conscious. his eyes were open but he couldn t see. kyle remembers everything went white. and yet even then his thoughts were not of himself. one of the marines who were there remembers how kyle kept asking one question and that was whether nick was ok. and then as kyle s strength drained away, he sensed the end was coming. so according to kyle s memories, my last thought was to make peace with god. i asked for his forgiveness, i was trying to make the best and most of my last few seconds here on earth. the medal of honor is presented for gallantry on the battlefield but today we also recognize kyle carpenter for his valor since. and the hard fight for recovery. eventually kyle woke up. after five weeks in a comba. i want you to consider what kyle has endured just to stand here today. more than 2 1/2 years in the hospital, grueling rehabilitation, brain surgery to remove shrapnel from his head, nearly 40 surgeries to repair a collapsed lung, a fractured finger, a shattered rig
obviously, what has happened in syria, in part, is a result of iran coming in hot and heavy on one side. and iran obviously should consider the fact that if it is if it s view of the region is slowly through sectarian frames they can find themselves fighting in a whole lot of places. over the long term either. i suspect there are folks that recognize that. an iraq chaos is not in their interests. but old habits die hard, and we will have to see whether they can take what i think would be a more promising path thank you very much, everybody. listening to the president of the united states, outlining what the white house will will do. saying this the quite will not choose sides between the conflict in the country, saying that iraqi leaders mulled step up and do what needs tock done, saying there will be 300 troops on the ground, but saying that lit be support and intelligence gathering only, not what would be considered boots on the ground, saying that he would not engage i
what danger do you worry about most in cyberspace? i think that s impressively not necessary. if you have been reading the papers and talking to your friends and colleagues across the private sector, but i would say four things about cyberspace, not entirely well understood by the public that makes use of that. i think therefore we still have some surprises that have insidiously crept up on us. the first thing i would say cyberspace, the internet writ large is not really this massive technology that acts as oftentimes is considered as just another version of the voter poll, fix it. whatever technology, whatever aplukys we need to make it resilient, just do that. it s of course, a mix of technology and people and critical process. and they re so interlocked it s almost impossible to tease one out from the other so you can t delegate this to the i.t. shop and say fix it. the other thing is everything is connected to everything. convergence is the reality. for those who think
jerry, please go but i know where it is. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a question for the congressman and a follow-up. congressman, do you think it would have been right to keep american soldiers giving up their lives and limbs to fight in that country without being immunized from prosecution by the iraqi government? okay. what s your follow-up, sir? caller: my follow-up is that all these republicans, mccain and graham and everybody, talking about barack blew it. he didn t get the status of forces agreement. the reason he didn t get the agreement, because the iranians and maliki wanted to keep the soldiers there without being immuni immunized. and that s why the talks broke down, sir. jerry, i don t know in detail what your point excuse me, what you were saying. i ll just accept it, though. you re right. the iranians and maliki did not want our military there. so therefore, i don t think the president had any other option but to do what it s the