Frankly a mess. It was a place where our mission was failing. And we had a strategy that was unfocused and means that were insufficient and we had a probability of success that was waning. That was the situation as we found it in 2009. We adopted a new strategy. When i say we, not only we the United States but we the alliance and its many partners adopted a new strategy that matched and narrowed the mission. Up to this point the mission was to make afghanistan the next jeffersonian democracy, to make sure women would have the same rights as men, not only there but the same rights as women have in the nordic countries. It was a large and frankly unattainable mission. What we did is we made the focus of the mission real, which is to make sure that afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for terrorists. That is why we were there in the first place and ultimately had to be the reason why we were there in the last place. We also adapted our means to that mission. The means were to buy
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So we have been focusing on this all week. Childre children unoccupied children from Central America over last year. Up 92 . Some 50,000 uncompanied children from Central America expected to try to reach the american border and be apprehended the administration is trying to get to the root causes here of pledging million of dollars to some of these governments to try to alleviate some of the gang and Youth Violence that is driving many of these families to send their children in desperation to the United States. 45million to guatemala. 25million in el salvador. 18. 5million to go to the same number of oh youth out reach. Many of these countries want special work permits, permission to stay here at least temporarily as they come to the United States illegally. The United States said theyre not going to do that. Meanwhile, what has become a humanitarian crisis continues. Well, clearly money is not going to fix this problem. She spoke about this at the white house just an hour ago. What w
Right about anything everything all the time. That would be unreasonable. Second, what you describe as the arrogance of the intelligence community, that is the appropriate place for politicians to be talking about oversight. To be discussing the mechanisms of oversight that already exist inside a free market or a free country like the United States. If they think there is insufficient oversight, then there is a legal redress. That is a good debate to have. A debate that should be perpetually be happening. When it comes to what i described as the arrogance of the media, i dont by any means mean the whole media. You know exactly who i am referring to. There are huge elements of the british media who are completely outraged at the snowden allegations and the way in which the Guardian Newspaper in particular was willing to set them out and are angry about how the guardian did not face the wrath of the law that an individual citizen would have for that level of disclosure. There is quite im
Hello, welcome to the National Press club the place where the news happens i am john jensen at the 115th resident of the National Press club. Jen jensen 10 judson i did not mention earlier, but if you have questions, fill them out. There is cars on your table. Or you can email us at headliners press. Org. Please put sagaftra Fran Drescher in the subject line. Im going to take a moment to introduce our head table. Starting to my right at the end of the table, we have multimedia reporter for abc news libby cathey. Next we have sagaftra local president , kathryn. Please feel free to stand up. Next is white house recognize editor for the l. A. Times Donna Leinwand leger. Del wilber. We have Donna Leinwand leger former National Press Club President and cochair of our Headliners Team that organize the luncheon. To my left we have ian kullgren, labor reporter for bloomberg law. Next is liz shuler president of the afl. Mike balsamo, lee justice reporter for the associated press. Katie benner,