concerned at the emerging evidence of the use of chemical weapons, and we demand that the regime allow the u.n. to investigate these allegations. assad should be in no doubt that the world is watching and will hold him to account, him and anyone else to account who is found responsible for the use of chemical weapons. as we face up to these security challenges and those posed by iran, we also face significant budget constraints, both in london and in washington. secretary hagel and i have addressed the issue of defense reform and how we can get more bang for our buck on both sides of the atlantic. greater military cooperation is at the heart of this, and we also need to look at how we can encourage our partner countries within european nato to reform their forces to take on more of the security challenge with more effective and deployable forces. of course, the u.k. and the u.s. already enjoy a very high level of cooperation and interoperability, but we have agreed to explore what more we can do in our armed forces to drive greater efficiencies through collaboration together. yesterday, as sec

same reason you're not going to get reform of the u.n. security council. any reform has winners and losers and shockingly enough, the losers will resist it. i ended up thinking it made sense to traffic in put up these thoughts. i do think there's one or two ways things could turn out better. one is the way i fear, which is only after a crisis have essentially business as usual is no longer sustainable. the problem is we pay an enormous collective price for the crisis. this is not the way any of you should want things to happen. the alternative is something of a new majority or plurality for reforms we need. i think aker, about for leadership willing to willing to in some ways combine the best of fdr, the fireside chats for policy reform and lyndon johnson and some good retail politics to bring it about. it's a longshot? are. is it possible? definitely. no way have they given up. americans can be counted on to do the right thing, but only after they've tried everything else. the real question for me is whether we get time before the crisis forces us to unde

we then had the u.n. enterprises that are on the korean peninsula to keep the people of the republic of korea free. vietnam war, very, very dramatic and important in american history. and then today, you know, we face the issues with taiwan, our relationship with japan, and present a republic of korea. so it's always been a pretty important issue set for the united states. on the other hand, it's also always been taken for granted, to a degree. admittedly, america has for a long time been a very eurocentric nation. you know, we have worried about that. we faced the soviet union in europe. when i was a young lieutenant that's where everyone was focused. then the middle east, things like 9/11, which we're now totally focused their and still remaining that way. so in a certain way the administration's so-called pivot towards asia is very much overdue. and we should celebrate the concept of doing that. i mean, the portion of the world's population that happens to be in asia is enormous. the markets that are t