Actually irresponsible to see these critical hours, when citizenry is most engaged and in an metion and emotional and very riveted way, to let government message goes unchallenged. They dont wait before they start politicizing. Not just the event but even these well intentioned emotional rituals that spring up around them. I think its worth talking that as well. But the most significant part of this dynamic, and i want to spend the bulk of my time talking about, is the way in which we have been persuaded to ink about the world in a drastically different way than reality ought to suggest. By that i mean that we have been persuaded to think about our own societies and our own governments and our own behavior in the world that theres very little recentral wlens to the reality of what weve allowed our society and governments to do in the world. And to illustrate that as best as i can, i want to share with you a little anecdote. That involves canada. The very first story from the snowden ar
Advocate for his fellow wounded warriors. Hes thinking about majoring in psychology so he can use his own experiences to help others. He got stellar grades. And by the way, hes only 24 years old. And says, im just getting started. In other words, kyle is a shining example of what our nation needs to encourage. Veterans who come home and then use their incredible skills and talents to keep our country strong. And we can all learn from kyles example. As we prepare for the reading of the citation, id like to close with his own words. A message i think for every american. It took a life changing event to get me to truly appreciate the precious and amazing life i have been blessed with. Please take it from me, enjoy every day to the fullest, dont take life too seriously, always try to make it count, appreciate the small and simple things, be kind and help others, let the ones you love always know you love them and when things get hard, trust theres a bigger plan and that you will be stronge
Jerry, please go but i know where it is. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have a question for the congressman and a followup. Congressman, do you think it would have been right to keep american soldiers giving up their lives and limbs to fight in that country without being immunized from prosecution by the Iraqi Government . Okay. Whats your followup, sir . Caller my followup is that all these republicans, mccain and graham and everybody, talking about barack blew it. He didnt get the status of forces agreement. The reason he didnt get the agreement, because the iranians and maliki wanted to keep the soldiers there without being immuni immunized. And thats why the talks broke down, sir. Jerry, i dont know in detail what your point excuse me, what you were saying. Ill just accept it, though. Youre right. The iranians and maliki did not want our military there. So therefore, i dont think the president had any other option but to do what its their country. Whether we like it or not,
What danger do you worry about most in cyberspace . I think thats impressively not necessary. If you have been reading the papers and talking to your friends and colleagues across the private sector, but i would say four things about cyberspace, not entirely well understood by the public that makes use of that. I think therefore we still have some surprises that have insidiously crept up on us. The first thing i would say cyberspace, the internet writ large is not really this Massive Technology that acts as oftentimes is considered as just another version of the voter poll, fix it. Whatever technology, whatever aplukys we need to make it resilient, just do that. Its of course, a mix of technology and people and critical process. And theyre so interlocked its almost impossible to tease one out from the other so you cant delegate this to the i. T. Shop and say fix it. The other thing is everything is connected to everything. Convergence is the reality. For those who think they have an of
Little to enhance security in benghazi. It wasnt an intelligence failure. It is a policy and leadership failure on the part of the administration. With regard to iraq, intelligence including director clappers testimony at a january 29, 2014 hearing has been clear that iraq was vulnerable to the threat from isil. I encourage any member to read the intelligence if they are questions regarding the assessment about security in iraq and the rise of isil. It was clear in 2011 as u. S. Forces were withdrawing that iraq was vulnerable to resurgeance and we have seen the violence escalate during the administrations failed policy. This was easily predicted but we have stood by and watched as it has occurred. Again, this is a policy failure. Not an intelligence failure. Perhaps the most concerning aspect of the Foreign Policy is the counterterrorism strategy. I hear them touting the dissire of them being on the run. But nothing could be further from the truth. Al qaeda is on the run but they are