The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Will get to the subject eventually, but the point of the book entitled transeven and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply of the drivers entitled seven pillars. From yemen to syria iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been absolute failure. The basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the re
Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region, and if so, how . In this regard the editors of aid money, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis, and their cocontributors, have given given us a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify our legitimacy, islam, arab ideology, the militaries, education, economy, and gove
I am the host of todays discussion. Since 2003, the director of the Hauenstein Center for president ial studies named after colonel ralph hauenstein, whom we will be speaking of. I am joined on stage by two individuals for whom world war ii is no abstraction. Two your right is the daughter of the late ambassador. Her father is remembered as the envoy who tried to negotiate peace with america while the , Japanese Military was secretly trying to attack pearl harbor. Her mother was american from new york city. After world war ii, she married an american, worked in commercial real estate, and lived much of her life in the grand rapids area. One of her greatgrandchildren , garrett, is in the audience. Is a candidate in the Cook Leadership Academy. To your farright is the youngest grandson of colonel ralph hauenstein. Brians grandfather is pressed is best known as eisenhowers u. S. Army officer who liberated paris and places of unbelievable horror. After the war, ralph discovered his vocatio
Is on joining me now from ankara to decipher it is one of the founders of odd ones a. K. P. Party and turkeys former foreign minister yasser yeah case thanks so much yasser for coming on the Un Human Rights Commission is talking syria tomorrow your take on russia turkey relations after last weeks mosca peace talks between putin and the one actually. Turkish russian have become. The 2 countries theyve become. Interdependent for this i believe that what theyre what happens the 2 countries have to agree somewhere in a middle ground well arguably turkey has a russian interest the russian pilot had to bail out of a russian warplane not long ago and similar. To one by his s 400 Defense Systems he then threatens the European Union i think what im really asking here is what side is in your well of course turkey. Is it a tit a lot and now again in this period turkey is seeking. To try to get weapons from the Euro Atlantic Community that say from nato despite the fact that it was antagonized by
To the in your Atlantic Community but youre right that the community. Does not want to get involved in turkeys fight in exhibit did it surprise you personally when the one said it bias 400 Defense Systems yes i was surprised because i worked in nato on several occasions in the past in my 40 years of diplomatic career i also worked in the nato headquarters in brussels and also i studied in need to Defense College and also i worked in the Nato Department in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs so well all these things during this long period of mine in Diplomatic Service i knew that Turkish Defense system is integrated to need to system and. In a Defense System which is not interoperable with with this system thats to say its 400. 00. Has to be an autonomous measures which is not connected to the Defense System where is where i was in nato there is something called net minutes which means Nato Air Defense ground them by a month it is interconnected and in that mccann is in the decisio