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You know, china has demonstrated some advanced capabilities on cyber. They havent conducted anything that might resemble warfare, per se, but they have stolen military secrets from the United States. That starts to see an area thats moving closer to offense than mere security and espionage. Russia has devil straighted a real cyber offense capability if you look at the war in georgia. There was a demonstrated capability to go on that kind of offense. And another looking to do a good job of that, if they want to is israel. If you look at the joint effort of the United States and israel to create...

Most innovative country in the world, most creative, work labor law that is unique in the developed world, a big place full of chances to expand, the history of productivity, all this stuff has been cast aside temporarily. We are moping around like we are france, with all due respect. [applause] the french have a lot of great things going on. I dont want to be disrespectful. They have a lot of interesting things, but we are not france for crying out loud. We are not seizing the moment. Were not aspiring to be young and dynamic again. If we fix a few big substantive things, we could be american...

John Danforth served three terms as a United States Senator from Missouri. He is an Episcopal priest and the author of Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together. Danforth is also the founder of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University.…