Peopleave more than 300 registered for this Virtual Meeting and we will try to get through as many questions as we can in the second half of this discussion. I want to note the entirety of todays session is on the record. Our discussion now and later on, the questions and answers. Mr. President , welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. A great leisure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the and to allrticularly the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Now is at a prehistoric threshold or at least potentially so. People the afghan through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cross, one that i know you addressed with great serious
We have more than 300 people registered for this Virtual Meeting and we will try to get through as many questions as we can in the second half of this discussion. I want to note the entirety of todays session is on the record. Our discussion now and later on, the questions and answers. Mr. President , welcome. It is a pleasure to see you again. A great leisure to be with you. My prayers and wishes to the veterans particularly and to all the civilians that served with you. It is a great honor to be with you. Let me say how much i and many other people in this country value our partnership with you and the Afghan People over the past years. Your country now is at a prehistoric threshold or at least potentially so. You and the Afghan People through the loya jirga have made the decision to release the final prisoners the taliban had been demanding and opening the pathway to negotiations which reportedly would start and the next couple of days. That is an extremely important threshold to cr
The new Energy Abundance upends Global Politics and strengthens americas power. We have the author here of course, meghan osullivan. Meghan is now a professor at the Harvard Kennedy school and once the Global Energy security project to bear. She was a special assistant to president george w. Bush and Deputy National security assistant for iraq and afghanistan, and spent some time as an advisor in iraq and has been working on this book for several years. Time has changed while you been working often. Maybe well start by just talking about how you decided and why you decided to write the book. Let me just begin by saying good afternoon and thanks so much for spending your lunch hour with us, and a special thanks to dan for doing this. Dan has been a source of advice, support and inspiration as i really moved into this world and looking at this intersection between energy and politics, so thank you very much for that. My impetus for writing the book, i wouldnt go back directly to iraq but
[inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i want to call the meeting to order . Sure. You want me to introduce you . No. I think were going to start now. Thanks for all of you for coming. My name is jonathan landi, National Security and intelligence correspondent for Mcclatchy Newspapers for another week 1 2. And, again, thank you for coming. To the release of this new report sets out recommended pathway for the Kurdistan Regional government to take to what many believe is inevitable independence from iraq, for iraqikurdistan. The full report is on the web. I think you guys have got the executive summary. The report was prepared by a Task Force Organized by the program on peacebuilding and rights of Columbia Universitys institute for the study of human rights. The task force chair, to my immediate right is ambassador nancy soderberg. Her Foreign Policy resume is extensive
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