He is known for his work in peace and conflict studies. Hes director of the duke program, an american grant strategy. From june 2005 to july 2007, feaver was on leave to be the strategic adviser for planning at the white house where his responsibilities included National Security strategy, regional strategy review, and other political military issues. Hes written widely on such matters as National Security, military civil relations, and the military cost of war. It will focus on the larger politically and public dynamics and how these dynamics impinge on policymakers decisions. Each panelist will present we said five minutes, but they may bleed over their particular matters, and then well have an exchange where they apply to one another. Then well have a qa open to the audience. Without further delay, lets start with laura donohue. First, id like to thank don its a wonderful opportunity to come together to discuss these issues and id like to thank my fellow panelists in advance. There
More acutely than we do in terms of their citizens having an easier route and path to travel to syria and iraq. They sare the same sense of threat. So the information that were able to share about individuals bhoove traveled to syria or iraq can be used to potentially add to our listing and screening systems and give us one a significant leg up in our effort to disrupt travel when the individuals seek to leave syria and iraq. Thats not a fail safe. Its by no means the only pillar of a defensive effort. Did sense of shared threat is so widely shared at all levels in the governments that we typically work with in europe and its making that level of interchange more robust than it ften is. Have somebody to visit the issue of information sharing. Either in an open session or closed session. Dr. Coburn. Thank you. I hope the media actually listened to what you had to say, nick. A very co gent, open assessment of where we are. Not on the basis to scare people but on the basis to inform them
The other day, when the fighters captured soldiers and held them for ransom, they had been released as of yesterday, and thats a step in the right direction, but that does not mean the war ends. Allies in the region, i think we should not be surprised. Our allies in the region are hesitant. They need to see it fleshed out and whats in it for their security and for their interests. I think we are on the road to that. The smart place to start here is to move from a title 50 program to a title x, which is a covert program, which is before congress now. To say we do not know anything about these groups is inaccurate. They have embedded for years. Thats the reason president obama makes the decisions he does. Thats the reason they are extremely difficult decisions, but we need to start with this title x program, the eight or so groups that we back, and i think thats what we are going to do. Our goal should be to qualitatively and quantitatively groups visavis jihadists in general in syria. S
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Of the materials it collected. Thats done by the executive branch. I want all of the 9 11 materials to be on the public record. They should be. I dont see any reason to classify it. Host chris, buffalo, democrat. Go ahead. Caller yes. It seems to me that the last me we actually won a war was the first war in kuwait. We actually paid for that war because george bush sr. Raised taxes and basically got voted out of office. Do you think the republicans hat run the congress now would actually want to pay for anything that we do now instead of running us back into debt . Well, im a Firm Believer in paying your bills on a current basis. We havent done that. We like to get into the wars, fight the battles, and then not pay the bills and let the debt pile up. Thats not a good way to run the country. Thats not the way we should run the United States. So if youre going to fight a war, lets come out and pay for it one way or the other and it seems to me to be a very important component of the stra