airlines dumping employee pensions only to have employees greatly wiped out for a lifetime of earnings. i understand your frustration and your concern. mr. kennedy has said in this case they are not dumping this at the doorstep of the pc d g e which would seem to be good news. and my misunderstanding something? i m not talking about dumping things on the pcbg. i was talking about a specific situation in the american airlines flight attendant union where twa flight attendants were stapled to the bottom of the list. the data of higher issue and that is something i have for years had friends who went through that and i think is something with that needs to be fixed and i applaud by the way american airlines and usair way is for not choosing to dump everything on the government and find a way to work it out. i was glad to see that happen. that wasn t their first choice but it was eventually their arms were twisted. from what i understand they also think that is good news. the
estimate operation and support cost of over $1 trillion across the f3530 year life cycle. the department has already deemed this unaffordable setting targets to reduce this the congress may want to consider these funding assumptions are reasonable from our environment from our perspective these are the risks this committee must weigh as a program as it stands today the department plans to buy almost 2500 aircraft to replace and improve upon today s fleet and if these risks are not controlled then the cost of f-35 rose much more and the falls in danger of a much too familiar cycle of quantity reductions that is of less buying power of the department also forcing decision makers to consider other options to maintain our tactical fleet and with that i will conclude chairman and answer questions. but just to sketch out the alternative way is how many of you may find the from a premise of the acknowledging that the excellence but the discussion but the pentagon will continue a w
host: out of their federal budgets in some way? guest: out of whatever budgets they have in some way. guest: you ve got to remember the pakistanis have viewed afghanistan in the context of their troubled relationship with india and a few.as somewhat of an insurance the policy of rear area. and there s still a lot of suspicion among pakistan. because in the past as we were in afghanistan, we ve been stuck on that. they too were upset about the way we attend in afghanistan after the soviets lost. so they were to some extent still hedging about how long is the u.s. going to be there and we need to have the taliban on our side at some point in the future. host: so the obama administration, how is it addressed the pakistan question? guest: well, i think they ve been doing a pretty good job so far. you know, most of it most of the effective work is going on behind closed doors. but clearly we ve seen some good cooperation from them. we saw the arrest of a number to tell