Casts. More now about the 2007 surge of troops in eric with a foe cuss on the planning by the Bush Administration. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is stef, it is my great pleasure this afternoon to introduce our distinguished panel of speakers. We have ambassador edelman who has served in the department of state and the white house, and u. S. Ambassador to finland, turkey, and was Vice President dick cheneys deputy assistance. He has a department of defense medal for distinguished public service. From the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and a distinguished service award. To my far left we have general lute, he retired in 2017, previously he had a distinguished 25 year career in the u. S. Army and he served for a total of sick years in the white house under both president s, george w. Bush, and barack obama. And in 2007 he was named to coordinate the wars in iraq and afghanistan. It was both on the joint staff in washington dc and on the United States central
Recognize my great friend and colleague, the best president of the best World Affairs council in the United States. I know we have a lot of World Affairs Council Members here. Gym falk, very, very grateful to jim for his help in this. As ive said, weve got the players, including stephen hadley, who will be speaking tonight, a truly great Public Servant who is the director of the nsc under bush, and i say Public Servant in days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these high positions. Were going to look forward to hearing from him tonight. And i think without even leaving the stage, im going to get the first panel under way so we can start this. As a college professor, i would say get your notepads out. There are going to be questions, discussion, so were going to start with our first panel, and i want to invite the panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sayle from the university of toronto is going to chair the panel and lead the discussion. H
Studies, Johns Hopkins university, in d. C. Ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. Hes served as u. S. Ambassador to finland and turkey and was Vice President dick cheneys Principal Deputy assistant for National Security affairs. Ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian Service Award from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a president ial distinguished Service Award. Then to my far left, we have general doug lute. General lute has served most recently as the United States permanent representative to the north atlantic council, a position in which he retired in 2017. Previously general lute had a distinguished 35year career in the u. S. Army. He also served for a total of six years in the white house under both president s george w. Bush and barack obama. And in 2007, president bush named him dep
Across the country and said questions off to dozens of animals are killed in a devastating devastating soon in germany fortunately some did survive the inferno and the soup has now reopened. Im getting thanks so much for joining us. Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that harsh retaliation is waiting for the u. S. Thats often a u. S. Air strike on Baghdad Airport killed the iranian general cast them in mine and they head of irans elite qods force how many has also declared 3 days of National Mourning to mark the generals death he was considered the architect of terrans military operations in the middle east the u. S. Asked came in the middle of the night later the pentagon tweeted this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans dont trump usually very active on twitter tweeted only this image. Iranian state t. V. Confirmed the death of gentle customer. Irans top security body called an urgent meeting for friday. The foreign minister mohammed joe wants
Airport in tehran. All 176 people killed. This morning, the new video that appears to show the plane bursting into flames midair and investigators searching for a cause. State of emergency. New aftershocks in puerto rico after a string of earthquakes rocked the island. Everything started jumping back and forth, like up and down. Massive devastation, millions without power today. We are there live. All that plus, break in the case . The estranged husband of the connecticut mother missing for nearly eight months now charged with her murder. Major league scandal. The red sox under investigation after a report they cheated by stealing signs during their championship run in 2018. Is their world series title now in jeopardy . While were on the subject this is jeopardy the hit game shows greatest of all time tournament kicks off with a nail biter. What a game. What a way to start. The greatest of all time tournament. Well tell you who came out on top in round one. Who is ken jennings . Today,