As you would expect me to say so, we dont intervene between corporate entities. Both they are commercial entities that entertain commercial relationship. See certainly hope for the stability of that part of the world and for the stability of supply, that the situation can be addressed promptly and satisfactorily between the commercial entities and the negotiation. Strong hope thank you. This is the last question. Josh, Associated Press. Madam director, in the downward revision for growth in 2014, it looks like weather played a big role. What does that take oh tell tell us about the stability of the economy given that impact . I think it says two things. One is, we believe that this q1 result was a temporary occurrence. With temporary outcomes that will be mitigated by stronger growth Going Forward in q2q3 and hopefully ongoing. However you would have noted, we have revise down our forecast for Growth Trends in the United States to two percent. We are facing this aging population issue.
Antitank weapons, hand held weapons, hand held rockets. Weapons capable of use in short range fighting. This is not arming of ukraine for some invasion of russia. You dont invade countries as large as russia with defense weaponry. Youre more than likely to resist. That can permit them effective operations to terminate some of the violence that is being sponsored on the borders between ukraine and russia. I think would help in any case to contain the risk and the temptation to resolve this issue by force of arms. On the russian side, in the context with a move of great ecstasy of a crimean which is quick. It can be quite strong and appealing to a political leader with desperate needs and measures of success. But at the same time, we have to engage in some exploration of possible arrangements for compromise. Especially if it becomes clear to the russians and mr. Putin that either destabilizing ukraine or taking it by force poses great risks and may not be attainable. That has to be effor
In the middle east was a catastrophic mistake but not who did what in the invasion of iraq and how bad that was but a long held american policy of arming, funding, and training sunni, jihaddist militants that goes back to the decision in the Carter Administration in 979 to arm, train and fund the knew hauge make Immediate Fund the mahajmadine and get them in the quagmire we had in vietnam and though it had shortterm gains in getting the soviets out of afghanistan, that policy has been zast us for the United States and it goes to the precursor elements in al qaeda and after the invasion in iraq, as we were desperate to try to bring in these sunni groups that were not accepting this upending of the political order we had arranged engineered in iraq with the invasion, desperate to corrupt some of the sunni elements, the surge looked at in washington think an unmitigated success took us right back to that policy and entailed beyond sending 30,000 troops to the baghdad area, it entailed arm
If they are not a necessarily pure republican vote, their vote is sympathetic to someone who makes the rand paul case. Michael, final word, . I think the issue that will come out is rand paul has a base that he picked up from his father and it was heavily subscribed to by younger people at universities and colleges and it was reminiscent of how Barry Goldwater was so well received received when the Young Americans for freedom was created in the 1960s and help propel him through 1964. Younger people are far more idealistic. They do not have the patience for the current Republican Party. When you finally hit social security, you can be chairman of the party. Ron paul did this as a congressman and his son is doing it. This is what helped to propel goldwater, who was a minority view in the Republican Party, so the minority view captured the party and became the majority. That is the plan that has to be looked at. It might be too soon and 2016, but change the time and he could make a differ
In 2009 he edited the book conundrum, the search for alternatives which features several experts examining an array of International Activities and responsibilities conducted by the u. N. He is a frequent visitor to the Subsaharan Africa as well and has written extensively on economic development, peace and Security Issues in that region. He first joined us here at heritage in 1995 from march 2003 to 2004 he worked at the pentagon as an assistant for International Criminal court policy before returning here to heritage. Please join me in welcoming brett schaefer. Brett . [applause] good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. As we noted on the flyer, in recent years, there have been a number of various stories, reports, and other sources revealing a troubling number of scandals, mishaps, misappropriations by the United Nations and its affiliated organizations, and ill go through a few of them to give you a sense for what weve seen. Earlier this year the Associated Press reporte