Good morning. Im Christopher Prebble the Vice President for against and Foreign Policy studies at the cato institute. Thank you for being here and thanks to our outstanding conference staff who do a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, quote, we are not winning in afghanistan right now, unquote
Good morning. Im christopher prebrle, the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here at the cato institute. Thank you for being here today and thank you also to our outstanding conference staff here at cato who do such a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally, but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government, and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, we are not win
Vice president for defense and Foreign Policy studies here at the cato institute. Thank you for being here today and thank you also to our outstanding conference staff here at cato who do such a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally, but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government, and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, we are not winning in afghanistan right now. One could s
Hopefully a republican democrat votes so i can finish. I havent missed a vote since 1993. Thats about 7,900 votes. I dont intend to miss another one. Professor tirly. Thank you members of the Senate Judiciary committee. It is an honor to discuss the nomination of judge neil gorsuch for the United States Supreme Court. I believe the nominee should be extraordinary. I should state at the outset that i do not agree with all of judge gorsuchs legal views, however i believe that judge gorsuch to be exceptional choice for the court. While many focus on replacing the conservative with another conservative, the primary concern should be to replace an intellectual with another intellectual. Judge gorsuch is that type of nominee to have the vigor to sit in the chair of the late antonin scalia. One of the primary complaints regarding past nominees has been lack och writings or opinions. Such individuals can make for good nominees. They do not make for great justices. Judge gorsuch is a refreshing
Hopefully a republican democrat votes so i can finish. I havent missed a vote since 1993. Thats about 7,900 votes. I dont intend to miss another one. Professor tirly. Thank you members of the Senate Judiciary committee. It is an honor to discuss the nomination of judge neil gorsuch for the United States Supreme Court. I believe the nominee should be extraordinary. I should state at the outset that i do not agree with all of judge gorsuchs legal views, however i believe that judge gorsuch to be exceptional choice for the court. While many focus on replacing the conservative with another conservative, the primary concern should be to replace an intellectual with another intellectual. Judge gorsuch is that type of nominee to have the vigor to sit in the chair of the late antonin scalia. One of the primary complaints regarding past nominees has been lack och writings or opinions. Such individuals can make for good nominees. They do not make for great justices. Judge gorsuch is a refreshing