even while the soviet union was strong it has a hard time dealing with those places that were supposed to be under it umbrella that didn't want to be. in world war ii, when the soviets were fighting the nazis, separatist this is chechnya saw an opportunity and rose up to try to break free of the soviet union. stalin not only crushed that revolt, what he did to the people of chechnya afterward is part of how stalin became an almost hyperbolic forcibly -- in 1944 he forcibly deported the entire population of chechnya. not the rebels, not the fighters but everyone in the country. men, women, children, everybody. he forced them out of their homeland where they lived for centuries and made them move to siberia. and northern kazakhstan. the whole country deported from their own country. tens of thousands of people died. they were not allowed to return home for 13 years. by then it was the late 1950s. they were trying to undo some of the legacy and let chechens live in chechnya again. when the soviet union collapsed chechens tried to get their independence from russia. their first war for ind

the soviet union needs to change. let's be strong. let's demonstrate our strength to some action such as deployment of the missiles in 1984. i was there. i watched it happen. it brought all of those out. the game is up. powerful way she made an impact on the world's situation. she had people who did not like the way she went about it. all the protesters were deploying those missiles. >> we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us today. world leaders have been paying tribute to lady thatcher including president obama who said she stood shoulder to shoulder with president reagan during the cold war. atn simpson takes this look margaret thatcher's is standing on the world stage. >> foreign policy provided some of her greatest successes. in the shape of europe, it helps bring about her downfall. when she first came to power, the lack of any real foreign experience was her greatest weakness. disastrous miscalculations of assuming that a woman prime minister would not resist if they invaded the falklands. against the bett

and he said the lack of democracy in the soviet union had mended that the top of the soviet leadership, it was aier on tock rah si. these were old, gray men nearing death. and as ronnie reagan said, you know, i'd love to negotiate with a soviet leader, but they keep dying on me. margaret thatcher turned it to good effect. yes, they were dying, but, actually, she was invited to every funeral. there were four in a row. she thought maybe if i go to the funeral, maybe i can work out to who comes next, and she did. the narrowed it could down to to people. one of them was roam november, but anyway, he played his cards wrong, and mikhail gorbachev succeeded. but thatcher operated as a go between. she invited, actually, she invited both roam november and gorbachev to london, and when they arrived, she realized gorbachev must be the one. she made absolutely clear she wasn't going tock the honest broker -- to be the honest broker between russia and america. if you're talking to me, you may as well be talking to ronald reagan. you can't get a cigarette paper between us, we are absolutely one. but

the soviet union had a big border with iran.ders with iran actually on either sides of the caspian sea. the soviet union was so big it went all the way to the middle east and europe and scandinavia and all of china and japan. just huge. but that part of the old soviet union just west of the caspian sea where it used to go all the way down to touch iran, that part of the world, if you stop thinking about countries and their boundaries and just think of it as land, the land there is marked by this beautiful seam in the earth, this big dramatic straight as an arrow mountain range called the caucasus mountains. since the union has dissolved, we do not see that part of the world anymore as a big part of something else, as a big gigantic opposite number to us, super power. now that we don't see that part of the world as the soviet eun downanywhere we see it as georgia and armenia and suggest of chechnya and ajair ya and if you think i'm mispronouncing things just wait. dagg stan and chechnya. it had a hard time dealing with the arrest

it wasn't just russia and the whole soviet union it was massive.s control and sphere of influence spreading into east germa germany. even appreciating that the soviet union spanned 12 time zones west to east it's still easy to forget how far down it went. it had a big border with iran. two borders with iran on either side of the caspian sea. it went all the way into the middle east and europe and scandinavia and china. it was human. that part just west of the caspian sea, that part of the world, if you stop thinking about countries and their boundaries and think of it as land, the land is marked by this beautiful seem in the earth. this big dramatic strait as an arrow mountains. we do not see that part of the world as a big part of something else, as a component of this super power. now that we don't see the world as the soviet union, we see it as georgia and ageria. if you think i'm mispronouncing things just wait. even while the soviet union was strong it has a hard time dealing with those places that were supposed to be under it umbrella that di

that coincided with the implosion of the soviet union under its own contradiction. some conservatives will tell you it was almost sort of like moses parting the red sea. they tear it all down. i don't think it was quite that. but clearly the truth telling to the soviet union was not a relevant and gave enormous hope to dissidents working behind the eastern block. domestically, they had a tremendously important impact on each other. they were both trying something, not identical but something very radical that was a kind of break with the economic policies and domestic policies of the past. the fact they were not isolated, that they could support to -- point to someone else on the other side of the ocean in charge of the important country who was doing the same thing, that make quite a difference, i think. you can see in the tributes paid to lady thatcher that people who work closely with president reagan said it made a difference. there is this impressive leader in europe who is close to him and share some ideas. host: was it vice versa for her in britain? guest: it

to stop the expansion of the soviet union. and this meant then that we were diverting our resources to the production of military goods. and this of course opened the way for japan to enter and to penetrate the consumer goods market. >> when north korea crossed the 38 parallel and invaded south korea, the american led response pumped millions of the dollars into japan buying materials used to fight the war. korea was the key to japan's recovery. >> the cold war lived to certain wars in asian involving the united states. the korean war, the vietnam war. and these two wars, stimulated the japanese economy. in 1950 you know during the korean war, the united states purchased stocks from toyota. this is what got the toyota automobile company its start. >> reporter: a more modest industrial start can be seen on this video. japanese collected the discarded empties and manufactured toy cans from the beer cans. gis paid 30-cents a piece for the toys. >>> when we come back on a second look, the morris lab, how it came into being. >>> an

it is the 20th anniversary of the soviet union, the end of the soviet union. many people in russia blame him for the economic conditions in which they live. they blame him for the end of the country that many felt was the cradle to grave welfare state instead of a totalitarian system. i have great respect for him. you can also see people's weaknesses. you talked about all salvador. what about the priests and nuns? to me, that is the people power in that situation. flm was a revolutionary force seeking power. the people power were trying to alleviate poverty, trying to find balance. >> liberation theology had a stronger effect on the underlying society. i have to read this. you are listening to the commonwealth of california radio program. our guest is katrina vander huegen editor and publisher of "the nation." i watched you on colbert. he asked you to repudiate the obama three times before the cock crows. [laughter] >> he said at the end that i filibustered him. >> he went after you. >> one of the bright lights in the bush era was when he spoke of the white ho

to stop the expansion of the soviet union. and this meant then that we were diverting our resources to the production of military goods. and this of course opened the way for japan to enter and to penetrate the consumer goods market. >> when north korea crossed the 38 parallel and invaded south korea, the american led response pumped millions of the dollars into japan buying materials used to fight the war. korea was the key to japan's recovery. >> the cold war lived to certain wars in asian involving the united states. the korean war, the vietnam war. and these two wars, stimulated the japanese economy. in 1950 you know during the korean war, the united states purchased stocks from toyota. this is what got the toyota automobile company its start. >> reporter: a more modest industrial start can be seen on this video. japanese collected the discarded empties and manufactured toy cans from the beer cans. gis paid 30-cents a piece for the toys. >>> when we come back on a second look, the morris lab, how it came into being. >>> an

the organization was created to counter the soviet union with soviet union long gone it has to keep easy over the years nato has gone from being a defense organization to becoming an offensive force with a missions that go far beyond north america and europe they refer to those ambitions as out of area operations which have included of ghana's stand in libya now part of nato the very powerful part which includes the u.s. the u.k. and france pretty much see those out of area operations as the future of the organization but the zest and enthusiasm to go global doesn't sync well with all twenty eight members of the alliance who know they will have to foot the bill the lack of consensus showed when germany by far europe's strongest nation refused to provide resources for nato bombings two years ago back then nato has gone beyond its un mandate which was to protect civilians it has effectively created a power vacuum in which all kinds of extremists have flourished since then not to mention the destruction of the country's infrastructure but it was not just the un mandate with nato has gone be

as part of what brought soviet union down and obviously gorbachev. how do you see that and the role of reagan and thatcher together in that? >> what brought the soviet union down was an accumulation of things that had gone on for a number of decades. >> they're own economy. >> it came to a point in the 80s. the contribution of reagan and thatcher was to define the issue in terms that the american public could understand rather than as a confrontation between-- between ideologies and she sanctioned reagan's hand, gave him an assured spokesman on the nato side. but she was not a spokesman for reagan. she was a spokesman for a british position that was parallel to ours. and it was ultimately it was certainly always clear that if reagan deviated from her conception of the proper way of conducting the cold war, we would hear strenuous objections as we did after-- for example. >> rose: how close was the relationship between reagan and thatcher? >> i think on the level of overall strategy they were very close. on the level of day-to-day tactics it didn't, t

we go back to the old example of the soviet union. the third basket -- [inaudible] regarded as keep the human rights ngo happy. it had major effect with the soviet union of providing the treaty-based form of criticism. so the issues should be seen z as it ties in with other foreign policy agenda and at georgetown university has written eloquently on foreign policy and religious freedom. time for one more question here. perhaps in the front row, we have a hand without a microphone. microphone approaching. we only have a moment left. [inaudible] i was the president of the freedom coalition. i do a lot of other things -- [inaudible] i want to mention something about the state department. a little history -- we have an infiltration of islammic -- i'm concerned about that. that needs to be stated [inaudible] she has a strong link to the muslim brotherhood. something broke yesterday within john kerry son-in-law it department come out in the vetting process. his son-in-law is an iranian-american with close relative in iran. that's a break do

as an inspiration to ronald reagan, then his partner against the soviet union. >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reporter: ronnie and margaret were political soul mates, said nancy reagan in a statement today, committed to freedom and resolve to end communism. reviving capitalism and freedom was a reagan similar thatcher mission. she battled british unions when strikes paralyzed the uk. >> what we've got is an attempt to substitute the law of the mob for the rule of law. >> reporter: when reagan came to power in 1981, he broke the u.s. air traffic controllers union when they struck. russians called thatcher the iron lady and the nickname stuck. >> we always watched that

the soviet union collapsed from within.lieve that the soviet union would be thriving today were it not for reagan and thatcher is to believe that communism is a good idea, that it works. in fact, imperialistic dictatorial communism collapsed of its own horrible weight. it simply could not survive in a modern world where freedom is necessary in every economy as is by the way some socialism as margaret thatcher well understood. it is not as if no one knew that the soviet union was going to collapse. well, it's actually as if only one person knew. senator daniel patrick moynihan predicted in 1979 it would collapse. the horribly run economy couldn't possibly provide for the people of the many different countries who were thrown together against their will under the thinly stretched banner of the imperialistic soviet union. as mentioned, the other false credit, margaret thatcher gets, is for killing socialism and burying it as george will said. what do you call a socialist that gets rid of bad socialism and keeps good socialism,

and the soviet union through the end of the cold war. here's part of what she said from the british house of commons when she resigned in 1990. >> do not agree that the age of civil is gone. not look back with pride and satisfaction of all of those years as a well statesman. longthink mr. speaker, as as my honorable friend is a member of this house. yes, in response to his question, do i look backward with some pride and satisfaction of achievement of our country in the last 11.5 years. >> margaret thatcher talking about resigning as prime minster in 1990. her passing today brought tribute to many people in politics and around the world. today is a truly sad day for our country. we lost a great prime minster a great leader a great britain. as ours for woman prime minster, margaret thatcher succeeded against all the odds. she didn't just lead our country, she saved our country. president obama had this to say about the former prime minster. here in america, many of us will never forget her standing shoulder to shoulder with president reag

with the soviet union. because after all, if the iron lady felt this is someone we can do business with, then perhaps it was someone we ought to do business with. it was very, very important. she was of course a strong advocate of free market and of freedom. i heard your, a little bit of your broadcast earlier. she of course broke the oppressive grip of the trade unions in the united kingdom and she pushed privatization. so she had a very, very important role to play economically, but also geopolitically. >> one of the big issues that i recall is what was derisively referreds to as star wars, the strategic defense initiative. i recall interviewing her and she really had ronald reagan's back on a controversial issue. because missile deployment in europe and also strategic defense was not a given in europe. where in most of the countries at least, the green party and others, were very dominant. >> well that's correct. and she had his back on that, on missile defense. she also had his back in many respects on

end of the cold war it eventually brought about the fall of the soviet union as well. dr foote former personal translator to solve it leaders it's a pleasure to have you on the program thank you for your time sir. well the death of margaret factions prompted david cameron to cut short his european trip the british prime minister was expected to promote his ideas for a more flexible e.u. amid growing euro skeptic sentiment among voters at home but robert oulds the director of the bruges group think tank told us cameron's proposal is what we welcomed by the rest of the you anyway the prime minister margaret thatcher was of course the president of the group and she had an enormous effect on britain she changed britain arguably greatly for the better you broke the former consensus in british politics restore prosperity and also criticised the european union in its drive to more centralization which has damaged many us states and of course undermine to our democracy throughout the you climb minister david cameron course wants to emulate margaret thatcher's effect with guard

i have any real insight into i would say that since the collapse of the soviet union december one thousand nine hundred one the united states has continued to deal with russian issues based on its old cold war paradigm and to a large degree the us regionally came out in support of the chechen cause for independence it was the enemy of my enemy is my friend paradigm and the russians continue to be perceived as inherently bad inherently evil if you will going back to the soviet era and the american perspective was that any group of people trying to rescue their independence from russia therefore must be good and this is all a significant measure of u.s. government support even to the extent of providing political asylum to one of the chechen leaders who was at the time under indictment for terrorism in russia that was john guy the president of the arch angel world. i want to stop now and take a moment to take a look at the role that social media has played in the events that have unfolded in the past few days it was on social media sites like twitter that we first heard about the boston mara

since the collapse of the soviet union the number of worshippers have been multiplying. the burning of this straw hut is part of the religious tradition that's been kept alive. the purpose is to burn away old clothes placed in the hut. many buddhists still remember the depression in the soviet era. this priest witnessed it. there was once a time when they were visited by russia's rulers. after the revolution order the destruction. >> translator: everybody knows that temples were destroyed and ruined. now we experience the consequence of that period. >> reporter: once the soviet union collapsed they could resume propagating their region. one young priest has just returned from a temple in india. today there's an active effort to solidify the temple as a religious center. >> translator: india is an important destination for us to learn from our great teacher >> reporter: religious activities can be seen at the grass roots level. one example is the buddhist organization. in are what is becoming a new trend is center now longer license temples. the head wants to make this a

with regard to the resistance to the russian federation in the soviet union collapsed they certainly thought that was their opportunity russia has worked hard our to keep them in the russian federation and it wasn't until early one nine hundred ninety five when bin laden himself sent in kind of his top level people largely to try and again conscript the chechen to greater chechen cause for independence into the greater global jihad that al qaida was pursuing at that time and al qaida has continued to try and keep its foot hold in that chechen conflict ever known john from what i've been hearing in the news of it doesn't really seem like u.s. intelligence agencies have previously been evaluating the chechen republic as a hotbed for american enemies obviously you're saying that al qaida has been recruiting there well the fact that these two men came from the surrounding area changed the america's government's attitude toward the region and more specifically its military focus. of the u.s. government reacts and how the military reacts certainly didn't something that. i have in the real

but has major effects with the soviet union of providing treaty-based form of criticism.so these issues should be seen as, it ties in with other foreign policy agendas. >> i think we have time for one more question. perhaps in the front row here. we have a hand. we have a microphone. microphone approaching, approaching. and we only have just a moment left. >> i was the president of the first north korean pinkalicious i do a lot of things there. i just want to making something about the state department, kind of a history. we have an infiltration of islamic sympathizers. i am actually concerned about that. [inaudible] she has a very strong link to the muslim brotherhood. but just something broke yesterday which answers your question, john kerry's son-in-law, it didn't come out in the vetting process with him for second state. his son-in-law is an irony. iranian-american with very close relatives and iran. that is a breakdown of the vetting process. and so i will ask you all. are you concerned about this? >> i would have to know more about the iranians. most iranian america

what was her role in the fall of the soviet union? >> well, i think it was -- i think it was very significant. partly because she stood by president reagan and i always felt what he did, for example, with respect to what was called star war, the strategic defense initiative, was a very important element in persuading the soviets that they could not keep up with modern american military capabilities, that that was partly what forced them ultimately to end the cold war, if you will. but she also -- i think there was respect between she and gorbachev, the kind of respect that developed eventually between reagan and gorbachev. they were... willing -- reagan and thatcher were willing to take advantage of the situation and -- and knew how to engage with the gorbachev ultimately. they were tough on the one hand, as ronald reagan clearly was when he went to berl and i know said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. on the other hand, they were willing to deal with him -- trust but verify. >> on days like this, we try to celebrate people, we do

well. ,hey want good for this country ut i'm also reminded of a line that i was told back in the soviet union in the summer of 1973 when i had gotten close to a soviet college student and we had a free exchange of ideas, never put down his country at all, and despite that, he was ordered not to talk to me anymore after we became good friends, because that's what happens in a country where the government becomes too powerful -- can't even choose your friends anymore. one of the things he pointed out. at one point, we were sitting alone visiting and he said, you know -- and he tugged on my shirt and he said we don't have material this good for our individual citizens. we wish we did. but we recognize you have so much more and better things for your citizens in the united states than we do here in the soviet union. he said, but you got to understand that here in the soviet union, since we were formed in 1918, we have had two major wars fought on our own soil that have kept this country just in turmoil. and we have had to spend most of our resources not on such nice clothes or good things for ind

for example, north korea was heavily subkeysed by the soviet union until 1990. the last quote-unquote fourth generation or modern military equipment they got was the su25. and they got some mig 29s before that but very few. nothing since 1990. and since that time the south korean military has been building indigenous tanks, self-profelled al temperaturery that looks like it came out of an american factory. very good stuff. north korea has not modernized its military in 20 years. that's an issue. we don't need to talk about missiles and other stuff. we'll do that later. the final thing is, some of you have been to korea -- the dprk does not have sufficient gdp to engage in a traditional arms race with iraq. why is that? north korea's economy last year was rated by the cia fact become as being almost exactly like afghanistan0s economy under the taliban. and what do you compare that to? their neighbor to the south has the world's 13th largest gdp. they live in air conditioned houses, drive hyundais and kias and they can also drive fords if they want to pay huge tar

every time i went to the soviet union i shared with her directly what impressions i had. whenever she had any contacts she let us know right away what her observations were. so she was really an excellent partner. but she could also give you what-for. i remember when the big reagan-gorbachev meeting in reyjavik took place. at that meeting we talked about the possibility of a world free of nuclear weapons. i had hardly gotten back to washington when i was summoned to the british ambassador's residence, practically summoned to meet with margaret. and you remember she used to carry a little handbag. well, i learned that there's a verb in the british language called to-be-handbagged. she said, george, how could you sit there and allow the president to talk about a world free of nuclear weapons? i said, but, margaret, he's the president. "yes, but you're supposed to be the one with his feet on the ground." "but, margaret, i agreed with him." boy, did i get it. she had very clear views and she made them known to you. >> woodruff: secretary baker, what was her influence on presi

, the stalinist soviet union and you committed yourself to what communist party usa that was the soviet american republic. so davis really went to the other side. after that he ended up and was the founding editor in chief of the communist party publication in chicago that was the down the line pro kremlin publication into that year's then went to honolulu and was a columnist for the hall of -- honolulu record the communist publication there and wrote until 1957. his writings were incredibly anti-american at the time. especially anti-harry truman because he was the president apposing stalin. craig marshall davis took over the truman administration he oppose nato he called the marshall plan american imperialism imperialism, whites imperialism and he completes of the soviet line 100% and was eventually called to washington by the democrats by the senate judiciary committee to testify on his soviet activities. they identified him as a national member of the communist party and eventually he would go through obama as grandfather to meet and mentor of young rock obama throughout the '

he was thrilled with john denton county are are brought it back as a gift for the soviet union. churchill that small portions. when traveling he had his meal served on his tummy time, not on the clock. churchill that connects. whatever they please with the weather of wartime. there's another photo showing him in a three-piece suit, sitting on a rock by the side of the road. he picnicked with roosevelt at height dark on the banks of the right with his generals and in the north african desert with friends. he established his own picnicked rituals, and do theatrically sick and old joe's controversies that could only be recited as picked acts. much has been said about churchill alcohol, some of it true, most not, some exaggerated. i go into detail about his drinking habit. roosevelt had been told churchill was a chart, a charge one or two of his critics repeated. churchill did consume more alcohol than we are used today, but not a great deal of the standards of his contemporary and did not affect him or his work. >> and now, logan beirne examines george washington thoughts on politi

. >> on display, the remnants of nazi germany's devastating war on the soviet union. gas suits for children. the torn jackets of prisoners. letters and children suits from concentration camps. it shows life-and-death on both sides of the battle lines. >> our focus remains the war years from 1941 to 1945. in russia, it is referred to as the great patriarchal war. in germany, it is referred to as the war of destruction against the soviet union, and there is a lot of new research into it. it is on the basis of those new insights that the museum is being redesigned, a museum that does not just me tell the past the stands as a warning for future generations. >> a lot of germans always thought that they had one of the best education systems in the world, but over a decade ago, an international report sent shock waves through the nation revealing well below average results for schools here. >> education is a topic for the states, and seeing as there are 16 of them, there are also 16 different ways of dealing with it. >> after years of wrangling, it looks like germany has com

we are in our main enemy routine the way we were in the soviet union when the arm of again. >> i thinkthat was more than 14 syllables but we will let ago. thank you. >> that was what was so mystifying about secretary kerry's statement, where it didn't imagine fact that he was christian or that he was being sentenced essentially for proselytizing. even if iran is the main hostile force, we are not even willing to speak up really much there either. so i wouldn't even go that far, as far as you've gone. >> there is that patent i think of going easy on our friends are people who want to be our friends so that tends to be more concentration, say, on iran. so that's outspoken on afghanistan, about what happens there. >> you mentioned egypt earlier. >> just to mention i like him so much ago an egyptian court sentenced several americans to death in connection to the movie trailer thing. that included pastor jones was not one of my favorite people. but when foreign courts are condemning americans to death for exercising their first amendment rights within the united states, i think they should

how do you guard against a possible surprise attack from the soviet union? what resources do we have where we don't have to tax the american people so heavily? what eisenhower did was he to use some of the best monies in president of m.i.t. and caltech and former state department employees and so on and so forth in order to give him recommendations as to how to proceed and in doing that it's an ad hoc community. they don't have a political state. they are not republicans and democrats informing the presidency but they have the best interest of the nation. he also moleh had made his own decision by having the civilian ad hoc communities. he was able to get buy-ins from a lot of people didn't have some some humility that he didn't know everything in the age where technology was changing so rapidly. a lot of these people work together on various other organizations and committees and groups. a lot of them came from world war ii where the united states utilized some of the bigger engineering schools for the manhattan project and the laboratory so it's a network

accountable when they invade countries for no reason i mean what how is that different than the soviet union invading czechoslovakia in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight or hungary in one nine hundred fifty six you know we have a double standard in the us and of course you know there's other aspects what what did he have to do with the torture that. you know the bush administration had with the where the british than that there are other questions that could be asked so i'm not sure that i don't think it will happen because the way the world is set up is we prosecute developing leaders or rebels for war crimes but we don't we can't do it for major powers because they have too much power in the system so i don't think it'll happen the question is should they be i don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they probably morally and legally could be stephen ok weigh in on that just because they're powerful they can avoid the law but no i i do think that i mean i totally agree with the other commentator which is that what happened in iraq was a violation of the un charter the un n

we thought the soviet union was a permanent fixture. >> but they did change. could work with him. how hard was that ready for learn. >> gorbachev was still a communist and everybody understood that. she once said that reagan was second most important man in her life. he once said that she was the strongest man in great britain. that gives you an idea of the mutual respect between the two. >> the pictures of her, especially given their relationship. andrea mitchell, are you still with us? give us a sense of their relationship. the closeness and fondness they had for each other as they tried to work together at times and not at times. >> andrea? >> sorry. the relationship was amazingly close and very personal between reagan and thatcher. and it was a dynamic where she helped teach him about the g7 and how to be a leader within the g7 long before the russians were invited in and he looked at her for guidance on almost everything, both economic and national security. and more i think about how controversial his strategic defense initiative was. remember, it was st

how do we guard against a possible surprise attack from the soviet union? what resources do we have? and so what eisenhower did was he brought some of the best minds, president of mit and caltech and former state department employees and so on and so forth in order to give him recommendations on how to proceed. and in doing that, an ad hoc committee, they do not have a political stake. they're not republicans and democrats. rather they all have the best interest of the nation. and he can accurately make his own decisions, but having these civilian communities he was able to get by in from a lot of people and have some humility that he did not know everything in the age for technology. a lot of these deport sierra and various other organizations and committees and groups. a lot of them came from world war ii where the united states utilized some of the bigger engineering schools for, you know, the manhattan project, the lavatory. and so it is in that work of people who had experience even though not an elected official capacity. so in his national security a

and that by the stimulus i don't know loans for soviet union than it was easier than it was syria than iraq now it's iran maybe tomorrow it's as it will be as a vision i don't know so they always have an excuse but the iranian issue is not an issue that should prevent dealing with the palestinian issue the palestinian issue is much older and much more serious and much more. and has much more impact than that only an issue in my opinion president obama has spent more one on one with this hangout who then he has with any other leader who do you think is calling the shots i don't. but i don't know who's calling the shots nor one thing the chemistry between them regardless of how long how many hours they've spent together the chemistry has not been good. i don't know how it is today but i know one thing that president obama had much better positions before he had all these hours with netanyahu than he has now what did the palestinian authority or what does the palestinian authority get from this recent visit from president obama the most important thing is that he is the first america