but ni dad was also in the pacific. he was in europe. he was on communications lines right after the -- they had bombed -- you know, the bombings on japan. and he was stringing the lines on that for communications. retie communications. host: thanks for your call. john, how common was it for troops who had been stationed in europe to, once the war was starting to wind down in europe, for them to be reassigned to the pacific? guest: not very common. because the war in europe ends in may of 1945, the war in the pacific ends three months later. some were preparing to redeploy, a few did redeploy. but not very common for ground soldiers. for sailors that would be another thing altogether because ships were constantly going back and forth. so you do have some ships that participate in the normandy invasion and eventually then go to the south france invasion and then participate in other invasions like okinawa in the pacific. so that would be fairly common. but among ground troops, most did not redeploy. most spent the summer in occupation in

we've been in the pacific command for decades. the guns have largely been silent in our area of responsibility. for that, we're grateful. it is due to the efforts of several in the room including walter slocombe and the general. we wanted to take what got us where we are and try and catapulted five, 10, 20 years in the future. it is a dynamic aor, as we described. the economic engine is turning. their opportunities and challenges of plenty other. everything about the countries in our area of responsibility, if you think about them and realize how much room there is for growth, how much opportunity there is for, in some cases, a adventurism in korea or in some cases, that behavior. in many more cases than not, cooperating in of collaborating to ensure more peace and stability in the region that is why we chose to undertake the process of writing a new strategy for the u.s. is a big way. based a lot on what we saw in the rearview mirror but try to look up to 20 years down the road. it is this is undertaking to be sure. we ended up c

we'd been in the pacific, the pacific command, for decades. the guns have largely been silent in our area of responsibility. for that we are grateful and it is no accident and it is due to several in the room including walt slocombe and general brent scowcroft. but we wanted to take what got us where we are and try and catapult it 5, 10, 20 years in the future. it's a dynamic aor as we described, the economic engine is churning. there are opportunities and challenges aplenty out there. if you think about the countries in our air responsibility -- and we'll walk around here in just a minute, but if you think about them and realize how much room there is for growth, how much opportunity there is for in some cases adventurism or korea in some cases bad behavior but in many more cases than not, cooperating and collaborating to ensure more peace and more stability in the region, that's why we chose to undertake the process of writing a new strategy for united states pacific command based a lot on what we saw in the rear view mirror but trying as i

of asian americans and pacific islanders during the school year. observing asian american and pacific islanders contributions highlights their importance of building our america. for example, chinese immigrants played a significant role in construction of the first transcontinental railroad which was completed on may 10, 1869. asian americans and pacific islanders have contributed to this country through the arts, commerce and every other aspect of american culture since they first arrived in the 19th century. whether it is in the arse or government or science or -- arts or government or the science they have played a fundamental role in our nation's technological and economic expansion. as well as the every other fabric of life we can think of. their accomplishments are too numerous to count. their influence is felt throughout our country. the month of may once again gives us the opportunity to thank and honor asian americans and pacific islanders and recognize them for their many contributions. now, in the past and certainly in the future. thank

all of us want to get done in the pacific command aor. so guaranteeing right of free passage to anybody that wants to in accordance in international law put containers on ships and move them we would support. those who would develop submarine technologies that might be used and capabilities that might be used against to deny maritime access we would view with disfavor. so we want to be sure that we can provide adequate defense if we need to in the terms of our nuclear submarine force, the exercises we do with our friends and allies in the aor. there are 250-some submarines in our air responsibility. that's a pretty good number of subs of course not all of them are -- not many of them ours but a good number so we continued to pursue asw technology. we want to make sure that countries understand what we, united states of america, in the united pacific command can offer in terms of defense and the access of right of maritime domain and countries that run counter to that policy, we're going to work to overcome those developments. thanks. yes,

split with the pacific command and everybody else. we regard to maritime -- freedom of access to the mayor tandem in as absolutely is central to everything we want to get done. . there are 250-some submarines in our responsibility. not very many of the more hours, but a good number. we continue to pursue asw technology. we want to make sure other countries understand what we can offer them in terms of defense and right of access of maritime command, and countries who develop technologies that we will uncounted to that policy, we will work to overcome those developments. thanks. yes, ma'am. >> thank you so much for your succinct remarks. my question is regard to a remark he made previously. you have 36 member states covering 3.9 billion population. my question is do you have measures to effectively measure the programs, and do you have any joint lessons learned process to measure those programs? >> is a great question, two great questions. the first one, very tough. in a way you end up trying to argue the negative. if we do not exercis

to celebrate and commemorate asian and pacific american heritage. that all began back in 1977 when representative frank -- representatives frank

faleomavaega: he was also instrumental in helping establish the pacific island development program. on that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i continue trow serve. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: for purposes of a colloquy, mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield a minute to a former member of the committee, member of the budget committee and ways and means committee, mr. blumenauer. the chair: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. blumenauer: i rise to urge that clean water and sanitation be addressed at the highest level of the state dapt and usaid. it remains the greatest preventable health problem, accounting for two million deaths a year ago, a child dying every 15 seconds and half the illness in the world. we can not meet our goals without addressing this crisis. on earth day, i introduced the bipartisan paul simon water for the world act with a goal to provide 100 billion of the world's poorest with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation. i'd like to work with you, mr.

there were two keys, the atlantic and in the pacific. therefore by definition any power that was made by both bodies of water was in an extraordinary position in particular if it had the wherewithal to exploit that. south america for reasons i will not go into a comic can let looks like one continent's but it really is not it is divided and subdivided but north america, is a power native to the atlantic and pacific therefore has the lowest cost of projecting power for the cost of european empire to maintain a a major naval presence in the pacific is extraordinarily high. the cost of the asian power to maintain the atlantic presence is extremely high. but the cost for the united states to maintain both, while high, it is not extraordinary. therefore i would argue north america became particularly with the fall of the soviet union and the end of the centrality conflict in the same way that europe had been the center of gravity for 500 years from 1482 1/3 1991 when the soviets collapsed almost exactly 500 years europe had been the. >> . now

i have been flown a whole lot in that part of the southern pacific. perhaps you have been down there as well. great training opportunities. it is going to take a little while to get there. we have the flag of the united states flying over guam. as we develop it, we will have more forces down there. it will be a training center for us, and we can move folks. granted, there will have to get on a ship or an airplane to get where they are going. we have a few of those. i think it is a strategic imperative for us, and i believe in time, we will find the money, and get the infrastructure upgrades, improved to the point where we will be happy once we are down there. our marine corps has said he will walk every marine goes there to say when they are done with the to to not want to leave, and guys who are outside to want to go. we are hopeful. yes, sir. >> thanks for coming, admiral. i have a question. you mentioned the nuclear posture of view a little bit earlier, and i was curious about how you see that playing out in your area of responsibility, the defeat

my perspective is one of having been a fleet commander-the pacific, saying the demands and the needs and opportunities that exist and being in the position i am in right now and seeing what the commanders are asking for it. to me, the floor of 313 is still a valid number. if that does not mean it will not be a challenging process to get there but i believe lcs is key. the fact that we have reverted to more predictable cost shipping in the ddg 151 will help us not just increase the numbers but give us the capability we need. >> i was wondering, we have seen as a nation the cost of a hot war. the cost in terms of people and blood and treasure. can you talk -- is the qdr looking at the benefits of deterrence and how you put a price tag on that? >> absolutely. there is no question that it is not and it is not just the cost issue, either. the need to do everything we can to prevent more is more than a dollar value. it is the cost of human treasure. and so, i beliebveve you will see as an outcome the types of capabilities that will allow us to be more in the prevention regime. that is why

or we could look at longer term climate history of the pacific southwest which is one of the i placesare about drought. the energy secretary who has a nobel prize in particle physics which is somewhat not related to climatology said recently that global warming will destroy agriculture in california and cause the loss of the major cities in california. this is absurd. but the reason he said that is because of stories about major drought in the pacific southwest and the colorado water system. and, of course, if we take a river stream flow as measured by tree rings and other kinds of fossils this is by dave in qñj here's the more recent drought and you can see that it is nothing compared to whatf0Ñ we e seen -- that's lowest in the current drought -- nothing compared to what we saw here in the 12th century. this thing lasted 60 years so to say there's any signal of warming in this record, which would begin somewhere aroundg÷w 1900:%9 absurd.gv i-again, you conditions in the early part of the 20th century which by the way resulted in the migration of people to california as a green par

the angle americans could sweep to the mississippi river and beyond the mississippi river to the pacific, they didn't stop there. they thought in terms of central america and south america so that the whole western hemisphere, north and south america, would be anglo-american in this end. >> you mentioned this what fox. over the years, i have read that it was largely a diversion, that he wasn't significant. would you expand on that? >> historians debate, there is not a uniform interpretation. i think it grows out of the fact that marion was a cantankerous, independent sort, who didn't always work particularly well with the continental army. when green came in and took command of the southern continental army, he had problems with marion. that said, as i tried to argue, the partisan leaders, not just marion, but sumter and others, waged a war that really turned things around, it through the british on the defensive, the british were beleaguered, there attrition rate was really serious through 1780, 1780 one. and the partisan fighters ultimately played a crucial role in saving the american

that's in south america, the pacific and in africa. and if you consider the 409,000 patients, that's like going to the verizon center, packing the house and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the ve -- verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. but it's not just our aircraft carriers. it's our cruisers and destroyers who are out and about, the workhorses of our fleet, and they're flexing from the high end of warfare to the low end of warfare. they're in the gulf of aden patrolling an area that's four times the size of texas against pirates, and they are destroyers like the uss bane bridge which took a sizable detachment of seals aboard complete with all their equipment, staged them at sea, and enabled the perfect save of captain phillips from alabama. they're the cruisers and destroyers that are in the western pacific and the middle east providing ballistic missile defense. it's the destroyers that simultaneously for the last couple of weeks have been operating off th

>> guest: sure, of course, but it was in the pacific. it wasn't in the european theater. c-span: did you ever do the oral history like you've done on 1,300 others? >> guest: no, i didn't. i've never touched the pacific because i'm an eisenhower man, and it's too big a war to be an expert on the whole of it. c-span: where did you go to college? >> guest: the university of wisconsin. c-span: when do you remember first getting interested? you say you were a civil war historian. >> guest: i first got interested in military history and history in general as a sophomore. i was a pre-med. i was going to follow in my father's footsteps. then i went into a course in american history that the university required you to take, which i thought was -- you know, i wanted to take biology and anatomy and embryology. but they forced you to take a history course, so i just willy-nilly signed up for one. i walked in, and the professor -- his name was william b. hesseltine -- had been talking about three minutes, and i wasn't a pre-med anymore. i was a history major. after that lecture i went

but, with regard to the 313, my perspective is, is one of having been a fleet commander in the pacific and the atlantic. seeing the demands and the needs and the opportunities that exist, and then being in a position that i am in, i am in now and seeing what the combatant commanders are asking for, that, to me, that four of 313 is still a valid number. that doesn't mean that it is not going to be a challenging process to get this. but i believe lcs is key. the fact that we have reverted to a more predictable cost ship in the ddd-51, will help us increase not just the numbers slightly there. but, also, give us the capability that we need. yes, sir. >> with 2 s csi. -- 21 csi, we have seen as the nation the cost of a hot war, and the cost in terms of people, and blood and treasure. can you talk a little bit, is the key to it looking at the benefits of deterrence and how you put a price tag on that. >> absolutely. i think that there is no question that it is -- it is not -- and it's not just a cost issue, either. i mean, the need to do everything that we can to prevent war is more than a

islands, major cities in the pacific rim, including, japan, korea, taiwan and australia. the security arrangement requires significant resources to be expended in constant around the clock monitoring by security personnel to prevent the co-mingling of transiting and departing passengers. the security enhancements made subsequent to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, particularly with respect to preventing the co-mingling of passengers at our airports all across the country have been costly and in some cases difficult to fully implement. moreover, the current decrease in tourist arrivals and departures due to the economic downturn erodes the financial capability of small airports to implement such security improvements. the guam international airport authority has been operating from a waiver from the t.s.a. for several years. the t.s.a. and the guam international airport agree that the temporary solution which amounts to placement of removable par tissue ons and use of security staff to prevent co-mingling of passengers in their movements throughout the terminal

forces in the asia-pacific region. previously was the director of the joint staff and served in a budget-- for idf policy positions on several navy staffs and the national security council. he was also the first associate director of the central intelligence-- director of central intelligence for military support. after returning from the navy in 2002, admiral blair l.t. national security studies at the national bureau of asian research and the general of the army omar n. bradley strategic leadership at dickinson college and of the army war college. he was also the president of the institute for defense analysis, a federally funded development corporation focused on national security and serve as deputy executive director of the project and national security reform. i can't say anything more admiral blair, you have done it all. we became the third director of national intelligence on january 29, 2009. directors blair has been gracious enough to share his priorities for the intelligence community and if we are lucky we

i was in the south pacific. i have a question. first, i was wondering if you were aboard with ron paul's idea of auditing the federal reserve, which is a pretty big issue. if you want more information, go to infowars.com. it is like a giant ponzi scheme run by bernie madoff. guest: i have a co-sponsor of that bill. the federal reserve system ais a private bank. they have been doing some amazing things lately. i think it is extremely a proper for the federal government and those of us in congress to know what the federal reserve is doing. so i think it is a very good bill that ron paul has, with a lot of co-sponsors, and it is basic transparency. the federal reserve is doing things on the up and up, and they should be willing to share that information with us because they do control our money supply. there was an article that appeared two weeks ago on a thursday in the editorial page of "it will street journal" which shows what they have done with m1, which is the supply of money. you go back from 1960, van de graaff

pacific. it has been moved to espn. move you can also see it on espn360.com. today.break down what happens today and we'll talk about the afteicans matching up with the brazilians. what did brazil show you today? >> they wore down south africa, but for me what it was is south africa, if you look at how theyt forced the issue against brazila brazil stepped back, took their chances where they came, but it. wasn't a great outing for brazil, but when you're talking about the big teams, they find n way to get the goals. even if it comes at the end. go check out the goal here by danny alves. this is a bomb. not around a swerve. >> what can you do as a defender to try to... >> you're jumping to get something. the goalkeeper can't see. it's going to fast. >> if you're south africa don't foul in the top of the box evend if it's a game where you're getting opportunities. of >> a couple days to rest up ands prepare for the united states. d they clobbered the u.s. it was just thursday last week, 3-0, with a couple goals in the whatt few minutes of the game. what does the

reserve, endangered and at-risk tribal runs on the pacific coast. in april, president obama proposed in his budget to eliminate this fund and transfer the funds to another fund. from the northwest, the reaction was bipartisan and very swift. the success of this long-standing program was so compelling that the obama administration reversed its course, to their credit, and sent a letter to congress seeking to restore the funds to this recovery plan. my amendment, which i am now blocked from offering on this floor, would simply adopt the obama administration's position. so, mr. speaker, i regret this unprecedented rule, restricting house debate, and this successful epdangered salmon recovery program will suffer for it. in the house action to eliminate this plan frankly will make it much, much more difficult for our senators to do so in the other body. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. hastings: with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker,

players not just from dominican republic but all through latin america and increasing the pacific. it is of critical importance to us because this year we are heavily weighted in the draft and with the draft expenses are going to be. we know we want people to make our next international push until ten but it's a job that remains to be done and is important. >> speaking of the pacific the world baseball classic is played major league talent from several countries especially japan and korea. are they pursuing players from korea and japan and if not, why not? >> well, we are now pursuing players i can identify particularly but we are scouting. we are all over the place. not everybody's got to deal olympics but we did and we have to people that make trips annually to stay on top of things happening in the pacific rim. it is becoming more and more important. seven years ago we didn't know that position players could succeed here and then one came and everyone realized the kind of talent that was there. at the braves re-signed lower level guys that never panned out like he did and he kin

pacific region live from the atlantic council, 5:30 eastern on c-span. earlier today, the supreme court released a find of -- a 5-4 opinion in favor of white firefighters in new haven, conn., overturning a lower-court ruling that had been endorsed by supreme court nominee sonja -- sonia sotomayor. you can hear a portion of the oral argument tonight. that is the second court of appeals that took place in 2007. we will have that tonight at 8:00 eastern. a live look at the white house briefing room. the white house briefing is scheduled to begin momentarily. we will again for just a moment. it appears it may be ready to start. we will look again for just a moment. the white house press briefing coming up momentarily. while we wait, and looked at this morning's court "washington journal." financial times." she hopes for a v-shaped recovery. the u.s. economy will feel a substantial boost from the obama administration's emergency spending package over the next few months. christina rohmer has warned against tightening monetary and fiscal policy before career i

the proud men and women of the pacific command have met the challenges of a very demanding region and that want to thank you for your service as she moved on to the southern command. as you know, it is critical to our u.s. strategic objectives. if confirmed, what would be your top priorities for the region? >> thank you, senator. i see two basic issues. in my role there, it is the basic defense in defending the southern approaches to the united states. i think the big thing within the region is an international an interagency approach. the issues require us to take that approach, and so if i am confirmed, that is my goal, to continue what admiral stavridis has done and that is engaged with the military in the region and in gays in the interagency is an internationally -- and engaged in de interagency spent internationally. >> thank you. i know you did spend your young life in that area, and for me, being knowledgeable of the culture of these areas makes a difference in the command their. general mcchrystal, according to secretary gates, the goal in iraq is to have a soldier in their m

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this is all through latin america and the pacific rim. it is a critical thing of importance. this year, the draft. we still do not know the draft expenses will be. we will not be able to make a big international push until 2010. it remains important. >> the world baseball classic this year displayed major league talent from countries like japan and korea. are you now pursuing players from korea and japan, and if not, why not? >> we are not pursuing players particularly, but we are scouting all over the place. we have two people that make trips there annually to stay on top of things that happening in the pacific rim. it is becoming more and more important. seven years ago, we did not know that we would succeed here. everyone realized the kind of town that was there. we are aware of it. we are on top of it. we did draft a japanese national last week out of a u.s. college. that is the closest we of gotten to an international player. >> you see the same place we do. do teams have a mechanism to bring a terrible calls to the officials? >> we do, but let me add enough time to tell

the pacific northwest was open country. backbeat the appalachian mountain range guarding the interior from south carolina to what only recently have become main, threatened to confine the great american experiment to the atlantic seaboard. the allegiance of the several new trans- montaigne state was unproven, their settlers looked westbound rolling river valleys for the mighty mississippi, not over their shoulders at the mountains that separated them from their political creators. former vice president aaron burr's enigmatic conspiracy of 1805, 1806 to make a nation for himself and others in the region opened by the louisiana purchase had come apart but illustrated the limited control exerted by the east over the last. of the national government over its unsettled territory. a continental nation was so uncertain that president thomas jefferson had deemed it optional quote whether we remain in one confederacy or form into atlantic and mississippi confederacies i believe not very important to the happiness of either part. but

aboard ship and go to those place, train with host nations and do the theater engagement things the pacific commander deems to be important. we think it will be more expensive than the $4 billion estimated, but i think folks are on board with that. this issue of training is depevent upon environmental studies that have to be accomplished and those environmental studies are soon to be under way, but don't necessarily extend to all the places where we might have the opportunity to train so we're encouraging the department to gin with us in examining what might be available on some other islands in the immediate vicinity that. we want to make sure we've got mobility for our marines to get there. we've got pretty good ability to get off-island in ock gnaw what. there are no amphib ships assigned to guam at this time. there are things like that we have to look at so we when we deposit 8,000 marines out there that they're essentially unable to do the things we require them to do based on our presence. >> the marines will end the fiscal year 2,000 marines above, why are you still recruiting so man

mexico's north stressed from the saban river on the gulf of mexico to the 42nd parallel on the pacific ocean encompassing all of what are now texas, new mexico, utah, nevada and california as well as parts of colorado, oklahoma, wyoming and kansas, the pacific northwest was open country and back used the appalachian mountain range guard in the interior two what had become maine threatened to confine the great american experiment to the atlantic seaboard. the allegiance of the several new transmontane states was unproven, their sellers looked west down rolling river valleys or the mighty mississippi, not over their shoulders at the mountains that separated them from their political creators. former vice president aaron burr's enigmatic conspiracy of 1805 come 1806 to make a nation for himself and others in the region opened at the louisiana purchase had come apart at illustrate the limited control exerted by the east over the last of the national government over its unsettled territory. a continental nation was the one certain that president thomas jefferson had deemed it optional, whet

his last job in the military was a commander in chief, the highest ranking officer in the asia-pacific region. he was previously director of the joint staff and served in a variety of budget and policy issues. he was the first associate director of the central intelligence for military support. after retiring from the navy in 2002, he worked at the national bureau of asian research and a general of the army at dickinson college. he was also president of the institute for defense analysis focused on a national security. he served as the deputy director of a project on national security reform. i cannot say any more, admiral blair, you have done at all. he has been gracious enough to share his priorities for the intelligence community. if we are lucky, we will get some insights from his recent trip to asia which he had stopped in afghanistan, pakistan, and singapore. please welcome our guests. [applause] >> thank you ellen. eight is good to be here >> thank you. it is good to be here this evening. there are many friends. ong, so i will have to make it up here as i go along. but, it is a

according to "the national tennessean," an auto pacific survey reports that 81% of americans polled -- quote -- "agreed that the faster that the government gets out of the automotive business the better." and 95% disagreed that the government is as gd -- disagreed that the government is a good overseer of corporations such as general motors an chrysler. unquote. 93 disagree that having the government in charge of general motors and chrysler would result in more cars and trucks than americans want to buy. unquote. mr. president, there should be plenty of material for these car czar awards. for example, last week auto executives spent four hours testifying before congressional committees about dealerships. i assumed the executives drove to washington, d.c., from detroit in their congressionally approved modes of transportation. probably hybrid cars, leaving them very little time on that day to design, build, or sell cars and trucks. i've counted at least 60 congressional committees an subcommittees with the authority to hold hearings on auto companies and, no doubt, most will. car execu

native of tuscaloosa, alabama served as a navigator, bomb dear on 47 missions in the european and pacific theaters. joe was decorated with three medals and four battle stars. hisnit received an award for support provided the french expeditionary force in italy. after returning home joe took advantage of the g.i. bill to pursue a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the university of alabama. he began working for the university army missile command in huntsville in the late 1950's. for 27 years joe worked for the army missile command's research, development and engineering division at red stone arsenal. he and his engineering team helped develop and perfect weapons systems critical to maintaining our military edge during the cold war. this included the lance, helfar and thaad missile propulsion systems. when joe and his colleagues were working on the missile which is carried primarily by the appatch khaoe attack helicopter -- apache attack helicopter there was a problem in bad weather. a missile of this propulsion system gives off smoke plume cannot be directed if the sm

pacific commander includes conversation on the north korean missile testing at 5:30 eastern on c-span. >> file sharing has wreaked havoc on our business. >> tonight on "the communicators" copyright policy with the chairman of universal music publishing group. >> one of the goal is to have the isp's take more responsibility of the service they are providing and make sure they're not just providing an entree into intellectual property for free. >> the chairman of universal music publishing group tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> now more from this morning's "washington journal." peter brooks is a national security fellow at the heritage foundation, there is a report looking at the commission of prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. this commission was put together in 2008. guest: i am not a member of this commission. it is -- headed by bob graham. in the standard commission has been extended. they have been extended for a few more months. host: they deliver their report to president bush last -- late last year and testify befo

that is particularly a threat if, for instance, in the pacific, to an aircraft carrier or a fleet of ships, and they would be used perhaps by china to force us not to have ships close to taiwan, for instance. so the ballistic missile is also a type of threat, and we addressed those with a ship- based defensive missile, which comes off of our cruisers, but particularly a new breed of destroyer. the japanese also have destroyers, a defense against these ballistic missiles. it is important to stop ballistic missiles. that is being funded, so there originally was not any controversy there. we are saying it is not an either/or, but a both/and. host: next call, republican line. guescaller: we call ourselves te moose herder's. teddy roosevelt is our hero. the bull moose party of 1912. i have a request into question, congressman. my question is that would you join our moose herder's and designate bill cohen as the spokesperson and keep him in mind for president for 2012. my question about palestinians -- why can't they join the surrounding countries? you know, jordan, syria, egypt, instead o

minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from a california-based, firing at targets in the pacific ocean.

we will have to learn to deter iran into eternal revolution or the society makes it a pacific nation. no one would care if the belgiums had nuclear weapons because they are peaceful people. host: we have our guest george will and we are throwing baseballs at him and taking the swings. next we have kevin. caller: good morning, this is my first time for years to call, i am batting a thousand this morning. mr. will, i respect your opinion and i believe you are left in the journalism industry that have quality respectively. and here is my concern, i think we have lost sight of governing our country. with the bush administration and promoting democracy with weapons and now we have an african-american president inos. -- in office. and this underlying disparity has manifested itself. i see a problem, not a dichotomy but hypocrisy, the crimes that have taken our country down has been executives, predominantly white executives, that are not indicted and now trying to take control of other countries. my question is do we need to take a look at governing ourselves? guest: the short answer is yes

the first officer to command -- the admiral is one of two offices to have commanded a fleet in the pacific and atlantic. after his talk he will take questions. >> it is a pleasure to be here with you today. i don't look forward to getting to your questions. for me in recent events. i have mentioned the need for able debates to enter public discourse. little did i know the efficient public affairs officer would have me in front of a pr firm. one could think that the things we have, what we do globally would be enough to tell our story, like top gun, which i know when it came up the secretary of the army made the comments to the secretary of the navy, i don't know what you guys are doing right, you get top gun and i got full metal jacket. to many of our citizens our oceans are transparent. paradoxically, the oceans may seem unimportant and invisible, they really are essential to everything we do. if you walk into a wal-mart, i would venture to say the shock that is just outside the entrance to this building, if you were to walk in and stand around, almost everything in there cam across the s

didn't have no relatives in japan but i would have went wherever they sent me but they sent me to the pacific and i put three years in there. it's a very emotional day for me. host: joseph, thank you very much for your call. we are going to dip into the speech now by canadian prime minister harper. >> that even if the engines had stopped or broken down, sheer will power would have driven the craft to shore. [speaking french] the iron will of those troops, the careful planning of their commarneds, and the unwaivering support of their fellow citizens back home resulted in victory that day and in the eventual triumph of good over evil in the months that followed. this was the most spectacular achievement of what has famously and rightly been described as the greatest generation. the fathers and mothers of today's leaders, the fathers and mothers of my childhood. it was their most spectacular achievement but it was certainly not their only achievement. for having fought against oppression, racism, and cruelty here in europe, they would return to canada, and turn their resolve to building a societ

it is not a party-specific or person-pacific, or regulator, specific. there was a grand failure overall in the system. people just messed up. in terms of the de-regulatory philosophy, they are trying to address that now. you will see stronger ones. the hope is not to go too far. that they find some way to balance it. host: you write in your piece about the release of trading secrets such as how many shares of stock have been borrowed and sold. you " richard baker, former member of the house. in that analogy, of the fried chicken analogies -- those also fall under government regulations in terms of food standards. so, what is his point? guest: essentially, anyone as a hedge fund manager says, look, we did not necessarily cause this. but mr. baker is saying is the hedge funds have largely survived or even thrive. their fear is that having all the information available will essentially cut off business. hedge funds operate on a scientific methodology. the ability for all others to see their secrets they think will severely restrict their ability to make mo

still pushing it pretty hard kevin rudd, the then new premier of australia has been pushing an asia-pacific community which would combine economic security and political. that is not, he has not gotten very far with that, but i don't think he's going to give up, and it has caused others to say we may not agree with kevin rudd, but we need to go forward. so i think both india and the united states are going to have to, as i say, make some decisions. the administration, for instance, there is on the table now the so-walled p-4 agreement -- so-called p-4 agreement which is a little dart that schwab sent their way by starting negotiations with the p-4 which is singapore, brunei, chile and new zealand which has already been taken as part of a sign of the obama administration interest in getting forward in some sort of regional approach. my only feeling from the united states' position and not speaking in any sense or knowing how the indian government would react to this would be that the united states should really move, i think, aggressively at least behind the scenes to reinvigorate apec, and

during my current duty as separate -- deputy commander of pacific command, i shared some time with general mcchrystal. i am impressed with his vision, intellect, and drive. mr. chairman, thank you for the opportunity and the privilege to appear before you. i look forward to your questions. >> thank you. general mcchrystal? >> mr. chairman, senator mccain, members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you. i would like to thank the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the president for nominating me to serve on the team engaged in this important mission. i am a company today by my wife, her love and support for 32 years has been extraordinary. the president's strategy outlines the past to achieving the strategic goals in afghanistan. it is important to give you my perspective for work we believe we are and where we must go. i appreciate this opportunity. first, i would like to recognize the many afghan citizens, who along with young americans and coalition partners have sacrificed to stand up and fight for afghanistan. i honor thefal fallen. you gave me the oppo

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. >> speaking of the pacific rim, the world baseball classic display major league talent from several countries, especially japan and korea. are you pursuing players from japan and korea? >> we are not pursuing players that i can identify, but we are scowling. we have to people that made trips to the area. it is becoming more and more important. several years ago, we did not know it would succeed here. everyone realized the kind of talent that was there. we signed a lower level guys that never panned out. the kind of broke the law book. there are no players in particular.