the united states is relatively unpopulated and in a world of declining populations, the united nations -- denies states knows how to live in a continent with relatively few people and how to welcome immigrants very effectively. this is not a argument we are more virtuous than anybody that we are smarter than anybody it is simply a geographical fact we are in the right place at the right time. and it is an attempt to put things into perspective things that looked absolutely horrendous right now want to look so horrendous and five years. to check that out go back 21978/to 79 the last time we thought the world was sending. let me stop there and i invite questions [applause] >> i read how the world works today and how that defines how it will work in the future of like to open up to questions and i just ask that you identify yourself. >> please wait until the microphone comes to you. >> professor huntington cannot within influential article in the early 90's where he essentially argued that now that the east-west conflict was over , now the ideological conflict between communism and capita

a franchise, most present in algeria but also in vast areas of molly martania which are largely unpopulated but know there is some activity. we have some presence in different places, not a great deal. how concerned are you about that area, and is that an area where we need greater coverage, at least in terms of the huge, vast open spaces out there, is stuff going on. we don't have a lot of coverage so we don't know exactly, is that something we should be really concerned about or not? >> i think we should understand that as pressure is applied as it was in iraq and now afghanistan and as the pakistanis are applying pressure in pakistan that this will not necessarily end the activity, it will shift some of the sanctuaries to other places and i think that in these large expanses of what are often called undergoverned regions simply because the governments don't have the capacity to govern in some of the places w then we've got to find ways of having a better understanding of what what's happening there. i.s.r. would be one of those possibilities. >> certainly. thank you very much. my colleag

al-qaeda has set up a franchise most present of algeria but in areas that are largely unpopulated. there is -- we know that there is some activity from al-qaeda sympathetic groups. we don't -- we have some presence in different places, not a great deal. how concerned are you about that area? and is that an area where we need greater coverage at least in terms of the isr because this huge vast open spaces out there. there's stuff going on but we don't have a lot of coverage of it and we don't know exactly. is that something we should be concerned about or really not? >> i think we should understand that as pressure is applied as it was in iraq and now in afghanistan and as the pakistanis are applying pressure in pakistan, that this will not necessarily end the activity. it will shift some of the sanctuaries to other places and i think in these large expansives of undergoverned regions because the government doesn't have the capacity to govern in some of the places where they have the will, then we've got to find ways of having a better understanding of what's happening there. isr wo