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

we've got to learn to deter iran until internal evolution of the society makes it a pacific kind of nation. no one would care if belgium got nuclear weapons because the belgians are happy, cheerful, peaceful people. host: we're spending an hour with george will, and our conversation is akin to a baseball game, we're all throw, pitches at him, he's taking swings. let's get a call from kevin. caller: i'm pleased to be on, i'm very happy. i have a very quick comment. mr. will, i respect your opinion, i think you're one of the few intellectuals left in the journalism industry that comes with a quality perspective and empirical data with the things you say. here's my concern. i think we have kind of lost sight of governing our own country. in the bush administration, we were out promoting democracy with weapons, now we have an african american president in office, the rise of this underlying racial disparity in our country has man tested -- manifested itself. i see a problem. i see not a di cotmy, but i guess hypocrisy there because the majority of the crimes that have taken our country down ha

policy, we are looking at expanding opportunities, perhaps with the agreement of other nations in the pacific basin to be able to put marines 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 w

chairman burton was also the driving force in recognizing certain areas in the pacific region which our nation declared as a strategic trust after world war ii. formally known as the trust territories of the pacific islands, chairman burton, in consultation with the department of defense and other federal agencies and key officials of the administration played a pivotal role whereby as a result of these consulting as resulted in the congress approving certain compacts of free association for the republic of the marshall islands, the federal states of micronearbya and a relationship between the united states and the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands. the president of palau has consented in helping us in terms of dealing with the wee garr people that hope -- the weeger people that hopefully the -- the weeger people hopefully this can be worked out. mr. berman: i yield the gentleman an additional 15 seconds. mr. 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

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

fundamentally change nationally and globally, and that this coming change represents an excellent opportunity for economic growth. that is why another coalition of 19 businesses including the pacific gas and electric cossak, duke energy, national grid, hmple p., starbucks and nike, wrote to president obama and said this will dreyfuss into cost saving and energy-saving technologies and job creating innovation, creating the next wave of jobs in the new economy and provide the predictability we need to play for future business success. those are not my words. those are words of leaders in the corporate community who know something about innovation, enterprise and pre-markets. -- it's long been understood that acting on global warming is a moral necessity as well as an intellectual necessity. but now more and more of us are realizing that it makes powerful economic sense as well. madam speaker, let me as an aside thank you for your presiding at this time on this historic bill and for presiding over so much legislation in such a fair and effective fashion. this house will miss your service, but the country will enjoy your continuing service. i thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, a

according to the national tennesseean and auto pacific survey reports that 81% of americans agree -- quote -- "that the faster the government gets out of the automotive business, the better." now here's an invitation for those who may be listening. if you know of a washington car czar who deserves to be honored, i hope you will e-mail me at caraward at alexander.senate.gov and i'll give you full credit in my regular car czar reports on the floor of the united states senate. and after you write me, i hope you'll write or call your congressman and senators and remind them to enact the auto stock for every taxpayer act just as soon as general motors emerges from bankruptcy. all you need to say when you write or call are these eight magic words: "i paid for it. i should own it." thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that i could speak in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. cardin: mr. president, i'm glad that w

partnership's statement -- station delivering aid and working with other nations their maritime security issues. they are in the south pacific, participating in the cooperation and training exercise with other countries. they are in the arabian gulf protecting the sea lanes that are so critical there and indeed, the world's most important point, the strait of hormuz which is the passage through so much of the world's crude passes. the globe the service are submarines doing some of the most sensitive and -- important intelligence work and maintaining a stealthy and reliable and potent striking power for the nation should be called upon. above the water are capable and flexible airplanes. not unlike the old venerable pd anti-submarine warplane that we are flying the wings off not chasing submarines but rather, chasing insurgents who are planning improvised explosive devices in iraq and in afghanistan. that is the stuff that we have that is so important to us but that is not our most important resource. the most important thing we have are the sailors. our people. one aspect of our operations today is the fact that we have 14,0

africa partnership station delivering aid and working with other nations there on maritime security issues. they're in the south pacific participating in the 15th cooperation for a float readiness and training exercise with singapore, the philippines, malaysia, thailand and indonesia. they're in the arabian gulf protecting the sea lanes that are so critical there, and indeed, the world's most important choke point, the strait of hormuz, which is the passage through which so much of the world's crude passes. below the surface are our submarines doing some of the most sensitive and important intelligence work for our nation and maintaining a stealthy and reliable and potent striking power for the nation should it be called upon. and above the water are our very capable and flexible airplanes not unlike the old venerable p-3 antisubmarine warfare plane that we are literally flying the wings off, not chasing submarines, but rather chasing insurgents who are planting explosive devices in iraq and after began stand. now -- afghanistan. now, that's the stuff we have, but that's not our most important resource. the most import

nation. you actually are hitting an incoming missile out over the pacific, so the trash does not fall -- you do not want that trash falling over our country, especially if it is a nuclear warhead. first of all, they do work, and that is causing the democrats to shift over where they are supporting it to some degree. he used to be when i came in in 2001, it was a straight party vote. not one democrats supported it, nl over the period of time we have seen it, there has been much greater levels of support. you have the testing element. you have to continue to test systems. when of the things they have to test will be the enemy, and shed of shooting one missile, they shoot 10 missiles that break into pieces. now we have to come up with a missile that breaks into 10 pieces, or that his it early enough before it breaks apart. host: our next caller is from atlanta, georgia. eric joins us from the democrats' line. caller: yes, the average person is not -- the point that i would like to make is this. john mccain has been in force from the bottom. his father and grandfather helped him get admitted to

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 will give insights from his recent trip which included stops in afghanistan pakistan and singapore. i hope you'll join me tonight in welc

national security council and professor at georgetown university. evans riviera is the president of the three a society and former deputy assistant of east asian pacific affairs. if leon sigal is professor of social science research council in new york and author of disarming strategy is, of a agreed framework, and that nancy lindborg is president of mercy corps and work inside the north korea to help deliver food aid to women and children in many parts of the poorest parts of the country. they are greatly appreciated for their expertise being here and i just introduced ambassador bosworth, as many people know he is one of our most distinguished veterans of the diplomacy in the united states. served in many different posts. i had the pleasure and senator lugar did also way back -- way back in 1986. i were two recklessly with ambassador bosworth and senator lugar was then chair and worked very closely with him on the philippines and we had many meetings in many visits to the philippines as we transition to the democracy from the marcos regime and it was a really astounding transition. i will say again as i have said previously in public that we were lu

assets in the pacific, in and around the waters that north korean ships which favors dad -- but i think fundamentally, gordon, i think our authorities and responsibilities when the united nations survey council resolution 1874 are clear and we have the resources and assets in the region that would allow us to perform our duties under that and so we continue to as we have for quite some time to monitor north korean shipments and should as the security council resolution calls for should reasonable grounds -- should there be reasonable grounds to believe that one of those ships is carrying banned cargo we have the authority is under the security council resolution to take action. >> from a practical standpoint of the ships in port reducing it to be inspected and, then what? >> it depends on what port is san, but i don't know that it is a program at this time to go through each of the details. you guys can read 1874. in place that out in sentence by sentence what actions would be taken under what circumstances and obviously it would begin with us and making determination about whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that in north korean ship is, indeed, carrying banned ca

international with the united nations now why know why we have so many rotarians in the countries that you mentioned pricing to our right. i was in the navy and fought in the pacific and atlantic i am also a graduate of unable for college and never heard alfred articulate it as well as you have. >> thank you. you noticed? [laughter] >> our navy guided israel start with the barbary pirates not only that it was the first time and ever since then we have been involved with the middle east. so through every single president has been a president of the united states, my question is a sea change that is possible in the next century, you did mention partly because of some of the things that john hirsch mentioned. i think the self-determination, will sony and self-determination is coming to a total end. i think the reverse is starting to happen and that nation's will be larger by becoming bigger than their neighbors and joining forces with their neighbors. one of the areas that i see a possibility, i hope, a possibility is in the middle east and to me, an article recently by khaddafi was a very interesting article with the idea that more and more there will be one and not

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nation's intelligence community. you spent 34 years in the united states navy. 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

nations security council resolution. as far as shipment of proscribed cargo, i can't comment on operational matters like that or intelligence matters. our president has said he is satisfied that the pacific command, the military of the united states is well-prepared to execute whatever direction he give us. and you can read whatever or not you choose to read into that but that's where i'll have to leave it. as far as the launch from north korea, the recent launch following by a couple of years in july of 2006 launch, secretary of defense just said a couple of weeks ago -- i think he said it very well we're prepared to protect americans and american property and american citizens and american territories. we don't want to tip our hand too much. we want to indicate specific areas of readiness or operational patterns but we're prepared to execute whatever direction the president and secretary give us with regard is to taopedong as well. yes, sir. thomas, how are you? good. >> it's tom chancre for the "new york times." i wanted to get your assessment of the joint operation task force operating in the philippines. >> yes, sir. >> what have been the positive take-aways and given the stress so

pacific theater. general dwight eisenhower, our past president, was a supreme allied commander in europe. and directed the d-day operation whose anniversary was just recently celebrated. before going on to lead our nation through some of the most trying times during the cold war, general arnold commanded the army air corps in europe and remains the only person to held the title general of the air force. last but certainly not least, general omar bradley commanded the allied forces in africa and became first to hold the position of chairman of the joint chiefs. at this point i'd like to make mention of an organization that provides invaluable support to the u.s. command general army staff college which is the college foundation. this organization is funded by private donations and its mission is to enrich the academic experience of the college and providing resources not covered by appropriations. since its inception, this foundation has established a number of awards for academic excellence for stuents of the college in recognition of their achievements in the field of tactics, logistics and military arts. it has supported the harvard factuality members. it is the sponsor of the colin powell academic l

than $500,000 is appropriated to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration for grants to be awarded in 2010 by the secretary of commerce for western pacific fishery

than $500,000 is appropriated to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration for grants to be awarded in 2010 by the secretary of commerce for western pacific fishery demonstration projects. the amendment ensures funding is provided for this authorized competitive-based grants program in fiscal year 2010. the western pacific demonstration projects program is authorized by public law 104-297, the sustainable fisheries act. the program was funded at the maximum authorized level, $500,000 each year from 1999 through 2005. my amendment would restart the program at the same level of funding. valuable and economically innovative projects in western pacific fisheries have been demonstrated and explored through this program in previous rounds of competition. the program is important to the communities represented on the western pacific regional fishery management consult which includes my own district, the territory of guam. mr. speaker -- mr. chairman, the program's chief purpose is to authorize and establish not less than three and not more than five fishery demonstration projects, foster and promote traditional indigenous practices. in the last