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Billions of american dollars have gone into the counterterrorism structure there. and yet, they hung their policy around trying to build up you know, a central government their own security forces but there s a little bit of defensive play right now from the white house, even this week the press spokesman, josh earnest earnest, called that the successful model. it s not successful at the moment. you have anthony blinken in saudi arabia delivering more weapons to the saudis. who are engaged in this remarkable intervention in yemen right now with other arab countries. do you think there s any reservations in the administration about being so public about taking such sides here? i don t think so basically in for a penny, in for a pound. presumably they re trying to protect the massive investment that s already in there. and knowing that you know which side do you want to win? right now al qaeda is exploiting this vacuum. the saudis have done you know got quite a good cobbled ....
It is quite easy to outsmart technology. and people just have to keep trying to build up the defenses better and better. another big story, yemen. you keep hearing from your sources, so do we focusing on yemen. this will become the devil s playground. you don t understand how serious this is. what s the context? the context is and we ve been saying this in our discussions, since this has gone to hell in hand basket really. this was all for many years through president obama s administration the center of the counterterrorism strategy in that reason. when they successfully got al qaeda out of afghanistan and then busted them up in pakistan they started moving to yemen and we know that the famous underwear bomber, aqapl qaeda in the arabian peninsula, they have a lot of capability there. john brennan, president obama s counterterrorism adviser and now head of the c.i.a. ....
As they could. so our nation went to war. we have now been at war for well over a decade. i won t review the full history. what is clear is that we quickly drove al qaeda out of afghanistan but then shifted our focus and began a new war in iraq. this carried significant consequences for our fight against al qaeda, our standing in the world, and, to this day, our interests in a vital region. meanwhile, we strengthened our defenses, hardening targets, tightening transportation security, giving law enforcement new tools to prevent terror. most of these changes were sound. some caused inconvenience, but some, like expanded surveillance raised difficult questions about ....
And so our nation went to war. we have now been at war for well over a decade. i won t review the full history. what is clear that s. that we quickly drove al qaeda out of afghanistan but then shifted our focus and began a new war in iraq. this carried significant consequences for fight against al qaeda, our stabbed in the world and to this day our interests in a vital region. meanwhile, we strengthened our defenses. hardening targets. tightening transportation security. giving law enforcement new tools to prevent terror. most of these changes were sound. some caused inconvenience. but some, like expanded surveillance raised difficult questions about the balance that we strike between our interests in security and our values of privacy. ....
Principle target. instead a group of terrorists came to kill as many civilians as they could. so our nation went to war. we ve been at war for over a decade. what is clear is that we quickly drove al qaeda out of afghanistan but then shifted our focus and began a new war in iraq. this carried significant consequences with al qaeda and to this day our interests in a vital region. meanwhile we strengthened our defenses. tightening transportation security, giving law enforcement new tools to prevent terror. most of these changes were sound. some caused inconvenience, but some, like expand surveillance, ....