The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the is policy and strategy in the middle east. First of all and foremost i want to submit for the record the i want to submit here today. We are enjoying the and ambassador ryan crocker, you have been a diplomat in residence, Woodrow Wilson school of Public Affairs chris university. He has been all over the map and ambassador eric edelman, Counselors Center for strategic and budgetary assessment. By macaque this is your ninth appearance before this committee. Does that sound right to you . Yes. And ambassador james jeffrey, distinguished fellow, university of Washington Institute for near east policy. I remember being with you in turkey and other places. Of course, ambassador stuart jones, Vice President your presence was both in jordan and iraq. It is great to have all behavior much of the nations attention over the last two decades has gone to the middle east in terms of military operations. And appropr
Bring in at the end of this year and this year of discussion. As you know, one of the worlds great Woodrow Wilson experts, one of the two great Woodrow Wilson experts teaches on our faculty. As professor tom not, the other is tony smith. Choose my words very carefully, i found that in the age of trump, it is important to choose your words carefully so i want to tell you why i consider them to be both wilson experts but of a different quality. To my mind, thats not has done more than anyone to tell us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with, to tell us the history and the moment of Woodrow Wilson, twotime what he confronted and have you confronted it in the world if you live 10. Professor tony smith has done more than anything to tell us why this matters. President since wilson, it has not been a question of whether there will some in but how much and the question that animated Woodrow Wilson, those of democracy and promotion, so much of the subject of his book and work tonight continues t
The french and we were doing it, by the way, with the support of the church. And the church that was most involved in this was guess which one . The Presbyterian Church which was Woodrow Wilson was a member of. In fact, calvinism in general was the opposite of the anglican church. So what we have here is a argument that democracy is something that is suited only to certain peoples who have had a certain cultural history to them. Well, if thats the case, what are these cultural prerequisites . And here the more i read wilson, the more i became persuaded that there was the dog that doesnt bark x. The dog that didnt bark was calvinism. And it was particularly the covenant of the Presbyterian Church. This was the template for wilson of how democracy comes about. Now, i dont know how many of you belong to the group of churches that today can be called affiliated with presbyterians in terms of their domestic organization, but its not just churches. Its also reformed judaism and explains at l
We found in the age of trumpets important to choose your words carefully so i want to tell you why i find them to be both wilson experts but of a different quality and a different tone and tenor. To my mind the professor knock has done more than anyone to tell us what Woodrow Wilson had to deal with. To tell us the history and most moment of Woodrow Wilson, what he confronted and how he confronted it and these developments of his own thinking in the world he lived in. Professor tony smith as the other side of that coin has done more than anyone to tell us why this matters. So frankly every president since wilson has not been a question of them or of whether or not they are will sony and but rather how much. Animated Woodrow Wilson in particular of democracy in so much of professor smiths work in the subject of his book tonight will continue to guide American Foreignpolicy today, one might even say would continue to haunt american policy today. What Woodrow Wilson said will not help us
About purpose is to learn and think about a new book of great importance to members of our society. Davids new book protestants abroad it, a missionary tried to change the world but changed america, we have the galleys. It is not quite available in bookstores. It appears this fall from rinsed in the press. I have the honor of sharing this roundtable. We will proceed as follows. First, david will speak to lay out the books major themes. We will hear from our panel of three distinguished historians responding. They will appear in the order of the program. Thatt to address an error he organizedor, and brought us together. He has modestly declined to participate. He is at the top of the description and we may or may not from here dashcam in the larger discussion. We thank him for bringing us across the room here. After hearing from our panelists, we will turn to open discussion. Hopefully we have 20 of time for that area plenty of time for that area i am pleased to introduce david from the