Past week weve heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate weve also heard the words war this is how the u. S. Ran complex describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the American Military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. Talking the us around conflict im joined by my guest Mohammad Marandi and to him hes a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when he is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do thing
The ground. [applause] more now from the u. S. Institute of peace with the former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Derek Mitchell of former u. S. Ambassador to myanmar. The good afternoon. I dont want to interrupt your lunch, so feel free to keep eating but as promised, we are going to have a really goo good important discussion that will help to draw on whate heard this morning. And bill, by thinking a little bit about how we set a strategic frame this of Good Governance, think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states, governing itution needed to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness, tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion, figure out how to empower the youth to take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger state of society relationship, these are all dimensions of gove
Eating but as promised, we are going to have a really goo good important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning. And bill, by thinking a little bit about how we set a strategic frame this of Good Governance, think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states, governing institutions needed to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness, tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion, figure out how to empower the youth to take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger state of society relationship, these are all dimensions of governance in one way or another and this is one of the central challenges of transforming fragile states to be more resilient. So, how do we do that from the perspective of the United States, how do we set up a strategic frame that helps to put into mo
Quote, took proportion gnat measures in selfdefense under article 51 of the un charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack. President trump tweeted, all is well, missiles launches from two military bases a sassessment of casualties and damages taking place now. So far, all is well. I will be making a statement tomorrow morning, meaning this morning. We are awaiting word when to expect that statement from the president. Stock futures initially sank with the dow pointing to more than 400point loss today. Futures have paired those losses now dow futures down a few points even with those declines, the dow only down by six points. Along with the nasdaq and s p. S p was down over 50 points overnight. Right now, you are looking at positive territory for both of those. Whip saw action in crude oil oil for wti up to 63. 02. Gold prices briefly touched 1,600 overnight you are going to see 1,582. 5. The boeing 737800, not a max, crashed in iran yesterday the jet went down moments afte
So that the u. S. Defense secretary says there has been no decision to put american troops out of iraq this comes after a draw flats a top u. S. General in iraq revealed that forces will be repositioning to respect by that soften to the confusion in the pens can follow sundays nonbinding vote in the Iraqi Parliament calling for the removal of all foreign troops in response to the u. S. His assassination of irans top cmon a custom sort of money meanwhile iraq says the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and i would behind this the head of the iranian backed Iraqi Paramilitary group it wants World Leaders to ensure that baghdad is not dragged into the international or regional crises the u. N. Secretary general antonio terrace hes calling for restraint. Ive been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean Constant Contact with living officials around the worlds and my message is simple and clear stop escalation exist size maximum rest