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host: ben in annapolis, md., good morning. caller: yes, we pay for the army with our taxes. if we put the government in control of health-care we lose accountability. you have to have accountability. look at congress now. democrats blame the republicans. and of the republicans blamed the democrats. it is absurd, with no accountability. i have heard a lot of democrats this morning talk about such things as getting rid of salaries and incentives -- that is ridiculous. everything that has made america successful is the desire for profit. want to take out profit you have a miserable, government- controlled system and it will be a disaster. host: end "the hale" newspaper there's a special section on health care with lots of op-eds on health care. newt gingrich has one. here's a little bit from it. to truly bring down costs and expand coverage we need to focus on three things -- improving individual health by incentivizing prevention, will miss, and early health, suddenly, incentivizing providers through fair and proper payments to adopt in best practices, and reforming public pro

freeze in antarctica, and i can attest personally of the sailors that were under the ice on the uss annapolis in the arctic when i visited them a couple of months ago. so in a way you can see that we're a little bit of an everything force, and what some, i think, have called a hybrid force. it's conventional, it's irregular, but most importantly it's both at the same time wherever the nation needs it to be. we must be flexible, and we must be able to operate in that way. the world is more interconnected than it ever has been before. the time and pace of operations today compared to when i began my career are lightning fast, and they're only going to get faster. and it isn't good enough that we get there. we in this very interconnected world have to be there when things happen. and that interconnectedness is also going to become increasingly fragile, and it's going to be easily disrupted and what i believe is going to be a more disordered world, and we can see the disruption that's just caused by a few teenage pirates operating off the coast of somalia. i refer to them as our old foes because

host: annapolis, good morning to maggie on the democrats' line. is the president's response to timid? caller: i don't think at all. i agree that he is doing exactly the right thing and the twitterers online who say that they don't want us to invade. that would be the worst thing possible. sanctions, that would be the worst thing possible. they need to own this revolution. it needs to be theirs, genuine. what they do need, however, is help from the u.n. of any emergency supplies, medication, -- they need the emergency supplies, medication, gas masks. they say, where is the u.n.? is a closed and the weekend? that would be an appropriate. for us to do something militarily -- we have so much bad experience with iran, they don't want us to do that. host: where are you following the information? caller: #iranelection, all one word, and also #tehran and that also follow it on youtube. i tried to fall on news programs but it is disappointing no one has been carrying it -- people just doing their regular programs and this is a humanitarian crisis. yes, we