begin to come home. these are the resources that we need to feed the initiative. by our eighth trip to afghanistan, march 2010, the marines had landed again, as part of president obama s surge. ironically, we were with the same six marines as in 2004, if only they had been allowed to finish the job back then, instead of being pulled to go to iraq. in some ways, the marines invasion was the easy part. the hard part now is governing this province, as you suggest, that it become addicted to opium in many, many ways. by 2010, afghanistan was a dope-adicked sewer. karzai accused of rigging elections. his cronies with stealing up to $60 billion in international aid. and jihad left to pick up the pieces. what are we going to do about all of these poppies that are
begin to come home. these are the resources that we need to feed the initiative. by our eighth trip to afghanistan, march 2010, the marines had landed again, as part of president obama s surge. ironically, we were with the same six marines as in 2004, if only they had been allowed to finish the job back then, instead of being pulled to go to iraq. in some ways, the marines invasion was the easy part. the hard part now is governing this province, as you suggest, that it become addicted to opium in many, many ways. by 2010, afghanistan was a dope-adicked sewer. karzai accused of rigging elections. his cronies with stealing up to $60 billion in international aid. and jihad left to pick up the pieces. what are we going to do about all of these poppies that are
change, but in a strange sense, these forces may have been set in motion by the successes of the regimes in recent years. you see, tunisia and egypt had been reforming their economies. this stimulated growth. tunisia growing at 5% a year and egypt faster than that. it is this revolution of rising expectations that often undoes a dictatorship because it is unable to handle the growing demands of its citizens. in egypt, mubarak s regime moved back politically, rigging elections, jailing the opposition and signalling that the 82-year-old ailing dictator intended to stay in power for years. what should the united states do? many journalists and intellectua intellectuals are urging more support on the streets and we are thrilled by the sight and
motion by the successes of the tunisian and egyptian regimes in recent years. you see, tunisia and egypt had been reforming their economies and this stimulated growth as a consequence. tunisia had growing at 5% a year and egypt much faster than that. economic growth stirs up expectations. it is this revolution of rising expectations that often undoes a dictatorship because it is usually unable to handle the growing demands of its citizens. in egypt, hosni mubarak s regime moved forward economically but actually moved backward politically. rigging elections, jailing the open suggestion, and signaling that the 82-year-old ailing dictator intended to stay in power for years. what should the united states do? many journalists and intellectuals are urging much stronger support for the moverment on the streets. and obviously we are all thrilled by the sights and sounds of the people on the streets of cairo and alexandria
misrepresenting something president obama said about rigging elections. quoting president obama the president tweeted, there s no serious person how the there who would suggest somehow you could even rig america s elections, there s no evidence that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time, and so i d invite mr. trump to stop whining and make his case to get votes. the second tweet, the president obama quote just before election, he thought crooked hillary was going to win and he didn t want to rock the boat. when i easily won the electoral college, the whole game changed and the russian excuse became the narrative of the dems. keeping them honest, president obama was not talking about russia in that statement, he was scolding can t date trump for suggesting the democrats or others in this country might be rigging the election against him. also in september of 2016, top intelligence officials briefed republican and democratic congressional leaders but met resistant fr