Culture live sunday beginning at 6 00 pm eastern on American History tv on cspan2. Next afghanistans ambassador to the us on the relationship between the two countries hosted by the new america foundation. This is an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] coming . I run the National Security program here. People watching on cspan, cspan covering this live, identify yourself and wait for the microphone to hear your question. Today we discuss afghanistan 2017, prospects for the future and two panelists to discuss that, the ambassador to the United States and afghanistan. He previously worked as the deputy chief of staff, worked at the American Institute in afghanistan and phd from the United Kingdom and he will speak first and after that, a fellow here, been living in afghanistan since 2010 and runs a Company Called hot lights providing intelligence and security analysis to differences in afghanistan and doing his phd about the afghan civil war, retired air force colonel in speci
Thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect the first time book tv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my 10th book tv. Its one that is closest to my heart for a variety of reasons. Let me start with background and many of you know, on july 17th, 1996, at 1819 p. M. , twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, popular shore of long island, it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed, 53 of them were twa employees. Many of you in this room knew at least some of those people. There is a memorial in their honor here at the twa museum and if i were coming here just to spread some conspiracy theory, i would be dishonoring their memory and i would be insulting you. Instead, im here to tell you what happened on the night of july 17th, 1996, in the nights and days and months and years thereafter. There are people in this room who know a whole lot more about aviation than i do an
Thank you for having me and this is a great venue. I suspect the first time book tv has ever done one from an airplane hangar. This is my 10th book tv. Its one that is closest to my heart for a variety of reasons. Let me start with background and many of you know, on july 17th, 1996, at 1819 p. M. , twa flight 800 left jfk airport in new york bound for paris. 12 minutes later, 8 31 p. M. Off the coast of long island, popular shore of long island, it was blown out of the sky. 230 people were killed, 53 of them were twa employees. Many of you in this room knew at least some of those people. There is a memorial in their honor here at the twa museum and if i were coming here just to spread some conspiracy theory, i would be dishonoring their memory and i would be insulting you. Instead, im here to tell you what happened on the night of july 17th, 1996, in the nights and days and months and years thereafter. There are people in this room who know a whole lot more about aviation than i do an
On working with arab and muslim communities because it is the it shall its the mom, its the mother. Its the exwife its the father who knows something terribly wrong is going on with their son or daughter. And can must feel comfortable coming to, you know, either the fbi or the government officials to disclose their own concerns. An second piece to it, of course, which is the access people have to weaponry that can kill a lot of people so thats what we have to get very serious about. Whether its terrorism watch list and purchase of guns or having more stringent gun laws. So those are two ways this whicl we can do it and thats whyw people like me are very, very passionate and critical of some of the thaings youre hearing coming out of this transition and some of the people who support the president elect about, you know, about Islamic Community our muslim communitieo and arab communities. I will tell you as someone who has been in Counter Terrorism for a slorng time one of the things tha
Its really going to depend on the local environment. So, how how about southwest florida . Well, this is one of the reasons we need a supplemental to give resources so we can look at mosquito populations, trap them, analyze them and then sometimes larva siting can have an impact on mosquito populations. Your point is quite correct that the outdoor spraying may have limited impact, if any, on the mosquito population, but were looking at different ways of doing mosquito control. And in some circumstances what theyve done in australia, for example, is use targeted indoor residual spraying for this particular mosquito with as far as weve seen some pretty effective results. But all of that is quite complex to do. And let me see if just taking off on that point so that i understand it correctly. Because, again, we want to get in the game here legislatively so im not just asking to take your time here. Like a lot of things it always impacts the poor. And people that, you know, lifes never fai