Worked very hard to manage those alignments so it doesnt create too great a tension. As time goes on, ive seen greater congruence in our views, not less. If i could follow one piece, you did mention that youre just back from ankara, the role and the relationship with turkey has been complicated, its been vital, its been seen as quite tense at times. It seems youre quite optimistic right now. So, one of my questions there, you see, for example, the kurdish being an effective force fighting within syria, but again, this is sort of just to get to one area where there are differences potentially differences between Coalition Members on how to approach a particular ontheground partner. How do you see that kind of dynamic playing out . Well, its its actually been naturally pretty remarkable what the kurdish elements in syria have done to eliminate daesh from a large segment of the border. There is still a border which is in the hands of daesh and thats problematic, and its an issue for the w
Threat at the center for American Progress. His remarks are followed by a panel discussion. This entire event is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the center for American Progress, its amazing to see so many wonderful friends here i see investor haley, some other distinguished members of the diplomatic corps. Were all here from caps perspective to launch this report, from all of your perspective to get an opportunity to hear directly from general john allen the president s special envoy to the Global Coalition to counter isis. They still say isil, i say isis. General alan is one of the great patriots and Public Servants weve had in this country. And ive had the privilege to know him for several years. He has been a man who would take on any difficult task for the United States. And hes been endlessly dedicated, dedicated to the troops dedicated to the marines he led. Dedicated to the civilians who worked in the most difficult places, and im really h
Those clinicians who were providing higher quality, better value care a big movement in general to give patients more knowledge and to let them be more active participants in their own health care. Medicare solved the initial problem. It was designed to solve. But there is so much more that we need to do to make sure that the program improves and of course most importantly, is around for our children and grandchildren. That will be a whole other discussion. What changes would you make . First i think we need to establish that something is happening. As producing much better results. Were not sure what that s there is per capita spending and medicare has essentially been flat or going up about the rate of the gdp. Its unprecedented in the history of medicare. Its always been said that actual was wrong. Were spending much less than predicted. And i think well probably wind up talking this morning about whether this is sustainable or not. But something good has been going on. I also have
And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of
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