i remember him feeling so emotional when we would help bring democracy to iraq. it seems so fragile now with the sectarian tension still building. should we be hopeful that democracy would stick or is this going to be one of these ill luis ry things when democracy equals anarchy? i am hopeful. i think democracy is more than just having elections. we helped to build a democracy where values required to build a democracy did not exist. the idea that the people are responsible for the government. the government has tock accountab to be accountable the government. we have given them opportunities they didn t have. i think that they are growing, they are evolving, and they will
particularly as the heir apparent tries to solidify his position with the military or some of the people in the military the general decides they don t need this young man to run things. general buchanan hz exercises with the south korean. how problematic is the death of this dictator general do you believe? certainly as greg mentioned a couple minutes ago, it s a series of opportunities that can go one way or the other. but lots of concern and understand why everybody is concerned about what might happen good or bad right now. we fought a bloody inconclusive conflict there. wouldn t it be irony if we had to move the gear into the
intelligence even from the south koreans. the country is extremely unstable. now we have to turn a lot of efforts to find out what exactly is going on what will happen after this event. we are very blind when it comes to north korea. largest artillery force in the world. it is a huge concern and the instability with a change like this is something we have to pay attention to. we used artillery to hit the north korean island knowing there was going to be the flow of international aide into the starving country. why did they do things like that and also putting aside the
i remember him feeling so emotional when we would help bring democracy to iraq. it seems so fragile now with the sectarian tension still building. should we be hopeful that democracy would stick or is this going to be one of these ill luis ry things when democracy equals anarchy? i am hopeful. i think democracy is more than just having elections. we helped to build a democracy where values required to build a democracy did not exist. the idea that the people are responsible for the government. the government has tock accountab to be accountable the government. we have given them opportunities they didn t have. i think that they are growing, they are evolving, and they will
you met with general austin earlier today. what did he tell you about the operation in iraq? he was really first of all he was concerned the operation really come off smoothly, which it did. he wanted to leave this place with honor with dignity and his troops pulled that off. it is a feeling of relief, a feeling of victory. right now geraldo as you might image i am poke cufocused operation, making sure that we continue to do the right things to ensure that every one of our service members is returned to safety. it has been done supersuperbly. what i feel right now is an enormous sense of pride. we will get an opportunity to reflect on this in the days ahead. do you ever think, general, was this worth it? well, as i have told other