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way that is safe for the workers, the environment and as insulated from ris if at all possible. i had the opportunity not too long ago to go down to new orleans, the images required through the 3-d to give a sense of the shifting oil so the geologists can study the trends and get a picture of the resource potential. it is almost surgil compared to the basic exploratory drilling which we have seen over the past century. and it does give a confidence and a well can be targeteand explored...

up next, state department counterterrorism coordinator daniel benjamin earlier today. he talked about the obama administrations approach to security and terrorist threats. the woodrow wilson center international security studies hosted this even here in washington. its about one hour. [inaudible conversations] .. todays meeting is cosponsored by the international security studies program and by our middle east program. the coseries of georgetown professor bruce hoffman sends regrets. h...

fact becket you are investing in a new generation of afghans through scholarship. that is exactly what we need. that is a very important investment for the future stability of the region. we have to have more pakistanis and afghan universities and more afghans in pakistani universities in order for these two nations to get together. these are crucial investments, not only for the future of afghanistan, but for improving understanding between our regions. we could live in peace and pros...

history moving through east africa while i think we are doing well, the nature of the threat is always changing. >> lets open for comments and questions from the floor if the speakers could identify themselves and rate for the microphone we have the first question here. >> georgetown university. but thank you for your service to our country. the word file into extremism was tended to be used like the eight islamist never came out of your mouth and some people think the above the admini...

in ways that will move people away from extreme i am is a very, very difficult challenge. and, its not one that governments have genuinely, historically attended to in the past. so i think that were breaking new ground and im always hopeful that were doing so fast enough because we really do want to finally answer the question and say, no, there are fewer terrorists on the street today than there whether . . i think those are two our big challenges. >> mr. ambassador, my name is rosema...

weve seen five young men from virginia turn up in pakistan on their way to the father. we continue to see a trickle of individuals of somali ancestry heading for east africa. so while i think that we are doing well, you know, the nature of the threat is always changing. .. i wondered, you tended to use the word violent extremism, words like islamist never came out of your mouth during your speech. and some people think that the obama administration has turned its back and not taken the...

and, you know, one thing is that there was a couple of people used the term market failure before. and i realize that its a term that has a specific economic meaning. but it kind of rubs me the wrong way from a colloquial sense. because a lot of whats actually happened is rampant market success. thats caused this problem. you know, part of why ad rates have gone down is that advertisers no longer have to waste half their ad budgets on things they dont know whether it works. part of why...

so, you know, were in a challenging situation at the moment. as you all know there is a lot of work going on at the u.n. in this regard. so, you know, this is an ongoing story. >> im afraid our time is elapsed. you will be directed to at reception in the adjacent room. i like to thank all of you for attending today and for those watching todays proceedings on c-span. join me in thanking ambassador daniel benjamin for an excellent presentation. [applause] . . >> the minute that the wall...

administration, which i was not, i would not have advised it to try to reconciliation. thats too technical for us to talk about here, but i think it guaranteed that you would have partisan confrontation for the foreseeable future on this issue. and thats too bad. i am for health care reform. i am really for universal health coverage. i havent figured out how you pay for it, but i am for it. and there is a way, but we have so far, we have made it so controversial that i think its unlike...

are not a whole lot of competitive races in the state of new york. so, i cant comment on that. my gut feeling is that in fact the mets would probably be more republican than the yankees. host: why? guest: simply because of the long island thing. the yankees fan would be more of the urban population base of new york city, whereas the mets playing in the shea stadium on long island would have a stronger following, a more republican long island population. host: sam in atlanta, independen...