Seats so they could then control the state legislature, so they could then change the districts consistent with the bulk gerrymandering scheme. And the result is states like senator browns where, when he was reelected, he was on the ballot with president obama who was also reelected, and the majority of the votes cast in his state for members of congress were cast for democrats, and against that background, many more republicans than democrats actually went to congress in that election. A similar thing happened in pennsylvania, and my recollection is that on the same set of facts, senator casey, the democrat reelected, president obama reelected, and a majority of pennsylvania votes cast for democratic members of congress, the delegation was 13 republicans and five democrats. Somebody is messing around and it was a 54 Republican Supreme Court that opened that can of worms and unleashed red map on the political landscape. They have a chance to review that now, and senator mccain has writ
Can we do this better the biggest thing that i iran into. When i was engaging in the larger thinking community and larger academic trinity is this challenge of getting past iran. That we can ironically to go to understand as well as the idea that iran is irrational. What i consider the mad problem is that iran is too crazy and both of these ideas really handicap us. A train and been able to understand what iran is thinking about and how it looks at the us and formulates its foreign policies. Thats the heart of what i am trying to do in this monogram is take the face off that confusion and say you cant understand this and its what im trying to do. Its not so much provide a whole bunch of policies policy prescription with this administration or for future administrations but basically, provide analytic framework and models, if you will, for understanding how iran develops its foreign policies, how iran develops its approaches in particular to Security Issues and how it goes to war, how i
Gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming to the American Enterprise institute. Im fred kagan, the direct of the critical project here at aei. And if it is my great honor and privilege to lead this panel, discussing report which is just been released by my colleagues, matt mcinnis, the future of irans security policy, Available Online at aei. Org and where these beautiful copies as well if anyone would like one of those. We have a Magnificent Panel today. We are thrilled to have Lieutenant General tom trask, Vice Commander of headquarters u. S. Special Operations Command in washington, d. C. , and vice admiral retired mark fox, formerly Deputy Commanding general of the nested Central Command along with matt to talk about the report. Without further ado i will turn it over to matt. Thank you, fred. Thank you, general trask and admiral fox and fred, for frankly every thing here at aei yourself put this event together. As well as all the people behind the scenes for the past two, 2 years th
The Free State Foundations annual telecommunications conference. This is an hour and a half. Ok, we are going to get started now. One minute. If everyone will take their seats, please. You become so quiet when i say that that i should not even wait the full minute. That is fantastic. We are going to get started now. I think that was a terrific session to get the conference started, talking about regulation more generally, although i knew there would be. I think throughout the day we are going to hear about that neutrality, or restoring internet freedom. The open internet proceeding. We did hear a little bit during the previous session. I will call this the allstars panel. I am not sure i came up with another name. We do have a group of allstars here. We are going to the digging in to Certain Communications issues. I want to do brief introductions. Everyone here has the brochure where we have got the full bios there. The brochure is also on the website, for those of you in our cspan aud
The relationship between iran and syria, the governments decision to help syrian president assad in his civil war, and how iran can destabilize the region. This is about an hour. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for coming to the American Enterprise constitute. Im fred kagan. Im director of the critical threats project here at aei. And its my great honor and privilege to lead this panel discussing a report which has just been released by my colleague, matt mcinnis, the future of irans security policy, Available Online at aei. Org. And we have these beautiful copies as well, if anyone would like one of those. We have a Magnificent Panel today. We are thrilled to have Lieutenant General tom trask, and vice admiral retired mark fox, formerly Deputy Commander general of the United States Central Command along with matt to talk about the report. Without further ado ill turn it over to matt. Thank you, fred. Thank you, general trask, and admiral fox, and frankly all the