Promising to end a strategy of nation building in the region focusing instead on addressing the terrorists articulate 3900 additional troops expected to be deployed with some already on their way. The president of the foundation for defense of democracy welcome again cliff good to see you, so the the president big debate in the white house for quite a while decided on this strategy did he get to the right outcome . Well i think he got to the right outcome in this sense, my impetus would be that his gut insink was pull out of afghanistan leave it behind, we have no business being there at the end of the day, i think he was persuaded for u. S. To lose to the fwan and to alqaida after years of fighting would in immense consequences that was not acceptable i think he was right to make that decision. Conventions of pulling out comparable or maybe worse than what happened when president obama pulled observer out of iraq saw rise of Islamic State would have consequences that President Trump w
Continues. Host joining us now is bryan mcgrath, a former Commanding Office of the uss bulkeley destroyer, and he is here to talk about the recent incident involving the colliding of u. S. Navy ships and the overall readiness of the navy. Thank you. We have seen four incidents in the pacific in the last that were two collisions off the coast of japan and off the coast of singapore. Do you think this is a problem with leadership . What do you think is at the heart of these repeated incidents . Guest umm, i have not reached any conclusions, what i have done is formulate a lot of hype pot this ease and in the work i advocate, i have said for several years that the navy was too small to what is being asked of it and because it is too small, it is stretched thinly. Because it is stretched thinly, decisions are made to allocate ships against realworld Operational Missions that sometimes get in the way of the necessary training and readiness that they have to do in order to stay at the top of
Hello welcome im Kieran Gilbert with the laces wrap up. My important allies of the United States, australia has a a deep focus on the direction of the Trump Administration early in his presidency. Thank you, mr. President. My question is also to the attorney general. Ten the attorney general advised the senate about what the new trump. The attorney general. In the 50 a day since president was inaugurated it has been switched to engaged with key figures in the new administration. As we know, Prime Minister has spoken with the president and the outcome of that conversation was the president is wondering in agreement by america to accept refugees from ellis island and the room an important outcome for australia. Already, three ministers have had facetoface with a cabinet level counterpart and other senior officials. Last month, foreign minister traveled to washington to meet the Vice President , secretary of state and the National Security advisor. Also, the defense minister held meetings
Inspector general roth, you talked about the port added collection information sharing that resulted in Human Trafficking coming across our borders. I appreciate you keeping an eye on that and you know, everybody being aware of that. I have not yet received an answer for a letter ive written. We had i. C. E. Agent Taylor Johnson in one of our hearings involved in government whistleblowers and the retaliation against them which is really prevalent in the federal government. Its jaw dropping. So director soldana, id appreciate if you would respond to that because now apparently agent johnson has been terminated and the process hasnt really gone through office of special counsel, inspector general. Im really concerned about that will particular case. We have that letter and were preparing a response, sir. Again, the oversight of student viz sas. I will try if weve got to produce some legislationings to facilitate the computer system, the i. T. Systems to do this. Coming from the private s
Central asia here at the Hudson Institute and it is a pleasure for me to host a market discussion on the hundred year by Michael Paul Sperry is a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and a distinguished defense policy, highranking Government Official and numerous books and china. He served under the Ronald Reagan and george w. Bush administrations. The book which i recommend to everyone in the audience preferably a factually since its founding has a longterm goal to establish the dominance and that michael thinks that it has albert in the United States process. Not long ago i wrote a book on pakistan u. S. Relations after having served as the ambassador to the u. S. There were magnificent delusions which i make a similar argument. [laughter] everybody seems to outright washington, d. C. And here is my take as a foreigner. The reason is they assume they want the same thing that you do and there is an assumption thats what they want and therefore the Am