Good afternoon. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Im the Senior Vice President here at the director of the middle east program. One of the great joys of being in washington is sometimes youre in an environment where you get to be the dumbest guy in the room. I think im here as the dumbest guy on the panel. The people that we have talking now, and we envisioned this sort of as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom, are just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike negata. Your title it has it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. Word name ever. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special Operations Forces in the u. S. Central command and now is with the National Counterterrorism center, thinking all of the strategic do thought that i think we have been struggling with in many ways. Were very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John maclachlan, as many of you k
Good afternoon. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Im the Senior Vice President here at the director of the middle east program. One of the great joys of being in washington is sometimes youre in an environment where you get to be the dumbest guy in the room. I think im here as the dumbest guy on the panel. The people that we have talking now, and we envisioned this sort of as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom, are just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike negata. Your title it has it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. Word name ever. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special Operations Forces in the u. S. Central command and now is with the National Counterterrorism center, thinking all of the strategic do thought that i think we have been struggling with in many ways. Were very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John maclachlan, as many of you k
Vice president at the program. One of the Great Stories of being in washington is sometimes written in the environment. Sometimes being the smartest guy in the room, thats the dumbest guy at the panel. The people we have talking now, we envision this as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom or just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike nagata. Your title, it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special forces, special Operations Forces in the us central command. And now hes with the National Counterterrorism center. Thinking all of these strategic thoughts weve been struggling with in many ways from day one. We are very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John mclaughlin as many of you know was the acting director of central intelligence, Deputy Director for intelligence at the cia. I have grown reliance on him as a pe
And authority on the subject with the iraqi ambassador, senior researcher. Im sure well have a great discussion with lots of important insight. On top of hudsons Live Streaming that we always do we have the honor of having cspan2 this event so another reading to the viewers out there. Reconstructing iraq and the good news from iraq is the military defeat of the terrible terrorist organization, isis, by the Iraqi Military with international cooperation. The task ahead is daunting. Iraq needs to rebuild and heal the communities. Challenges remain from funding, stabilization efforts in the even larger resources needed for reconstruction the coming years. Responding was one of the goals of the regions iraqi reconstruction conference in kuwait which secured around 30 billion from private actors. Significantly the gulf countries except in quite to the conference which is interesting testimony with its own troubled history with the iraqi nation back in 1990. Congratulations to the kuwaitis fo
Good morning. In accordance with the decision 2017, theeptember general us and we will hear a presentation by the secretarygeneral and his report on the work of the organization, and agenda item 110. I now give the floor to the secretarygeneral of the United Nations, his excellency antonio guterres. Mr. Guterres mr. President and the General Assembly, governments, excellencys come a lady and excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, i think youve really trust you have placed in me to serve the worlds people. We the peoples in the United Nations facing great challenge. Our world is in trouble. People are hurting and angry. Rising comeecurity and equality growing, conflict spreading, and climate changing. The Global Economy is increasingly integrated, but our sense of Global Community may be disintegrating. ,ocieties are fragmented political discourse is polarized, and trust within and among countries is being driven down by those who demonize and divide. We are a world in pieces. We need to b