Bill Clinton: “Correct. So if you want to just look at the plain, brutal, short-term economic interest, that's the short-term economic…”

“Correct. So if you want to just look at the plain, brutal, short-term economic interest, that's the short-term economic interest. If you want to look at the long run, we've got an interest in Asia in having stable democracies that are our partners, that work with us to help grow the region and grow with us over the long run to help shoulder burdens like climate change, cleaning up the environment, dealing with global disease, dealing with weapons of mass destruction, contributing to the efforts in Bosnia, ending the nuclear program in North Korea. All those things we depend on the Asian countries to be a part of. They can only do that if they're strong. So, we live in a world that's so interdependent that we need them to be strong if we're going to be strong. Mr. Lehrer. As you know, there's some Members of Congress who are saying what this really boils down to is welfare for international bankers--that's what we're up to. How do you respond to that? That's going to get--that seems to be growing particularly in the last few days.”