the united states and spanish, that's this one. the point of this is it's a sensitive issue for mexicans in mexico and mexicans in the united states and for americans in mexico. for americans in the united states, that's a lot of people. slighted suspension of having any kind of double discourse. one thing in mexico and something else in the note states. the best way to makes sure that's the case is to have the book published at the same time, same book, same time, different place. the book is organized in a series of double chapters, odd and even, and even, on an even, and then a final one. each one of these two chapters, four groups of two chapters is made up of one, a so-called national character trait of the mexican people. as arguable as the term may be and as upset as the anthropologist can get at me for using these sorts of terms. the second part, the second chapter in that subgroup is a description of a reality of current mexico which conflicts or contradicts widely the character trait that we have. there several of these in

the view of the united states around the world has arisen. not anywhere and i can talk about why in some places. but the view of u.s. leadership in the world has risen in terms of a positive view of it and approv of that. and our presence dramatically, charlie, since president obama came into office... now, i know that's a... an end.. kind of an imprecise measure. but it reflects, i think, the style of leadership that president obama has asserted around the world. >> re: i've heard this in different places but specifically about you that you took note of someone saying that the chinese were pleased that we were engaged in ghanistan, engad in iraq and had a certain footprint in the middle east becse they felt we re distracted and could not be as competitive with them as we might be. >> well i don't know that i'v ever said that. >> rose: well, you've heard it it's been pressed by even the chinese. >> i guess what i'd say is this. we're going act in a way that's in our interest. as i said, charlie, at the outset, we assessed as early as the tran

department of commerce the same number of jobs that have been cut from the united states in the last decade have been added to these companies overseas operations it's a phenomenon that angers many americans who are struggling to make ends meet i think it's despicable disgusting and we have people here that have worked here all of their lives in a losing jobs left and right because somebody on top wants to make a buck and pay the cheapest possible deal or more mine dollars to go to stimulate the economy here in america i think the american companies should hire american workers. because of the shrinking middle class and the fact that middle class wages are decreasing over the last thirty years so many people here they don't have jobs due to me. and i do think that is the wrong thing to do. over thirty and it's not just manufacturing work american i t. companies and innovation jobs are also moving here in droves as well as huge savings on wages many companies say india's fast growing economy and young workforce make it a desirable place to find staff there are amazingly talented peopl

and some governments-- like ours here in the united states-- have been... have responded very weakly so far. but i think actually an approach that bob zell leg of the world bank describes as in this case the coalitions of the willing is getting traction. and smaller deals as compared to 166 nations trying to agree on one approach-- succeeding kyoto, cancun and so forth-- smaller deals t important ones are actually being done. >> rose: give an example. >> well, the anti-deforestation program which actually was an complishment at copenhagen in which conservation international has tremendous role in is actually making progress around the world. and peter, you should pick it up. >> rose: pick it up in context of what is the role of conservation international. >> so, you know, conservation international has a view of the world which is... kef receive a you are a... we have to have our head in the sky and feet in the mud. we have to understand the policy frameworks that drive business and drive development and we also need to show that they are... show how those l

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i don't think we got a single positive review in the united states. the most positive review we got was from israel which is "the new york times" of israel coverage of the book and a three separate pieces including one major review and all three of those pieces so we have much better treatment in israel and in the united states. >> host: why is that? >> it is almost impossible in the united states to criticize israel or the u.s.-israeli relationship and in the mainstream media. if you do it, you will pay a price haircut israelis are much more comfortable about themselves and much more aware of their foibles and much more open in a free society when it comes to talking to israel. it is quite amazing to the extent that israel is a taboo subject in the united states. >> host: why? >> guest: my view is the strongest supporters of israel here in the united states wants israel and the united states to have a special relationship. they want to give israel large amounts of diplomatic assistance and material and to give that assistance without qualification and

that's part of the problem in the relationship with the united states. now we have got the drug war, which the united states is helping but not enough. >> you described those as on winnable. >> absolutely. it's the ridiculous war. we should not have started it. we will never be able to win. it has now cost us more than 40,000 lives, more than $50 billion. widespread human rights abuses, and a tremendous damage to mexico's image abroad with no results to show an exchange. there is nothing that can be done with drugs in mexico as long as the united states keeps consuming what it consumes and it hasn't changed its consumption patterns. probably there is no reason it shouldn't. i was a strong proponent of the proposition 19 in california last november. i had hoped it would pass, legalizing marijuana in the state of california. it didn't pass. it lost by three points. i'm hopeful that in 2012, it will pass and then we in mexico can also begin a process of legalization of drugs starting with marijuana. >> president calderon is conducting this war in mexico. is

the united states, by contrast, does not have a solvency problem. the american economy remains one of the world's most competitive with many of the fastest-growing companies in most of the advanced industries. it houses the best capital markets in the world, the greatest universities, the most dynamic society. america is demographically vibrant thanks to immigration. it will be the only rich country that will see its population grow over the next 25 years. america could face a liquidity problem, that is it could have difficulty financing its debts and deficits if markets lose faith in it, again, let's be clear. this has not happened yet. in fact, right now, the world is lending to america more cheaply than ever before. the most important difference between greece and america is this -- america has many paths to solve this deficit problem. were it to implement the simpson-bowles plan, congress would allow the bush tax cuts to expire, returning rates to where they were under bill clinton's presidency, where american created almost 25 million jobs. that

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the united states and the allied powers anton 1934.his was a totally said -- totally different situation. britain and france were not available to help. he was widely criticized, much more so. my book does not do justice to that particular subject, i regret to say. >> would you address the eisenhower and vietnam? >> i sound like a broken record. i tell you i know a lot. i do know about that. he clearly made the decision not to intervene in indochina in 1954, particularly to save the french at the siege. he had a number of advisers who wanted into. he thought and thought about it and was surrounded by a number of people who thought he should. he went over and came back the next day and said i'm not going to send one soldier to die on those rice paddies. he didn't. having said that, eisenhower left a bit of a mass. the geneva conventions of 1954, i used to teach a course on it. the geneva convention of 54 called for unifying elections in vietnam. those elections never took place because the united states supported in effect the creation

how could it benefit the united states? how can it be made clear that there are alternatives so that the dependency doesn't exist? so, the issue here is not shout have a close relationship with india. we will have a close relationship with india because we share a common interest, economic, political, military. the question is how do we shape that relationship? and i think one of the problems the united states has is a thing in terms of friends and enemies. this is a friend, and i've a friend, i want to be generous and forthcoming. think of it more as a business relationship. i had a business relationship with this person. i may or may not be his friend. that has nothing to do with the. i want to make sure i have options. and i think it would be more healthy if we were to place the framework of u.s. relation countries to depersonalize it. >> host: that's exactly what's been going on in pakistan is that we have, in fact, made our dependency so clear with them. and actually they have a sense that our strategic calculation in t

the lack of accountability has forced the united nations working group on mercenaries to push for specific international measures to regulate their activities especially now as u.s. military forces withdraw from iraq and afghanistan the number of contractors is set to grow dramatically you is. so many military and security functions to these security companies they are not regulated and they are not control and this is what we have extremely concerned that what we have called in is for relation to the national at the international level so that. companies are accountable but washington is reluctant to lead an international body regulate their activities saying it will find ways to hold contractors accountable but so far the u.s. justice system has largely failed to do so we're seeing around the world cases of kidnapping rape murder. and we see very very only very rare cases in which case actually a criminal investigation or prosecution or sing out of. experts say further privatization of war is convenient for the american government because among other reasons it doesn't have to justify th

but in the strike sorties that are being flown, the united states is a flying only 10%. the predator strikes, as you suggested, are a relatively small number, and the total number of munitions dropped by either manned or predators at this moment, according to our best information, it is less than 1% of the amount that was dropped in kosovo, in which there was a substantial debate over the application of the war powers resolution. so you came back to the question -- are we engaged in hostilities? as i said, this is not a parsing of dictionary terms. it is a statutory provision. congress passes provisions of the time that have terms of our like, emergency, the word treaty in want statute was recently read to me in an executive agreement. i am sure the foreign relations committee will have questions about that. the words chosen here was hostilities. over time, hostilities has been defined through executive and congressional practice to encompass some level of strikes were the major focus, as i have suggested, being on whether the mission is limited, whether the risk of escal

do they run the united states senate? no. the democrats do.madam president, you and i just won reelection. you were the longest-serving woman ever in this united states senate. i'm so proud to know you. you have had some hard races in your life. i had the toughest race in my life coming back here, but i came back here. leader reid came back here. patty murray came back here. michael bennet came back here and we run the senate. president obama is the president. he happens to be a democrat. and the house won a huge victo victory, the republicans, a huge victory. the republicans run the house, the democrats run the senate, the president is a democrat. let's see, that's three branches, two-thirds run by the democrats. the republicans want it all. if one of my kids did that, if they were arguing with the other one, i'm say uh-huh, that's not right. i'm not even asking for two-thirds. as senator mikulski said, we've come a long way from where we want to come. where have they come? they haven't come toward us. now the plan that the republicans want i

i'm lauren lyster and your watching r t well the big question the million dollar question is the united states three weeks away from financial collapse well we don't know but that's what some argue the u.s. is getting closer to with its failure to raise the country's fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling now despite another week of failed debt talks between lawmakers president obama had a press conference today and he is still pushing for a big long term solution here's what he said. i'm happy to consider all options all alternatives that they're looking at the things that i will not consider. are a thirty day or a sixty day or a ninety day four hundred eighty day. temporary stopgap resolution to this problem this is the united states of america and we don't manage our affairs here in three month increments. year we don't risk u.s. default. on our obligations. because we can't put politics aside this coming from officials who haven't been able to put politics aside in missing past deadlines and who are trying to agree on all of this a big plan to tackle the deficit just thr

this is in part due to the fact the united states is a democracy. one should expect to find more lobbying in the democracy than and authoritarians state. >> why? >> the simple reason the democratic leaders are accountable to the public. they have to explain to the public why they're doing xy or z. any time a democratic leader pursues an unpopular policy, he or she is going to be tempted to tell a lie to get the public to go along with that policy of the leader thinks is nevertheless a smart policy. if you are a dictator you don't really have to worry very much about what your public thinks about a particular policy. you can pretty much do what you want. so the incentive to lie would be greater in the democracy than the non-democracy. also in the american case because we have a penchant for fighting a war iraq twice in distant places. presidents are going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting to get the american people to buy it on to these enterprises. this is why president bush went to great lengths to convince people and what president johnson had t

the united states won the other semifinal against france, 3-1. japan scored nine minutes after sweden was allowed a goal. and then the captain netted a goal putting the team in the lead. and then scored four minutes later. that put the national team into the final securing a first medal for the country. japan will have to beat the united states on sunday to win its first ever world cup victory. the united states is gunning for its third title. >> it was a very good game. we hope japan gets the world championship. >> it was fantastic. i have to root for the usa now. yes. but i hope it will disturbance bo -- both teams will have a good game. >> now we go to the latest in business news. >> thank you. let's look at the united states. in testimony before u.s. congress on wednesday the federal reserve chairman said the central bank would be open to new economic stimulus measures if necessary. the u.s. meeting on the economy is held twice a year. ben bernanke said the weaker performance than expected continues in the u.s. they include an expected recove

this is a new challenge for the united states. s largely unprepared, the words of fareed zakaria, ladies and gentlemen. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is precisely why china will own the 21st century. and you should vote for this motion. thank you. [applause] >> all i can say is i'm glad i do not have a second ballot, a second vote because exceedingly hard-fought and well contested debate. and let me reiterate something that peter munk has said at past munk debates. it's one thing for any one of these individuals to get up on a stage in front of an audience like this and give a set piece speech. it's something quite different, though, i think, to have this sparring, this meeting of minds, and to do it with the eloquence and conviction that our debaters have done so tonight. so please, a big round of applause for the debaters. [applause] bravo. bravo. bravo. bravo. bravo, gentlemen. bravo. >> one final comment, dr. kissinger, you have denied your publicome very special talents that you've had in waiting until your 88th year to enga

which mexicans in the united states? mainly mexican women in the united states. asically what i say is that the social, cultural, mental transformation of mexican migrant women in the united states can be the single most important lever of transformation of mexican culture, of mentality, everything. why? because mexican women who come to the united states, illegally of course, that's not the issue, as i said i'm not interested in that pic i just as mexican as everybody else is, right? mexican women who come here tend more and more tend to come alone. they are not coming -- they are not being brought to the u.s. either companero. and even if they are, ones that are here, based say goodbye to their companero and that is it. mexican women come here. they don't have to. they make their money and decide what to do with their money. they sent some home. maybe they don't. maybe they have kids. maybe they don't. they hook up with one guy, they leave that guy. they hook up with somebody else. they hook up with nobody. they work where they want. this is an extraordinarily t

obama was europe's candidate for president of the united states, as you know. we were entranced, infused. i was in washington on the night he was elected. it was a magical moment. there is without question-- and it was lovely to have him in europe a few weeks ago and he did a great job and so on. but there is a certain sense of disappointment. >> rose: what's the disappointment. >> that this has not been this moment of regeneration of the restoration of america's soft power of american leadership? the world. now i think that is in part to be laid at obama's own doo that he is he's super cautis. thate won't take risks a go out there. that this enormous empsis on consensus building at crucial moments. and also i think he's learnedn the job. but i have to say given the structural problem that i've described in the american political system, given the list of problems he inherited when he came into office i think you would have had to be a churchill on steroids to turn this around more rapidly. >> rose: so as he argues, the unemployment rate of 9.plus percentage was

the united states versus crass. e was an indigent to challenge the constitutionality of a law that conditioned his eligibility to apply for bankruptcy protection on the payment of $50 fee. reversing the holding of a lower court from a closely divided supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the fee requirement. writing for the court justice harry blackmun evidence the skepticism that often creates protest about the predicament of the poor. quote, if the $50 filing fee for paid in installments as the law allowed, the average weekly payment is $1.28. this is a sum less than the payments krasny xns coach of negligible value storage device this is the movie about a war than the cost of a pack or two of cigarettes. afs press alleges a discharge in bankruptcy will afford him a new start he so desires and if you really need to desires at discharge, this much available revenue should read within his able-bodied reach, and the quote. my old eyes, justice thurgood marshall had different, better view. quote, i cannot agree

the united states is the largest. each of our country's are taking countries areoun taking positive steps. we are recommending comprehensive energy reform to replace excessive dependence on fossil fuels. we want to replace oil with cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives including natural- gas and wind energy. the need for alternative energy is acute, especially for hawaii and the u.s. territories. in puerto rico, we realize 69% on foreign oil. a why and the -- hawaii and the u.s. territories are not connected to the u.s. power grid. it debilitates our respective economies and a facts consumers and businesses alike. -- and effects consumers and businesses alike. in the case of puerto rico, we have energy policies that focus on renewable energy generation and natural gas. in 2010, we passed legislation setting up renewable standards . it requires that 15% of our energy be produced by renewables forces by 2020. we also created a green in a refund -- a green energy fund to jump-start these markets and create jobs. we ar

the united states is the largest. each of our country's are taking countries areoun taking positive steps. we are recommending comprehensive energy reform to replace excessive dependence on fossil fuels. we want to replace oil with cleaner, cheaper, and safer alternatives including natural- gas and wind energy. the need for alternative energy is acute, especially for hawaii and the u.s. territories. in puerto rico, we realize 69% on foreign oil. a why and the -- hawaii and the u.s. territories are not connected to the u.s. power grid. it debilitates our respective economies and a facts consumers and businesses alike. -- and effects consumers and businesses alike. in the case of puerto rico, we have energy policies that focus on renewable energy generation and natural gas. in 2010, we passed legislation setting up renewable standards . it requires that 15% of our energy be produced by renewables forces by 2020. we also created a green in a refund -- a green energy fund to jump-start these markets and create jobs. we ar

competition and flashing knives are between the various media enterprises in britain or here in the united states for that matter but you know there has been a tremendous tendency towards concentration of all of the media and there are fewer and fewer hands and unit to look at the united states with the federal communications commission has been giving a.t.t. and their eyes and you know tremendous powers to combine with the some of the smaller carriers the same thing for the television broadcast murdoch was very influential in the united states in having the federal communications commission put aside roe ules and regulations that who granted that kind of media consolidation where one in or primes can own the newspapers and the television stations in one city but i think the deeper question here is not just about the silliness of the british media which is the well known for many many years i think you just said good thirty years you know people have looked at the this secretary there i'd choose the british tabloids but i would make an analogy that goes much deeper than than just the compe

the smaller carriers the same thing for the television broadcast murdoch was very influential in the united states in having the federal communications commission put inside wrote the rules and regulations that invented that kind of media consolidation where one enterprise put on the newspapers and the television stations in one sitting but i think the deeper question here is not just about the sleeves of media which include well known for many many years i think you just said good thirty years you know and we're up with it with this least a character i guess is the british tabloids but i would make an analogy it goes much deeper than just the competition between various media and parents and if you look at nearly worthless runs on a daily battle the way that some of his competitors you know it seriously is the few that control everything playing for more control but i think more deeply is can make an analogy i think an international scale between what happens in takeovers so the united states and britain took over iraq and who do they bring the power who they employ they employ with the mo

and that is the reason why people don't like the united states in pakistan. you haven't told your story, you walked away from pakistan, and by and large there is this whole fallout of the perception, management. secretary clinton went there, did some town hall meetings. guess what? the class went up. now, i mean, i won't overplay this from 11% approval rating it went up to 21%, maybe 10% gain. but, hey, trying to explain your position to people, if it was an election year in the united states and this was happening in iowa, you'd all make headlines out of it. you have to keep it sustained. and this is another problem you have. because you've painted pakistan as a hardship -- [inaudible] most american diplomats and it's not a family posting, so most american diplomats go there for one-year posting. three months of unpacking, six months of service, six months of packing again. your case is going unheard. i mean, sometimes i make a better case, if i may say so, for u.s./pakistan relations on pakistani television than your entire government, and i am not paid half

of russian adopted children to children in the united states. i was to do notices of america just three weeks ago and we know this was not the first time. it was a special we visit the center internet and the national center for missing and exploited children and not me is american specialist told me the level of violence and cruelty in the american. emulous too high too high so you can see is that if situations saudi tours russian children towards all children are known to toward all children even their own children yes absolutely so so you want your saying now that american families generally cruel to . say so but as americans what is really says that all cruelty is more and more and more every year among among native americans or among immigrants or first wave immigrants i can share and share and. i think in the. kinds of families where we can find it and i can compare this to asian isn't that it is of american in russia because russia is a problem of cruelty and violence in our families against native children not only against or adopted chil

at the president of the united states and the free world. him there and definitely is not an option. if someone would argue that we don't have a vital interest before, we have one now. one of his main motivation is going to be retaliation, and guess who is going to be against. letting him linder indefinitely while the president brings his hands about what to do that is not a good idea. he needs to go. >> as you look back, you think your foreign policy approach would have more in common with george h. w. bush or george w. bush? >> collected believe i would have my own foreign policy, and that it would reflect on the best of the successes of our country. and there are positive examples in both of those administrations from challenges as well obviously. i don't think it is one or the other. a thick there are strong and positive elements in both. these are complex issues and complex parts of the world have lots of nuance. to suggest a doctrine for the region that is cut her is under utilization of our ability, capability, and are thoughtfulness.

we're going to the united nations. we're going to do everything there is so that we can stop this thing. ike knew that if the suez canal was disrupted or pipelines were destroyed, the british and french would attack. he didn't know, of course, they'd already planned to do that. if the british intervened, ike said, they may open a deep rift between us. with the election eight days away, eisenhower declared that he did not care in the slightest whether he was re-elected or not. on october 30th, the british and french implemented to the letter the secret plan they endorsed on october 24th. they delivered a 12-hour ultimatum to israel and egypt to cease operations and accept occupation of the canal zone by anglo french forces. the british and french mistakenly assumed that once they acted, their world war ii ally in the house would bail them out with funds, oil and military equipment. boy, were they wrong. instead, an angry eisenhower told an aide those who began this operation should be left to boil in their own oil. that

the problems in greece and in europe alone with uncertainty over whether the debt limit here in the united states will be raised evolves from a businesses hesitant to invest more aggressively. however other analysts say job growth came to a halt the second month in a row which suggests a sharp slowdown not merely a blip but that the us is getting closer to recession not that this is a blip in the road to recovery and that the broad weakness in the jobs report means excuses such as natural disasters basically mean squat and take a look at this chart this shows the average duration of unemployment look at this a look in two thousand and ten look at how that compares this touted recovery to past ones it is much worse and some analysts say this points to a structural unemployment problem with a big chunk of the population that are permanently out of the workforce earlier i spoke with less leopold he's an economist he's also author of this book the looting of america how wall street's game of fantasy finance destroyed our jobs pensions and prosperity and what we can do about it i asked him what

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

paul police department to the united kingdom and conducted physics in the city as well. recently we were visited by united states ambassador to denmark who spoke about ongoing efforts and the similarities between the time cities and denmark. discussions continue to lighten up and that is to benefit the st. paul models to improve outcomes under way. the department continues to evolve to address the needs of the residence and to counter the unique post of al-shabaab. i see the future were more sophisticated programs bolstered by enhanced partnerships with additional agencies and organizations will continue to build upon the trust we can withstand paul, somalia residence. the continuation of the work is an apparent effort of the large effort to counter terrorism and reduced crime. as i conclude i want to share a few thoughts. i'm asked -- and sometimes asked if i believe the community can benefit from the advisory council or the athletic leagues. these efforts to look different than the traditional notions of police work. to answer the questions i asked the would imagine for

documented and undocumented, presence in the united states. their earnings were enhanced by about 2.7%. why? it's complicated and i'll send a link to the commission so you can look at the exciting charts and graphs and do that to your heart's desire. it comes down to a simple idea which is intuitive and you know it. the economy is not a fixed pie. when you expand the labor curve, a simple economist will say the price of labor goes down and we're all hurt. the more people that work here, the more people that are chasing jobs and we're all doomed. wrong. the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did not exist before. you have innovation and entrepreneurialism that increases the actual size of small and medium-sized businesses. they consume and that expands the demand curve. you have a dynamic economy for 90% of u.s. born workers that enhances their wages. the other 9% got whacked up side the head with globalization and immigration and everything you can list and they need help. getting rid of immigrants doesn't really

and not at the united nations. so i'd just like to conclude by saying that israel is our best friend and ally in the middle east, they're a stable element in the middle east, we need to support them and make absolutely sure that hamas, hezbollah and the other terrorist organizations do not have their way and destroy the state of israel. we are committed to that, this congress is committed to that and this whole debate has shown very clearly that almost unanimously the people of the united states stand with israel. and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, madam speaker. with that i yield back the balance of my time and i'd like to ask for the yeas and nays at the appropriate time. the speaker pro tempore: all time has expired and the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 268. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the -- ms. ros-lehtinen: madam speaker. the

of what could lead the united states who are the united states towards collapse is the decline in our economy but this isn't unique our economy declined during the one nine hundred thirty s. during the great depression and we eventually got out of the great depression so i would see where you can see whether the united states is going to collapse but many people including are you new and i think every thinking person is concerned about the future of the united states today what night a collapse look like if it were to happen to american society what might a collapse look like of it happened to american society we can think of a variety of scenarios beginning with the worst and going to gentle ones the worst the worst scenario would be a nuclear war in which civilization was wiped out and most people were killed and the people left the law it would be my friends in the highlands of new guinea who recently were using stone tools and can figure out how to use stone tools again so that would be a grass to collapse. a gentle a collapse would be conditions such as thos

for the united states and perhaps the -- a cataclysm for the united states and perhaps the entire world. italy, spain, greece, ireland are already in trouble in europe, an they don't have central banks like we have the federal reserve so to some degree we can have an auction of treasury notes and bring in revenue, they don't. if we end up having a very, very serious economic problem in this country, it's going to trigger a worldwide recession. nobody wins. nobody comes out on top if this happens. and the unemployment numbers, 9.2%, they're going to rise. i don't want people looking at this tonight or any of my colleagues believing that those are my numbers or that i'm the only one who believes there's going to be trouble. ben bernanke, re-appointed by george bush, says if we make deep cuts in the u.s. budget, it is going to create a problem because right now the only money that is going into the u.s. economy, into the g.d.p. and the economic activity is coming from the united states federal government. if you begin to cut back drastically, it cannot help but raise the unemployment numbe

the size, strength and global reach of the united states military." he also discussed what we're doing around the world and said, and i quote again, "all of these things happen mostly out of sight and out of mind to the average american and thus are taken for granted, but they all depend on a properly armed, trained and funded american military which cannot be taken for granted." he concluded those remarks by saying, and i quote -- "throughout this process, we should keep in mind historian donald kagan's observation that the preservation of peace depends upon those states seeking that goal having both the prepond rant power and the will to accept the burdens and responsibilities required to achieve it, and we must not forget what winston churchill once said, that -- quote -- the price of greatness is responsibility and the people of the united states cannot escape world responsibility." end of quote. another way of saying this was one of ronald reagan's famous ization, that the best i would to preserve peace was to have strength, peace through strength

suppose the united states did not exist. choose your region. ast asia be more t-tango, more secure, more safe, leaving it up to the chinese, russians and japanese clicks will europe be more for your safe living in a to the germans and russians once again? is the middle east reads that really reaching a tranquility of four massive nation and imperialism of the united states? we are not a perfect nation. we have made mistakes, but my eloquent debate partner has committed the fallacy of moral equivalent. for all the problems of the united states, for all the mistakes we made, american power is central to any decent game of provisional just to. and the 20th century and in the foreseeable future. [applause] >> now we have time for questions from the audience. if anyone is a question, there's a microphone right here directly in front of me. just why not.

from afghanistan to pakistan the swamp land reach i introduced a couple of weeks ago could help the united states to avoid making the impression they'd just cut and run from afghanistan and on the other side it would need to gain their respects why did named a military hospital it is for him again to stand to pakistan and be. and in a few minutes on our team the green card immigrants who are now seeing after winning american citizenship lottery there are now being told no landry their new lives will tell you why. and why out of the last world war two war crime suspects is due to learn his fate we report from hungary. the resignations keep coming in the british newspaper phone hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit sir paul stephenson was facing growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive as an advisor who was later questioned about illicit phone tapping the axe police commissioner also to the minister saying his choice. was less controversial than the one david cameron shows namely former editor andy coulson and a day of rapid developm