Of what everyone knew would be a long war but as you pointed out, our Current Administration does believe, and there is an enormous pressure now toward the Political Correctness of that islam is a peaceful religion. I know something about the koran. You can fine peaceful mentions in it, but basically, as you say, islam and islamic terrorism feed on each other, and all you had to do was find the worldwide polls of september of 2001 that showed how many muslims around the world supported the attack on the United States. Now, my question is, given all these years of Political Correctness, given the kinds of things that the Yale Muslim Students Association were saying in their fortunately unsuccessful attempt to squash alis appearance at yale, how long is it going to take . What will it take to convince the American People to understand where were going . You mentioned it took 30 years after 1970, 40 years for americans to understand soviet communism. I dont think we can wait 40 years for
Off the coast of the northwest us the earthquake risk which is a very large risk command i think that we can show where we are going and tell you what we think is the path to get us there and then that will give you an opportunity to look at additional tools that you could give us. The stafford act was often times a constraint. In the past year we have responded to haiti which is traditionally the role of usaid. We were asked to support usaid command we did. We were asked to support unaccompanied children in detention facilities so we supported that. We were asked to support the ebola response. Many of these things may not be in the papers but our capabilities command you give us tools. The stafford the stafford act is limited to often times only those Natural Hazards with limited flexibility. I think the delegate brings up an important. What is the role of the Disaster Relief fund and the consequence world and if it is not in rebuilding in the Emergency Response cost and the ability t
And be effective in garnering a following, and leading them in a way that works for the good of all. Loretto i have seen this throughout the years is a kind of person who can relate transparently enough to inspire trust and confidence so that you dont have to work a long time, wondering if what you are seeing is truly honest. This place on its way out in the sense that she is a Due Diligence kind of person. I understand the hypothetical kinds of issues and questions but my own background as a scholar would say at best a hypothetical only approximates a reallife situation. In a real life situation character really comes forth when you do the kind of Due Diligence that puts you in a position to make the quality of judgments that makes for a positive difference. This is in her bloodline line. This is in her spiritual dna. I dont know if her father is still in the room, but i can tell you that it has played out in the way that he has provided leadership in North Carolina whether he had to
Mr. Kissinger i would like to apologize for allowing such disgraceful behavior towards a man who served his country with the greatest distinction. I apologize profusely. We meet today to receive testimony on global challenges in u. S. National security strategy. This is the third hearing designed to examine the strategic context in which we find ourselves one characterized by a chelating threats to our National Security and how that should inform the work of this committee and congress. Well, we have had previous testimony from general keane and amaral William Fallon and we have heard consistent themes. Our Foreign Policy is reactive and we need to repeal sequestration and we should not withdraw from with afghanistan on this timeline and we need a strategy again. We will explore these topics and many more with todays outstanding panel of witnesses and i am honored to welcome three former secretaries of state among our nations most admired diplomats and public servants, doctor Henry Kis
What needs to be lifted and what doesnt . I believe the process is that weve gone to all the agencies who are relevant to these documents and asked for a review. But mr. Higgins said they lifted some of the redactions. Yes, and we as well in an agreement with the committee several months ago also agreed with the committees desire to have minimal redactions. And so we went back over these 40,000 documents and minimized the redactions. You know, there was an outside group prior to this committee being formed that had a freedom of information act and got some information. I believe it was from the state department, with no redactions. And as a member of the intel committee, we had gotten the same information redacted. Now, would it be easier for this committee or to have better information if we go through the freedom of information act rather than requesting it from yall . Well, my understanding is that we receive 18,000 foya we received 18,000 foya requests last calendar year. They got