Analysts meetings on everything from arms control, he was acutely sensitive to trying to understand the nuances of the issues and make things work and nowhere was that more clear than in bosnia. It was a tough lift because we came out of vietnam and we dont like wars and United States cardenaswe. Then we went to the gulf war and had to force Norman Schwarzkopf to take seventh corps so we end up with 500,000 troops there. The epitome of what colin powell called the decisive force and then we come to bosnia and that looks like vietnam. There are people fighting, good guys and bad guys and you cant spell for names, they dont have any vowels and you dont know how to pronounce them, it is in a place not in those. As my predecessor testified, 400,000 troops to deal with this problem and that wasnt helpful and it was one of the issues we had to deal with when he put the number out on the table so i got there in the spring of 1994 and i had a lot of things on my plate and i noticed i had to su
We have a few minutes at the end for questions. Just to say how dynamic this relationship with the Intelligence Community is. There was a supt sunday morning we saw it, and the fighting tell them who. The croatian president. It was out of the crying that there were refugees out there and so forth, and dick had communicated to sandy, i guess, that it was time to stop the fighting. It was too dangerous because of the threat of the sesh intervention, and so he and chris hill went into see him, and i was sent in to see the defense minister also known as the pizza man because he had become welcome in canada with a chain of pizza restaurants, and so it was darg in the ministry of defense, and we know where the front line is, that we were told from the previous day, and we walk in and tell the minister the instructions are from the United States that you must stop and stop the forces right now. We said, ambassador holbrook is giving this to the president right now. They said, stop, stop, were
Im Suzanne Malveaux in the cnn newsroom. He wants longtime senator john kerry to replace Hillary Clinton. The formal announcement coming in the next hour at about 1 30 or so eastern. Well have that live. We asked americans how they feel about john kerry as secretary of state, but first, kerrys nomination hardly a surprise. People close to him already calling him mr. Secretary. Heres a little bit about him from kate bolduan. Thank you very much, mr. Secretary. Reporter his Senate Colleagues have joked about his ambition, what many regarded as the worstkept secret in washington, even in recent Senate Hearings john kerry sound like he was looking ahead to the future job and the anticipated battled over the state Department Budget with with congress. That must change and in the next session of the congress i hope it will. Reporter he wasnt the president s first choice. U. N. Ambassador susan rice took herself out of the running after republican backlash. It was unjustified to give the scen
Good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us. My name is richard fontaine. Im the president for the center of new american security. Its a pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of Robert Kaplans new book the reason geography what they tell us about the coming conflict in the battle against the state. Ive heard it said before that you all very great author by reading his books not by buying them they will be sold on the stage in this room back here. Bald kaplans work is known no doubt why this audience. Hes been a senior fellow and in march of 2008 a Foreign Correspondent for the atlantic for about a quarter of a century and is currently the chief geopolitical analyst. I first became acquainted with his writing during his book with traces of history of the tight midwesterners living and working in the middle east. And since that book, the very titles of his work goes to the coming anarchy have provoked the debate. The recent book of American Power has becom
Summit in wales. There are not much faith in talks producing peace. We report from the town calais where the mayor is threatening to block the port. Also in the program, alice is here. Look at whats happening in business. Russias relations with the west are high on the business agenda. Absolutely right. Tightening the screws. Europe preparing to deepen sanctions over russias role in ukraine. Hello there. Thanks for joining us. Midday in london, 7 00 a. M. Washington 2 00 where talks have just got underway. Representatives from kiev, pro russian rebels are seeking to Reach Agreement there. That conflict is top of the agenda for western countries attending the second day of a nato summit in new port in wales. Alliance has been showing off air power friday morning with this fly over demonstration accusing russia of arm ago and funding the rebels in ukraine. European and u. S. Leaders are preparing to tighten sanctions on moscow if peace talks fail to Reach Agreement. In ukraine itself, fi