And i made a big mistake in my first meeting. He schooled me a little bit. We were talking about a speech he was going to give on defense. He wanted to talk about how to revise and reform defense. I told him, well, you better not get into the details, governor, because there are a lot of experts who will then show the world that you dont know what youre talking about. He said, who are you, anyway . He said, you dont understand what elections are about. Do you . I said no, i guess i dont, governor. He said, if i want to reform the pentagon, and i dont say anything about it in the campaign, i get elected and i go to the joint chiefs and say were going to reform the pentagon, theyre going to say who is this guy . Hell be gone in four years. But if i campaign on it and i come in with a mandate to reform the pentagon, i go in to the chiefs and i say the people have spoken, thats a different matter all together. So, you know, know your candidate before you meet him and sit down with him and
Raids in belgium and france, et cetera. That shouldnt surprise and thats appropriate, but in many ways, the larger lift, the 20year plan, the thing that is going to be a lot harder to do is integrating communities that have become ghettoized and not at all integrated, and ill leave you with just one strange and disturbing statistic. I asked local Police Officers in brussels if they were able to work with local imams in brussels when they found people who were drifting off either into criminality or from criminality into radical ideologies condoning and justifying violent extremism, and they said largely not, and for two reasons. One, theres not a religious but a cultural taboo that makes it very hard for them to reach out to many elements of the community. There are lots of efforts to do this, and some of the most successful for example have been to reach out to mothers, but they have a real problem getting past the social taboos, but in terms of the imams themselves, there are, they t
To reform the pentagon, that is a different matter altogether. Know your candidate before you meet them. Dont step into potholes. If you do, you can still survive. That is the lesson. Mr. Stimson obviously, over time, you develop a chemistry with the president you serve and as the Deputy National security advisor and National Security advisor, you spend a lot of time with the president. That like any other human interaction, you have got to learn how to read the president. Just like you do with a close friend or whatnot. How did your relationship with the president develop . You started off in an ignominious fashion by making a mistake when you thought he was running, how did you come in to become the Deputy National security advisor . Mr. Hadley condi rice asked me to assert that role. There was a group of about 10 of there was a group of about 10 of us headed by paul willful with an condi rice and we spent fowitz and we spent a lot of time together. I had worked with condi and paul b
They say goodbye to argentina. We look at what is ahead for this divided country we begin with the war in syria. A conflict that has killed hundreds and thousands of people and displaced more. The latest Diplomatic Group is taking place in saudi arabia. They are far apart on several issues. In syria a reminder on wednesday on aleppo, residents blame both regime and its ally russia. The u. S. Secretary of defense has asked middle Eastern Countries to do more in relation to the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. Turkey must do more to control its border. Saudi arabia and the gulf states join the air portion of the campaign in the early days. Only the air part. It has since been preoccupied by the conflict in yemen, both in the air and on the ground. I reached out to my counterparts in 40 countries around the world in the coalition and asked them to contribute, much more to enhancing the fight against i. S. I. L. That was ash carter the u. S. Defense secretary Briefing Congress on the
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