In women and girls. Seizing these opportunities will help prevent crisis in the future but we must still respond to the crisises of today. We cannot turn away from the more than 60 Million People who have been forced to flee their homes, the highest number since world war ii. Many are fleeing the very same terrorists that we are fighting. Now is the time to do more by welcoming more refugees to america. Without discrimination based on race, religion, or ethnicity. And providing more support to refugee hosting countries. And we cannot defeat violent extremism when millions of people see a future of continued injustice and lack of opportunity. Development programs can help address underlying issues that make communities more vulnerable to violent extremism, getting directly to the causes of this problem not only addressing the symptoms. And we cannot ignore how so many challenges are exacerbated by the plague of corruption. Its not just the panama papers. The scale of corruption as much
Michael your question is important. I leave the legislating to the congress they determine the best time to update the law. They have expressed in updating the statute since 1996. I leave it in their capable hands. The calendar has gotten away from them. But there is appetite to change some of the statute. I do find that the statute does provide a number of problems for the commission. We are taking advantage, the majority is, taking advantage of provisions in the statute interpreting them in ways that werent intended, reading words in or out that should not be done. So i have trouble with how the commission is interpreting the law and whether they are actually following the law. I dont believe they do and i have expressed my views on that point. Beyond that, i do think that modernizing the statute would be appropriate, but thats for congress to decide. Peter michaela llo riley, one of two republicans on the commission. And howard buskirk. [captions Copyright National cable satellite c
They have this amazing curiosity about the world. Theres this willingness to follow the threads of interests, not being clear where those threads will take them. In my book i talk about this as a slow hunch, this idea innovation doesnt often come from lightbulb moments. It comes from getting interested in something without a clear idea why youre interested in it and following that interest for sometimes for decades, and just kind of teasing it out until turns into something that is transformative that can change the world. The version of that in the episode on colds, call history of our mastery of cold and artificial refrigeration and airconditioning over the last 100 years. One of the weird heroes of that chapter is clarence berzon of birdseye frozen foods who invented the technology of flash freezing almost 100 years ago. Is passed to this was a beautiful process where he was a naturalist and a park ranger, at one point we recruited this initial. He goes up, he moved to labrador with
Me, and i just want to thank all of you for being here to share that with me. [applause] booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. In the invisible front, Yochi Dreazen talks about two brothers who died while serving in the u. S. Army. He compares the reaction of the army to the two deaths and discusses the efforts made by the brothers parents to bring awareness to ptsd and military suicides. During this event, hosted by the center for a new american security, mr. Dreazen is in conversation with Major Garrett of cbs news. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Good evening. Welcome, and thank you for joining us this evening. My name is richard fontaine, im the president of the center for new american security, and its a real pleasure to welcome all of you here to celebrate the publication of yochi freeze ps new book, the invisible front love and loss in an era
At mondays veterans day day ceremony at Arlington National cemetery president obama talked about ending the war. Here is a little of what he had. On tour after tour in iraq and afghanistan. This generation, the 911 generation has met ever mission and because of their service the core of al qaeda is on the path to defeat and our homeland is safer. There are many people like the soontobe veteran i met a while ago. Hogan survived to iraq twice and survived three separate ied explosions and deployed again to afgh afgh afghanistan once she was well. She wears the combat action badge and is xht committed to helping others recover from the trial of war. Helping the truth is what she said all about. My fellow americans, that is what we should boo be all about. Soon one of the first marines to arrive in afghanistan 12 years ago, daniel yu, will lead the last trip that is set to deploy and more troops will come home. This winter the troop levels in afghanistan are down to 34,000 and by this Time