larger context of latent and dormant indian concerns about china's rise and what it means within south asia as well as in the at's desire to play a greater role in southeast asia in particular, it is shaving regional institutions, and the economic activity as it, quote, looks east. there has been a long time suspension -- suspicion within india that china has been trying to way it down with -- continuing to keep the border issue, not as heightened in tension but festering and not resolved with incursions' in what india claims as its own borders and to keep speak to that issue sensitive and put pressure on the indians in terms of how much tibetans and the dollar llama can speak out. we saw this in the tibetan uprising, how much pressure was put on india to try -- it is hard to do this, to try to indians to put some claims on pakistan and south asia when they want a wider perspective of security matters, maritime issues in particular. i would put that in my contacts and the chinese have no incentive to resolve the dispute as long as it serves the interests of distracting india, making sure th

burton, the ranking member on the subcommittee on middle east and south asia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from yun is recognized for five minutes. mr. burton: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: proid. mr. burton: -- without objection. mr. burton: first of all, let me congratulate our chairman on crafting a bill that in large part is very good. it increases the aid to pakistan by triple in some areas. and i think it's very positive. it deals with economic and humanitarian assistance that will help pakistan build schools, roads, hospitals, and help pakistan's economic infrastructure and all that's good. and i know that the president and the administration supports that as well. unfortunately, here comes the but part, unfortunately the chairman and our democratic colleagues decided to load this bill up with ill-conceived provisions to micromanage u.s. security assistance to pakistan as the ranking member just said. and this is not just my opinion. the secretary of defense, mr. gates, the chairman. joint chi

my two themes and this year our immigration and south asia. i will not talk about three paper books that are so popular on their own they really do not need me to support them but i will tell you what they are, one is motherland which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill, he is part dutch and part irish and is a book that takes place in the new york with 9/11. the second book the currency literary and potato peel society which is a book about world war ii and is a delight will block the -- book and women to get together and think of ways twos sabotages the germans to occupy the island because it is part of britain and said journey -- not seize occupy the island. the other book is unaccustomed to earth. that segues and in fact, it represents both genres that i want to introduce today. one is a novel about immigration. if this with a constantly reaffirming story about people coming to united states to reinvent themselves and the other is the great lies of the southeast and writers and of course, both trends are represented. on immi

my to themes this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own they really don't need me to support them, but i will tell you what they are -- one is never land which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill. he is part dutch in part irish and it is a book that takes place in new york because of 9/11. the second book is -- i0 is done over the name, the currency literary and potato peel by a society which is an epistolary book about the i'll guernsey during world war ii and it is a real delightful book about some women who get together and try to think of ways of sabotaging the germans who are on the island who occupy the island because it is part of britain and the germans nazis actually occupy the island. and the third boat which really does not need me to promoted is unaccustomed to earth. that's sad ways into the both oh genres that i want to introduce today. one is a novel about immigration it is in a constant need reaffirming stories about people coming

i think it to the themes of this year our immigration and south asia. i am not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own and they really don't need me to support them, but i will tell you what they are. one is another land which is received all kinds of awards. it is by joseph o'neill who is part of dutch and part irish. is a book that takes place in new york post 9/11. the second book is the currency literary and i always have to stumble over the name, the currency literary and the potato peel society which is in epistolary book about alan currency in during world war ii and it's a very delightful book about some women who get together and try to think of ways of sabotaging the germans or on the island, who occupy the island. because it is part of britain and the germans essentially occupied the island. and the third book which really doesn't need me to promote it is unaccustomed earth. and that's the way is into the both, in fact, it represents both the genres that i want to introduce today. one is novels about immigration

the -- my two themes this year are immigration and south asia. i'm not going to talk about three paperbacks that are so popular on their own they really don't need me to support them, but i'll tell you what they are. one is netherland which has received all kinds of awards by joseph o'neill who's part dutch and part irish, and he has -- it's a book that takes place in new york post-9/11. the second book is the guernsey literary, and i always have to stumble over the name, the gurns si literary and potato peel society which is a book about the guernsey during world war ii and is a really delightful book about some women who get together and try to think of ways of sab tablging the germans who are on the island, who occupy the island, and it's part of britain, and the germans actually the nazis occupy the island. and the third book which really doesn't need me to promote it is unaccustomed earth. and that segways into the -- in fact, it represents both genres that i want to introduce today. one is novels about immigration. it's a -- i find it a con

pakistan's history of nuclear weapons development has contributed to instability in south asia and paved the way for a.q. khan's proliferation network. additional and substantial nonmilitary support provided by the u.s. must ensure that the security threat to the u.s. which is represented by this network is minimized. for at least a decade, the illicit network was the most attractive shortcut for nations and rogue organizations interested in acquiring the materials and know-how to build a nuclear device. after illegally securing the capability for pakistan, which made him a hero at home and a pariah abroad, kahn sold it to iran, libya and north korea. despite billions of dollars in u.s. aid, they pardoned kahn. they released him from house arrest. h.r. 1886, but not the republican substitute, declares that the u.s. will work with pakistan to ensure our investigators access to suspected proliferators and to restrict proliferators from travel and other activity that could result in further proliferation. it also incorporates, as the chairman said, language from a bill introduced by several

burton, on the subcommittee on the middle east and south asia. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. burton: i want to thank the ranking member and i want to compliment her opening staff, you covered just about everything and did it well. i want to compliment your staff for working hard on it. i'm perplexed by this bill. there is some language in there i like. for instance, the commitment to israel giving them support for their missile defense system. i think that's a positive. but there's so many negatives in this bill that it's going to make it very difficult for those who would like to support it to not be table. let me give you a couple of examples. the ranking member just mentioned that. north korea should be called a terrorist state. they're launching missiles and stretening the security of the entire region as well as giving nuclear technology to other countries. in addition to that, there's money in here, our tax dollars, that are going to defend mr. savan who is hiding out in cyprus right now because he's been indi

technically correct even before the new administration has had time to operationalize their new south asia strategy. our substitute, therefore, requires that as part of the comprehensive, interagency strategy and implementation plan, mandated by the legislation, that the administration put together a robust financial plan, a description of the resources of the programming, of the management of the united states foreign assistance to pakistan, including the criteria used to determine this pry ortyization. we believe -- prioritization. we believe this is the correct approach. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i have no further requests for time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. i'd like to take up our remainder time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. mr. speaker, our republican substitute will allow for the development of specific credible measur

other areas including south asia and the greater middle east, we are at a kind of crossroads here. as tom was just pointing out, the good news, that we have tweaked -- two countries having signed up to total elimination. the messages we received from u.s. officials in washington is the bureaucracy takes president obama's words seriously, they are taking the the idea of global zero seriously. the bad news is there are countries on the horizon that could deploy nuclear weapons. in the case of iran, that decision could lead other countries in the region, maybe turkey, maybe eat it, maybe saudi arabia, to revaluate their nuclear plants and nuclear acquisition. we think there is a window of opportunity here but things could take place that undermines his process. that gives us a sense of urgency. >> why should a nation interested in nuclear power, particularly iran or north korea, care about what the united states and russia are doing? specifically for ambassador khan, does pakistan have any understanding of the islamic world using a the global 0 recommendations? >> you want to deal wit

this same story can be told by people from south africa to south asia. from eastern europe to indonesia. it is a story with a simple truth. and violence is a dead end. it is a sign leader of courage nor power. to shoot rockets at sleeping children or blow up old women on a bus. that is not how moral authority is claimed, that is how it is surrendered. that is the time for palestinians to focus on what they can build. the palestinian authority must develop its capacity to govern with institutions that can serve the needs of their people. how amas does have support among some palestinians. they have to recognize their responsibilities to play a role in of killing palestinian aspirations, to unify the palestinian people -- their responsibilities to play a role of fulfilling palestinian aspirations, to unify the palestinian people. israel must recognize that there justice cannot be denied nor can palestine's. the united states does not except accept the legitimacy of israeli settlements. [applause] this construction violates previous agreements and undermine

today in parts of africa and south asia, hundreds of children still develop polio. while developed nations receive the vaccines, this is a luxury for rural villages in places like india, nigeria, afghanistan and se somolia. leading the charge over the past decade denise johnson serves as the acting chief of the c.d.c.polioer ratification branch. before she was directed to do this, she was a member of the c.d.c. family violence prevention program. she oversaw the -- through community and social change initiatives. this is around the time that congress passed the violence against women act which is one of the proudest achievementses my friend and predecessor vice president biden had in the senate. when asked why denise was sought to work in the polio project, one person said that she did a good job from keeping children being beat en, you know that she can eradicate polio. they have been working in close concert with the world health organization and unicef. in her first few years alone denise and her team helped to immunize over half a billion -- let me repeat, that

before because i think most southeast asian and east asian minds india was thought of as a part of south asia. and so it was never thought that they would be part of a regional construction, and now that's no longer the case. >> i just want to say one thing looking to the future. i think everybody thinks about india as a great service power, but if you look at what india's goals are vis-a-vis the developed countries, it is actually to achieve real openings in manufactured goods. i think they feel newfound competence in their ability to compete with developed country companies, and that is where they're going to be looking, for example, with europe and someday if they're ever going to negotiate with the united states. i think with singapore where the increase in trade has been in the services area. >> chow chen, freelance correspondent. my question would be to arvind, but other members in the panel could respond. climate change is a global issue, and change is due to the years making by the developing country the personal lifestyle and industrial manufacturing. so what do you think, what do yo

this same story can be told by people from south africa to south asia. this is from eastern europe to indonesia. it is a story with a simple truth. violence is a dead end. it is a sign neither courage or of power. -- or a power to throw rocks at the sleeping children. that is not how moral authority is claimed. that is how it is surrendered. now is the time for palestinians to focus on what they can build. palestinian authorities must develop its government with institutions to serve the needs of its people. hamas does have support among some palestinians, but they also have to recognize their responsibilities, to play a role and a filling palestinian aspirations, and to unify the palestinian people. hamas has put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, recognized israel's right to exist. at the same time, israelis must acknowledge that just as their right cannot be denied, neither can palestine's. the united states is non -- does not accept the legitimacy of israeli settlements. [applause]

the central region that largely extends and encompasses the middle east, the gulf, pakistan, and south asia. there are a number of people that will work directly with dennis on different aspects of that wider region. dennis will report to deputy national security adviser tom dolan and national security adviser jim jones. i think if you look at all of the regions that are encompassed in that larger framework, you have different parts of the middle east, iran and iraq, the gulf, afghanistan, pakistan, you have got a number of very important places in our foreign policy and in our national interest. i think what the president has done is to add to the very strong national security team with dennis. given the list of countries, they will be plenty busy. i don't think that anybody should believe that this will conflict or supersede the important work that special envoys are doing on the ground in many of these places even as somebody is here at the white house coordinating a series of people dealing with an important region in the world. >> a few questions. i want to go back to the paris speech.

we recently opened the south asia center. we are launching a center for other partnerships. this evening is under the international security program. there is the reality. take a look at the situation now. nato reaching out to develop partnerships with japan, australia, south korea. the u.s. and the au working together to engage china and india on global climate change. north korea, i do not have to say much about that. the development of long-range ballistic missiles impact the debate in europe. this link has been apparent since the u.s. entered wwii. we will continue to flow our boat in the pacific. so we will now have someone introduce our speaker and later moderate the q&a session. this man is a pillar of the atlantic council. he provides me and the rest of our leadership strategic advice as well as sound legal advice. i am still free and have not yet been incarcerated because of this advice. i am grateful for your service, walt. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. it is a great honor to be asked to introduce that roe keating. he has that kind of resume that mere mortals

our program today with a keynote by ambassador robert blake assistant secretary for central and south asia at the department of state. with no further ado, let me hand over the program to danielle pletka, vice president for foreign and defense policies at aei. >> thank you very much, nina. we don't often do this kind of a format and i think -- well, you'll all have to let us know how it works but it's a great pleasure to be me sitting need to the ambassador who is recent joined us in washington. you have her full bioin your folder and online but prior to coming here she was the indian ambassador to berlin to the federal republic of germany. what we're going to do this morning is take our first half an our and we're going to try to have a little bit of a conversation and then we're going to open up the floor to questions. we thought that it would be -- we thought that it would be a more interesting way to have a conversation. it was the ambassador's suggestion, and i think that it'll be a lovely way for us to start a very nice monday morning in washington on this holiday week. so you did ju

history and that is what happened in december 2004 when the tsunami swept through south east and south asia. it was the carrier abraham lincoln that was that poured in hong kong on a routine visit over the christmas holidays on a sunday. by saturday, she was providing 50,000 pounds of food and water a day into this tsunami affected area. in indonesia. that event also led us to adjust our strategy i think in a very significant way. as i said, we have been responding to disasters during our history we said, let's see what we can do proactively. we began a series of humanitarian missions that, to date in four of which we have been conducting them, have touched 409,000 patients from our ships. that is in south america and the pacific and africa. if you consider the 409,000 patients, that is like going to the verizon center, packing the house, and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. it is not just the aircraft carriers. it is the cruisers and destroyers that are out and about. the f

regulate the hawala, but anyone who has been and i hawala market anywhere in the middle east or south asiaknows just how hard that's going to be. another place that i visited that was very, very interesting is down in karachi. the karachi stock exchange has grown by 250% annually since the drug trade exploded. and so if you go down there and start meeting, there are four or five stockburger sue came out of nowhere. one used to be a bookie for cricket games, for example. who appeared to be laundry day schmo, the head of the stock exchange -- there was a terrific head of the karachi stock exchange who resigned in disgust and demanded that these guys be investigated. i interviewed him. he said i don't know if it's drug money but it's definitely dirty money that's in there. they are just slipping stocks. and you do a couple of stock trades and the money comes out clean. and so that becomes, the karachi stock agenda sort of a gateway that money enters the western banking institutions. it's been interesting to watch over the last few years, a lot of western banks have opened an western finance g

recently opened up a south asia center and are launching a center for partnership. this evening is under the international security program and the director, damon will sum. so there's the reality. with the situation now. nato reaching out to develop global partnerships with japan, australia, south korea. asian powers playing a key role in stabilizing afghanistan. the u.s. and eu working together to engage china and india on global climate change. the g-20 bringing together key asian and european partners to address the global on a crisis. if north korea, i do not have to say much about that. security developments in the pacific such as the developer of a long-range ballistic missiles and backed the debate on missiles in europe. i think this link has been apparent since the u.s. entered world war ii double in europe. the council will continue to flood of boat as well in the pacific. and now want to turn the podium over to the hon. walter slocombe, vice chair of the atlantic council and former undersecretary of defense for policy. he will introduce our speaker and la

except for and yet many questions of south asia are similarly under pressure. virtually all the ander developed countries, especially africa, under the under greater siege because of the economic assistance drop, the further deterioration of their own economic situations and other factors that are important such as tribal or ethnic conflict and violence nearby. the intelligence community analysis and modeling shows that really the duration of the recession is the key factor in the strength of its effect. while the current recession is the worst since the 1930's so far does not have the political impact of the great depression which had the longer time run, however another year or two might bring a different and worse story. so, this area of the economic, the effects of the economic recession is one that we are watching in a new way. if there is a geographic region of the world that we are looking at most closely it is the area from turki down to the eastern border of pakistan. that seems to be were the most american and western security concerns like. as this a

that we are equiping and training for is committed to a counterinsurgency -- not an arms race in south asia. mr. burton: if you read the bill and listen to the debate and listen to what senator kerry says who i -- with whom i don't agree very much, you see there is too much micromanaging. there's a war over there, we should be supporting our ally. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. berman: i'm pleased to yield to someone like the previous speaker, the gentleman from indiana, has spent a great deal of time in pakistan, looking at the situation. she chairs the pakistan caucus. she joined our congressional delegation in pakistan last -- in the month of april and speaks with great knowledge and experience on this subject. the gentlelady from texas, ms. sheila jackson lee, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for three minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank very much the distinguished chairman of the full committee for both his insight and his leadership. and my goo

coordination between afghanistan, india and bangladesh, recognizing that north asia, this area, south asia, egscuse me, is an important part -- excuse me, is an important part of our security and their security. we must recognize that the people of pakistan love democracy and, yes, what we have seen over the last couple of days really has given us pause. well, i want you to know that the pakistan military, under the secretary of the army, is doing something they don't usually do. their structure has been that they have been monitoring or, if you will, watching the border. that's been their task. for the first time they've accepted the responsibility of internally ridding their country of the terrorists, the ones who have taken over, who have undermined, people whose faith may have drawn them to a particular situation or they thought the government wasn't functioning so they allowed the taliban and insurgents to take over. and this is what we have. frankly, the devastation of 2.5 million people who are now moving from one place to the next. but the army is fighting the terrorists. but you k

asia. currently south korea is our seventh largest trading partner in the world. in twetch our two countries concluded a free trade agreement that now awaits approval by our congress and the korean national assembly. in my opinion the us dushes korea free trade agreement will bring tremendous benefits to both of our countries. international trade commission has forecast that the elimination of tariffs and u.s. goods under the agreement will increase our g.d.p. by about $11 billion a year. the agreement will also eliminate regulatory and other nontariff barriers that have historically restricted access by american farmers, manufacturers, and service providers. to the south korean market with growing difficulties, the health of our economy proposed, in my opinion this will be a win-win situation. a win for our workers, a win for our businesses, and a win for our consumers. but perhaps the most compelling argument supporting free trade agreement with this important

because there's not time, we know what has when asia gets in and south america gets in, really too large to even discuss too far here today. but as you've heard most of our colleagues discuss today, many of us believe clearly that the regulation of insurance is a state's right, purely and simply a state's right. reserved under the states and the biggest violation of consumers that i've seen quite frankly has been by companies that write health insurance, for example, under arisa, every state except the state they reside collect premiums and don't pay claims because the federal government does nothing about it. it wasn't until states got together several years ago and crossed state loans for the first time in history to prosecute health insurance fraud. if we left it to the federal government they would be plunderring people in 49 states,

south america, asia, europe. but look at the way the so-called grand compromise on agriculture was put together. compromise is a phrase used in one of the electronic publication this is morning. indirect land use, where an agency of the federal government can determine how your corn farm or wheat farm affects farms on other continents and tell you the way -- to change the way you do your business. i know the bill says that can't happen for five years and we'll have a study and a moratorium for another year. but six years from now, six years from now, it comes at us like a brick bat. the section of the bill talking about farms being able to be rewarded for good stewardship, carbon se quest ration and those kinds of mat -- carbon squest ration and those kinds of matters. the practices can only be rewarded if they began after 2001 you heard my friend of iowa talk about the percentage of corn farmers who adopted those practices before 2001. how do you explain to the folks back home that the good farmers, the good ste

and those of our key ally -- and this is important to underscore, our key allies in asia are gentleman pap and south korea. they've sustained the peace with us in asia since world war ii. and i think that our position together with them has been a lot stronger in terms of wanting to disarm north korea than the chinese have. the chinese can fundamentally live with a nuclear north korea as long as there's stability on their boreders. -- borders. host: kim jong il, his son designated as his potential successor. who's in charge? guest: well, it's so hard to know. it's such a totalitarian state with such a news blackout. but it seems from all indications that kim has picked his youngest son early to be his successor. but that doesn't mean the story's over. there could be a power struggle for some time in north korea. the military is very strong as are the other factions of kim's own party. host: mike is on the phone from new jersey. democrats' line. good morning, mike. caller: hi. how are you doing? i'd like to know why is it that we as americans feel our people are above other countries' laws because th

have grave implications, not just for maintaining peace and stability in northeast asia, for our alliances with south japan and korea, south korea and japan but particularly have an impact on our ongoing non-proliferation efforts with respect to iran and any other would-be nuclear power. step one is to get a unified response from the united nations. the result appears to be imminent, but then we must resist the temptation to go into defensive crouch. in the past teaches us that the benign neglect is not a viable option america must lead efforts to stop the current negative cycle of action and reaction and begin the hard diplomatic work needed to deliver results. and as we seek to engage, we should remember the council of former secretary of defense william perry who advised us to deal with north korea quote, as it is, not as we would wish to be. we should not assume that north korea sees the world the way we do. recent developments should convince us to test our assumptions about north korea and its motives. for instance, when i was in china discussing this with chinese leaders it was clear that ther

asia you would laugh. why did that happen? it happened because south korea was a fundamental interest to the united states. the united states had to make certain of the viability of south korea and south korea benefited royally from that relationship. another example is israel there was no intrinsic reason why israel would have emerged as anything but the economic basket case save of the economic transfer the united states chose to make and these are accepting the obvious cases of germany and japan strategic relationships of the united states, not poverty relationships but places where the united states badly needs a country transforms the economy protectively with a capable workforce which the polls have. and especially when you were sandwiched between two countries they will cooperate and for whom you have no great love progressed a poll by the prefer a russian or a german they will say an american. [laughter] the last time it was a french they prefer anyone and it is not clear that germany is prepared to participate in competition with russia that i

the indus river which essentially bisects pakistan north to south you transition between two civilizations rest of the indus you have central asia, the look of the people, even the bland taste of the food and go east of the indus and maybe you cross and go to islamic god and say nothing and lahore and you're in the subcontinent culture. the food is spicy, the colors are more vivid. does pakistan work? >> guest: it does work. i am not of the chicken little school that thinks pakistan is always on the verge of collapse. pakistan somehow i think has persevered negative 1971 civil war the dow was geographically unattainable to begin with. but i think pakistan works in so far as it moves ahead. it doesn't work -- it is still grappling with a single identity. you travel around pakistan and your right, the index does divide the civilizations. but you ask pakistanis in various parts of the country how do they identify themselves. they rarely ever if ever identified themselves as pakistanis first. it's either punjabis or pashtuns, whatever their identity is, tribal identity and the muslim and then pakistani. so you see the tears of ident

all over the world now with the exception of southeast asia for the most part, and that is we don't make stuff anymore. we don't make stuff. south africa doesn't make stuff. brazil doesn't make stuff. manufacturing has gone. manufacturing is the key to a prosperous economy, particularly one that contributes to wealth. how did we get here? and this is sort of -- this is the part gets back to the classical theater i'm not an economist. and i want to go over this very quickly because while it's sort of very technical, it provides answer as to how we get out of this, how we sort of escape this, these last years of widening equality, lowering wages, people sort of being funneled into service sector and low wage jobs. of course the number one thing is the opening of the borders to all sorts of exports, export goods from abroad. that's both here, zambia, everywhere. and what that does is it really sort of puts a disadvantage the developing economies which haven't had a chance to actually develop their industry. so they can't compete. and essentially what you see as i talk about the book in a place like zambia, southern africa country,

farther south into other countries, but you also have this notion of ongoing hereditary slavery that has not been addressed as quickly as it should be. >> can you talk about the downgrades in asia, in particular malaysia going to tier 3. is a country that sees a lot of burmese migrants who, from what we hear, are being sold to human traffickers with authority's knowledge. is malaysia a more open type of country? >> i have not heard their reaction to the downgrade the debt. at i am with you guys and the secretary. what we have seen in the last month or so, the foreign relations committee did a recent in-depth study of the very problem with your pointing out. the burmese refugee problem. one of the problems that we have been calling malaysia's attention to is their treatment of refugees, as has the u.n. refugee agencies. the 500,000 persons strong militia has basically deputized and had money for the aliens that they catch. it is something that has contributed to a zone of impunity around the refugee population. since he did not necessarily have a well structured immigration policing, it has evolved into this much more self-help with that particular militia being involved. the re

president, today in the defense appropriations bill, we've heard about some good things going on in south asia and the new strategy for both afghanistan and pakistan to bring military and civilian efforts into that region. i understand that the armed services committee has just approved the nomination of lieutenant general stanley mcchrystal as the next commander of the international security forces. the final senior level military position in the theater. i have met with general mcchrystal and talked about our way forward in the region to listen to his ideas. i have to say i was very impressed. he's not only a dedicated, accomplished soldier, but has years of combat and counterterrorism experience, he's also an effective leader who understands the challenges we face in the region. he knows that counterinsurgency, point of strategy, one that wins the hearts and minds of local populations and gains grass roots support for development and governance efforts and includes an effective public diplomacy campaign is absolutely essential. he not only understands good public diplomacy, but he understan