A democracy like the United States theres only one military strategy that you have and thats to bomb a no democracy can field an army to occupy you can have a few people there but you cant really occupy there are no Ground Troops if there were any attempt to really occupy a country youd have Something Like the vietnam war protests in the country would go against that so no american wants to go to war they want to drop bombs and they want to bomb the civilian centers to make the civilians so angry the fellow overthrow the government so you cant really say that its a humanitarian war this is the kind of orwellian rhetoric you have so you have a democracy that can only be. And there are all sorts of and so eerie results of that the people dont discuss i found out in the 1950 s. 1960 s. 1970 s. The entire u. S. Balance of payments deficit was military the private sector. Of america just exactly in balance the entire deficit is military so the question is how can america arrange a World Mon
Welcome back. We didnt solve all the problems in the last pane panel so we wiy to solve them on this one so there will be an easier time when he comes. Right now we are going to shift over it to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit we have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four different countries, egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador and she was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and food portfolio than she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the d
Via panama and the bahamas members of the crew were arrested and face federal charges. A canada has approved a plan to expand a Controversial Oil pipeline and 7000000000. 00 project will link canadas landlocked oil fields to a major port indigenous communities environmentalists have opposed the plan and it is expected to be hit in several legal challenges construction is due to start next year the transmission pipeline has been in operation for more than 65 years we approved the twinning of that pipeline so running a single additional pipe alongside the one thats already there this project has the potential to create thousands of solid middle class jobs for canadians people in b. C. Alberta and right across the country would have more opportunities to earn a good living. On kong politicians are meeting for the 1st time since mass protests that led to the suspension of the extradition bill members of the opposition prodemocracy camp are playing to file a motion of no confidence over the
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Is the incremental additional money that theyve got to try to destabilize the region or send to their proxies, is that more important than preventing iran from getting a Nuclear Weapon . No. So i think again, this is a matter of us making a determination of what is our priority. The other problem with the argument that folks have been making about, oh, this is a windfall and suddenly iran is flushed with cash, and theyre going to take over the world. And i say that not tongueincheek, because if you look at some of the statements by some of our critics, you would think that iran is, in fact, going to take over the world as a consequence of this deal which i think would be news to the iranians. That argument is also premised on the notion that if there is no deal, if Congress Votes down this deal, that were able to keep sanctions in place with the same vigor and effectiveness as we have right now. And that, i can promise you, is not true. That is absolutely not true. I want to repeat wer