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Meant by the president's position has not changed. the message i would prefer to listen to here is the secretary of state. hopefully that's the message that will prevail. and i think he did a great thing by stating this in a very public forum. i also think, by the way -- that's the carrot. we also need to maintain the stick, meaning squeezing the north koreans with sanctions. so when we do talk we have some leverage to exert. but i just hope that the secretary's credibility has not been undermined and won't further be by a direct countervention of what he said. i think this is the only path ah...

Disturbing, but at least they did not fly it over the land mass of japan, so if you are looking for good news of sorts, i guess that's it. >> i guess, except as you say they have been working on it for sometime, and is it time to change the united states response to this? >> as others have aobserved man times, there are no good options in response. there needs to be a combination of carrot and stick here. we have been long on the stick and kind of short on the carrot. >> what can we change to change -- what feels like the march that they keep making? we keep hearing we have no good options, bu...

It had been holding up negotiations for the last year or so, along with a couple of other issues. that was breaking the logjam and now the path ahead, while there's still a lot of issues to be worked out and potential pitfalls, now i think there's a tremendous sense of hope and optimism in colombia that this long, national nightmare of theirs will finally be over. >> professor, a lot of people may not know that colombia has been involved in a 50-plus year war within its boundaries. thousands of deaths. it's been involved in bloody skirmishes for decades and decades and decades. one of the ques...

The women said don't leave us. she said that the american people would not abandon the women of afghanistan. its abundantly clear, i think the minute we move out of there the taliban rolls back in and we're back to the situation with the women of afghanistan. what do we tell them as we leave? >> i think its tragic situation. i don't see any evidence that karzai is prepared to protect women. that they will change society. we're losing lives of young men and women in a mission, i don't understand, given the current rules of engagement and what we're doing, i don't see a path ahead that leads to ...

The women said don't leave us. she said that the american people would not abandon the women of afghanistan. its abundantly clear, i think the minute we move out of there the taliban rolls back in and we're back to the situation with the women of afghanistan. what do we tell them as we leave? >> i think its tragic situation. i don't see any evidence that karzai is prepared to protect women. that they will change society. we're losing lives of young men and women in a mission, i don't understand, given the current rules of engagement and what we're doing, i don't see a path ahead that leads to ...