Security issues . What are the things that we have to be concerned with as a nation and what is the armys role in those National Security issues . So i hope we will have a good discussion on that today. We face many challenges today, whether it be budgets and balancing our budget, reducing that debt and what is the right level of funding for our military . We face social problems which was mentioned, such as assault and harassment. We are working on the issues of suicide, the issues of taking care of our soldiers who have been wounded both with physical injuries and those that are nonvisible injuries. Thats something we must stay focused on not just today but for the foreseeable future because there will be some soldiers that are impacted by this for many years. Its our responsibility to make sure that we continue to take care of them. I hope we will have an opportunity to talk about the future and talk about the key issues we are facing today. Its an honor for me to be here and i look
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That was the total cost of their care. Even if they were only two weeks pregnant. That was the cost they only have to pay. Then to the doctor up to six week old age of the child, that was only 500. These immigrants could have a child which it cost a person in the United States at that time without insurance far more. Host all that said, whats a solution in your view . Caller we need to keep legal immigration. We just need to until we get the revised version or whatever they want. We need to enforce it. Im sorry about these kids coming in. I really am. My heart went out to taking care of them. But also, we have to understand when we have a responsibility to ourselves. Host how big a political issue is this to you . Could your vote be swayed by this issue . Caller no. My vote wont be swayed. Because it has been used as a political issue. Host thank you maam. Dennis, minnesota, independent line. Dennis, your on the washington journal this morning. Caller good morning. I wish i would have
Across kabul years before. It just simply was too dangerous. It is still a dangerous place, by the way. I dont want to sound pollyannish here. Things havent is changed for the better in afghanistan and the American People, sadly, dont know it. Relative to the american by way ofy itself part of the story, of course, is the growth in the number of students. When it opened i think it with 53 students. There is now 1,000 students there. 300 of them are women. And they have a broad number of courses. I wont go into all those. On ann a a newd campus an International Campus womens economic. Defense dollars to open up a womens Economic Development school, a. I. D. . t that why is it d. O. D. . Significantly to the security of the country, but i think basically the answer is because the d. O. D. Did a number of things including some of the commanders expenditures which helped the development of that is so essential to its security and this is part of it. At thee story we got American University
Country, which is so essential to its security. , thee story we got American University the town student talks about his life experience. The taliban was there and took refuge with his family. Younger boy at that time. As third soon as the taliban were dripping out he came back. As a matter fact, how to read and to write. Now interviewing as a job as a. Ales manager there are full fulbright scholars at the university in kabul. He wanted me to say thank you to the American People. This is as close as i could come. The Education System and afghanistan. So many of them, the number given to them is counterintuitive. So i do not use it. In terms of the lower grades, before you get to colleges and universities, before the taliban was driven out, to the extent they have been, 900,000 boys. Now a Million Students in school. 3 million of those are girls. None of those who couldve been educated before we got there with our allies. Were 20,000e teachers, all male. Is now 200,000 teachers. 60,000