because there wasn't a big, lucrative middle and upper class so in order to build a business in india or africa, you had to go after the bottom of the pyramid and make that profitable. in the u.s., we are on silicone valley, people will pay money and middle class problem technology companies that can be funded are targeting towards people who have iphones, who want to pay with their credit card to get coffee. why do you think the sector you are talking about are ignored in the u.s. when you can build profitable businesses off people who aren't as rich in the rest of the world? >> i don't know. when you look at the u.s. economy, the median income is less than $40,000. there are tens of millions of people who don't have access to these products. you can now profitably serve tens of millions of people. you don't have to cross sell them a bunch of other products. they don't have to have a bunch of disposable income to serve them. >> the possibility is you could text money. that is one way. you could buy the prepaid cards. people would be surprised to realize people who don't have bank accounts have

seen as a step both ethical and political, capable of adding to his influence whether in south africa or india. in the morning he quell a quote on quote consultation with his wife, but only after unfairly securing the boy's agreement. his boys not only said to their father that they did not need the presents, one boy was 13 and the other one was 9, but they did not need the presents, but they agreed to persuade their mother. this did not prove easy. [laughter] he fought with passion and logic also. the boys might dance to his tune, she told gandhi, but what about my futures daughter-in-law? the future was unknown, and she would be the last to pass up gifts so lovingly giving. she tried, but the boys would not budge. when think did marry, the wives would be free from the ornaments, if, however, ornaments were needed, he would ask him. ask you? i know you by this time. you deprived me of my ornaments. [laughter] fancy you offering ornaments for my daughters-in-law. i'll explain. rather, lath me explain -- rather let me explain and inform you of what was made of the remark. you want them to be sa

india and then representatives of all the other civilizations europe via the e.u. in latin america the organization of latin america or organization of american states you can have africa through the african union let each region and from the middle east the arab league have each region sent a representative to this global organization and let that organization be democratic to try and have an organization with one hundred ninety two countries is a nonstarter we have a regional organizations that can address regional problems and each one of those regional. going to zation it's going to have one of their members states rotate annually at what i call the see the intro to local small community council i think we get that we get the gist of your idea if i go to use even there i mean that's an interesting idea do it on a regional basis but with all regions be interested in other regions in the world ok i mean the americans would say well that's a problem in africa i mean one of these guys take care of you africans take care of it we don't need to get involved i mean that's what a lot of people would say what do you think of the about this idea well actually it was it's a v

india. what he discovered or rediscovered for the europeans was the wind system was the monsoon the wind system that would allow one to sail from what is today kenya and east africa across the arabian tea to palletized in the western -- on the western coast of india. when da gama arrived in india, he instituted 500 years of western dominance over the greater indian ocean and the western pacific. after the portuguese came to touch, the french, the british and finally the american navy at the end of world war ii. but before da gama, the indian ocean constituted a relatively peaceful robust trading system, dominated by arabs, persians, hindus, chinese of simultaneous these that crisscross each other all along the trader a period and is treating system, i believe, will come back. will reemerge as western dominance of the indian ocean. the 500 year period of western dominance begins to dissipate as we entered not just an economic multipolar world, but a military multipolar world, where in relative terms the united states navy gets smaller. and i'll go into that a bit later. notice i talk about the indian ocean and the western pacific as one unit. they are united in th

india. what he discovered or rediscovered for the europeans was the wind system. the monsoon winds system that would allow one to sail from what is today kenya in east africa across the arabian sea to the western coast of india. when he arrived in india he instituted western dominance over the greater indian ocean and the western pacific. after the portuguese came the dutch, french, british and american navy at the end of world war ii. before that the indian ocean constituted a relatively peaceful robust trading system dominated by arabs, persians, chinese of several dynasties that crisscrossed each other all along the trade route. this trading system i believe will come back. will re-emerge as western dominance of the indian ocean. that 500 year period of western dominance begins to dissipate as we enter not just an economic world but a military multipolar world where in relative terms the united states navy gets smaller in these seas. i will go into that a bit later. notice i talk about the indian ocean and the western pacific as one unit. they are united by indonesian straits. in the twenty-first century we will see other forms of bringing these two bodies of

africa and then in the endgame in india and in bangladesh. i have a whole chapter on this which i think is quite amazing what they went through. they had to travel by elephant orople who didn't want to be vaccinated and this creates a moral conundrum but you know those people might pass it on others and nowadays you couldn't get away with it but at the time many people forced vaccination on people. so there's all kinds of interesting kind of ethical issues involved in this industry. nonetheless, they did manage by 1977, at the very last page of smallpox was found in somalia. there hasn't been any ever since. they still kept the smallpox in freezers ultimately in atlanta at the cdc and in moscow. it turns out the russians were making it illegally and who knows where it is now. so there's a big fear bioterrorists may get hold of it. but for the time being it's gone. that led to an expanded program and that's an enormous impact on the world. this was sort of a bit of humor comic relief. crater lake is most to be the most pristine water in the united states. and it had a terrible diarrhea epidemic. my wife while she was complaining how long it was taking me to fin

india. a really finding those unique areas, whether using mobile phone-based extension systems or legumes research, with those types of efforts could make a big difference in sub-saharan africaedicine the focus of our follow-up from there. but thanks for asking. >> as a drawdown of troops begins in july, is the usaid changing its strategy and implementing programs in afghanistan? >> overall or in a particular area? >> yeah, overall. the transition starts in july. >> we've actually gone through the course of the past years a significant transformation of the civilian assistance program in afghanistan to be highly coordinated with the military campaign in the military effort. so as overtime transition occurs, our commitment to the civilian enterprises supporting farmers and providing health and education services in helping the government's stand of its own capacity to provide services will continue in a very strong and continued way. thank you. >> thank you. >> will continue on with the rest of the world, so to speak. earlier this afternoon, the secretary of state sworn in as the new united states ambassador to syria, robert ford. he is one of our most qualified diplomats. he