jeffersonians. we kept free markets there for u.s. businesses to make billions and billions of dollars over the decades. can you give me an example of where you saw the united states make a give, but what they got in return was so much more than what they gave? well, one is directly anna la analogous to what you re saying. south korea. u.s. kept troops there for nearly 70 years. in the interest of maintaining peace and stability on that peninsula which is crucial, not just for stability there but in terms of china, japan and the entire region. or any time looking at something like the middle east. you give to various sides. so, for example, you try to get some package where you have constraints on israel settlement building but don t give the palestinians an unlimited right to return to what is now israel. you got to put together a trade
the defense of u.s. action and a path forward for the middle east peace. there s questions of how significant that will be given that secretary of state and the obama administration have about three weeks remaining until they turn things over to trump folks who have a very different view on foreign policy and certainly foreign policy within the middle east. the obama administration has been certainly over the last month more critical of israel settlement building in a speech by secretary of state john kerry earlier this month and culminating on friday in that un security council vote where the u.s. abstained and in doing so allowing critical resolution to pass the council. the administration is making the case that its opposition and u.s. opposition to that settlement building is nothing new. in fact, the united states embassador to the un samantha power after the vote on friday quoted ronald reagan saying that further settlement activity is in no way necessary for the security of isra