Fights in washington often involve big binary questions about the future. Axis, war and peace, healthcare. Some washington fights go on below the public radar but carry with them the ability to explain a lot about how the u. S. Government works and how the tugofwar between the political schools of thought go on. Well look at the debate over the export Credit Agency, the Exportimport Bank of the United States. What its for, how it works, and whether it should continue to exist at all. More Small Businesses are selling their goods abroad more than ever before. Nearly 300,000 last year alone. We should be doing everything we can to excel rate this process, not stall it. A little known Washington Agency topped president obamas weekly address saturday. The Bank Provides loans and insurance to foreign purchasers of u. S. Products. It gets Companies Like boeing to get more Foreign Companies to buy their planes. And it helped solidify a deal between caterpillar and australian mine company. But
Hello, im ray suarez. Fights in washington often involve big binary questions about the future. Axis, war and peace, healthcare. Some washington fights go on below the public radar but carry with them the ability to explain a lot about how the u. S. Government works and how the tugofwar between the political schools of thought go on. Well look at the debate over the export Credit Agency, the Exportimport Bank of the United States. What its for, how it works, and whether it should continue to exist at all. More Small Businesses are selling their goods abroad more than ever before. Nearly 300,000 last year alone. We should be doing everything we can to excel rate this process, not stall it. A little known Washington Agency topped president obamas weekly address saturday. The Bank Provides loans and insurance to foreign purchasers of u. S. Products. It gets Companies Like boeing to get more Foreign Companies to buy their planes. And it helped solidify a deal between caterpillar and austra
Vaccination fears cause a measle outbreak at disney theme parks . And we begin with the latest developments in france where police have arrested more than 50 people in the last week. Its being called a crackdown on hate speech. The arrests include a controversial muslim french comedian, du donay who condemned terrorism righting i feel like Charlie Coulibaly a reference to the man that led the attacks in a kosher deli an Al Qaeda Group in yemen today claimed responsibility for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo but responsibility for the attack that followed may reach beyond al qaeda. Reporter the details emerging about the violence of terrorists last week are painting a complex picture. Brutal attacks inspired by rival groups. The first last wednesday. 12 were killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical french newspaper. Police identified the gunman as brothers said kouachi and cherif kouachi. They had known ties to al qaedas branch in yemen. Reports say one of the brothers had weapo
Allies have a disagreement they dont say were not going to help rescue your downed pilots. I think thats not an excuse for turkeys behavior in this instance but just an explanation. The broader point though, on allies and partnerships i think we have to wrestle with is were at a junction because of where we are in our own budget and because the International Order is fraying so bodily where we need our allies our treaty allies in asia and in europe but also our partners who are parts of special relationships who may not be formal allies but clearly are partnered with us in various efforts in the middle east, like israel, like the kingdom of saudi arabia, united arab emirates, et cetera. In most cases however, our allies are spending less and less and less on defense themselves. And so they have less and less capability for us to draw on and thats a sort of paradox. I think one its a little bit beyond the work of our panel, but i do think one of the things we need to think about more is
But nevertheless theres huge opportunities there. I will be another example where engagement by the United States and the region has been a spectacular success. And that is colombia, i dont know what they call in english actually, company plan i guess. [laughter] i think thats a. [laughter] sometimes my mind switches and i apologize. This was the plan to deal with the dramatic social turmoil in columbia with the drug cartel and the violence was significant and the Previous Administration they made a significant effort to provide Technical Support military support economic support, the president made a real commitment to open up the economy to allow people to liberate the economy so that it would be more Economic Opportunity. And it was a huge victory. We should apply that same type of approach right now. The president has not proposed a. I havent seen the details of it, for the northern tribal states and Central America which have a very similar situation perhaps even more grave. And t