Over the past 13 days since the november,ifth of some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted andattention of media political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact. Know, there have been hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and interviews conducted, written about the significance of these immediate,erms of midterm, longterm implications, domestic implications, regional implications, International Implications, for the kingdom and for those like the United States countries that have interests and special relationship with the kingdom. Although it has been a couple of weeks of hyperactivity at that , frankly, more questions have been raised then answered during this period. Redo the titles of all of these questions, because that will keep us here until next friday, but i will raise a couple of these questions for the purpose and sake of the discussion today. If you will, the conversation today
Would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing focusing on the shakeup in the riyadh regional and International Implications. Over the past 13 days since the november,ifth of some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted andattention of media political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact. Know, there have been hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands, of articles and interviews conducted, written about the significance of these immediate,erms of midterm, longterm implications, domestic implications, regional implications, International Implications, for the kingdom and for those like the United States countries that have interests and special relationship with the kingdom. Although it has been a couple of weeks of hyperactivity at that , frankly, more questions have been raised then answered during this period. Redo the titles of all of these questions, because that will keep us here until next f
Gentlemen, i am the executive director. I would like to welcome all of you to this special briefing. It is focusing on the shakeup in riyadh regional and international applications. Sincehe past 12, 13 days, the fourth or fifth of november, some serious and very significant changes and steps have been taken in the kingdom of saudi arabia that attracted the attention of media and political analysts all over the world, as a matter of fact, and as all of you know, there have been hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of articles and interviews conducted, written about the significance of these immediate,erms of midterm, longterm implications, domestic and locations, regional implications, International Implications. And for the kingdom united states. Countries that have extensive interests and special relationships with the kingdom. Although it has been a couple of that of hyperactivity at level of analysis and reporting, more questions have been raised than answers. I do not need to rea
The next challenge into the same trouble that we were just, or we are coming out of. And that is the important. Iraq does not and should not take this task alone. I do not believe that we do have an iraq in the expertise to do this. Iraqis as a government, as a Political Class need to be humble a little bit and look at what other countries have done the postconflict situations, learn from their own history and the history of others come and seek as much expertise rather than invent the wheel or get the task to again similar to the system of politics in iraq and end up not doing the job right and having to redo it time and again. So that is the other issue. And the third is reconciliation. And the last to reconstruction and reconciliation should be hand in hand. They dont have to be one after the other because i said already it is to come first before anything else. What is reconciliation . A couple of days ago Daniel Serwer and myself on the conference and it was a talk about the confl
Because im on the fence as to whether theres doctrinally an issue. There might be an issue. So, i think thats why. I think a ban is necessary for normative reasons. However, however, the examples we give as to the harm that derives from bulk collection, especially 215 bulk collection, is a result of the use of the data. Again, i think thats i distinguish collection and use. Can we saw recently the Obama Administration had considered ending bulk collection before the snowden revelations. Would a ban on bulk collection harm Law Enforcement and be a bad idea . Why arent you answering that one . Yeah, why . Why arent you . Really subtle moderation here. Look im not sure those accounts about how it was considered whether or not to end the bulk metaData Collection under 215. Im not surprised it was being considered. I think those programs should always be subject to a cause benefit analysis. But ill be interested to hear the followon reports as people reaction to that initial report about ho