living in libya and to ensure that all those who wish to leave the country can do so safely. the arab group emphasizes the need to meet the aspirations of peoples to reform, democratic change, and social justice. this is a legitimate demand which must be respected. mr. president, the arab group invites the member states other international organizations and arab and international civil society to provide humanitarian assistance in an urgent way to the libyan people at this crucial stage of their history. and finally, we balance our heads in memory of the mortars, the peaceful demonstrators, the innocent victims, the women didn t, not to mention the wounded, not to mention the enormous physical damage to public and private property. i think. the british house of commons is back in session this week. live coverage of the prime minister s question this wednesday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. next, a conversation with former arkansas governor mike huckabee. then talk about
weeks call the pentagon a labyrinth. what is it? it is a 150-page guide to the pentagon. their art and authors. each of us pick out a subject area that we had 30 or 40 years of experience in. some of the essays are truly extraordinary to give people an insight beyond the superficiality of how the pentagon operates and how to cope with it and how to understand what is doing. in the struggle in the struggle to find a title, i quickly rejected the pentagon for dummies title. and i asked some others if i the missing manual series, if they could steal their title, and they said no. we settled on the pentagon labyrinth. the distortions and bales that the pentagon uses to hide what they are actually doing. why are you doing this? i think our system is breaking down. the system of checks and balances is not operating properly. i worked on the hill for 20 30 years, and congress has three essential powers, the power to go to war, the power of the purse, and the power t
in the struggle to find a title, i quickly rejected the pentagon for dummies title. and i asked some others if i could steal their title, and they said no. we settled on the pentagon labyrinth. why are you doing this? i think our system is breaking down. the system of checks and balances is not operating properly. i worked on the hill for 20 years, and congress has three essential powers, the power to go to war, the power of the purse, and the power to investigate. the first two powers, to go to war and of the purse, are meaningless if congress does not exercise the power to investigate, and it is not doing that. it is doing a lousy job. it is actually trying to not investigate things, and that was my motivation. others who contributed to this have been observing the pentagon s system from the inside or the military services from the inside and are very disturbed, concerned, worried about what they are seeing and are trying to educate a new generation of people to cop
middle east and north africa, do you think we are headed for a situation where the united states is going to be pulled into some kind of military intervention? we heard about a no-flight zone in libya. are we headed no-fly zone in libya. i do not think we are headed toward a situation where we will have troops on the ground in libya. there is an array of military options. people are looking at a fly zone in of a nos- libya. there was a no-fly zone in iraq before troops got there. it is something that needs to be look at when you have this continuing situation where gaddafi appears to be willing to kill thousands and thousands and thousands of people to keep himself in power. i would not recommend the united states do this in any unilateral fashion. to the extent that the international community and nato believe it is necessary, that is something that should be on the plate and considered. i would want to look at all of the facts. i would not rule it out right now. what i
program solvent over the long run. it had a blind spot to me which is completely understandable. it had a blind spot on health care reform. this was the president s commission on health care and while it s meeting the president is doing everything he can to pass the bill. they took a pass on health care. there s stuff about congress ought to fix it in the long run but no real reforms in health care, significant structural reforms being done. my boss got together with alice rivlin on the commission and they put forward a proposal that would address medicare s long-term problems. the one last thing they did which was terrific i think was tax reform. they ended up doing they got a discussion going about which i think is terrific which is if we can get rid of the distortions of tax code in lower rates it will help economic growth and i think they helped move things forward on that. the commission didn t get the necessary votes. my boss ended up voting against it for two reaso