breakdown in negotiations. for 16 years the palestinians had negotiated with israel without a settlement freeze. until obama arrived to reinvent the world. the arabs now refuse any negotiation because they prefer logically to sit back and let the united states extract unilateral concessions from israel. this is only the beginning. in his first year, we have only begun to see the fruits of obama's internationalism. but the signs are unmistakable. should this policy continued for the next three years, let alone for the next seven, it will have profound consequences throughout the world. it would constitute a gradual american retreat. again, with the possible exception of afghanistan, although obama has pointedly insisted that within 18 months, the retreat from their begins as well, and it will have inexorable consequences easily and succinct

we had to find them in countries all over central and eastern europe. we got them out there. and general petraeus and admiral mullen and i were all personally involved in this. so we're not doing this simply to raise america's poll numbers. we're doing it because it's a necessity, and this is what a great nation does for a country which is under so much pressure. and we will continue to help them in any way we can. and as far as america's position in pakistan goes, i think it's in terms of attitudes towards the u.s., i believe it's better today than it was a year ago. and i believe a lot of the data, most of the data supports that. at the same time the, it'll take time to rebuild the relationship. the last decade was a complicated one for u.s./pakistan relations. matter of fact, every decade has been. >> in the back. >> good aaron, am bass daughter -- afternoon, ambassador. i'm bob dreyfuss with the nation magazine. isn't it true that you didn't answer the gentleman's question earlier, but isn't it true that the pakistani military and isi is still to

we had to find them in countries all over central and eastern europe. and we got them out there, and general petraeus and general mullen and i were all personally involved in this. and we're not doing this simply to raise america's poll numbers. we're doing it because it's a necessity and this is what a great nation does for a country which is under so much pressure. and we will continue to help them in any way we can. and as far as america's position in pakistan goes, i think it's, in terms of additives to the u.s., i believe it's better today than it was a year ago and i believe a lot of the data, most of the data supports that. at the same time it will take time to rebuild the relationship. the last decade was a complicated one. for u.s.-pakistan relations. as a matter of fact, every decade is complicated. >> good afternoon, ambassador. i'm bob dreyfuss with the nation magazine. isn't it true that the -- you didn't answer the gentleman's question earlier, but isn't it true that the pakistani military and i.s.i. is still to this day giving significant

criminal networks see that there is profit in it and they're going to find these girls either in eastern india or europe. >> this is something law enforcement seems not to have got a grip with. they always prostitute the prostitutes. how to get them to prosecute the users, the buyers, the traffickers? >> two ways. we have been campaigning to change the indian law to punish buyers of prostituted sex more severely and also traffickers who are making a profit off the sale and purchase of girls, women, men and boys and we are also trying to get the law changed so it does not punish women for a crime they never committed. they were the victims. and now they're survivors. >> has any progress been made in india? >> we've been lobbying for the change now for three years. biggest obstacle we face is from some of the aids management agencies who want the brothels to exist so that they can distribute condoms inside. i've been facing this -- and they want to protect buyers of prostituted sex from disease rather than protecting the women and girls from buyers. >> reporter: she is now too ill to entertain customers.

in the fact that highly industrialized societies like the united states an western europe, now eastern europehere is a certain percentage of people in these societies, big middle class societies with a lot of money flowing around, a lot of free time, a lot of difficulties within that major middle class life that they have achiev achieved, and these societies do not want to pay the price of reducing drug demands systematically. this implies testing everybody everywhere all the time. it implies policing, it implies invasion of privacy. it implies having much more tighter security on the border in the case of the united states, also in europe. it implies penalizing people who do consume drugs or sell drugs. these were the rockefeller laws in new york dating back to the 1970's which led the united states to have two million people in jail far more per capita than the countries of western europe. well, the u.s. has been moving away from those policies and attitudes and more toward the european policies the last few years. this is a decision for americans to make. i quite frankly agree with the cur

we not proceed with the ballistic missile defense systems installations with two countries in eastern europei do not think that worked out very well. the focus of the administration's policy with russia has been antiquated. it is a focus on the arms control of the cold war. it no longer matters very much to this country how many nuclear weapons russia has. my own view is we should be reducing our nuclear arsenal substantially beyond its current levels but we should do that unilaterally. there is no reason why our amending what we consider to be an optimum nuclear strategy should be held hostage to negotiations with russia. during the cold war, you had to do a different sort of calculation. it seems to me we are beyond the cold war and we have a diplomatic establishment that, in many ways, is mired in the cold war and the president reflects that. i hope he will have a plan "b>" -- b." he may be a glimmer of a plan from his remarks of receiving the nobel prize which were different than anything he has ever said before. it puts one in mind a little bit of a jimmy carter's discovery after the so

one very serious challenge for the stability of eastern europe as well as the future independence and prosperity of ukraine lies in the apparent interest on the part of some in neighboring russia. to ensure that ukraine is held within the spirit of influence dominated by russia. it's important to ukraine and to europe and to the transatlantic community that russia refrain from any effort to provoke instability by fomenting territorial divisions as it did in georgia. or interfere in ukraine's domestic policies and politics either overtly or through less visible corrupt activities. the russian's invasion of georgia in august of 2008, such concern over russian intentions toward ukraine is no small matter. the kremlin needs to accept the right of ukraine to its independence and to its right to live as a peaceful political democracy free of intimidation. the united states has a strong interest in seeing the rise of a sovereign, free democratic and prosperous ukraine. the presidential elections scheduled to take place next week in ukraine need to be conducted in a free and fair manner. the

we chose russia over eastern europe, and what did we get in could -- return? nothing.a arrived, and arabs now refused any negotiation and led the united states to extract in a lateral negotiations -- unilateral negotiations with israel. should this policy continued for the next three years, let alone the next seven, it will have profound consequences throughout the world. it would constitute a gradual american retreat. with the possible exception of afghanistan, although obama has insisted that within 18 months a retreat from their begins as well, it will have consequences when erstwhile allies see the umbrella withdrawn. they will begin to accommodate themselves to the countries we were protecting them from. so obvious are the consequences of the disconnect between the real world and what the president of france calls obama a's virtual world, we believe the current policies can continue indefinitely. at some point, reality must intervene. the reality of iranian in transients, of china's pursuit of its own national interests, of russia's determination to regain its vie

america's allies in eastern europe are getting nervous. president obama's cancellation of a planned missile defense system in poland and the czech republic and the manner in which it was executed gave the impression that the united states caved in to russian pressure. there are few regions in the world as volatile as the middle easement unfortunately the obama administration alienated our closest middle east ally -- israel -- by pushing it to adopt a comprehensive settlement freeze. as elliot abrams has written in the national review, the administration has managed to damage the u.s.-israel alliance, weaken palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas and produce massive policy failure. we want a just and lasting solution to the israeli-palestinian conflict, but demanding unilateral concessions from the israeli government is no way to achieve it. as for latin america, it was highly regrettable that the u.s. imposed sanctions on honduras since the removal of former honduran president manual zalias was a constitutional justified act of demo

fact that the highly industrialized societies like the united states and western europe, now eastern europeand russia in particular have a certain degree of drug consumption. there's a certain percentage of people in these societies, middle-class societies with a lot of money flowing around and a lot of free time within that major middle-class life they have achieved. these societies do not want to pay the price of reducing drug demand systematically. it requires testing everybody, everywhere, all the time. it implies invasion of privacy, tighter security on the border in the case of the united states and also europe, and it involves penalizing people that consume or sell drugs. these are the rockefeller laws dating back to the 1970's that led to the added states having 2 million people in jail for more per-capita than the countries of western europe. the u.s. has been moving away from those attitudes and more towards the european policies the last years. this is a decision for americans to make. i agree with the current stance that is the servant -- which is the current live and let live.

we had to find them in countries all over central and eastern europe. and we got them out there, and general petraeus and general mullen and i were all personally involved in this. and we're not doing this simply to raise america's poll numbers. we're doing it because it's a necessity and this is what a great nation does for a country which is under so much pressure. and we will continue to help them in any way we can. and as far as america's position in pakistan goes, i think it's, in terms of additives to the u.s., i believe it's better today than it was a year ago and i believe a lot of the data, most of the data supports that. at the same time it will take time to rebuild the relationship. the last decade was a complicated one. for u.s.-pakistan relations. as a matter of fact, every decade is complicated. >> good afternoon, ambassador. i'm bob dreyfuss with the nation magazine. isn't it true that the -- you didn't answer the gentleman's question earlier, but isn't it true that the pakistani military and i.s.i. is still to this day giving significant

except for some special cases, china or eastern europe, you will not find unsubsidized nuclear power. there are cheaper, better, safer ways to tackle the climate problem. that is my particular forecast going forward. let me turn to the real experts. gary, what is your forecast for 2010? >> by the end of 2010, that there will be a new set of urban indicators focused on health, help equity, social equity, and civility that will allow more of the world population to enter in to the conversation about climate. >> i love the civility point. >> president obama will attend a u.s. world cup match in south africa. the u.s. will lose and president obama will be blamed for the failure. 2010 will be the hottest year in history. >> i predict as as a deep economic recovery gathers strength around the world, we will return to an economic scarcity with terry rapidly rising prices for natural resources, food, and energy. >> i predict that the population will rally around and we will get legislation on climate and energy and we will get a global deal for 2010. >> we have your predictions. our panel ha

we chose russia over eastern europe and what did we get? cooperation with iran? nothing.ved explicit statements that they will oppose any sanctions on iran in the security council. what have we gotten for our pressure on israel? the complete breakdown of negotiations. for 16 years, the palestinians have negotiated with that a settlement freeze until obama arrived to reinvent the war. the arabs now refuse any negotiations as they prefer, logically, to sit back and let the united states extract unilateral concessions from israel. this is only the beginning. in his first year, we have only begin -- begun to see the fruits. the signs are unmistakable. should this policy continue for the next three years alone for the next seven it will have profound consequences throughout the world. it would constitute a gradual american retreat with the possible exception of afghanistan although obama has pointedly insisted that within 18 months the retreat from their begins, as well. -- from there begins. when erstwhile allies see the american umbrella beginning to be withdrawn, and they w

we had to find them in countries all over central and eastern europe. and we got them out there, and general petraeus and general mullen and i were all personally involved in this. and we're not doing this simply to raise america's poll numbers. we're doing it because it's a necessity and this is what a great nation does for a country which is under so much pressure. and we will continue to help them in any way we can. and as far as america's position in pakistan goes, i think it's, in terms of additives to the u.s., i believe it's better today than it was a year ago and i believe a lot of the data, most of the data supports that. at the same time it will take time to rebuild the relationship. the last decade was a complicated one. for u.s.-pakistan relations. as a matter of fact, every decade is complicated. >> good afternoon, ambassador. i'm bob dreyfuss with the nation magazine. isn't it true that the -- you didn't answer the gentleman's question earlier, but isn't it true that the pakistani military and i.s.i. is still to this day giving significant

we chose russia over eastern europe, and what did we get in return? cooperation with iran, nothing.and from china, from china in fact, we received explicit statements that they will oppose any sanctions on iran in the security council. what have we gotten for our pressure on israel? the complete breakdown of negotiations. for 16 years the palestinians had negotiated with israel without a settlement freeze. until obama arrived to reinvent the world. the arabs now refuse any negotiation, as they prefer, logically, to sit back and let the united states extract unilateral concessions. from israel. this is only the beginning. in his first year we've only begun to see the fruits of obama's internationalism. but the signs are unmistakable. sure this policy continue for the next three years, let alone for the next seven, it will have profound consequences throughout the world. it would constitute a gradual american retreat. again, with the possible exception of afghanistan, although obama has pointedly insisted that within 18 months the retreat from their begins as well. and it will have an

know, imams represent when they go shop around in different middle eastern countries, mostly to basically say, look, in the west, in europe, in denmark, we're faced with islam phobia, and the way to really fight it, you give us money, you give us support, so we can silence these islamow islamowephobiaic statements and as far as yale's decision and american newspapers not publishing the cartoons, the question i always have, is it out of respect for people's beliefs and people's sensitivities, which makes total sense, but -- or out of fear, which does not make sense to me, because if the west is going -- if in america, people are going to be silenced out of fear, then stop asking for, you know, moderate muslims to speak up, because if yale or american newspapers are afraid of violence or you know, strong reactions, then what do you think, you know, muslims live every day, when they try to speak up, against the radicals, and i deal with this issue all the time, because i'm also working these areas, and i find it frankly insulting and patronizing in many ways, that when, your know, in the west, in america, denmark, most parts