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Outside of the city, go back and rediscover our roots from the cold war. we didn't prepare ourselves to deal with the red army and the soviet nuclear threat. we looked it and challenged it. we see it not just in the middle east but in boston, ottawa and now sydney. so the idea that we are going to find people with a voice in the debate within islam and push back with all the tools of state craft, not just drones fighting a supposedly sterile war a world away. >> we're happy to hear from those folks. we want to break down now the timeline of how this has unfolded. the hostage seige in austral...

Adults that had been tortured and starved inside syria. >> this weekend, when you've got a u.n. convoy that comes under fire as they are trying to deliver humanitarian supplies. it would seem though, steve, that the language that the president has been using -- this is the same language we've been hearing for several months now, does not seem to be having a great deal of effect. >> well, i mean, bottom line is there are some like senator mccain and others calling for humanitarian zones or no fly zones, almost all of those military scenarios are being resisted by the pentagon because they would...

Act. then he wasn't going to act. and then when the u.k. parliament didn't approve it he seemed to back off. that left a perfect opening for putin who after all is a master at state craft and intelligence and all their other. it goes right back to the beginning. we reset our relationship with russia and we've had russia emerge now as a much more important power. >> you know what's disturbing about these pugh research numbers in 2009, 49% of the people thought we had a less important stance. but now it's jumped 13 points. >> the world looks at us the same way. just spent a considerable amount o...

I look forward to an america which will award achievement in the arts as we award achievement in the business and state craft. i look forward to america that commands respect throughout the world not only for the strength, but for the civilization. this country cannot afford to be particularly rich and spiritually poor. art is the great unifying and humanizing experience. the life of the arts, far from being an interruption or distraction in the life of a nation is very close to the center of a nation's purpose. and it is the test of the quality of a nation civilization. and i am certain after...

It's hard to get data to make good comparisons but it is safe to assume that washington's intelligence budget dwarfs that of other countries just as it does with defense spending. it is particularly strange that this rift should develop between the united states and its closest allies in europe. it was predictable and in fact in a sense predicted. in 2002, the british diplomat robert cooper wrote an essay in which he argued that europe was a post-modern international system in which force was no longer a serious option. instead, economic interdependence and cooperation were the governing ideas...