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Thank you. [applause] on the half of Mechanics Institute and asia society thank you for coming and we look forward to seeing you at our next [applause] please come up. Next on booktv from the 18th annual texas book festival. A discussion with authors on mexico. Ere this is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you for coming tonight. Were happy to be here. Here at the texas bookernoon. Festival. Ng tonit. A few notes of business they asked me to tell everyone to please turn off your cell phonet so you dont interrupt the inven. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is ricardo ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had
And this is part of it. We sent airmen, marines to deploy our notice ends they want to take care of their families. We are going to have to cut some programs. We i him him him him him him. This is a fantastic question. When we get together come our conversations dont start, we are talking about our plans and we talk about soldiers and airmen, marines, guardsmen, we talk about the impact on the families all the things that are important to our people. A the problem is that 31. 5 million manhours overload workforce is awfully tough to mitigate. That is where we need help. We cannot control that. Now, the other thing that i mentioned is that the workforce is someone else we should have been keeping track of. They havent had pay raises. Now we are going to take 20 of the fiscal payraise. This is an important part of what we do, not just in this active department, but in the guard and reserve as well. I have been to a number of air force installations and there have been air force calls up
Activity. But a senior officials is saying militants in molly mostly have shoulder fire missiles and that is probably not enough to take an airplane out of the sky at cruising altitude. It took off in western africa last night bound for algers and went missing 50 minutes later and so far the airline hasnt been able to get in touch with the two pilots, four cabin crew or the 110 others on board. The transport minister, where it took off, is telling rioters who was on board. 50 french national, 24 bir keena and among others. Two french fighter jets in the region with in the air scanning the terrain below looking for any sign of flight 17. The faa has lifted their ban on United States flights into israel and the deadly fighting continues. Hamas is still refusing seize fire agreements. New questions about whether or not the United States should allow israel to defend itself and dismantle hamas. Hamas is israels enemy and our enemy as well. The only chance you have for a twostate solution,
Including remembrance sunday, to remember those falling in world war i and ii. And that is an event attended by the royal family. But no details whether those arrests are in connection with those events at this time. Any idea that the queen still plans to attend those events . We asked the palace about that. And they said they are not going to comment on any security matters. That is up to the police. But the queen will continue to go ahead with her plans to attend remembrance sunday and visit the Senate Memorial the next day. So there is no change in plans by the royal family. They are going to go ahead with all of those memorial events. Thank you very much. Meanwhile president obama is doubling the troops on the ground in iraq now. Planning to send up to 1500 more troops to help train and advise iraqi and Kurdish Forces. It is expected that some are going to be in anbar province. And live from turkey, what are you hearing on the ground there in response to this new campaign . Reporte