Dollars. From the American Enterprise institute, this is just over an hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Im arthur brooks, president of the American Enterprise institute. And were delighted to welcome all of you today to this event, entitled poverty to prosperity. So, this is bill gates. Thank you. With his wife, melinda, hes the cochair and cofounder of americas largest private foundation, the bill and Melinda Gates foundation. They work to reduce poverty and expand health care overseas and to improve education here in the United States among other things. Previously, he was the chairman and ceo of microsoft, the Worlds Largest software company, which he cofounded in 1973. Most importantly, like me, hes a native of seattle and somewhat of a seahawks fan, which is good. But thats not what were here to talk about. Were here to talk about his incredibly important work with the foundation, the work that hes doing here and around the world. He shares so many of the priorities of th
Them some damage economically but we in doing so would damage ourselves and how do we strike that balance and how much pain are we willing to take and so on . And also, we have to try and begin to think through the russian reaction because, you know, if putin is in full great patriotic war mode one thing we know about the russians is they can take a great deal of privation when they feel National Interests are at stake. I dont think we can feel overconfident that these economic sanctions will with russia in internationalistic mode will change course but we have to try to do something. I think a lot of the reaction of the europe and u. S. Together will come down to personalities of leaders as it often does. I think it is potentially significant that the two most important leaders, obama and merkel, are both intrinsically quite people. You saw that in the libyan crisis when obama and merkel were both very reluctant to go for military intervention and that was driven by cameron and sarkoz
Press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not only take over country is not only because of brave law enforcement, brave press. And it was the press. If you want to expose problems in afghanistan, we have to support the independent local press. Those are the eyes and ears. And if we had more independent press in some countries, maybe we would have better rule of law in some countries. I low that out. Thank you. I know that were running over. And i appreciate you taking two more questions if we can. Happy to do it. And i apologize. I talk too much. We have the lady in the front, and then in the third roud. If you could please ask your questions, one after the other, and keep them short. Identify yourselves. My name is farrah stockman. I work with the boston globe. Ive been to afghanistan several times. Im wondering if you can say a few words about the commanders Emergency Response and the military has been pushin
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