because we concluded to be examples, probably particularly in latin america where by the factthey're coming out of government, by definition means whole subcultures in the country still feel excluded. but the point is, we think, for organizations that are here today joining with brookings to say its time for a broad-based democracy reform initiative, which builds theoalition of the very sparse that work inside the beltway, and need to work inside the beltway, and rededicate itself to discovering the national narrative that actually matches the instinct that already exists amongst millions ofamericans, that we n do better than we are doing today. 90. [applause] >> i want to thank carolyn for the inspiring talk. i also want to note that miles referred to baseball and the average length of games. i'm a red sox fan. [laughter] spirit as you on the red sox-yankees games last about four and half hours that i will not take all the time here. for those of you who know my dear home state, we believe devoutly in political participation. the late mary mcquarrie, great columnist from the "washin

just 66 million lived across the rest of the planet, principally in latin america. this was before the population explosion of the 20th century. just 100 years ago, the demographic profile of the catholic church is essentially what it was at the time of the council of trent. 100 years later, you see what happened. by 2000, there were 1.1 billion catholics in the world. most live in the southern hemisphere. in 1900, just 25% of the global catholic population lived in the south. by 2000, it was almost 66%. if you move the clock forward to 2050, the projection is that by that point, it will be three- quarters. three of every four catholic men, women, and children alive will live in the global south. this is the most rapid, most profound, most sweeping transformation of catholic demography in 2000 years of church history. we are living through it right now. i would argue that in terms of what this augurs for the catholic teacher, the moment we are living through right now is comparable to that moment in the first century when st. paul left palestine and went first to da

this with special force who went out and train a couple of brigades in some country in africa or latin america. now, we are doing, again, bulk industrial strength efforts and we're having to use conventional force in very significant ways. they dwarf the numbers of our green berets. i think we've done a reasonably good job in terms of doing that and then developing doctrine, the preparation of these forces, for deployment and the rest of that as well. >> thank you. i'm out of time but i do want to let you know, i'll submit for the record, i'm very concerned about this situation in kurdistan and the stability of that government, our relationship with that government as it relates to our airfield there. they arrested the president's son in the uk and there's serious allegations of skimming on fuel contracts. we have a back up of trains with fuel. that northern supply route is, we've and the a long time to get it in place and it looks precarious to me right now and that is of great concern so i'll address some questions to the record and will look forward to learning where you all think we are as

and they've all been in latin america and europe are. there some teams from other parts of the world that we could keep an eye on, africa, asia. >> well, of course south africa because they are hosting. no nation has ever not made it out of the initial other group to go to the next round so will south africa be able to do that, and with the tie today maybe that's a good boost for them. asia has never there are three countries from asia in this tournament, ray. and again i just don't see that they have the, right now, the juice, you know, to go further. but this is a global game and the hope would be that especially fueled by nationalism which david eluded to, this is what that is about. and that is why the united states will i think care very much because it's a tiddley winks or whatever is, if the u.s. playing against somebody especially tomorrow with england, my goodness, what a story line that is. but i think that, yeah, some day the u.s. will make it to the finals. the world cup. i don't know if we will be allowed to see it. >> suare

southern command in a tender this is the fourth incident or disaster that struck countries in latin americaiate we look at he the to deterne how we can best be postred to support usaid and the office of foreign disaster assistance as needed based upon the needs of a particular nation has we are not even a week into the hurricane season and we have already had our first tropical storm. as i left haiti yesterday, and of the last two days, i had the opportunity after having been gone for six weeks to look to see where we have progress. sometimes it is hard to find that progress, but it happens little by little but it's probably much too slow for many of us who would like to see progress much quicker, but this is a tremendous challenge. i had an opportunity to speak briefly with the prime minister ambassador martin, chris mcginn who leads ourusaid efforts to visit three idp campus. the old airport that is the second largest one of the new settlement sites that we work with the government of haiti and united nations to open to move some of the most at risk displaced persons. as i did every day f

iraq, to a certain extent, latin america, there is part of the world. host: there was a piece over the weekend in the "wall street journal" that talks about hillary clinton. guest: and that is his opinion. only the president can decide. if she were to move to another position in the government, it would be a loss to the state department. another point i would make about my previous responsibilities, linking it to your question, there is a real need to strengthen the foreign service's of the united states. she has been supportive of that program. host: another opinion piece, back to the issue of the intelligence director, in the " wall street journal" -- "inherently, awkward" do you agree with the aat? guest: i think there needs to be some sort of bump of what the relationship is, but no matter the definition of the job is the relationship of the director with the preeident i felt like i had a good relationship with george bush. host: who was the cia director while you were there? guest: porter goss was the director for most of the time that i was there.

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command, the central command for the middle east, and parts of the asian continent, and southcom for latin america. africa was the only part of the world without a distinct command. the policy to africa, this is formulated and made here in the department oo state. in africa, the defense department plays an important but subordinate role to what is done by the state department. and we believe that they can, in fact, make contributions and these contributions are best made in the area of defense, where they will help to encourage the african military is to be more professional. not to be involved in politics. not to engage in military intervention. but to be the protectors and the defenders of the country and not the predators against other people. we think it is important to allow other u.s. government agencies, like the national institutes of health to continue to carry on and do the important works that they are dding on the continent. i would not look at this as militarizing the policy in africa. this would be counter- productive to the message of democracy, and stability that we want to have. w

host: story about president clinton and her trip to latin america. a report in "the baltimore sun" -- clinton fears of possible stunts during the trip. also this morning in the fed page of "the washington post" the chart on how many times the secretaries of state over the years have visited israel. this is a bar graph. we will take a look at it. the trips to israel during the first 60 months in office by secretaries of state. leading that was henry kissinger during the ford administration who spent 46 days in israel over all during the first 16 months, tench -- during the first 16 months, 10 trips. four by cyrus vance and the carter administration. warren christopher in the clinton administration took five trips in the first 16 months. hill record with two trips to israel, they write in the fed page hill of the clinton led a toward travel pace with the exception of one place, israel could make the fewest trips and spent the least amount of time as any secretary of state in more than three decades. georgia, russia -- russell is a republican caller abo

response to the consolidation that has taken place across the pacific and the atlantic and in latin america. we believe that the company will give us the opportunity to do that. >> congressman, that is correct. this is a global business and we need a global scope and a global scale in order to a effectively compete. what we are finding is that large carriers offer a greater scope and a greater scale than we do and they are picking off our passengers one by one, in particular our business passengers. where we make our money is in our business travelers. we orient our product and service towards that. these large foreign carriers are being very successful in taking our passengers. by combining, we will be in a position to compete effectively with them and to continue to compete in the united states against the robust competition that we find ourselves with today. >> we now recognize the gentle lady from texas, ms. johnson. >> thank you, very much, mr. chairman. i have not taken a position on this merger. i have been concerned about what most passengers are concerned about. that is employees.

for instance, the trans-pacific partnership, an asian and latin america agreement. he has a crystal, a golden opportunity to implement the labor and environmental consumer protection vision that he campaigned upon. host: how does youngstown or detroit or binghamton, the towns that have been hit hard, whether it is nafta or other factors -- many of these communities have been decimated over the last 20 years. how do they come back? guest: first, we need to recognize that was not nafta. these communities have been struggling for several decades. to say that if we tinker with nafta there will be an industrial renaissance is just a cruel hoax. the president's basic demagoguery on the campaign trail against trade ran into the reality of running this nation. you cannot serve the interests of the u.s. economy. -- you cannot serve the interests of the u.s. economy by raising trade barriers. it will complicate our relations with other countries. mexico and canada are too close with neighbors, -- are two close neighbors, closed for a policy neighbors do you want to start your

not everyone that's coming through the southern border with mexico are from next core or even latin america. in recent years the border patrol has intercepted people from yemen, pakistan, iraq, somalia, people from most of the countries on our enemy watch list. those types of individuals who for whom we should be suspect are the ones who are being captured and cut and detained. the question is how many are not being captured and caught and detained? we have found discarded apparel, backpacks with old chinese passports that have been modified, that have been cut up, that had been reused. we are not really sure exactly why they were there and for what purpose they have, but we know that those types of individuals are coming across our southern border. please let me try to emphasize, the reason therr should be such concern is because of some of the kinds of people who are illegally entering this country who is sole purpose is not to find a job or join a family but whose sole purpose is to further the illegal drug trade, whose sole purpose is to further illegal human trafficking, and whose sole

you can look at other countries, in latin america and europe, and many other places, where the idea isut how to organize democracies are just about much, much broader than they are here. and i think many americans from the very elite to the grassroots have an impulse that the kind of ideas about democracies that were okay, to energies ago, it was good enough for them, it's good enough for them. i think we are to be more imaginative about the. the second which is especially important in the financial reform sector, but also in others is that one common thread of deepening democracy and strengthening democracy is a need to level the playing field. and there are lots of ways to do that, from campaign fince reform to electoral reform, to mobilizing citizens directly, using their anger as has been suggested in the prior panel. and i think tt that is an important objective, that all of the organizations and advocates and thinkers that speak to deepen democracy share, is the impulse to find very creative strategies to level the playing field. that is not now level. >> three points. first, i t

special forces that would train some battalions, a brigade or two, in some country in africa, latin america, or something. now we are doing both industrial strife efforts. the dorsey members of our green berets and have taken over the both of these missions. we've sought to capture the lessons from them. the preparation of these forces for deployment in the rest of that as well. >> thank you. i am out of time, but i wanted you to know i will submit to record that i am concerned about the stability of the government in kurdistan. the have arrested the former president's son in the u.k. and i know there are allegations about skimming in terms of a few contracts with that base. we have a backup of trains. the no. supply route, we have taken a long time to get that in place and it looks precarious to me right now. that is a great concern. i will address the questions to the record and look forward burning where you all think we are as it relates to the ethnic strife which are now seeing in the central asia and how this impacts our mission in afghanistan. >> the new no. distribution network, the

>> one of the challenges of haiti is it has the highest per- capita tuberculosis burden in the latin america region. what support main usaid aid -- may usaid aid in the development of new tb vaccines? >> hiv, tuberculosis, and malaria vaccines are among the most important in terms of having the kinds of technology that can, over time, eliminate the is diseases. there have been big breakthroughs on the development pathways for each of those. we continue to work with the global export community to do that and continue our engagement with other federal finance -- science partners. there have been other breakthroughs that are even closer, like improved diagnostic technologies that can help rapidly assess at low cost the kind costtb -- the kind of tb someone has and that can help with outcomes. you're working with our partners to do that work and we will continue to expand efforts in that area. >> more globally, looking at aids prevention, the u.s. has been funding organizations that view aids prevention through a strictly heterosexual lynns. how does usaid try to meet diversity requirements for

latin scholar. i'm a really a legal scholar. it stands for "half the body." if you challenge someone's detention, and they will say we will have the body. this is a rich part of america's history. perhaps the most charming is exciting because it is old. it comes when injured jackson was fighting in the battle of new orleans. he remembered the old song about that. i think this crowd is far too to know about that.v [unintelligible] jackson was a pretty aggressive defender of freedom. he loved it. america button for it. you know that was not the age of the blackberry or even a cell phone or the telephone. hedgefund even think they had invented to 10 cans and a -- i doonot even think they had invented two tin cans and a string at that time. even after he pretty much slaughtered the british, it was a brutal battle. no one knew about the treaty having been signed. it became pretty apparent that the british were not a threat like they once were. an editorial appeared in the french-speaking newspaper that great general, but please give us our freedom back. you have declared martial law." he had. he was running the city his way. the editorialists requested to please give them t