clarified. it s not a matter of whether we do this or not. i believe we have no alternative. prime minister, let me ask you about another subject since we don t have a lot of time. do you believe that china wants to be the hegemon of asia? do you believe china wants to dominate asia? translator: regarding the growth of the chinese economy, japan along with the united states and the rest of asia welcomes the economic rise of china. but year after year they have been increasing their defense spending by 10%. they have done this for the past 20 years. and this is a source of concern for the countries in asia as well as for japan. for china to continue enjoying economic prosperity it needs to foster international relationships, not tension. and it is important for china to understand this. it is also important for china
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the al qaeda inspired groups? right, i think that s exactly what the concern is and they are saying they are not doing this to tip the balance of power because it s not clear where it goes. they don t want to break it or own it. president obama has a clear vision throughout the presidency. he ll get out of the two wars and rebuild america s strength at home and doesn t want to be too distracted but we re facing a big test whether in fact, america cannot be districted. we re being brought into this. what happens if jordan next door starts to teeter? if this gets worse and worse america remains the hegemon in that region and itself defeating to stay out because you get pulled in at a later and worse point. the president runs the risk, frankly, of even if he launches a cruise missile strike, the analogy after the east africa bombings when the clinton
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right. and back when the taliban was battling were battling the soviets, we used money in order this is cash, just handing over cash? can t get anything done without handing over cash. having said all of that, we have incomplete controls over the handing out of cash, and as a result a lot of the money is going to the bad guys. is this just part of war in areas like this. it s disaggregated with all the feudal control systems that they have got. in local areas you ve got to buy off the local commanders in many cases, but you also have to control it as well. by the way, we ve been doing this a long time. remember, back in vietnam the cia was handing out bags of cash in order to get the bad guys on our side, and they were sometimes successful. right. but no controls, and that s where you get money going in the wrong hands. there s no top leader, no hegemon at the top of this, and the other big story we re talking about is body armor, 5 million units that could be def
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here and get back on track and then we can do a better job international i harvard s niall ferguson says military spending does have something to do with it, but, of course, he brings it right back to the debt. there s a kind of magic moment in the history of all empires when suddenly they find themselves spending more on paying the interest on the debt than they pay on national security, that they are paying more in the treasury securities than in the national security, if you like, and this was true for spain in the 1770s, happened to france in the 18th century and to the ottoman empire in the 19th century and the british empire in the 20th and happening to the united states now, and i would say at the risk of overreaching a little bit, there s a law of history here that once a great power or an empower or hegemon, you can call it yourself what you like, once you are spending more on servicing that debt than you are spending on your army and navy and air force, it s probably the
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