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They faced last month, before the combat mission was over. what were formerly combat brigades are advise and assist brigades. you've still got platoons and companies going out partnering with iraqi security force toss secure the neighborhood. thankfully the situation there is a great deal better than it was before the surge, violence is down over 90 percent, markets are open , iraq's security forces are far more confident -- competent, but we've still got about 20,000 troops on a daily basis in harm's way partnering with iraq to make sure that now that we've won the war, the 7-plus years, that...

Where all this money is going. there are some successes, some areas were aid has been quite effective, but at the macro level, clearly it failed to achieve any sort of sustainable development for the country. >> so, if a lot of money is going to ngos and the u.n., i mean, i have never understood in these countries, people drive around in brand new vehicles. i have never seen so many brand new, clean, gleaming white land rovers in my life in places like haiti and congo. are they spending a lot of money? >> they are spending a lot of money. haiti is considered to be an unstable environment and y...

Effective. but at the macro level, clearly it has failed to achieve any sort of sustainable development for the country. >> so if a lot of money is going to ngos and the u.n., in all these countries, people drive around in brand new vehicles. i've never seen so many gliming white new land rovers in my life than i've seen in places like haiti and congo. are they spending a lot of money? >> there is a lot of money. haiti is considered to be an unstable environment. you do have things spent on security for building and vehicles, which is another important element. what international aid has contr...

In haiti, i read the u.s. had trouble tracking aid it gave to haiti after a 2004 storm because some initial fact finding trip was ruled as too dangerous? >> that is right. tracking the money has been a huge challenge. everyone realizes that there needs to be account bill knit aid and that it is important to have zero tolerance policy for corruption. but as a practical matter, what you have in haiti is so much money coming in from different sources, private source, multilateral organization as well as the u.s. government and other foreign governments, it is going to nongovernmental organization...

Focusing on the perpetrator's identity and their politics. that does a disservice to everybody, but because this isa political issue. rate victims, assault victims don't care whether the perpetrators are liberals, conservatives, democrats, republicans. it transcends politics. our discussion is not just here at the table but the american conservatives, democrats, republicans. it transcends politics. our discussion is not just here at the table but the american discourse should reflect it. >> kimberly: on a more macro level, yeah. i think these examples in these cases are people who have suffere...