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Our website on all of these occasions. In house, wee would ask that courtesy checks that our mobile devices up in silence and turned off as we prepared to begin. For those watching online, youre welcome to spend send questions and comments at any time emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this afternoon is peter brookes, the senior fellow for National Security affairs and Foreign Policy. Asis also in his fifth term a member of the congressional u. S. China Economic Security review commission. Heritage heing to served as the assistant secretary of defense for asian and Pacific Affairs and the george w. Bush administration. He was also serving on the staff in the house with the Central Intelligence agency, the state department and activeduty naval officers. Please join me in welcoming peter. [applause] good afternoon, welcome to heritage and our program on iran. Since 2015, a Nuclear Agreement iran, iraq and yemen. Irans expanding influence in these wartorn countries
Time emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this afternoon is peter brookes, the senior fellow for National Security affairs and Foreign Policy. Asis also in his fifth term a member of the congressional u. S. China Economic Security review commission. Heritage heing to served as the assistant secretary of defense for asian and Pacific Affairs and the george w. Bush administration. He was also serving on the staff in the house with the Central Intelligence agency, the state department and activeduty naval officers. Please join me in welcoming peter. [applause] good afternoon, welcome to heritage and our program on iran. Since 2015, a Nuclear Agreement iran, iraq and yemen. Irans expanding influence in these wartorn countries have been facilitated by the dividends and sanctions provided by the nuclear deal. Questions like how should the United States respond, which should be done about the flawed Nuclear Agreement. How can the United States targeting target at home. Ru
Now in discussion on Irans Nuclear program and how the u. S. Should respond. From the heritage foundation, this is an hour. Good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. We of course welcome those who join us on our website on all of these occasions. For our guests inhouse we ask that mobile devices are silenced or turned off as we prepared to begin, and for those watching online we remind you youre welcome to send questions or comments to at any time by simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this afternoon is peterboroughs. He is the senior fellow for National Security affairs in our center for Foreign Policy. He is also in his fifth term as a member of the congressional us, China Economic and security review commission. Prior to coming to heritage he served as a Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for asian and Pacific Affairs at the george w. Bush administration. Heritage he served as the assistant secretary of defense for asian and Pacific Affairs and
I am pleased to have him at this table. The basic idea of it was to take the essays articles i had written during the obama years and put them together into one single volume and say, this is what i wrote, i hope you enjoyed it. Oldas i went and read the essays and work that i did during the. , i begun to see the possibility of a new book emerging, one of like a memoir interlaced between the actual as is i had written. So i picked a few of them and i wrote a story with the linkage being the thought process that went into each piece, where i was and my life. Charlie a great thing to do. Good negro regarding government, the first years, how we lost the white man, 30year, why do so few blacks studied the civil war, and fourth year, the study of malcolm x, 50year, the and in they, and eighth year, my president was like and then the epilogue the first white president. Is there one year that for you more than the others . Coates for me personally, i think it would be the civil war one. I had