Wonderful, discussing all the ways they are perverting islam warhe way they are waging and taking advantage of our political failures in terms of how we are gaining territory. So this is not a clash of civilizations. Islams people perverting and taking advantage of political realities. So i just want to get from you you said this already and i want to go one step deeper specifichat are the tactics to sort of expose isil for the perversions they are doing . What are the best ways to go about that . Thank you, senator. I really believe in the common narrative. That is very important. When i started to do this less than a year ago, i realized there was no very articulate, clearcut counter narrative. How does islam deal with issues of plurality, citizenship . All of these things have been argued by 200 years but are unknown to the vast majority of muslims. The principles daesh claim as the bones of modernity have been dealt with already. It is based on the primary sources, which are import
Caribbean nation. He spoke at the white house following the release of alan gross. U. S. Release three cuban agents in the exchange. This is 15 minutes. Good afternoon. Today, the United States of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. The most significant changes in a policy in fifty years, well end an outdated approach that for decades has failed to advance our interests. And instead, we will begin to normalize relations between our two countries. We intend to begin a new chapter among the nations of the americas. There is accommodated history there is a complicated history between the United States and cuba. I was born in 1961, just over two years after fidel castro took power in cuba, and just a few months after the bay of pigs invasion. Over the next several decades, the relationship between our countries played out against the backdrop of the cold war. We are separated by just over 90 miles. But year after year, and ideological and economical barrier harden
Invasion, which tried to overthrow his regime. Over the next several decades, the relationship between our countries played out against the backdrop of the cold war, and americas steadfast opposition to communism. We are separated by just over 90 miles. But year after year, an ideological and economic barrier hardened between our two countries. Meanwhile, the Cuban Exile Community in the United States made enormous contributions to our country in politics and business, culture and sports. Like immigrants before, cubans helped remake america, even as they felt a painful yearning for the land and families they left behind. All of this bound america and cuba in a unique relationship, at once family and foe. Proudly, the United States has supported democracy and human rights in cuba through these five decades. We have done so primarily through policies that aimed to isolate the island, preventing the most basic travel and commerce that americans can enjoy anyplace else. And though this pol
Delayed benefits to the families of children dying on faraway battlefields. It is time for our lawmakers to say enough is enough. Shame with the robe of your righteousness. Forgive us. Reform us. And make us whole. In your merciful name, amen. The issue of death benefits for families of military personnel killed in action has evolved since the commons is morning from the senate chaplain, very black and the house passed a bill that will restore the 100,000 death benefit that passed in the house very heavily. There is word from the white house today. Good evening and welcome to a discussion for the next hour on the Government Shutdown, day number nine today. That of discussion about death benefit for military families. The house today, as we. Entioned, past the bill uncertainty in the Senate Whether they will take up. The headline says private foundation to pay death benefits for soldiers. And they talk about moving to defuse one of the mayor controversial cutbacks brought on by the Gove