To do that . Congressman, again, i dont know what the thought process was six or eight months ago. I do know we have a much better appreciation for the resources of isil. In august i went around to all the regions, i was in transition, to get a better sense of isil. At that time there wasnt a clear understanding of how isis i will was generating revenue. Even in the weeks subsequent to august, we started to have a much better appreciation for the source of isil revenue. We started to go after the Oil Infrastructure and the tankers because we then appreciated how much of an impact that would have. I guess in the same vein, it looked like the french targets, the first targets they hit, seemed to be targets we should have hit right off the bat. Is that all changed now, are we in a new paradigm . I got the monday morning quarterbacking analogy, but are we in a position to hit everything that makes sense from a military standpoint . I can assure you, congressman, that the answer to that que
Began nation to nation relations and mutual trade treaty. About a year ago, i had once invited to gentlemen with the names of mr. Dan lytton and peter underwood. They were the descendents of those who founded the University Medical center. These american missionaries came in the late 19 century and founded hospitals and schools. They did many work for the people. In 1945, after the u. S. Rose the tories from the pacific war, korea was liberated from japans colonial rule. However, the disarmament of japanese troops north of 38th parallel was hindered by soviet union. As the soviet union forces occupy the north, the peninsula became divided and suffered structural problems. After our liberation, the United States, who is in charge of militarization for south korea, withdrew their forces before june 29, 1949, as the republic of korea government was established in 1948. They left only 479 members at the Korean Military advisory group. Also, january 1, 1950, the secretary of state, mr. Dean
And this increase is a line with inflation to ensure that the level of funding will keep pace overtime. The reason i say these things is we stressed this morning the absolute criticality of a strong federal partnership, predictability of funding and significantly increased federal funding to help, to earn the tide to turn the tide on this. I want to make a clear we appreciate and respect at the local level we need to step up and do our part as well. So thats what you see on the part of our commonwealth. So what ill say is that things have certainly gotten much better but we, and were continuing but we are definitely in a great need of continued support by the federal government. On the side of, i want to take a little bit now, state of good repair, fix it first, commonsense must happen. But at the same time we cannot wind up only looking at the whole as i said, and that the donut. That means we also have to make new targeted investment for growth. For us the most notable of those proje
Withdrawal from afghanistan in terms of the earlier question about our capacity to deploy in two separate theaters of war . Right. I think the lessons i slightly change the angle here and say i think there are lessons from the afghan experience which can be applied to iraq. As i said earlier the business of doing it properly, building up an army from the grass roots, building up the respect of the confidence, capability, is in a way which wasnt done frankly in the british experience in iraq is relevant to what might happen. On that point do you think the afghan army is likely to perform better than we have seen with the iraqi army . Im optimistic. Providing theres one major caveat, providing the International Community stays committed both in continuing to train and also, and very importantly, in providing the money. Because dont forget the afghanistan did not collapse after the soviets left, it collapsed when soviet union collapsed when the money dried up. I am optimistic that providi
Christine writes and robert wrote continue to let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. Call us at email us at or send a tweet at and likeconversation us on facebook and follow us on twitter. He is the treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial and he talked about the u. S. Treasury to disrupt the financing of the Islamic State also known as isis. He refused the source of Revenue Strategies for disrupting down. He spoke at a forum. This is an hour. Good morning. I am marwan muasher, director of the middle east program. I want to welcome you to carnegie and thank you for joining us for this timely discussion on u. S. Efforts to disrupt the Financial Network that support Islamic State of iraq and the levant, what is called isis. I see there is enough interest in this room for this issue. Overflow. Public attention has focused on the military efforts to degrade isis, there is another effort being led by the Treasury Department, which is focused on shutting d