Comparison was to compare enough in iraq, there was a huge stabilization of the situation. Refugees came back from turkey. Lets imagine now that the u. S. Did not intervene in 91, what would have happened to this refugee camp in turkey . Trust me. You have the same scenario inside turkey would have been an extremely bad civil war. It shows entered sbr at the right moment, in syria, the idea was not to send troops. The idea it was going against the strategy of beshar in a very efficient way. Thats one thing. The second thing is and this is crucial. This is the most difficult. There is no clear thought on what im going to say. But the tradeoff between shortterm and longterm, lets take two examples. The drones in yemen and the drones in afghanistan. In both cases the drones are in a way useful because theyre killing enemies. From time to time, they are not enemies, they are mistakes but basically you can say that its useful. But at the same time, you know that drones are very, very, very
Not widely heard in the white communities. But the b or flip side would be heard even less. What we discovered quickly is how many of the bside songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. Since theres very few data bases and none of them are complete on all gospel music, didnt know that. We didnt know the sheer number of songs that had very overt songs like there aint no segregation in heaven type songs, at a time when possessing one of those songs, much less singing it was a very dangerous thing in the deep south. You could get killed for a lot of things in the deep south, but singing that sort of song outloud, well, thats a risk. The texas ranger hall of fame, it was set up in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers. And honors at this point 30 rangers who made major contributions to the service or gave their lives under heroic circumstances. We have paintings or portraits of all of those rangers. They really begin with steven f. Austin. Austin was very successful
Learned a really ugly lesson in over 10 years ago now. So you have to be able to do that. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, i yield back. Mr. Cooper. Hes not here. Ms. Graham. First, thank you very much for being here this morning. Detached a bit on other terrorist groups in the region. Could you please provide an update on hezbollah . Thank you. You guys can talk. I mean hezbollah is an iranian backed group. They are, i believe were still designating them as a terrorist organization, our state department. Hezbollah is deeply involved in syria. They are fighting in syria members of hezbollah are fighting and they are actually leading and doing some of these sort of what i would call sort of special operations Type Training of some of the syrian forces. Hezbollah is involved in yemen. Hezbollah certainly involved in lebanon and some of the disruption of things in that particular country. And hezbollah is involved in iraq as well. So members of hezbollah are in fact inside iraq fighting with what
In a cheating scandal. He is responsible for the grid lock and the people stranded in the snow storm that caused such a mess in the south. Nathan deal, also admits his state was not adequately prepared and vows to prevent it from happening again. I am the governor, the buck stops with me. I accept the responsibility for it. But i also accept the responsibility of being able to make corrective actions as they come into the future. And thats what the public can expect from our office. Today the Georgia National guard has been helping drivers return to their vehicles. The state patrol found more than 2,000 of them left on interstate highways but officials are warning drivers to be careful of icy roads. Robert gray is in atlanta, robert, good to see you, judging by the scene behind you, can we assume that most of the major interstates are passable today . Yes, absolutely. Temperatures are above freezing you can see the water lying around, it used to be pack snow and ice, this is like the o
Time off. They are working to make ends meet and its not working. The reallife impact of cutting food stamps. How people in food banks could feel the pinch. The impact of a crippling winter storm is felt across the southern u. S. A slight warm up could help the region thaw out. The storm is blamed on several deaths from texas to the carolinas, striking part of the country not used to dealing with snow and ice, and thousands were stranded in cars, at work, in schools. Im stephanie sy. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Atlanta is one of the hardest hit areas. Good morning. What are things like there right now. Its cold, in the teens. We are expecting a warm up to melt some of the ice. Most of the roads are clear now. We are seeing some sheets of black ice. So officials warn people to stay off the interstates and the highways here today. The schools are still closed. Government is closed and the finger pointing seems to be starting here in atlanta as to how its possible that only a few inche