The humanitarian crisis. Hes not only affecting millions of Syrian People. But also those in neighboring countries like turkey lebanon and jordan. And this dislocation. This disruption is absolutely unacceptable were in full agreement that the resolution of this conflict. Must be peaceful that there isnt a military solution. And were in full agreement that we need to make it our best efforts from the moment that we announce this. Last spring in moscow. For now we must continue our best efforts. In order to try to bring the parties to geneva and forge forward. For all of the reasons i decided we are in full agreement. That we have to do all we can in order to. Begin the process of duty. A process that we all understand will be difficult and will take some time. So we must begin we must begin now. In the days leading up to the dialogue that will begin in march for switzerland. The United States will continue to consult or a closely with our International Partners including ambassador bri
Up next former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee appeared on booknotes in 1975 to workaround his journalism career. Mr. Bradlee died this past week at the age of 93. This program is about an hour. Cspan ben bradlee, one of the last things you tell us in your book is that you gave an anonymous gift to harvard and nothings happened. Guest well, i didnt want to have any publicity about it while i was still editor of the post. I thought that would be inappropriate. And so i yeah, i tried to thank the two influences in my life; one was kennedy and one was phil graham and the Washington Post. So i thought giving something to the Kennedy School, endowing a chair, would be appropriate, and i did and theyve been looking ever since. Cspan why has it taken so long . Guest i dont know. Cspan when you. Guest theyll find somebody. Cspan when you give an endowment to a school like the Kennedy School at harvard, how does it work . Guest well, you have first thing, you have absolutely no say
As you would expect me to say so, we dont intervene between corporate entities. Both they are commercial entities that entertain commercial relationship. See certainly hope for the stability of that part of the world and for the stability of supply, that the situation can be addressed promptly and satisfactorily between the commercial entities and the negotiation. Strong hope thank you. This is the last question. Josh, Associated Press. Madam director, in the downward revision for growth in 2014, it looks like weather played a big role. What does that take oh tell tell us about the stability of the economy given that impact . I think it says two things. One is, we believe that this q1 result was a temporary occurrence. With temporary outcomes that will be mitigated by stronger growth Going Forward in q2q3 and hopefully ongoing. However you would have noted, we have revise down our forecast for Growth Trends in the United States to two percent. We are facing this aging population issue.
Antitank weapons, hand held weapons, hand held rockets. Weapons capable of use in short range fighting. This is not arming of ukraine for some invasion of russia. You dont invade countries as large as russia with defense weaponry. Youre more than likely to resist. That can permit them effective operations to terminate some of the violence that is being sponsored on the borders between ukraine and russia. I think would help in any case to contain the risk and the temptation to resolve this issue by force of arms. On the russian side, in the context with a move of great ecstasy of a crimean which is quick. It can be quite strong and appealing to a political leader with desperate needs and measures of success. But at the same time, we have to engage in some exploration of possible arrangements for compromise. Especially if it becomes clear to the russians and mr. Putin that either destabilizing ukraine or taking it by force poses great risks and may not be attainable. That has to be effor
In the middle east was a catastrophic mistake but not who did what in the invasion of iraq and how bad that was but a long held american policy of arming, funding, and training sunni, jihaddist militants that goes back to the decision in the Carter Administration in 979 to arm, train and fund the knew hauge make Immediate Fund the mahajmadine and get them in the quagmire we had in vietnam and though it had shortterm gains in getting the soviets out of afghanistan, that policy has been zast us for the United States and it goes to the precursor elements in al qaeda and after the invasion in iraq, as we were desperate to try to bring in these sunni groups that were not accepting this upending of the political order we had arranged engineered in iraq with the invasion, desperate to corrupt some of the sunni elements, the surge looked at in washington think an unmitigated success took us right back to that policy and entailed beyond sending 30,000 troops to the baghdad area, it entailed arm