and really insult them. and we re going to pay the premise of this whole story is we don t even know what price we re going to pay for this because we ve taken something for granted that they re managing existential risks. tell the story about the department of agriculture? like the department of energy it s sort of misnamed. it s really the department of food or nutrition. the vast majority of the budget goes to feeding people. school lunch programs and so on and so forth. it s also a giant science operation. and it distributes $3 billion a year in grants to academics to basically prepare for preserving the food supply in result of climate change. this is usually overseen by a scientist. trump appoints to oversee the
too long since the beginning of the misnamed arab spring allows others to take the initiative and in this case it s allowed russia to take the initiative. notice the longer the president has hesitated the more the violence has escalated. if you just look at battlefield fatalities, since 2010, up worldwide by a factor of four. victims of terrorism in the same time frame, up by a factor of six. and this is really quite shocking. most people i think watching will assume, hey, the middle east is violent, it s normally violent. it was violent last year, it will be violent next year. they re missing an exponential growth in violence, and a geographical spread of violence from the middle eastern heartland, if you will, right through north africa, into sub-saharan africa and right across in the other direction as far as afghanistan and pakistan. the longer you play the game of kicking the can down the road, the more the conflict escalates, and the spillovers ultimately will reach this country,
country, take a cerebral, gentle, kind man for a weak man. that s not necessarily the case. how did it feel inside the administration as you were approaching that re-election. they did the smartest thing in the entire world. i believe the gallup polls and i got out in 79 and went to a place called the washington post. the truth is, i have been thinking a lot about the carter years. part of it is the things he doesn t get credit for. number one, bringing human rights in to the entire vocabulary of foreign policy. number two, basically being pressing it beyond belief about energy. you could read cart canner energy speeches, including the misnamed speech from 79 and it reads like a thomas friedman column today. thirdly of all, 36 years we have
they did the smartest thing in the entire world. i believe the gallup polls and i got out in 79 and went to a place called the washington post. the truth is, i have been thinking a lot about the carter years. part of it is the things he doesn t get credit for. number one, bringing human rights in to the entire vocabulary of foreign policy. number two, basically being pressing it beyond belief about energy. you could read cart canner energy speeches, including the misnamed speech from 79 and it reads like a thomas friedman column today. thirdly of all, 36 years we have had enduring peace in the middle east. and israel s continued existence is the bedrock there. it is negotiated by jimmy carter, peace with egypt.
pennsylvania. they deserve to be mentioned and remembered by name here and now, because theirs was the kind of political courage that has largely evaporated in the senate. most of the names i just mentioned are no longer senators. and democrats don t have senators from places like oklahoma, georgia and kentucky anymore. and the senate seat of former arkansas democrat david prior who i had the pleasure of working with in the senate is now occupied by his son, mark prior, who is far to the right of his father. harry reid is the leader of that senate, the mark prior senate, not the david prior senate. harry reid is the leader of the senate where nine of the ten republicans who voted for the 1993 assault weapons ban are no longer senators. harry reid s job is to figure out the right strategy for bringing gun legislation to the senate floor. it is the hardest job in the senate, and it is misnamed.