Without ever doing that. And so i literally would do things that started to build relationships. You want something to fall back on when you disagree on the issues. When mike says something and youre sitting across the table. You know, i know mike and his value set. There is something to fall back on. I see the same thing in board rooms for corporations. If they come in periodically to my you are not apt to get a very effective outcome. I think that is huge. The strategy part is not that hard. Figuring out what to do i think you can do on a saturday morning. Let me just add to that. That. I think this is critical for damn near anything. Part of what we have to do is take a big step back and look at the relationships and the way we have had those relationships over the last 30, 40, 50 years and say, are those relationships still solid, sound . Do we have to form new relationships . Do we have to change the way we relate to each other . And this is not just in afghanistan but throughout
Putin did this in georgia. He did it in moldova. That went for those who want to look west ward. I think for so long as you do not have offensive weapons along what is the Eastern Europe part assigned to europe, then russia is in a position, if you put offensive weapons, that changes the dynamics for russia. If all youre talking about is a defensive possibility, im not quite sure why that evokes, you know, putins actions. And well before any discussion of nato, the conversation was about ukraine looking towards European Union session more than nato. And i think for putin and his eurasia view, and new russia view. Ukraine is an essential element of that. It is not about defense or concerns. And without ukraine it is difficult to envision the type of new russia. So i dont think it was a mistake to enter into those negotiations. And i dont know which one of us is willing to suppress the aspirations for the same freedoms we enjoy in the United States. Senator menendez, im watching changing
Robinson, you probably recognize her because shes the former assistant attorney general for the office of Justice Programs both in this administration with president obama and also in the administration with president clinton. And to professor robinsons left is Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, and to those in the district who also recognize him hes been the Police Commissioner for, i want to say, six years and was the District Police chief for eight, almost nine years and has spent time in chicago. The way we will do this today is we will have a series of a panel of experts that will provide testimony to the task force, and that testimony will then be considered by the task force as it goes into deliberations. Let me say this. For the witnesses we have today, one, thank you for being here. For the first time of the task force, were also going to have several witnesses come in through and im going to get myself in trouble because im not a tech person so i apologize ahead of time thro
You also further testified here as well that a large, rather large increase in suicide is seen in officers with 1519 years of service. The question becomes there is a population of Police Officers that are going out, particularly those they might age group okay. We are in the twilight of our careers, and much of what youre talking about, much of the research i assume has been validated pretty much on this population, on my population come if you will. If we consider the fact that theres a younger population of young men and women that are coming our Police Departments today, entirely different generation, 21, 22 years of age anecdotally they are much healthier, they grew up in a time when they become more Health Conscious because the parents more Health Conscious. They are less likely to drink, smoke, hang out, do the police club clique club that introduced a lot of these illnesses that we are very much familiar with. But whats really striking is the fact that for many of these young p
The atrocities produced in situations where ordinary people kill large numbers of civilians as occurred in the vietnam war and which i wrote about, that continues to haunt us in our war fighting in iraq and afghanistan. We learned, or should learn from, what we have done and what others have done to us. Amy for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people were killed across yemen on wednesday in one of the worst days of fighting so far. The heaviest violence was seen in the southern port city of aden where those were killed kind of fleet and to the north 35 civilians were killed by an airstrike. Speaking during a visit to saudi arabia, secretary of state john kerry said the situation in yemen is dire. We are deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation that is unfolding in yemen, shortages of feud and best food and fuel and medicine. The situation is getting more dire by the day. Am