Good afternoon and welcome to is newly renovated headquarters. I am the Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. I am pleased to welcome you to todays important and timely commsby examining cent approach to the middle east. We will explore prospects for an effective u. S. Military role in the region, especially given current news from northeast syria. Great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollock, we are also pleased to welcome back senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program after a oneyear fellowship at the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue quarterlyhington entitled broken partnerships can washington get security . Eric schmidtht is a writer for the new york times. Since 2007, he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, Southeast Asia among others. Is a coauthor of counterstrike the untold st
Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
America. Everybody. But today i want to focus on one aspect of American Life that remains particularly skewed by race and by health, a source of in equity that has ripple effects on families and communities and ultimately on our nation and that is our criminal Justice System. Now, this is not this is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happen. There is a long history of in equity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois, we worked to make sure that we had video taping the interrogations because there were some problems there. We set up racial profiling laws to prevent the kind of bias in traffic stops that too many people experience. Since my First Campaign ive talked about how in too many cases our criminal Justice System ends up being a pipeline from underfunded inadequate schools to overcrowded jails. What has changed though is that in recent years, the eyes of more americans have been opened
Of a plevo site is created at that point. I realize im posing something to you that is hypothetical. In light of the officials in the Russian Federation, i think its something to be concerned about. Brezinski spoke to this Committee Earlier this year and said we need to create a trip wire in the baltics and that this trip wire should communicate clearly to russia that nato will not tolerate violation of the territorial integrity of our allies. What do you think of this idea and can you, the steps the dod needs to take under your leadership to send a credible message that this sort of pretext by the Russian Federation would not be tolerated be i the United States and our nato allies . Senator, i think our experience in ukraine and in the other examples that you use highlights the fact that we need to update our deterrence and response model to deal with the kind of threat we had today, which has been described as a hieber threat from russia, which combines Unconventional Warfare as well
Im eric toter, codirector of the tax policy center, its an honor for me to be here honors don lubic one of the my mentors, heroes and an ideal to all of us on the panel, and many of us in the audience we have a great panel here. I will you have their full bios, i will introduce them briefly. Manuel koran is kpmg. She was previously a Deputy Assistant secretary for International Tax at the u. S. Treasury department, and during the Obama Administration and has done many other things before them. I wont go through them all. David rosenbloom is a visiting professor of tax ace and director of the International Tax program at new york universitys school of law. Hes also been a member of the Kaplan Drysdale law firm. And david has many other accomplishments, but the one ill mention is he also was the top International Tax officials at the Treasury Department back in the carter administration. Where he was tax legislative counsel. And finally we have barbara angus, the one member of panel who