General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of defense that yielded the defense strategic guidance of 20 to which was approved by the president , and conduct with regard to advocate says they will seek a light footprint innovative and it reads lowcost, approach to africa. Not only because i was part of that discussion but i think that is the right approach. I dont think there is a need for a large standing u. S. Uniformed military presence in africa. But there is a role and there are places whe
Children are learning today in the lack of respect for guns and the traditions of the outdoors. Mr. Chairman, i believe that this is one of the many benefits and reasons that we are here today to help restore the opportunity for hunting and fishing traditions to take root in our federal lands. To remind our federal land managers that the exercise of these traditions are not a burden on our land but one of the foundations of our land. Finally, let me say this, regard throfse ones view on our climate, this amendment is not about Climate Change. Its about granting the secretary a blank check to ban hunting and fishing. Nothing in the bill, nothing in the bill, changes the secretarys ability to manage our lands to ensure responsible management. The bill does require lands to be open, however, before close but when closing lands the secretary must act in a major fashion to ensure that our hunting and fish prague decisions are protected and valued system of i urge my colleagues to reject wha
People have great ideas how to do that, and this is something that i think should be shared with other countries because it is working, and what works should be copied. You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement from a year and a half ago. Was there discussion today on with president obama how thats going and whether anything should change with it . Yes. We came to conclusion that the Free Trade Agreement is working quite well. The u. S. Is exporting more to colombia and vice versa. There are some specific issues where we have mutual, not complaints, but mutual efforts to obstacles to overcome, and they mentioned something with the labor, some issues with the labor situation in colombia. We addressed the issues very clearly on what we are doing there. I wanted the u. S. To be more helpful in lifting obstacles that would allow us, for example, to export our avacoados to the u. S. Because i was giving in the white house jew dish solid, the first plate in the lunch, and there was an avocado,
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In the effort to lead the global jihad. With isil increasingly posturing itself as the legitimate followon or heir to Osama Bin Laden or al qaeda vision. And what that is also doing is causing intellectual ferment in the Community Around the world. We see this from other affiliates as they seek to decide for themselves, do we align with isil or maintain fidelity to our traditional bonds of loyalty to al qaeda core . One thing we can observe pretty obviously is that success breeds success. When isil has had success on the battlefield in taking over large swaths of territory in iraq, that has served as a draw not only to foreign fighters who might want to choose where to bring their capabilities but also to individuals who may be affiliated with other al qaeda groups who decide id like to go where the jihad is the most hot and the where my ability to Impact Global jihad can be felt most acutely. And theres no doubt that theyre at the level of individual Al Qaeda Affiliated individuals th