And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
In your view, does the Russian Administration from putin down genuinely believe in an analytical way they can somehow manage the situation whereby assad hate ad across syria can somehow win this war . Or do you think that actually they share the analysis the british government, american government, french government until assad is gone, well never defeat isis and the rest is just theater. Its about saving face. Its about not setting precedent that people can be removed by external factors. Deep down, is there an actual acceptance he really does have to go for this war to be over and beat isil or do they truly believe they can engineer a South Vietnam style victory in syria . Who wants to address this first . I can take a stab at it first. Yeah. Its hard to tell. I think that the conversation thats ive had with those around russian circles indicates to me that the putin government now sees assad as the basis for a whole country solution. Now, that is the rhetorical position. Primarily i
How does that affect ones thinking about how to measure risk . Well, if you still go back to sources and methods, which is what we most importantly have to protect, i still think there has been an overreliance on technology. Even though it is changing rapidly and we have to continue to improve how we use technology and data, you have to rely on it. There is nothing greater than good oldfashioned human intelligence gathering. It is going to be more difficult. A lot of times it is the human intelligence that enables better technologies, new technologies or discovery of what ad vversars are doing. I think the allegations regarding Angela Merkels cell phone, i can only say allegations, were a real Tipping Point in terms of compelling policy makers and members of the i. C. To think long and hard about the risk have os disclosure, the risks of relationships with allies, the risks obviously to sources of information most acutely human sources of information from disclosure. But to think in ne
To come down on them like a ton of bricks if they make a mistake that they rectify because what happens is, if theres not consumer harm, and they werent doing it to get benefit for themselves. It was just were an oversight. We are discouraging them from even trying to make promises to even trying to make promises, even trying to give consumers extra choices. I think it is a dual approach. We need to do, get out, give them information. But also in our enforcement action use our prosecutorial discretion and not hold a Small Company that didnt cause any arm to some sort of really draconian standard. Commissioner . Let me add quickly the Small Business aspect is important. I agree with everything she says. There are 4,462 Service Providers in the United States. The vast majority of them are relatively small. When you talk to people who support Net Neutrality, what they are concerned about is not their Service Provider blocking content or throatling content they want more choices. They want
Authors, and graduate students about their research. This interview is about 20 minutes. Your upcoming book, what is the premise behind it . The idea is that roosevelt expanded American Power to the polar regions. Prior to 1933, when roosevelt took office, the polar regions were seen as very distant because they werent very accessible. As a result of a number of factors, it becomes very geopolitically significant. Why did fdr realize that this was such an important part of the world . There are three factors that led to this kind of change in the full region. The first was technological. Prior to the interwar. , airports have a difficult time getting to the polar regions. They were it easily accessible. When anyone went to the polar regions, it was a track. Dogsled, fingers and toes lost. It was hard to get the United States to the polar regions. , thereirplanes developed was an easier access to the United States. Lets talk about iceland and greenland and some history behind the saving