Its precursor to hezbollah took an active hand in the killing of the marines in the barracks in beirut . Or had a participation in support of. I think thats true, mr. Chairman, but i dont have the personal knowledge to give that answer to you with knowledge. I chose those questions and ill summarize, mr. Chairman because 308 years ago, they iran clearly was promoting activities on the streets of beirut, including kidnapping and so on. This is when they were a fiveyearold government. 20 years ago americans died for sure, no small part because of irans hand. Ten years ago, americans were dying. So, when we look at ten years before they get an outright go under this, and their ability to have the materials and the to suit their ambition, my only question to all of you, and general hayden, if theres only time for one it would be you, if they were doing this 30 years ago, including kidnapping on the streets of lebanon, 20 years ago they were killing americans in saudi arabia, 10 years ago a
One of the first things thats evident in any coalition that while states have come together usually sharing a desire to achieve a common purpose, achieving common values and common interest. Seldom will those states in that process subordinate their personal or their National Interest. So National Interests will continue to be important to the individual members of the state. Of the coalition. We have achieved i think, in a relatively short time a remarkable consensus within the coalition. Ultimately for the defeat of daesh. That really that really was a very impressive effort i think on the part last year of the president s leadership but having watched secretary kerry very closely in this and the real emergency of august and september, bringing this coalition together, so they have come to achieve an outcome with regard to daesh. But in the course of that they also continued to recognize the National Interest of their own. For many of the members of the coalition, iran is one of the
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Worked very hard to manage those alignments so it doesnt create too great a tension. As time goes on, ive seen greater congruence in our views, not less. If i could follow one piece, you did mention that youre just back from ankara, the role and the relationship with turkey has been complicated, its been vital, its been seen as quite tense at times. It seems youre quite optimistic right now. So, one of my questions there, you see, for example, the kurdish being an effective force fighting within syria, but again, this is sort of just to get to one area where there are differences potentially differences between Coalition Members on how to approach a particular ontheground partner. How do you see that kind of dynamic playing out . Well, its its actually been naturally pretty remarkable what the kurdish elements in syria have done to eliminate daesh from a large segment of the border. There is still a border which is in the hands of daesh and thats problematic, and its an issue for the w
And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of