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On whats going on there. That was certainly, that is all generally presyria, which has been system an igniter for the whole resurgence of al qaeda including al qaeda in iraq. So i, i actually believe, and this goes back to how the military fit in, how does force fit in . I would like it to fit in as part of an overall strategy, there are political endeavors and military every endeavors, i feel that way about syria as well, that the political structure, the diplomatic structure needs to be there, not perfect but at least needs to be there that is committed to stopping the killing and getting those, the camps of all those who are out of the country, getting the people back to their homes. Then if the military need be a part of that, thats okay. I worry about, it is too easy to pick up a stick and do something and figure out what happens after the case. So i feel that way. I mean iraq, i saw the other day where there are discussions now about giving them assistance. I think thats a good o
The fact of the matter is we repay and we finally applied a counter is counterinsurgency strategy. Once the people thought we were going to die protecting them from a something which attend to that point and have the capability to do it, the war turned to our favor and strangely at the same time, the al qaeda had fallen in on iraq because of our presence. That is a true statement, so that was a huge negative outcome as a result of the invasion of iraq. Al qaeda cell in on iraq because they saw as a huge opportunity to render a defeat for the united state and they feared strategically the United States would possibly turn iraq into a country that democratic principles and opportunity, send in the ideologically are opposed to. Even now there are support a man with the surge and force is applied differently if they did not have the socalled awakening that took place with the sunni tribal leaders who are rejecting the al qaeda brutality of seventh Century Television enforced upon them. We
You probably all know that the government was quite hesitant to send its Ground Troops to occupy gaza because the defense capacity was talking about the fact that we did get into gaza with quite quite an extensive military composition was because of the tunnel. So we had the decision of the government. Remember, something hamas is looking for, this is one of their goals to change or to impact or to influence the decisionmaking of the government. We also had to impact the israelis as a whole. At first at least it was to be a big strategic surprise, even though the idf knew about the tunnel, it was not in the public discourse. Apparently was not high on the agenda of ideas because our way of handling the tunnels once we got there was not very quick. And the casualties were quite high. So it was a major obstacle or major issue, major challenge for us and they didnt have any proposal on the psychology of it. Focus on the south of course. They had a major impact but also in israel in genera
The best of my ability, so help me god. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the 55th governor of the state of new jersey, governor Chris Christie. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Bank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Lieutenant governor redondo, sweeney,esident speaker panetta, Republican Leaders cain and brenna, all the former governors, members of the supreme court, members of our congressional delegation, members of the new jersey state legislature, family and friends, people ofe again, the new jersey have given me the opportunity to serve. [applause] and i thank each and every citizen for that honor. And once again, i have taken an oath where i have sworn to the peace and prosperity along great citizens, and both it is, a long one. Byis an oath i have lived for the last four years, and it is the oath i will live by for every day i am privileged to call myself your governor. [applause] the oath, though, is just a symbol of the bond that we have created with each other over the las