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
Good afternoon. Welcome to the washington institute. Im delighted to welcome you all to the postlabor day gathering, a celebration, celebration of the publication of this this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When youre a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore or your picture on a coin, its not because you did nothing during your time in office. Its not because you waited out the term. Its because you took Big Decisions that affected the fate of your nation, often at moments of great crisis. Often decisions that were unpopular or that risked that this would be your last term in office. But decisions that reflected your vision about the direction of your nation and your people. And if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin, its because decades later your people looked back and said, thank you for having the boldness, for having the courage to take those decisions. Israel today is remarkably a strong, selfconfident country for many reasons far
All right, good evening, everyone. My name is liz artlip and i would like to welcome you to the wharf. Pick up those notes, if you havent done so silence your cell phones. Feel free to keep them on, tagus on social media, just do it silently. We have cspan booktv with us and you dont want to be the one whose phone starts ringing on national television. When we get to the q a portion i will be passing around a wireless microphone. If you have a question please raise your hand and wait for us to get you with the microphone and sneak into it so everyone can hear you and everyone who might be watching on tv in the future can hear you as well. If youve not purchased a copy of the book and you would like to they are available at the register up friends. You can buy a copy or two or three or four, however many you decide you need, hopefully more than one. After the events, happy to sign books, now first for why we are here, to listen to george beebe talk about the russia trap how our shadow w
Bookstore in q2 this evenings event in camillus dash to enhance and improve civic life. We have some events over the next few months that has National Book award finalist. For retail more information sign up for our email list. We have cspan book tv with us here please know you will be recorded and wait for the microphone and i like to take a moment to say thanks and so congratulations. [applause] now im pleased to introduce duncan white at the director studies at the university. And as a historian serving as a faculty associate of eurasian studies at harvard university. With history or literature here to discuss cold warriors. So we are so pleased to have them here tonight. Please me to welcome duncan white. [applause] we have five different microphones but i never met a microphone i did not like. Congratulations i love that we are presenting on the day of your publication. With 20 interviews this morning. So you call that a group biography so what is the hook. So the idea was to have
From london and brussels that of brechts it deals with a breach but sticking points over the irish border remain. And protests continue and. The leader of. The violence must stop. A high level u. S. Delegation is on its way to turkey to meet president of the one hoping to convince them to call off an offensive in northeast and syria secretary of state and Vice President mike pence will try to broker a cease fire deal between the turks and the codes but president of the one insists his forces wont stop until his objectives are met what Turkish Forces and kurdish fighters a battling in the strategic border town of ras alain turkey says it took control of the area days ago but its hold appears uncertain charles traffic has more now from the turkish Syrian Border. Street to street fighting in the Syrian Border town of russell i mean. These are kurdish fighters men and women in a force the s. D. F. Leadership says is around 70000. 00 strong. Many of whom were trained by International Coalit