roosevelt said to japan, you can expand to korea. japan is an island nation. for them to expand into asia, the first had to get korea and if they didn't get korea they were bottled up. there expansionism was finished. carillo wanted-- japan wanted korea. they desired korea. theodore roosevelt green lit the expansionism. imagine my surprise when i found that in the summer of 1905, president theodore roosevelt helped create the problem that president franklin roosevelt would later have to deal with out there in the pacific. theodore roosevelt was taking these actions not for any malevolence reason, but he thought this was a very beneficial and move. he thought it was a great progressive move and would help millions of asians. why did the think this way? we have to go back to 1905. in 1905 america was an east coast eurocentric country. dÉjÀ was the mysterious oriental far away. we weren't translating each other's books and newspapers. we knew very little about each other. roosevelt had never been to asia. he hadn't been-- he had been once to san francisco comminu

after that when we built the country that it bombed this comet doing well and of course germany and japan our world as trading partners and their political allies. less statistic you have 100 billion jobe's needed right now on the middle east over the next decade. so they calculate 60% of the population will be under the age of 25 at the end of the decade with the need for 100 million new jobs. how are you going to create 100 million jobs and money are losing 50 million jobs? as you said you don't know the ceo who is hiring so there's nothing more dangerous in the world than someone with no hope, no skills, no economic opportunity into much time. do you follow me? the real driver for the taliban, the recruiter is not the ideology. it is economics. so what i have said is we have

they were called is all the banks in japan. we have them here also. thank you. >> thank you very much for your talk. have a question concerning belau spec you said in a previous response that lack of regulation it is set over all multipliers. but what we have seen is the government has seen a lot of people who took stupid risks with other people's money and they made them poll. ag for example, isn't that a multiplier for the future? all of these people, all these incredibly bad decisions and guess what? could you comment on that cycle? >> let me say the federal reserve finds itself in the unenviable position. just by maintaining a very low interest rate, are we allowing this process to continue? for do we run the risk of tightening are making this can bit more difficult but at the same time run the risk of derailing recovery? that is not an enviable position to be an. moral hazard progress after bring of moral hazard which is clearly i think if we go anywhere with any kind of regulation that is meaningful, it has to deal squarely. what do i mean in en

what was roosevelt game here and what was the game that he was saying that japan was playing in cahoots with the america of? i wanted to know. theodore roosevelt was awarded the nobel peace prize for actions that he took in the summer of 1905 during this imperial cruise. he was awarded the peace prize

not in germany, japan, or south korea. smaller bases were downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social conditions regarding women. so you see fights know and okinawa, in a beautiful place in italy outside an area designated an historical artistic center by unesco, a site -- i'm forgetting the name, of the renaissance artist and architect known for mansions -- palladio. the palladio mound-- mentions outside the city. and the u.s. has now negotiated against the wishes of all local population to build a second air base within 100 yards. they want a better air strip. why it has to be there, nobody can answer. but the italian government agreed under a right wing government that was allied with bush originally, and the obama has do

or ship -- out of japan air -- how on japan or -- entrepeneurship changes the world. going back to school, that was a way to answer -- to ask new questions. >> the brooklyn charter school. why did you get involved in that and what year did you get involved and is it still there? >> i am the child to educators. almost everybody in my family is a teacher. my grandfather turned to me and said that you do not need a high school diploma to go into business. i had violated the family business. i continue to love small business, but starting a charter school has been a kind of penance to the educators and my family. i am still connected to this family trade of education. this was a way to marry my love of small business and education. >> how did you do it? >> i initially was involved with a group that was lobbying for a charter bill and the state. that got passed in 1997. i applied with a small group of friends to start a charter school. i got rejected twice. in the third go round, in 2000, we got approved, which was thrilling. we took an extra year to get the foundation rig

president, is not to raise taxes as is evidenced by what happened in japan.ncreased mandates, increased regulations, and increased taxes are a recipe for disaster. it's a recipe that kills jobs. in fact, president obama's chief economic advisor, dr. christina roemer, stated earlier this year that as many as 5.5 million jobs could be lost due to the democrats' new tax proposal in this 2,000-page government takeover of health care. nothing could be worse at a time when the nation is already experiencing 10% unemployment, a 26-year high. this bill will impose impose $28 billion in new taxes on employers that will ultimately be paid by american workers in the form of reduced wages and lost jobs. under this burdensome legislation, employees will face stunted wages and the loss of their benefits as their employers attempt to find ways to fund these newly imposed mandates. as small businesses struggle to keep their doors open, tough decisions will have to be made on whether to raise prices, cut wages, or let go workers in order to find the funds necessary to comply

nuclear umbrella but it is inconceivable south korea, japan could stand by if the u.s. could stand there across the street from china. there are big industrial states because they rely on the nuclear umbrella as was defined and we start thinking about how do we care rid of nuclear weapons? in addition, there are three muslim states better on the cusp of a nuclear capability and really have not decided and we need to pay attention. the first is algeria but it turns out in 1983 they contract with the chinese to build a plutonium producer 90 myers sell the belch years. then the intelligence world we did not learn about that until 1991 and that is only because at that time algeria went through at the internal political war between the militants and fundamentalist we got to see what was going on and a government that emerged decided the reactor was not worthwhile therefore the new government decided to put their reactor under iaea supervision. but it is a very big chinese design plutonium producer or at least is idle in the desert but perfectly capable of producing plutonium

we're still in korea, japan, germany, all over the middle east. speech by the president the other day was conditioning as for the next war in pakistan. -- conditioning costs for the next war in pakistan. what you do is bring the troops home, save the money, defend this country. it is our presence, especially in the middle east, that motivates people to become a radical extremists and potential terrorists that will commit suicide. it is because they detest occupation of their land. we get into trouble and we think, oh, we need to occupy more countries, only compounding our problems both internationally and for safety, but also compounds are financial problem. i think the worst thing we could do is to raise taxes for the war. host: last call on the republican line. caller: i saw that twitter message about your running in trade -- in 2012. i am one of those college students that was awakened by your message. i look at what the republican party is right now and i cannot see the sarah palin or one of these other republicans. these guys say what suits t

not in germany, japan, or south korea. smaller bases were downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social conditions regarding women. so you see fights know and okinawa, in a beautiful place in italy outside an area designated an historical artistic center by unesco, a site -- i'm forgetting the name, of the renaissance artist and architect known for mansions -- palladio. the palladio mound-- mentions outside the city. and the u.s. has now negotiated against the wishes of all local population to build a second air base within 100 yards. they want a better air strip. why it has to be there, nobody can answer. but the italian government agreed under a right wing government that was allied with bush originally, and the obama has do

and, hsaid, they are backsliding on the commitmen they made inyoto, japan more an a dozen years ago.> ( tranated ): if we look at the difficulties in negoations, we find the additional and unreasoble requests made some countries. they try to lee the regulations of the conventn d the kyoto protocol aside, and make those ueasonable requests for developing countries. >> reporter: danish leader attempted to bak the deadlock today drafting a simplified agreement, but china l an effort to quash thdeal. but in an interview, the u. secretary geral, ban ki moon, appealed to both sides to compromise. >> i would urge all veloped andeveloping countries to come onboard. developed countrieshould come out with more ambitis mitigation targets andlso developing countri, they shld come out with nationally appropriate mitition action, miting their growth of emissions. >> reporter: u.s. climate negotiator todd stern said ina's cooperation is critica the two nations arthe world's largest rbon emitters. >> i thinkhat from our point of view, youan't even begin to have an vironmentally sound agreement thout

we have an agreement with the previous administration in japan. we set up a working group to discuss the implementation of that agreement and we are anxious for those conversations to continue. >> when you say we have an agreement, is the u.s. still opposed to the relocation under the new -- >> we have an agreement. what is working group is going to discuss is the implementation of what has already been agreed to. >> of the reports of a breakdown -- >> welcome and the only way to make progress is to continue standing up that working group and having that discussion. >> of the president be open to the meeting with the japanese prime minister in copenhagen? >> we did a couple of weeks ago. again i think this is appropriately being handled right now with our ambassador there and others in terms of making progress. i think this was discussed just a couple of weeks ago and i think the working group we would believe is the best way to continue that progress. >> culbert, one group that didn't like the president's speech on jobs yesterday was the congress

number two, he wanted a soft piece to reconstitute japan and germany as economic producers, engines ofe world economy, but not ones with the former military clout. and then, by 1947 and 48, the third major problem was how to contain the sofeyt union and its -- soviet union and allies. the one thing he never got straight was the enormous force deployed by anti colonial movements, in vietnam especially but in other places. it's hard for young people to recall how the towering influence of third world leaders just 30 years ago, and movements that obsessed the united states, again vietnam being a particularly good example. but atchison and ken and most of the people of their generation didn't believe that colonial people could raise a finger in their own defense or cause major problems. racial discrimination or racial prejudice was sometimes also involved with this. it was something entirely new in the world that you would have a 30 years war from 1945 to 75 that was fundamentally an anti-imperial war when all was said and done. anyway, one's crital ball from the stand point of atchison or

and japan. sometimes they enjoy japanese food. with our manufacturing facilities and our work processes here in the united states,kawasaki is here to stay, to support the development and growth of the american high- speed rail system, and we are always ready to roll. thank you very much. [applause] >> a thank you for the opportunity to speak at this conference. i would like to start out by saying i firmly believe that the vision and high-speed rail in the united states can be a reality, but it will take a lot of work. in order to convince you on why i feel that way, i'd like to introduce you to the company webtech and how we view business. how we view business is not much different from the other manufacturers and suppliers that are here today. webtech started back in 1869 when george westinghouse invented the air brake, a technology that is still used today to stop trains. today it is a global supplier. we have manufacturing operations in 16 different countries and sell products in 100 aircraft countries. we have 6000 employees.

and japan. sometimes they enjoy japanese food. with our manufacturing facilities and our work processes here in the united states,kawasaki is here to stay, to support the development and growth of the american high- speed rail system, and we are always ready to roll. thank you very much. [applause] >> a thank you for the opportunity to speak at this conference. i would like to start out by saying i firmly believe that the vision and high-speed rail in the united states can be a reality, but it will take a lot of work. in order to convince you on why i feel that way, i'd like to introduce you to the company webtech and how we view business. how we view business is not much different from the other manufacturers and suppliers that are here today. webtech started back in 1869 when george westinghouse invented the air brake, a technology that is still used today to stop trains. today it is a global supplier. we have manufacturing operations in 16 different countries and sell products in 100 aircraft countries. we have 6000 employees.

not in germany, japan, or south korea.ere downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social conditions regarding women. so you see fights know and okinawa, in a beautiful place in italy outside an area designated an historical artistic center by unesco, a site -- i'm forgetting the name, of the renaissance artist and architect known for mansions -- palladio. the palladio mound-- mentions outside the city. and the u.s. has now negotiated against the wishes of all local population to build a second air base within 100 yards. they want a better air strip. why it has to be there, nobody can answer. but the italian government agreed under a right wing government that was allied with bush originally, and the obama has done nothing to ch

so you do see a pretty clear decembre spending bumping japan. so it's going on around -- around the world. okay. now, the next question is the direct comparison. i've shown you here that there is this december spending bumps and all these countries but has the big spending on? we have that answer that yet so the answer to that we would like to compare the size of the spending bonds may be averaging across years, across the country so that is what i want to do next. this is across the years since the year 2000. this is the average size of the december relative to the one months are added averaging across the years since the year 2000. and what do you see -- this is a bit of a busy bar graph is starts are hungary makes it down to israel just a few percent, where is the united states? way down the list. wade on the list. there's my nice little red circle around it. held in the 1990's, the previous decade? similar phenomenon. pretty far down the list below the medium. 1980's, very similar story. 1970's, very similar story. 1960's and again, the cove

. >> one was macarthur in japan, the other was what we did in germany.emember in january, clearly we're going to have to get rid of the top few henchman, d but, de -- but we cannot debaathify completely. >> that is important to hear. thank you. ok. moving back to something quite different, you said early this morning that in your view, the declared formal u.k. policy of containment was in effect over by spring or summer, and it was and remains the policy until at least 2002. >> this in itself is a comment on the importance of the issue. i cannot really remember ever in 2002 going in to see the argument for containment. i think the switches may have lasted quite a long time, but i do not remember doing this. nowhere in the briefing dar remember sending back. >> there is an asymmetry in the situation. a foreign affairs advisor relationship with the head of security council for different personalities and times. in the bush administration, the great administration did not lend itself to a natural bilateral relationship. so how is that managed? >> let me bac

so i don't see as a result of the financial crisis, china, europe, japan, india, or the united statesatically changing their fundamental approach to their strategies. >> i agree with that and i would say that if we want to take a date that would live in infamy that would of course be the stock market crash of 1929. and what was characteristic at that time was charles kindleberger and other people have pointed out that the british can no longer hurt the world economy in the u.s. was not ready to try and do so. and in this most recent crisis a year ago, september, the u.s. acted with extraordinary vigor in trying to both stem the bleeding from the financial crisis and also still a year later trying to come up with either all regulations like glass-steagall or new regulations that would prevent them from happening again. the characteristic of the last year as there is nobody waiting in the wings to replace the united states. i mean, what could say in 1929 or 30, 31 day keep the u.s. was waiting. it had been the most reductive industrial economy since about 1890, but it didn't have the po

it's my understanding that japan has been a major contributor and should be given credit.again, people do not know the extraordinary efforts and support from around the world, as unlikely as japan supporting the police of afghanistan. thank you, again, for your service. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from arkansas mr. ross, recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general mcchrystal, the arkansas national guard, like those in other states, plays an important role in responding to natural disasters and other domestic emergencies in arkansas. it's not uncommon for them to respond in other states, as well such as louisiana after hurricane katrina. in addition to these domestic roles, the arkansas national guard's 39th infrant ree brigade combat team has twice been deployed to iraq and while this team has to date not served in afghanistan, there is a significant national guard presence in afghanistan. in fact, the 39th's been to iraq not once but twice. i think most of them have a pretty good idea of what may be in their future. i'm gratefu

not in germany, japan, or south korea.ere downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social conditions regarding women. so you see fights know and okinawa, in a beautiful place in italy outside an area designated an historical artistic center by unesco, a site -- i'm forgetting the name, of the renaissance artist and architect known for mansions -- palladio. the palladio mound-- mentions outside the city. and the u.s. has now negotiated against the wishes of all local population to build a second air base within 100 yards. they want a better air strip. why it has to be there, nobody can answer. but the italian government agreed under a right wing government that was allied with bush originally, and the obama has done nothing to ch

we have a common responsibility that is differentiated with countries like japan and india and othererging countries. they have no signal to is that they are willing to give a contribution. it is important that all this leads to a common legal framework that we enter into binding commitments. this is why, ladies and gentleman, reduction and the question of commitments of the merging companies in a different way, in a different form, not yet reductions but more enhanced energy efficiency, and that all this leads to a package together with which we can face the world public opinion to more with confidence. we will not be able to work all the little details, legal details, but we will have put down a framework for a new legal framework for a new agreement to be agreed on later. i think we have that necessary strength and the necessary will to do that. if everyone does a little bit more than we can do this. germany and the european union are ready to do that, to go that little step further under the provisoçó that 25% related to 10 by the industrialized countries is being seen an acknowl

we're still in korea, japan, germany, all over the middle east.the speech by the president the other day was conditioning as for the next war in pakistan. -- conditioning costs for the next war in pakistan. what you do is bring the troops home, save the money, defend this country. it is our presence, especially in the middle east, that motivates people to become a radical extremists and potential terrorists that will commit suicide. it is because they detest occupation of their land. we get into trouble and we think, oh, we need to occupy more countries, only compounding our problems both internationally and for safety, but also compounds are financial problem. i think the worst thing we could do is to raise taxes for the war. host: last call on the republican line. caller: i saw that twitter message about your running in trade -- in 2012. i am one of those college students that was awakened by your message. i look at what the republican party is right now and i cannot see the sarah palin or one of these other republicans. these guys say what suit

we're still in korea, japan, germany, all over the middle east.the speech by the president the other day was conditioning as for the next war in pakistan. -- conditioning costs for the next war in pakistan. what you do is bring the troops home, save the money, defend this country. it is our presence, especially in the middle east, that motivates people to become a radical extremists and potential terrorists that will commit suicide. it is because they detest occupation of their land. we get into trouble and we think, oh, we need to occupy more countries, only compounding our problems both internationally and for safety, but also compounds are financial problem. i think the worst thing we could do is to raise taxes for the war. host: last call on the republican line. caller: i saw that twitter message about your running in trade -- in 2012. i am one of those college students that was awakened by your message. i look at what the republican party is right now and i cannot see the sarah palin or one of these other republicans. these guys say what suit

it's easier for people to borrow and the lesson they thought they learned from the past from japan and from the 30's is when things are bad the fed has to do a lot, and it's the on the accelerator. as you know they didn't stop there. they kept coming and found other ways to pour credit into the economy. buying securities in the markets to put money out there. so this is a grand experiment and frankly we don't yet know how this is going to turn out. some people think this hasn't worked so well that given the amount of credit the fed put in the economy you would expect the economy to be doing better. other people think they put so much in that we are inevitably going to get an outbreak of inflation at the end of this chapter. i don't know what the answer is. i do know that they did some things without -- they thought about them but realized they were taking big risks both economic and political and they did then because they felt the alternative was worse, risking another great depression. >> host: a real catastrophe. now your story in this in the summer of 09 last summer when it is stil

we have an agreement with the previous administration in japan. up a working group to discuss the implementation of that agreement and we're anxious for those conversations to continue. >> would you say -- when you say you have an agreement, is the u.s. still opposed to relocation under the new -- >> we have an agreement but what this working group is going to discuss is the implementation of what's already been agreed to. >> there have been reports of a breakdown. >> and i think the only way to make progress is to continue -- standing up that working group and having that discussion. >> on that, would the president be open to meeting with japanese prime minister in copenhagen? >> we did that a couple of weeks ago. i don't know -- again, i think this is appropriately being handled right now with our ambassador there and others in terms of making progress. i think this was discussed just a couple of weeks ago and i think the working group working we believe would be the best way to continue that progress. >> robert, one group that didn't like the p

in the book, you talk about how general macarthur to charge in japan after the surrender. for six years, macarthur was successful in integrating the civilian and military leadership. can you compare this to the role that paul bremer played after the fall of saddam hussein in iraq? >> we did look at iraq when we wrote this book, because how can you not look at it? in terms of iraq, we actually fell into a number of the traps that we talk about in the book. one of those traps was told story syndrome. when the decision was finally made to go in, and looking at reconstruction, what they failed to do, a lot of people in the state department and elsewhere have a lot of knowledge and were looking at this for many years who argued about all the things that could go wrong and all the different problems and possibilities. what happened was that a lot of the administration did not want to hear contrary voices, and they were then shut out of the process. one guy named tom warwick was infamous leaked kicked off the team by rumsfeld. that was a very big problem there. they did more war

it's my understanding that japan has been a major contributor and should be given credit. again, people do not know the extraordinary efforts and support from around the world, as unlikely as japan supporting the police of afghanistan. thank you, again, for your service. >> time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from arkansas mr. ross, recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general mcchrystal, the arkansas national guard, like those in other states, plays an important role in responding to natural disasters and other domestic emergencies in arkansas. it's not uncommon for them to respond in other states, as well such as louisiana after hurricane katrina. in addition to these domestic roles, the arkansas national guard's 39th infrant ree brigade combat team has twice been deployed to iraq and while this team has to date not served in afghanistan, there is a significant national guard presence in afghanistan. in fact, the 39th's been to iraq not once but twice. i think most of them have a pretty good idea of what may be in their future. i'm gratef

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so it's easier for people to borrow and the five said they thought they learned from the past from japan and from the 30's is when things are bad the fed has to do a lot, and its foot on the accelerator. as you know they didn't stop there. once they raced to zero they kept going and found other ways to put credit to the economy. buying securities in the markets to put money out there. so this is a grand experiment and frankly we do not yet know how this is going to turn out. some people think this hasn't worked so well but given the amount of credit the fed put in the economy would have expected the economy to be doing better. other people think they put so much and we are inevitably going to get out big of inflation at the end of this chapter. i don't know what the answer is, but i do know that they did some things -- they thought about them but they realized they were taking big risks both economic and political risks and they did then because they felt the alternative was worse, risking another great depression. >> host: a real catastrophe. now your story in this in the summer of 09 l

, one of the big issues, of course, for chiang kai-shek was how much is going to focus on fighting japan, how much is going to focus on fighting the communists. do you know if she had any influence in those kinds of decisions? >> i think madame chiang was probably, and i say it in the book, very good at compartmentalizing her mind. chiang said he wanted the money, he wanted the armaments to fight world war ii. but of course, he was really stacking them up to fight the congress, and he did not use much of what was given him. and a lot of it -- that are just terrible stories about chinese soldiers out fighting without sufficient equipment, and huge warehouses, hundreds of feet long, filled with random armaments. i think she just chose not to pay any attention to that. i don't know what else she could have done. i don't think she could have changed the way he felt about it. yes? >> you mentioned how she spent much of her life, her young life in america studying how and also she was a methodist i guess. and then in your book you talk about how when she went back to china, she started studyin

i watched it with the prime minister of japan.ept talking to me about how the people of japan had just been victimized by their first terrorist attack that was a chemical weapons attack. and how profoundly grateful he was to the united states for taking a stand against the proliferation of those agents. we had the biggest increase in education funding in 30 years. 1.3 million people and after- school programs. the fund at 3000 charter schools. 2000 -- we funded 3000 charter schools. there was exactly one in the united states in the state of minnesota. only two states that authorize them. then when everybody thought we were out of gas, we had the biggest increase in higher education in 50 years with a lot of middle-class tax cuts, including the hopes color should tax cuts for people to go to community colleges, a graduate work. at the very end, we passed the market initiative to get people to invest in places like the areas of mississippi and arkansas, new york, everywhere else. to take the power zone concept national. i say this b

the expectation was with blix in japan -- it being negative in january, it would happen again invade before we do that, i would like to ask my colleagues if they want to [unintelligible] >> i want to take you back to the time of jonathan powell. he said that the question of regime change was discussed, and there were objections that were raised. regime change in terms of military invasion, was athere ever an optiont hat -- option that was considered? >> not except for paul wolfowitz, who probably argue for it at that meeting. but the context, as i recall it, that set of meetings with the administration waiting -- the context for violence was arming and financing distant groups. which is provided for explicitly in the iraq liberation act. that is a long answer. the short answer is no. the regime change discussed in any of those meetings in terms of an invasion. >> by that time, it had come to mean military invasion? >> sorry, have i been unclear? the official u.s. policy on regime change was in practice and in discussion at that time. sharpening sanctions and trying to stiffen resista

i don't see as a result of the financial crisis china, russia, japan, india, dramatically changing their fundamental approach. if we want to take a date, the stock market crash in 1929, the british could no longer hold the world economy together and the u.s. could not do so. the u.s. acted with extraordinary vigor to extend the financial bleeding also still a year later coming up with old regulations that would prevent it from happening again. you can't turn to china. a, you have to rely on the u.s. and work on leaders. you have to pass a lot along. kind of like the poker player passing things on to the rest of them. you do well in good times and in bad times. i think it's an important level. bruce, i'm not clear what your assumptions are. i understand what you are saying about the realist assumptions and about north korea but what are you trying to say about the assumptions of policy makers in 1989 and 2001. you are saying it is not threats and interest or values. something about their assumptions. i'd like to have a clearer idea of what those assumptions were. my question to you is the

our country, western europe, japan, we have been true it.where in the world, that shift is well underway. they know what produces that shift. they used to think it was industrialization but that is just an indirect factor. actually, there are four factors that bring about that change. the education of girls. number two -- [applause] -- men, did you notice a slightly higher pitch to that reaction? you will like this a second one too. the empowerment of women to take part in the decisions of society. [applause] number three, the availability of fertility management to give families the ability to choose how many children. in ways that are culturally acceptable country by country. number four, most importantly, hi your child survival rate.@ú3t removed in order to implement these solutions. we have got the solutions. we got more than we need. in order to implement them we have got to move the obstacles in our path. a focus on three of them in particular and we are running out of time. i am not going to go into detail but we have political obstac

well, yes, japan offered $15 billion right away. the united states offered an undetermined sum and promised to help raise $100 billion by 2020, but everything else was left undefine and unresolved. yes, the west agreed. the wealthy industrial nations agreed to targets but they couldn't talk about near-term targets, only ones that are very far away like 2050. what you got the sense of was that people were thinking of co-2 like it was a national asset, not asset but something possessed nationally like china's co-2 would stay above china instead of being the world's co-2 that once it's bell muched out into the atmosphere it kind of belongs to everybody and it's everybody's problem. >> brown: speaking of politics and, i guess it's geo-politics. we went into this talking about climate change and a lot of people came out talking about geo-political change and how that showed up in copenhagen. >> suarez: it was the g-2 raising its head again. there was speculation after the last g-8 meeting that the world was now really run essentially by

going into japan.ithin six months there was the bombing of pearl harbor. and there are now talks -- there has been talk in the media and we heard about it, we need to bomb iran. and that's what the people hear. the sanctions are a use of force. this is just not modest. this is very serious. and the way this is written it could very literally end up with a blockade. it could try to punish our friends and cut off trade. and this cannot help us in any way. we'd like to help the dissidents. we'd like to encourage them to overthrow their government. but hardly should we have their c.i.a. with u.s.-funded programs going in there with a policy of regime change. they know these kind of things happen. we've been involved in this business in iran since 1953. and it doesn't serve us well. it backfires on us. it comes back to haunt us. one of the goals explicitly expressed by al qaeda and their leaders has been they would like to draw us into the middle east because it would cost us a lot of money and it could hur

do you think it will be similar to be a nom, japan, germany? will they have a flourishing economy?t: i think that as we transition out of iraq, and it is important that we transition in the timeline we said, as i said before, the iraqi forces have the power to keep a lid on the insurgency. they will maintain security gains. there are important things to work on. one, for them to maintain intelligence so that they know where they need to go to conduct specific grades. the second thing, they have got to develop their police. if the iraqi people are living in cities, it will be the police that are protecting them. as i mentioned before, it is important to develop a rule of law. my personal opinion is that i think that this is moving in the right direction. i am optimistic about it. i know that it is fragile, but iraq is going through a critical time in its history and the development of its democracy. the risk of these elections taking place, it is encouraging that they passed election law. we will see a transition of parliamentary government from one to the other, which is important.

to be unsafe -- and by the way, our bill only allows the importation from australia, new zealand, japan, and the european companies where they have an identical chain of cud and where we require pedigree and batch lots that will make the entire drug supply much, much safer, including the domestic drug supply. when the pharmaceutical industry goes around the hill today saying if you vote for the dorgan-snowe-mccain et al amendment, you're voting for less safety. ask the pharmaceutical industry this. what about the fact that you get 40% of your active ingredients from drugs from india and china and from places in india and china in many circumstances that have never been investigated or inspected by anyone? answer that. and then tell us that reimporting f.d.a.-approved prescription drugs from other countries is unsafe. what a bunch of rubbish. now, my understanding is that sometime yesterday, maybe late last night, somebody made a deal. i don't know what the deal is, but i guess the deal is to say that we're going to have this amendment. it's been seven days since we started debating this

going into japan. within six months there was the bombing of pearl harbor. and there are now talks -- there has been talk in the media and we heard about it, we need to bomb iran. and that's what the people hear. the sanctions are a use of force. this is just not modest. this is very serious. and the way this is written it could very literally end up with a blockade. it could try to punish our friends and cut off trade. and this cannot help us in any way. we'd like to help the dissidents. we'd like to encourage them to overthrow their government. but hardly should we have their c.i.a. with u.s.-funded programs going in there with a policy of regime change. they know these kind of things happen. we've been involved in this business in iran since 1953. and it doesn't serve us well. it backfires on us. it comes back to haunt us. one of the goals explicitly expressed by al qaeda and their leaders has been they would like to draw us into the middle east because it would cost us a lot of money and it could h

financing our debts not just the people's republic of china but also central bankers of saudi arabia, in japan, and elsewhere, while the u.s. still remains perhaps the dominant preserve or national savings but it no longer seems quite the unshakeable paragon that it once did and this suggests that we may see a continuation of a marginal shift, a marginal shift away from the dollar into other currencies into investments elsewhere. there are also significant forces at play inside china that make it less likely that we can just simply depend on the money continuing to flow this way and continuing to bail us out of our credit excesses, not along the coast the fact that so many american households are now so strapped that we're not going to the mall buying as many chinese-made goods as we used to and that means china has fewer dollars to send back to us by buying up our debt. but also china is increasingly focusing on its domestic needs. and three decades of marketing-embracing reforms have delivered staggering growth but they've en sown economic insecurity turning a country in which everything was

not an austrian not only lived up to, but all the nations have signed it like canada, japan. not only signed it but actually also did what they promise, and a lot of other countries including my own country of denmark are a lot of these countries are promising that are not likely to live up to and also not only that we lived up to it by 2010, but stuck to this agreement throughout the rest of this entry. this is an ascension of saying if everybody is done this, instead of seeing a black temperature curve that we would have seen a slightly lower temperature increase of the red graft leading up to a little more than 2.4 degrees centigrade by the end of this century but this is entirely controversial but this is what the model shows that it is best hosted by saying the temperature that we would have seen in 2095 would be postponed until 2100. basically what the kyoto protocol does come if everybody lived up to it, was that postponed global warming by about five years but noticed if the kyoto runs for five years, it will do much less than that. it will actually only by the world

europe would have been ruled by hitler and stalin, they would have parceled it up, and japan would have run asia. now, when you look at the way the news is being covered today and the disparaging things that are said routinely by my colleagues from the mainstream media about those who serve in the armed forces or those who support our armed forces, that's the new dirty word in america, contractor. the media's figured out that the american people aren't going to do to these sailers, soldiers, airmen, guardsmen and marines what they did to my generation from vietnam. they're not going to stand for it. and that hasn't stopped politicians from denigrating them. we all know of certain politicians in washington -- i'm trying not to be the partisan here, mr. president, i don't want to be partisan -- but we know that a certain illinois senator whose nickname is dick -- [laughter] excuse me, i'm just quoting him, he likened those who serve in our armed forces to those who served stalin and hitler. and it was immediately jumped on, and some of these town halls that are happening now made them loo

there are reports coming out of japan and okinawa about this minister or that saying this or that.but we've got to give the government a chance to reach their logical determinations and give us a formal response. and when they do, we'll see what our nation and what our department will reactions to that ought to be geared -- ought to be. right now i think it is the surprise that our position is that the futenma replacement facility as absolutely vital to the defense that we provide a of the entire region, and we agree with the original planning that where we are right now needs to be coming out of the very populated area to a more sparsely populated area. at this point, it is their move. there is a joint commission that is at work that will probably receive some additional guidance from both the japanese government and u.s. government. i am not privy to what those folks are saying these days. >> can i go back to some of the numbers you mentioned originally -- 1-6 coming you expect to be in theater completely by the end of this week. >> before christmas. >> and you expect to grow to

caller: the war in israel has cost over $1 million and obamas in japan during with the sanctions.be unusual things going on in the netanyahu government that i don't understand very i would not carry that 32 i rthrough with i. guest: i think iran has its own problems politically. netanyahu -- this of rioting and demonstrations that killed four people - over the weekend, he will have his own problems. host: many people think that israel is about to attack a run. -- iran. guest: if you back them against the wall, they will take out iran. i believe that is the case. i don't think they would use nuclear weapons but i don't think that they can't sit still parl. i think obama may have a heck of a time controlling is real in this case host: you are setting an air strike could take out iran's nuclear capability? guest: i am not that smart to know whether that happens. host: jacksonville, florida, good morning. caller: good morning cspan. let me give you an idea about my view about the tourist business. -- terrorist business. it is an ideology. does not got laws or explosive, it is an ideol

remarks today from iran's nuclear negotiate for, said jal i willee, who's a visit to japan, he's callingarmament of all nations with atomic weapons, but said all countries have the trite develop nuclear energy. mr. jal ali unlesses his country's new program is for civilian purposes, although the u.s. and other nations fear it is to produce weapons. meanwhile, republican senator john mccain, speaking earlier on "good morning america," said the united states must try sanctions to stop iran from developing a nuclear weapon before considering other options, like a military attack. however, senator mccain wondered whether other countries like israel are willing to have the patient to see if sanctions will deter the country. turning to the economy, stock points are pointing to a higher opening following gains in major marblingts overeast. though final reports on u.s. economic activity, housing sales, and orders for durable goods are all due out in the next coming days, trading is expected to be light this week due to the holiday-shortened week. and those are some of the latest head leans on c-