My name is peter bergen. I run the International Security program here. Welcome to you and also the people watching this on cspan. Cspan is covering this live. When we get to the questions, please identify yourself and wait for the mic so the audience outside the room can hear your question. Today we will discuss afghanistan 2017 and prospects for the future. We have two brilliant panelists to discuss that. First of all, the ambassador, who is the ambassador to the United States from afghanistan. He has previously worked as deputy chief of staff. He previously also worked at intel, at the American University in afghanistan. Hes also a ph. D. From Brunell University in the United Kingdom and will speak first, then after that, yanni has been living in afghanistan pretty much since 2010. He runs a company which provides intelligence and security analysis to businesses in afghanistan. Hes also doing his ph. D. At Kings College about the afghan civil war. Hes a retired army retired u. S. Ai
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I think its working. But not in america. Here politicians keep passing more rules. Every day i look over my shoulder, what are they going to find illegal tomorrow . Uf have no idea what youre up against. This could happen to you. Show me the man and ill show you the crime. You think if you followed me around youd find three fe th thats actually an underst in ame in america these days its like everything is illegal. Whats more american than opening a Lemonade Stand . Would you like some lemonade . Yes, please. Whos first . Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate it. For years kids have set up stands like this. But today watch out. The police may bust you. I was like really scared because i didnt know what was going to happen. We were just selling lemonade in our front yard for about three days, and the third day the police decided to shut us down. Their mom heard the police y i i could hear them from inside my house yelling at them,girls, you have to shut the Lemon