although he has stepped out he has given me strict instructions for this conversation, and so i will do my best to keep us on it. there s a lot of the waterfront we are going to be covering today when it comes to the questions surrounding the war in afghanistan. i think the mission of this group is to look specifically at what our real options, possibilities, and opportunity in this moment when it comes to thinking about the american engagement in afghanistan, what about negotiations, what s realistic. there s a lot of talk, some of the clocks are very generally set when it comes to kabul versus washington and vice versa and i think we have pretty much an all-star group of people to help navigate as through, cutting through beyond what s rhetoric and what s reality at this moment in time. and i can t think of anyone better to start us off a ambassador dobbins who we were just discussing up front, is also a me was the
Transcripts For CSPAN2 U 20110324
archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
values of course short of violent to try to deal with this issue and you know, this debate is ongoing. it s a serious debate and it will be important to determine the next step on the part of the palestinian and arabs in general. i just want to allude to an issue that the speakers here mentioned, which is donor support, economic conditions, funding the palestinian authority, i think a lot of people are mixing or deliberately trying to portray the government s plan of prime minister by odd as an alternative to divorce and the congress to the israelis and palestinians. the plan of the palestinian government, which is the government of president mahmoud abbas is to work in parallel with the political tribes to put an end to the israel occupation at the same time that we are building our institutions and increasing capacities. it was never meant to be an alternative to the political solution. so yes, we are grateful for the support of the international community. we are grateful
washington. this is 45 minutes. good morning. first we will ask you to turn of sophos or at least put them on beep. i am the director of the commission on the prevention of weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism. our chairman, senator bob gramm and vice chairman senator jim talent will first provide an overview of the report card dewaal half. we will then have some brief remarks from carey who is representing the results of 9/11 and will have to lead back for another hearing of on the hill. and the will of time for q&a after that, so mr. chairman, the floor is yours. thank you for a much, mr. kroll larson and for the great leadership that you ve provided over this past year. we have started the day with breakfast with families of 9/11. in many ways they are responsible not only for our commission but for the 9/11 commission. it was their emphasis of the importance of understanding what happened in order to prepare america to avoi
my question is regarding strategic communication in afghanistan. peter talked about afghanistan in afghani opinion polls, however, our popularity has decrease over the years as our words and actions have not actually mass. they would try to build schools and hospitals but completely alienate the population by flattening of village and create where the mujahedin had fired on them. general mcchrystal has tried to remedy this recently, but the insurgents have been good at exploiting civilian casualties and diminished expectations. i was wondering how important he thinks strategic communication is overall in afghanistan and what you think we might be able to do better. thank you. strategic communication is always secondary, tertiary to bullets. if you kill a family member, i do not really care how good your strategic communication is. . . . how you spin that action. and in a sense, it can t really come from us. it really has to come from local discussions by afghans about w
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.