elsewhere in the world, and we have responsibilities elsewhere, we can't ignore europe or latin america or africa. what we have recommended is that we built innovative partnerships and strengthen key alliances and partnerships in those areas. it makes -- the strategy makes clear that even though asia pacific and the middle east represent areas of growing strategic priority, the united states will strengthen its key alliances, nato, the other alliances that we have in the pacific build better partnerships. and one of the recommendations is to develop innovative ways such as rotational deployments using the marines, using the army, using special forces to sustain u.s. presence elsewhere in the world. fourthly, we need to insure that we can confront and defeat aggression from any adversary anywhere, any time. we have to have the capability

elsewhere in the world, and we have responsibilities elsewhere we can't ignore europe or latin america or africa, but we have recommended is the we build innovative partnerships and strengthen the key alliances and partnerships in those areas. it makes the strategy makes it clear that even though asia-pacific and the middle east represent areas of growing strategic priority, the united states will strengthen its key alliances, nato, the other alliances we have in the pacific to yield better partnerships, and one of the recommendations is to develop innovative ways surge as rotational deployment using the marines come using the army, using special forces to sustain the u.s. presence elsewhere in the world. fourth, we need to ensure that we can confront and defeat aggression from any anniversary anytime and anywhere. we have to have the capability to defeat more than one enemy at a time. this is the 21st century and our adversaries will come after us using 21st century technology and for that reason we've got to be able to respond with 21st century technology. as we must invest in space and cybers

>> we do a just a couple things about africa or latin america but you relatively put on the book of this matters because obama has had relatively little as president in those areas. on chavez and castro to get castro to give them an a+ for future at the right policy was to ignore these guys any made one after a piece of the shadows as though i recall from presidency and basically otherwise has allowed these policies to be tertiary, priorities at best. there's a few things to be a little more proactive vis-À-vis our friends and ignoring castro and chavez is the right thing to do on what is basically his policy. i think auteurs mexico and colombia, with dave pilate to problems in recent years. it has not been nearly as distinctive as either of his two predecessors so far. i don't have the right policy in mind for what he should do in either place. colombia is at a point redesignate is much american authors of the one state. obama didn't need to do as much as clinton or bush. i'm mexico obviously he needs to figure out a way to do more. but we haven't yet come up with that proposal and it's

or are you lucky you've got these big events coming up in 2012? >> it's one of the cause. certainly asia as a whole, including china and india. latin america, principally brazil, mexico, columbia, argentina, africas the continent, eenl north africa, sub sahara and south africa. middle east was a little tougher because the arab spring certainly brought uncertainty along with it, and we've had increased uncertainty as well. in addition to that geographic strength, we've certainly seen stlengt in digital which you know about as well and also in our media planning in buying what we call media investment management operations. all in all it was an excellent year last year, not just top line growth of 7%, but a bottom line growth of 20%. but eps up 20% as well and dividends up almost 40%. margins up 110 basis points against expectations. all in all, an excellent year, not great economic conditions generally, particularly in the second half of the year. this year looks not dissimilar, maybe a little bit more multed, looking for 4% top line growth against roughly 6% last year, 5.9% last year. so a little bit less. but void by the olympics, the central and eastern european football championships and last

or 5% to 6%, depending on which measure you look at. this year we're looking at 4% but the patent of growth, joe, is similar so it's asia, latin america, africaess, and digitally functional digital plus media investment planning and buying is strong so the patent is the same but at a slightly lower rate to reflect, you know, the issues in europe, and the other issue i think that worries success what happens in the u.s., joe, in 2013, after the election is the government, if it's a real -- i know you get upset if i try to predict what's going to happen in the election. >> andrew's talking to you. i'm the one that gets upset when you tell me that the president's a shoo-in for re-election. andrew will not get upset when you say that. >> i never said a shoo-in. i said the probability is probably. but if you have a dead-locked congress, are you going to deal with the u.s. deficit issue and that worries me about 2013. 2012 has the olympics. it has the election itself. >> right. >> and last but not least it has these football championships in central and eastern europe which is the third event of some major consequence to the advertising industry. t

weapons and it is straight up weapons or the register has an optional eight categories below that is that is only optional and i think the states in africa and latin america the connected to a failure to register to include small arms to participate because it does not actually directly affect my reporting on it. i think also that there is turnover in personnel at the u.n. office of that implement the register, which i suspect that their ability or their willingness to go on and contact member states and remind them that they need to report data and basically pursue to the registrar. that is definitely the last couple of years. finally think also states are looking at the fact we have an arms trade treaty negotiations starting this summer and wondering what is going to come from not in focusing attention on att and not on the register. i think they are waiting to see the shoe drop in come from that and thinking if we have an arms trade treaty, maybe you will not need to have a register or provide data. as i argued before, don't be shortsighted. some of them are waiting for the att negotiation to see what the obligation as on the data. >> anybody want to h

it is true that small weapons or in the register is an optional eighth category if you will but it's only optional and i think that states in africa and latin america and asia are looking at the continuing failure of the register to include small arms and concluding i need to participate in this because it doesn't actually direct live reporting on it. i think also that there has been turnover of personnel at the office of disarmament affairs which implements the register which has affected their ability or their willingness to go out and contact member states and to remind them about the need to report data to the register to pursue submissions to the register. i think that has been in lag over the last couple of years and finally think also states are looking at the fact that we have an arms trade treaty negotiation that will be starting this summer and they're wondering what is going to come from that and they have been focusing their attention on att and not focusing their attention on the register. i think they're waiting for that shoe to drop at the will to see what's going to come from that and they are thinking well if we have an arms trade