Ideology it would be nice to think we can bring them back in an ideological struggle. Im somewhat skeptical of that. I think for those who are truly committed this is a fight. As colonel price correctly points out, i dont know how many nazis were left in germany in terms of the mindset at the end of world war ii, but it lacked the military capacity to inflict that on other nations, so it was defeated. In so far as these particular adversaries not accepting that defeat, whether they accept it or not, what we want to do is blunt their capacity to impose it on others. With regard to the various models of u. S. Intervention, i dont think under any circumstances, however exquisite our counterterrorism strategies are, u. S. Troops in a foreign country killing local people is not going to be a winning formula. It may be absolutely necessary at times to conduct limited operations, but we ought to avoid that as much as possible. First of all, its difficult to sustain in terms of american politi
Is these groups al qaeda, would take over creating a greater threat not only to the region but to the world. Can you speak to the issue of why things have been so completely phoning used on this group called isis rather than recognizing the fact that al qaeda still has leading terror groups all around the world and why more is not being done therefore, to take the next step to address defeating the ideology. Im not sure that were ignoring al qaeda around the world. I mean there are continuing efforts and efforts that have achieved the measure of success in reducing the capacity of al shabaab in somalia an al qaeda affiliate. There is an Ongoing Campaign which the United States is supporting to go after al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, in yemen. And at least with the air campaign some of that has been also directed against al qaedas affiliate in syria. But you do underscore an issue here and that is that what used to be you know the performing actor known as al nusr has in fact become
Operating by private companies that craeckt with large employers. They work for the shuttle directors and not the empleaies riding on the buses. They are on the bus [inaudible] stand up time between 4 and 6 hours between morning and evening shifts. This time is unpaid and because they live in different parts of the bay area they have no [inaudible] because these shetals share bus stops it is impair tav we do as much as we as we can to minimize the [inaudible] a libber dispute could create grid lock. This resolution call ons the mta boardf directors that requires permit applicants to demonstrate labor harmony with the drivers when submitting for a permit. The resolution doesnt define what labor harmony is and it could mean a variety of things and i look forward to working with it mta board of directs to come up with adition that is broad and minimize impacts on the transporpation system while insureing the fair treatment of those that drive the shuttles. I ask fl support on the resoluti
Good floon everyone and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of march 24, 2015. Please call the rom supervisor avalos, present. Supervisor campus. Present. Supervisor christensen, present. Supervisor co00. Co00 not present. Supervisor farrell, present. Supervisor kim, kim not present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervise rb tang. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. Supervisor norman. Present. Can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you madam clerk are there muneications . No communications. Ei would like to acknowledge we are joined are by supervisor kim and cohen. Can you please reads the agenda item 16 are considered rutune unless a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately any other items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none. Call athe roll 16 superv
Not present. Supervisor mar. Present. Supervise rb tang. Present. Supervisor wiener. Present. Supervisor norman. Present. Can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you madam clerk are there muneications . No communications. Ei would like to acknowledge we are joined are by supervisor kim and cohen. Can you please reads the agenda item 16 are considered rutune unless a member objects a item may be removed and considered separately any other items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none. Call athe roll 16 supervisor tang. Aye. Supervisor wiener aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervise rb [inaudible] supervisor christensen aye. Supervisor co00, aye. Supervisor ferrule. Eye. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Mar aye. There are 11 ayes thete items are passed and approved item 7 is ordinance to author