The taliban were about 40 miles away in a very precarious Geographic Area they were barely able to hold them back in. This area of the province it is south of tajikistan. South of the river and geography is very important. The story is how he and his ragtag force was able to maintain any kind of defense. So it turns out he has the only operating mine in the world. Goes back 1000 years. He has two emerald mines. Of course he allowed his men to grow opium because that was the only way they could get cash. That was smuggled across to pakistan but he also knew in may, this is four months away from 9 11 that something was going on in kandahar with bin laden. Something he heard was up through his contacts. Now he is tajik. So he has a very difficult time infiltrating a pashtun mafia for lack of a better word and particularly for the arabs who would be very suspicious of somebody with a different dialect even if they spoke pashtun. So at this point gary sawyer from the cia who had been statio
We are having this discussion because low wage workers in the Fast Food Restaurant have paved been fired to raise the wages of themselves than their coworkers. That is the only way to get out of the drop that justins analysis hypothesizes. I think to ask a question about Public Policy measures, be they minimumwage kerrmcgee rtc labor and unemployment, you have to ask the question, are they are promoting a high wage lowwage society . We dont like the lowwage society but weve consciously built one and we can make different choices if we wanted different. Michael, did you want to come in . I will be brief. To think about it from the broad 30,000foot level of society to recognize the different agents in society have been responsibilities. Imagine workers firms in the government. In some sense, damon is arguing that we dont miss the lowwage system. If you talk about fast food industries, restaurants and lowwage workers, it is simply unrealistic to expect that a firm that is substantively tr
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The third step that the u. S. Could help with is the finalization of the provisional constitution. Which deeply ambiguous contradictory in many ways. I think the three steps can be a strong starting point. Its unrealistic to expect that. Well have a clearer picture three years from now. Thank you. Well, i mean, as we know here in the United States federalism remains extremely contentious issue even in the halt halls. In places far away especially when they dont have formal links with these local administrations or they are in very hostile relationships with them as they have been with juba land. The important point that people need to recognize is that alshabaab benefits from these types of agreements and benefits from these tensions and one of the biggest problems we have in the juba land is well juba land is somewhat or stable and it is arguably less of a safe haven for alshabaab the fact that juba land is being dominated by a single allows alshabaab to recruit from minority clans wh
Most fundamentally is the absence of understanding for fiscal 2014 what our planning levels are to work with. It impedes on the long emerging term business in somalia what title x dod resources and title ii will be available to brought to bear whether its somalia or any other country in the region. I would just add to this. We are in a critical time as we move toward these important milestones that will be critical for seizing the moment and helping somalia move forward. Its an effort that the United States is doing in Close Partnership with the International Community. There are a number of important meetings as well as that we are constrained in being able to participate in right now. Several of you mention that the particular structure amazon in some ways a model of africanlead Regional Security being successful. I would be interested in each your respective sphere. Sort of how you see the model playing out Going Forward. What are the Lessons Learned strength, weaknesses. I have rep