what you to comment on the huntington thesis in terms what will drive these countries and what will be the dominant motivation and international affairs over the next 20 or 30 years? >> i disagree. i admire him but when you talk about islamic civilization, you can talk about it as a single entity but you have to draw distinctions between sunni and shiite, arab and non-arab, a secular and religious, varieties of religions and so on and so forth. when i look at the islamic world, i think of egypt, syria, iran, i think in terms of nation states. and i think in terms of the competition between for example, egypt and syria. for egypt and iran. my answer is economics to that question does not exist. i can imagine the american economy without american politics. certainly today when the federal reserve is getting into the game. societies, you can divide academic departments very nicely comic economic departments don't talk to political science departments but in real life if you are a bigger you had better be aware of politics you might want to keep military in mind that might affect you as we

including the royal college of midway, the world war ii veterans, a hospice in my constituency, and the huntingtondisease association. i have been able to welcome others, and was pleased to initiate the annual jewish celebration of hanukkah taking place in speakers house with the members of staff, members of the staff and others together. i want to mention recent issues which have troubled me. the police search of the hon. member's office led to my statement, which i asked today, i am pleased, i have been assured that i no longer require the of these members from the opposition and the chair and with no government majority will establish the first of -- transparency. i want all lessons to be learned. i will give evidence to any

host: huntington, virginia is next. caller: good morning, i would like to address several things, but i want to touch on something that the lady said. i happen to be an educator, and one thing that bothers my colleagues, they say we need a raise. i try to explain we don't need a raise, what we need is educators, and when we have a classroom, i teach a fourth grade class, and at one time i had 26 kids in my classroom. that makes it very, very difficult to get anything accomplished. the reason i wanted to call you and talk about, now we are facing a huge problem with north korea, and their nuclear proliferations. the question i have is what do you think their main intent with this is? and i feel personally that china is neck deep with north korea and so is russia. and i just feel in my heart of hearts that their way to once they get -- we can already reach hawaii and alaska, and once they get a missle that reach the west coast, they will bomb and put japan out of business, what do you think about that? guest: japan, i thi

samuel huntington is an example that you heard.on a more hopeful note the popular struggle continues to clip its wings quite impressively in the wake of 1960s activism which had quite an affect on civilizing society and raised the prospects for further progress to a much higher plane. it's one of the reasons it's time of troubles. too much of a civilizing effect. well, what the west sees as the crisis, namely, the financial crisis, that will presumably be patched up somehow or other. but leaving the institutions that created it pretty much in place, a couple days ago the treasury department, as you read, permitted early t.a.r.p. repayments, which actually reduced capacity -- it was touted as giving money back to the public. in fact, as was pointed out right away it reduces the capacity of banks to lend although it does allow them to pour money into the pockets of the few who matter. and the mood on wall street was captured by two bank of new york employees who predicted that their lives and pay would improve even if the broader eco