when you make the same comments about his leadership as you would ethiopia in general? >> senator, i meet with the prime minister quite regularly and i have a huge respect for his leadership and the work he does as it pertains to addressing and cooperating with those who had the threat of terror in east africa, yes, sir. >> the fact that he was there with us and the somalia thing happened. i think he is taking a bum rap. you talked to the senator about the cooperation between rwanda, uganda and congo. i personally have talked to them on their cooperation with each other in another area, the area of the lra or whoever they are right now. we made a point to go over to east africa thinking that was about where he was last seen and he had another reign of terror since that time. we have legislation right now that is hoping to try to get more assistance to those period presidents and to try to end what i call one of the worst reigns of terror i have ever personally observed. i have been there and observed it. do you think we should be helping with more resources to end that

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heart treated since leaving active duty he worked as a journalist from far off zones such as kenya, ethiopia, vietnam and gulf coast of the american south. his first book was quote quote blood stripes bill war in iraq," awarded a prize by the military society of america. today he's here to talk about his more recent book, quote cope the border exploring the u.s.-mexico defied." david, please. [applause] >> thanks, tom miller and everyone here. i would like to start by thanking the city of tucson, the university of arizona, the arizona daily star, every volunteer, everyone from tucson, every so there arizona citizen who has made me as an author and all loveless as authors feel welcome. you've done an extraordinary job with the tucson festival of books. give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] it is an incredible achievement. it's an incredible achievement. it's an extraordinary achievement in today's economic climate and you shouldn't be prouder of yourselves as a region. thank you so much. i have one other thanks to extend as tom mentioned i served in iraq and as tom delude it to i wa

. >> could you just make a comment about ethiopia and the situation there?>> ethiopia remains a friend, a partner in our efforts to help produce stability there in the region. there are work that the ethiopians do in the counterterror business as well as in the work of their participation in peace keeping operations is important work. and i think the partnering with ethiopians as well as other east african nations is something we would continue to look at in ways of helping produce stability in that part of the world. >> i thank you, general, thank you admiral, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator mccain. senator liberman. >> thanks mr. chairman and thanks to the three of you for your extraordinary service. general ward, let me just pick up where senator mccain was. particularly in somalia, we know from experience that where there's a no government either piracy or provision of space for terrorists, islamist terrorists particularly to operate. i gather that there is an attempt by -- i'm not sure what you call it. the provisional government to retak

. >> could you just make a comment about ethiopia and the situation they are? >> ethiopia remains a friend, a partner in our effort to help reduce the for stability in the region. the work the ethiopians do in the counterterrorism business as well in the work of their participation in pcp operations is important work and i think our partnering with ethiopians as well as other east african nation that would continue to look at in the wave of helping produce stability in that part of the world he >> i thank you, general. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator mccain. mr. lieberman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general board, then you pick a person under mccandless. particularly in somalia. i mean, i know from experience that where there is no government travel grows either piracy or the provision of space for a terrorists, islamic terrorists ability to operate. i gather that there is an attempt by, what do you call it, the provisional government to retake the capital city of mogadishu and i wondering if you could give us both your estimates of how that's g

established by the united nations general secretary, which i am cochairing with prime minister meles of ethiopia. we must also reestablish negotiations towards an internationally binding global agreement using the important meetings in germany and mexico this year to accelerate this goal. my third proposition is we must drive towards creating a low carbon economy and that is why in the budget next week britain will announce new plans to promote investment in clean energy and in the thousands of new green jobs that this can create. i want to say something about security, because the challenges are changing. today we face a new kind of terrorism and potential conflicts over resources, cybercrime, piracy and global increases in illegal migration all point to problems that we have got to solve as an international community. we have funded our armed forces fighting in iraq and afghanistan, but we also continued to increase investment in strong borders and counterterrorism at home. from a billion a year on domestic counterterrorism in 2001, to over 3 billion now, and at every time we are vigilant in p

came to me about three years ago and explained to me he had saved about $10,000 to dig a well in ethiopiaere i'm from. it kind of impacted me because i asked him why he did that, and he said as a child he had borne he lost his brother. and i felt like a bad son because i didn't know that had happened to my own family. and so i started doing research about it and wanted to do something impactful. it climbed mt. kilimanjaro. >> larry: why climb a mountain to turn people's attention to water? >> well, you know what kilimanjaro is a site, in tanzania is a site of a lot of climate change and water issues in general. and what we wanted to do was to do something extreme to raise awareness. and nobody really knows that water is a problem, that 1 billion people don't have water that a child dies every 15 seconds. people don't actually know it's a problem because we have it on tap, you know. so it's something that we felt like if we just did something extreme, it would work. >> larry: a child dies, of course, of water conditions every 15 seconds? >> every 15 seconds, yes. >> larry: emile hirsch, wh

the first novel i ever did, war of africa, which was set in ethiopia during the civil war with eritrea, grew out of an assignment i had for the "chicago tribune" and that heart of the world. similarly the last novel i did before this one, "crossers," acts of faith which is set in kenya and sudan, that brought up an assignment i had with "national geographic" adventure. this one, "crossers," was inspired by an assignment that i originally got from a virginia quarterly review to write about the border as an issue, to write about the border is a problem and i must say or a small university magazine that gave me a lot of space, 10,000 words. they called me because i live part of the year with my wife down in patagonia and over the years, that would be since 1996, i have accumulated a lot almost by osmosis about what is going on down there. and of course almost every day that i am down there or nearby in the san rafael valley, i have encountered undocumented aliens coming over the border. i have certainly encountered an awful lot of drug swindlers because for various reasons the area we liv

in haiti, row on the india, turkey el salvador, ethiopia and bosnia.t of civil liberties, a nation where minorities are protected under the law by fair and independent judicial system, nations whose parliament the knesset sits on a hilltop is like america's capitol hill and has 13 current arab members. it is a light of a nation desperately seeking peace that it has wanted and not found since its beginning. yes, israel is a remarkable and resilient country but of course it faces grave challenges every year. challenges it cannot and must not face alone. today the number one challenge as mentioned by my friend and colleague lindsey graham, the challenge of a nuclear iran. let me tell you a brief story. it is another one involving the prime minister. last september prime minister netanyahu came to capitol hill and met with the joint leadership, democrat and republican, senate and the house, to talk about iran. he described the existential threat posed by a nuclear iran to israel. he told us that the iranian government or bites the training, the weapons com

he has worked as a journalist from far off zones such as kenya, ethiopia, vietnam, and the gulf coast of the american south. his first book was blood stripes, the view of the war in a rock. awarded a major price. today he is here to talk about his more recent book, the border, exploring the u.s. mexico divide. [applauding] >> thanks. i would like to start just by thinking the city of tucson, the university of arizona, the arizona daily star, every volunteer, every to zonian, every southern arizona citizen who has made me as an author and all of us as authors feel so welcome. you have done an extraordinary job with the tucson festival of books. it is an incredible achievement. it is an incredible achievement. an extraordinary achievement in today's economic climate. you should not be prouder of yourselves as a region. thank you. thank you so much. i have one other thanks to extend. as tom mentioned, i served in iraq. as tom alluded to, i was wounded in iraq. i had a close encounter with some shrapnel that left me with a little bit of shrapnel in my job. every time i open my mouth to wi

to me about three years ago and explained to me that he had saved about $10,000 to dig a well in ethiopia from. it kind of impacted me because i asked him why he did that, and he said as a child he had had water-borne illnesses and that he lost his brother, and i felt like a bad son because i didn't know that had happened to my own family, so i started doing research about it and wanted to do something impactful. i climbed kilimanjaro five years ago and didn't reach the top so i had a little vendetta against the mountain, and so i decided that i was going to do something for the cause learning about a billion people not having clean water. that's why. >> larry: why climb a mountain to turn people's attention to water? >> well, you know what? kilimanjaro is the site of -- in tanzania is the site of a lot of climate change and water issues in general, and i think that what we wanted to do is do something extreme to raise awareness because nobody really knows that water is a problem. that a billion people don't have water, that a child dies every 15 seconds. i think people don't actually kno

in haiti and rwanda and india and indonesia, in turkey, ethiopia and bosnia. light of civil liberties. a nation where minorities are protected under the law by a fair and independent judicial system. a nation whose parliament the knesset who sits on a hilltop much like america's capitol hill and has 13 current arab members. it is a light of a nation desperately seeking peace that it has wanted and not found since its beginning. yes, israel is a remarkable and resilient country. but, of course, it faces grave challenges. every year, challenges it cannot and must not face alone. today the number one challenge as mentioned by my friend and colleague, lindsey graham, a challenge of a nuclear iran. let me tell you a brief story. it's another one involving the prime minister. last september prime minister netanyahu came to capitol hill and met with the joint leadership, democrat and republican, senate and house, to talk about iran. he described the threat posed by a nuclear armed iran to israel. and it provides the training, the weapons and the funds that sustain he

i said, i am going to participate in the conference where the president and senior leaders from ethiopia, you gotta, kenya, and other countries -- ethiopia, uganda, kenya, and other countries are coming together. this is not a u.s. problem. it is something the world has to work on. development is going to be a key factor. we need security and development to go hand in hand. this has to be an integrated -- it has to be integrated not only in the u.s. would but -- not only in the u.s. but in the region. >> in your travel, i do not recall hearing china mentioned. can you discuss china's role, how actively they are engaged to help or not to help? >> i have made a trip to beijing and have discussed these issues at very high levels within the government of china. when the chinese delegation came over here to meet with secretary clinton, she invited me to join in on the segments that had to do with sudan. we have been involved at a government-to-government level. the special representative of china to sudan -- he and i have a relationship that goes back to when he and i were in kenya. we have k

in haiti, row on the india, turkey el salvador, ethiopia and bosnia. the light of civil liberties, a nation where minorities are protected under the law by fair and independent judicial system, nations whose parliament the knesset sits on a hilltop is like america's capitol hill and has 13 current arab members. it is a light of a nation desperately seeking peace that it has wanted and not found since its beginning. yes, israel is a remarkable and resilient country but of course it faces grave challenges every year. challenges it cannot and must not face alone. today the number one challenge as mentioned by my friend and colleague lindsey graham, the challenge of a nuclear iran. let me tell you a brief story. it is another one involving the prime minister. last september prime minister netanyahu came to capitol hill and met with the joint leadership, democrat and republican, senate and the house, to talk about iran. he described the existential threat posed by a nuclear iran to israel. he told us that the iranian government or bites the training, the we

from haiti and ethiopia who have risked their lives so that we can all live safer and freer. i see the light of justice illuminating the light so they want take the mother. and i see the light of justice shining on the capitol behind us. where comprehensive immigration reform will be passed and the white house where barack obama will take his pen and finally sign the bill into law. can you see it with me? [applause] >> i see it and i feel it. for immigrants it's been a long, cold season but spring is in the air. that doesn't mean we can stop fighting and pushing. we have to keep marching and praying and working but we're closer to turning hope into victory. we're closer. i want that light to shine on every immigrant, on the woman, on her hands and knees all day digging onions in salinas, california, until her knees are almost gone. i want the sun to shine on the man washing dishes, thousands of dishes, in el paso until he can barely feel his hands anymore and a woman in the sweatshop in the basement with no union and no rights who works for a few dollars to support her kids.

key state in the region, all the important states in the region and i was clued among them kenya, ethiopia, uganda and some other members of a god -- >> you're not planning to meet up with the president any more argue? whenever an opportunity presents itself to engage president ics to a government of peace and cessation of eritrea support for spoilers in the region i will do so. with respect to military weapons, we try as best we possibly can to ensure through a number of mechanisms that any assistants, any assistance that we give to the tfg directly or indirectly discounted for and audited through mechanisms that we believe are very good. >> are you aware of any concerns that weapons have -- may have gone to insurgents? >> there are allegations out there. but let me say that because of two decades of conflict and instability in somalia, the country is awash with arms and in fact is in an international arms bazaar. weapons can be acquired very easily on the black market and they can be sold very easily on the black market. we undertake through a number of mechanisms, including one that we

. >> could you just make a comment about ethiopia and the situation there?> ethiopia remains a friend, a partner in our efforts to help produce stability there in the region. there are work that the ethiopians do in the counterterror business as well as in the work of their participation in peace keeping operations is important work. and i think the partnering with ethiopians as well as other east african nations is something we would continue to look at in ways of helping produce stability in that part of the world. >> i thank you, general, thank you admiral, thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator mccain. senator liberman. >> thanks mr. chairman and thanks to the three of you for your extraordinary service. general ward, let me just pick up where senator mccain was. particularly in somalia, we know from experience that where there's a no government either piracy or provision of space for terrorists, islamist terrorists particularly to operate. i gather that there is an attempt by -- i'm not sure what you call it. the provisional government to retake

of goods from local stalls in ethiopia.hey were all made in china and he said these are things you could be making years of the system and import substitution model but how do we take some of that knowledge of labor-intensive manufacturing from china and bring it to an african context and then support the overall development process. the other thing for those of you who've seen the development starts with textiles and apparel to moveon keep in mind one of the things i was so powerful about the apparel market was because of the old quota system and trade you had business people that started out in about four different economies whereas hong kong, taiwan, i guess maybe korea, and they moved their operations to different countries so when they moved basically, they have the marketing networks so if you could build a basic production, they would be able to market it for you and that many countries that is the challenge. even if you can build a production facility how do you get into the marketing? so these chinese firms have th

in africa there -- in africa there is ethiopia and others with whom we have interests, a joint interestery close relations, like the problem that is involved in djibouti and in somalia, and our commitment to somalia as a member of the arab league. in this context i want to mention the countries of the sub-saharan, sunocsenegal , allf these have historic and cultural links to us. in addition to our african countries around the sedasudan e mediterranean and southern europe. and this i suggest, that you decide that launching a body of countries, and all of these countries that i mentioned now, in addition, they can be launched from this summit, and i also suggest adding turkey. with the arab league countries, i also suggest looking at china. its constitution stipulates that -- i as a just looking at [unintelligible] i also suggest looking at other member countries. i also suggest that foreign ministers of the arab league meet and the start implementing a step that will be historic and which will make the arab action very effective. maybe let me explain hear something about iran. the situat

children, you can't see very well right here, her name is agita marie, she is one that we found in ethiopia. my daughter adopted her. molly had three boys and always wanted a girl and so she adopted this cute little girl. this little girl, by the way, is 9 years old, she's reading at college level and she came up to washington to speak to a group that i sponsor every year, it's called the african dinner, 400 or so, when they're up here, i say to my friend in the chair, because of the global warming problem that we had, we had the blizzards and snowstorms and the airport was closed and they were stuck here. what do you do with a family of six when they're stuck? well, they went out and built an igloo. this is not just a normal igloo. it sleeps four people with the ice bricks and all of that. and on the top of it they put al gore's new home. this is next to the library of congress and there's a picture of it. i regret to say that one of reelt -- the real liberal stations, keith olbermann declared my daughter's family as the worst family in america. anyway, she's not. let me have one last subj

states in the region, all the important states in the region -- and i would include among them kenya, ethiopia, uganda, and other members of igad -- >> you're not planning to meet up with president isaias anytime soon, are you? >> whenever an opportunity presents itself to engage president isaias in a conversation that will lead to peace and a cessation of eritrean support for spoilers in the region, i will do so. with respect to military weapons, we try as best we possibly can to ensure through a number of mechanisms that any assistance, any assistance that we give to the tfg, directly or indirectly, is accounted for and audited through mechanisms that we believe are very good. >> are you aware of any concerns that weapons have -- may have gone to insurgents? >> there are allegations out there. but let me say that because of two decades of conflict and instability in somalia, the country is awash with arms and, in fact, is an international arms bazaar. weapons can be acquired very easily on the black market and they can be sold very easily on the black market. we undertake, through a number o

chinese chief economist came to the meeting and brought a number of goods from local stalls and in ethiopiahose that have seen the process starts with textiles and milan, keep in mind that one of the things that was so popular, you have business people that started out in four different economies. they moved their operations to different countries. when they moved, they have the marketing networks. if you could build the basic production, they could market it. in many countries, that is the challenge. even if you build the facility, how deep it into the marketing networks? if we can make this work, this would be huge. i think all of us have seen these asian examples. it basically started with low- level manufacturing. one of my worries in africa was would the africans be able to follow that path when given the amount of low-wage workers. le series of questions and i apologize to those i won't be able to pose. let me ask the next question. all the m.d.v.'s are seeking capital increases simultaneously. are steps being taken to harmonize policies and procedures and to improve division of labor

established by the united nations general secretary which i'm cochairing with prime minister of ethiopia. we must also reestablishment your stations towards internationally binding global agreement. using the important meetings in germany and mexico this year to celebrate the school. now my third proposition is we must drive toward creating a low curve in the economy and that's why in the budget next week britain will announce plans to promote investment in clean energy and the thousands of new green jobs that this can create. i want to say something about security because the challenges are changing. today we face a new kind of terrorism, a potential conflict. over resources, piracy and global increases in illegal migration whole point to problems with that to solve as an international community. we have funded our armed forces fighting iraq and afghanistan but we also continue to increase investment in strong borders and top terrorism at home. for a billion who in 2001 to over 3 billion now and every time we are vigilant in protecting the national security ever country against terroris