Make quickly is on the difference between the political and the legal and constitutional questions that were facing. I mean, the political agreement is a political agreement. Its not a constitution, as youve highlighted, there was a fiveyear term for the president. But in afghanistan, the reality is that people are often getting bogged down in whats legal and whats constitutional versus whats politically practical. And i think the latter is much more important to keep in mind in terms of finding solutions. Im going to take that as a comment rather than a question, but thank you for sharing. You want a Quick Response . Quickly. I knew i would face flack for that comment, and i appreciate all the arguments that omar has made and that youve made. But i still think its irresponsible not to raise this point. Its not an issue of its only related to afghanistan, but the idea of trying to recreate a political order based on the rule of law which you know will be violated right off the bat beca
Given envelope, you could have a significant increase in staff with very little cost. That wasnt true with the older model. Again, i think the Standard Embassy Design taught us a lot, but i think we can improve on it. We can improve on it in meaningful ways that give us more flexibility for the long term. And mr. Green, as you respond to that question, i just want you to include from your research from your committees activities, in fact, isnt that what standard build is supposed to do, is to include that . So isnt it mend it, dont end it, rather than saying standard build didnt include future an exes and expansion in consideration . Its a continuously moving standard that is done. Let me just respond to your earlier question, though. What do we need 50 years out . You know, the ambassador wants a bigger latrine in his office or we want 50 kaunconsular windows instead of 5. That changes all the time. I mean, we saw it here today and changed with Papua New Guinea. You had a plan to do s
And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereignty came home in a very real way for me. And then, unfortunately, when president karzai abrogated parts of the mou, i had to cease the turnover of detainees until such time i was sure that they werent going to be released ultimately to target us or afghan citizens of the afghans again. We also had a period of time where we worked very closely on night operations and special operations, and that resulted in a memorandum of understanding as well where we sought to move from being unilaterally engag
With the product, with the farm, with the information to ultimately make their buying choice easier and inspiring and feeding their family a more healthy, nutritious meal. So i see the landscape looking very different over the next five years, especially as it relates to marketing both not just on air, but social marketing with those iphones that inspire people to eat more fruits and vegetables and drive consumption. All right, paul very good. Five years . I wish i could projection the next six months, but ill give a shot at fife years. And, you know, again, as we come off of the years weve enjoyed over the last tree years three years, i think we come off of those highs into more normalized prices, its going to restore demand. You know, i think were going to see more demand for livestock production and all the things that go with that, our ethanol producers and even biomaterials from agricultural sources will be more competitive economically, and then global trade will also um prove at
After the disastrous avalanche. And what you dont know about the words highest mount, Mount Everest the challenges and the drove in our special report. We begin tonight with the state of play, new criticism of russia, and new threats. Secretary of state john kerry says russia is ignoring the global effort to reduce tension in the region. The window to change course is closing. President putin and russia face a choice. The international community, all of us, will welcome it. If russia does not, the world will make sure that the cost for russia will only grow. And as president obama reiterated earlier today, we are ready to act. It has been a a day of plead shed in the east. Trying to drive out pro russian elements that are still occupying buildings. Government troops killed as many as five, and the incident angers russias president says there will be consequences for the military action. Russia also says it is holding more defense drills along the boarder. Also today, an american journa