To this question, who is responsible for what i call the civilian front. We have to realize in israel, my term of what we call home front is the civilian front. Because in israel, we have two fronts. We have the military front, which is nicely orchestrated. We have clarity of hierarchy. Everything is clear. How the orders go. But when we come to the issues of the civilian front, which is much more complex, much more complex, nobody knows what who is responsible for what . We dont have this whole issue of accountability, authority and responsibility. Israel is excuse me for using french, primitive. Its primitive. And we cannot come and bring ourselves to structure it in accordance with my logics, politics is a major obstacle, major obstacle in this respect. I dont want to end with grim prospect. But we have several major issues that still have to be dealt with. You know, very basic ones, not just tactical ones. Very basic ones. Number one, who is responsible for the population in terms
Office. I no longer travel with an entourage that maybe once existed. And were simply trying to make very visible that this is a different dullture. Are you sort of like the pope . You know, travel in a little tiny car. Im much less than that. Remember, im on the bottom of the pyramid. Im flying coach. I have to say, i sympathize with my colleague. I wish you could do something about that. Fix that. Id certainly appreciate it. We talked with Ranking Member michelle in his office about this. Again, the veteran should not be published or punished for having a barrier between va and dod. The veterans should not be punished for having nine different maps of organization structure. You know, these are things that weve got to simplify so that every ill give you another example. We have 14 different websites that require different user names and passwords. I dont know about you, but i hate keeping track of user names and passwords for all these website. You should be able to plug in the va in
Im going to give you another question to avoid. Lets start to where the crisis hit the fan. Bear stearns has been saved. Lehman brothers was the next one up. We can talk about whether they could or couldnt but in your mind, was that the right decision as when liam fell and well leave the discussion to go for a briefing with the spokesman, rear admiral john kirby. [captioning performed by National Captioning Institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] captioned by the National Captioning Institute www. Ncicap. Org as you may recall and i talked about this before, a couple of weeks ago, secretary hagel led a task force to accelerate resupply efforts and the Central Government of iraq and baghdad. Secretary hagel will announce today that seven additional ations have committed to helping provide Kurdish Forces urgently needed arms and question. Operations have already begun. The secretary is grateful to each of these allies for working alongside the United States mi
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