Involved. Can you help make that happen . Because the concern is the body abaddy a lot of folks are from the previous administration. And youve had extraordinary experience in the an bar area and can you help to identify the key sunni moderate leaders to make them part of this and is that what is going to you look and say we think were going to get it right this time and how do you think this turns out . Sir, to answer both of your questions, we are encouraged and we continue to encourage the leadership in iraq to be more accommodating to the sunni population. And to do some things that are demonstrable, that increases their confidence in the leadership and in the government. And you may know that we are helping the Iraqi Security forces and the government of iraq reach out to the tribal elements in anbar and bring in the elements to train and equip them and get them involved in the fight as well. And those that we have trained and equipped have performed remarkably well. Thank you mr.
Not every black congregations issue is that we dont want it to be. Were shamed. What we have done is we have taken a real life situation that is jermainegermane to every congregation in american and turned it into an issue. And folks dont deal with issues. They deal with people. One of the things were trying to surface is how many of us as human beings are impacted by this system . Whether it is as victims and, by the way, the new language is not victim, it is survivors. Because if youre a survivor that means you made it through something. And so were talking now about survivors. Whether youre a survivor of a situation, or whether you are someone who has a son or a daughter who is actually in the system, because one of the things we dont talk about much is that 80 of all young black males who are incarcerated are also crime survivors. They dont think of themselves that way but the very institute who has done research and we have discovered that when you interview young men who have bee
Cost and the expense. And we used to banter this around in the Cheyenne Mountain on a lot of cold, dark nights on alert and doing an exercise or for real world contingency. And often times, we would sort of come to the conclusion, what is it worth to us . Is it worth seattle . San fransbn, or los angeles, or increasingly now colorado, denver, heartland of america. Potentially in the future eastern seaboard, boston, new york, washington, d. C. Is it worth the investment in f. These systems to pretend to ok protect what we value the most. Thats our homeland, our way of life. I think the answer, my personal answer is yes. And so, im an optimist about this. Not without our challenges. We continue to deal with those challenges. Weve got the best and brightest people. I can tell you. I wish you could meet a lot of them. Phenomenal people working these issues. Im really proud to work with them and be their deputy director. Im humbled to do that. Theyre doing some really important work. And i
Thats our homeland, our way of life. I think the answer my personal answer is yes. And so im an optimist about this. Not without our challenges. We continue to deal with those challenges. Weve got the best and brightest people. I can tell you. I wish you could meet a lot of them. Phenomenal people working these issues. Im really proud to work with them and be their deputy director. Im humbled to do that. Theyre doing some really important work. And i thank you all again for your contribution to this debate debate. Look forward to your questions. Thank you very much. Were going to open up the questions. I think weve heard now repeatedly just how much the how much the conversations changed in the past decade and change. That its no longer a question of whether, but how and what way and talk about if you walked through just many of the systems that were actively deploying. I guess one word that didnt come up is sequestration, that 13letter word. And given everything budget wise, i wonder
Any capability, maybe not designed to catch every single thing that they could lob at us. But long enough to buy our leaders some time to be able to make an assessment and have options, if you will. The nation would have options. So i continue to believe that were on the right path. Thats part of a larger continuum of capabilities. And i dont think we ever want to give up on the idea that we have some capability in the Missile Defense tool kit. All right. I think well take one more question right here. Wait for the mike. Yeah. Im anna wilderman. For the first and only time in history, i attended the 35th reunion of the graduates of the Philippines Science High School 1970, and this is, i call it learning trips, okay . And this is what i learned because theyre assessing, because im an american, okay. And this is a reminder to me by the general, joint chiefs and economic minister, remind the americans that to us zerobased budget is zero, nothing. We dont have anything to spend at the end