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Meant by the presidents position has not changed. the message i would prefer to listen to here is the secretary of state. hopefully thats the message that will prevail. and i think he did a great thing by stating this in a very public forum. i also think, by the way -- thats the carrot. we also need to maintain the stick, meaning squeezing the north koreans with sanctions. so when we do talk we have some leverage to exert. but i just hope that the secretarys credibility has not been undermined a...

Disturbing, but at least they did not fly it over the land mass of japan, so if you are looking for good news of sorts, i guess thats it. >> i guess, except as you say they have been working on it for sometime, and is it time to change the united states response to this? >> as others have aobserved man times, there are no good options in response. there needs to be a combination of carrot and stick here. we have been long on the stick and kind of short on the carrot. >> what can we change to cha...

It had been holding up negotiations for the last year or so, along with a couple of other issues. that was breaking the logjam and now the path ahead, while theres still a lot of issues to be worked out and potential pitfalls, now i think theres a tremendous sense of hope and optimism in colombia that this long, national nightmare of theirs will finally be over. >> professor, a lot of people may not know that colombia has been involved in a 50-plus year war within its boundaries. thousands of de...

The women said dont leave us. she said that the american people would not abandon the women of afghanistan. its abundantly clear, i think the minute we move out of there the taliban rolls back in and were back to the situation with the women of afghanistan. what do we tell them as we leave? >> i think its tragic situation. i dont see any evidence that karzai is prepared to protect women. that they will change society. were losing lives of young men and women in a mission, i dont understand, give...

The women said dont leave us. she said that the american people would not abandon the women of afghanistan. its abundantly clear, i think the minute we move out of there the taliban rolls back in and were back to the situation with the women of afghanistan. what do we tell them as we leave? >> i think its tragic situation. i dont see any evidence that karzai is prepared to protect women. that they will change society. were losing lives of young men and women in a mission, i dont understand, give...