To those kurdish units . And other units fighting isis . We need a strategy not to contain isis, but to destroy isis so those young men and women now watching on the internet, suddenly get the message that its not their destiny to go join isis and expand the cal fate. That that is a losing cause. But that change, that takes a change of calculus. On the part of the administration. Are you more optimistic about the iraqi now that the military has taken back ra maddy . I am somewhat because in the past when theyve used the shia militia, the human rights abuses to put it mildly, that theyve inflicted upon village populations have created a huge blowback. So, some of that is moving in the right direction, but we could accelerate this if we listened to those in the field who want the authorization. Id say 75, 80 from what weve heard from the commanders, the flights that go out come back without getting authorization out of wags in terms of dropping their ordnance. Theyve got to get approval
Except that the use of this system has changed in spectacular ways. Increasingly used. In 1992, sort of the middle point, the cold war had just ended, as i said. Soviet union had dissolved. Since 1992, maritime traffic has increased by a factor of four leading up to today. This far outpaces the change in global gdp, which is just shy of doubling. Its increased by about 80 , and so it gives you a sense of how much this maritime system is being used, how accessible it is. And its becoming more accessible, right, for a number of reasons. We are seeing new trade routes open as the arctic Climate Change affects the arctic. This past september the extent of the sea ice in the arctic was almost 30 less than average over most of my career, over those 33 years. And it was the fourth lowest it has ever since we started keeping those records. Today, the maritime route north of europe, northern sea route north of russia, is open to water about two weeks a year. By 2025, scientists predict it will
Equal. Sunday night, Aviva Kempner talks about rosenwald and the partnership of the africanamerican communities in the south to build schools and bring Elementary Education to children in rural america. So first he said, oh, you know, sears puts together the kit houses. Why dont we just use the kit houses . And the best thing booker. The washington ever did was sa, i want, just like we do, i want the communities to build it. So first these six schools were built. And thats amazing. But from that it morphed into 5,000 schools, all over the south, including maryland. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q and a. Monday is Martin Luther king jr. Day. With congress not in session we have featured programs on all three cspan networks. Live coverage of the british house of commons debate on whether to ban donald trump from their country. That debate is expected to last three hours. Coverage will reair at 8 00 eastern. University of wisconsin Professor William p. Jones and his book the marc
To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesitate to answer because without having time to analyze the data. Second, there is a trade off obviously. You cant do all things for all people. You have to make some choices here. Service standards should be an input into the question of plant and logistical rationalization it seems to me. I just dont have i dont have my hands on the information necessary i understand. Everything else equal. I think theres something nice about having as you characterize, a one, two, three kind of standard. You wou
The centers changed the standard of delivery and gone from one, two, three, days to modified one so au so if youre in the same met oe metropolitan area. Thats modified one. If were outside the area, you might get it. You may not. Modified one, two, three. I think the Postal Service would like to go to two, three. Two day even in the same metropolitan area. It would be one but two would be the expectation and three. In terms of whats appropriate for us, im not comfortable with the Postal Service saying this is how many Mail Processing centers we should have. Some people say the more appropriate thing for us to do maybe with the involvement of the Regulatory Commission is to consider whether or not modified one, two, three days of service is appropriate. One, two, three is better or two, three is just fine. I would welcome any comments that you all have in it regard. Ms. Kennedy. I picked on mr. Miller all afternoon. Maybe i should come to you. My first thought is if we have declining fi