To begin our program this eek, please stand and welcome the West Covina High School jrotc honor guard for the presentation of the colors that will be followed by the singing of the National Anthem by alisa, cilario. Oh say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight ore the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say does that starspangled banner yet wave ore the land of the free and the home of the brave [applause] please be seated. Thank you to the West Covina High School our r. O. T. C. Honor guard and alisa i would like to recognize spernl guests guest te with us at the Richard Nixon Foundation John barr and sandy quin. [applause] Orange County supervisor john spitzer. [applause] members of the Yorba Linda City Council including mayor Peggy Hernande
Jose can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hail at the twilights last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight. Or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. The starspangled banner yet wave. All the land of the free and the home of the brave. [applause]. Please be seated. Thank you for the west covina high school. I would like to recognize some special guests that are with us this evening. Please welcome to members of the board of directors nation. The Orange County supervisor. [applause]. Jean hernandez,. [applause] and our most important resource that is the envy of the other 12 president ial libraries, those that are here tonight who represents 150 volunteers, thank you. The Nixon Foundation is largely supported by its members. They support Educational Programs to engage in civic discourse and learning, membersh
Has said information and intelligence are the fire and maneuver of the 21st century. Those of you who are familiar with more fighting back since with pakistan, iraq and afghanistan know how important this has become but though one raid did iraq where operator seized the computer equivalent of the rolodex negative a rolodex that tracked 500 al qaeda suicide bombers or terrace filtered into iraq through syria. But the database of 500 individuals that were recruited to blow themselves up was critical with the effort to take al qaeda at it is in mesopotamia apart inside iraq. The mother lode of documents seized that has been known as the sinjar parade illustrates the point nicely made by lt. General lewis, or flynn six years after a 9 11 attacks that intelligence committees representing a wide variety of agencies, but notorious and secret, had been collaborating on the unprecedented capability to crush the terrorist networks. Addition to the special ops they used supercomputers and Custom
America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get any way of that. The words veteran and backlog should not appear in the same sentence. Lets make that our mission. Thank you. God bless those who served. God bless the United States of america. Discussion about the reasons behind terrorism. Then representatives from the National Basketball Association Talk about sports and diplomacy. Then we talked about the backlog backlog of veterans claims. Are desperate a book on the topic and previously taught at a military base in belgium. His research was cited by the supreme court. Groupim Civil Liberties asked to cancel the event. This is one hour 20 minutes. Good evening from the campus of embry riddle aeronautical university, welcome to the president s speaker series. On behalf of the president , i am marc bernier, the moderator for tonights event. Tonight, the 15 reasons for terrorism. We will talk to an expert on this subject and the author of the new book, and then we
Some of these areas . It is still the culture of revenge. Are there groups that are willing partners of terrorist . They know the sectors exist in theyre going to do it they need to did. I mention the country of iran. They have definitely helped hezbollah. Theres the question about that. Do we let them do what they do . There are cases of terrorists moving in the country does not do anything about it. Do you think goes on in other countries . Theres no question about it. We talk about the peaceful muslims in the radical muslims which we considered to be about 10 . When the radical muslims pressure the peaceful muslims, will they stand up for they claimove that they have that they get to enjoy in america under the liberty that we have and stand up and die instead of submitting to the oppression of the minority. Peaceful muslims in many countries on earth to stand up more. I fear some of them do not stand up. Fearould americans have a of sharia law . I hear people tell me this all the ti