Vo advisory teams on the ground, joint tactical Forward Air Controllers and other groups. These are small numbers of highly trained professionals. They would make all of the difference going out there with iraqi forces, be they peshmerga, National Guard or awakening sunni or the iraqi army, the nine brigades forming. Theres a huge difference between how these people perform and other conflicts perform when you have american advisers with them and how they perform without them. We dont have the luxury of having them perform in an inaccurate way. That needs to be done right now. And i dont understand why the administration is dragging its heels when it hears from dempsey, hears from others this is something that should be and is being contemplated. Thats it. A. Mbassador ford, your three recommendations for president obama. The first would be within the region itself to prioritize. I think most everyone would agree that syria and iraq are probably the two highest priorities because of th
That whatever approach is taken there will be in terms of how to deal with the carbon. Should be adaptable. Other the industrial processes are not power generators. I think you had some ethynol plant data up there as well. Bob made the point exactly that its sources of co 2, its not just coal, certainly not just natural gas. Its steel plants and cement plants. We did spend quite a bit of time this is a panel that will talk about the economic competitiveness on what are some of the lessons that our experiences with ccs then we can really make the pie, the Ccs Technology or the equipment pie bigger and that to become a lot more viable industry or sector per say. But i dont know. What are some of the ways that you think that we should be thinking about it . I think its important to point out im not an expert here. Emphasize that storing co 2 can be done. We know how to do it. Lets start there. Some states are trying to address this. What are the real issues surrounding large, large volume
Failing at that time and they were two of the major architects. And i know they give credit to many others, but two of the major architects of the surge which turned out to be a great sacrifice of american blood and treasure, a success. The black flags of isil are now flying over yet another major iraqi city, ramadi, the capital of iraqs Anbar Province. And reports overnight suggest that isil controls the syrian city of palmyra as well. This hearing does not is not about the fall of any one city as important as those losses are, but rather what its revealed about the limitations of an overly constrained american air campaign. The weaknesses of iraqi forces the growing maligned role of iran, and the ineffectiveness and inadequacy of u. S. Military support for iraqi and syrian partners. But most concerning it highlights the shortcomings of the administrations indecisive policy, inadequate commitment, and incoherent strategy. This misguided approach has failed to stop if not foster the ex
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Early 2012, and then the c. I. A. Became convinced that we could actually vet the Free Syrian Army and i will say that the institute for the study of war had some impact on provide them information that assisted them with that conclusion, and general petraeus would admit at the time. He presented a briefing to secretary clinton and panetta and dempsey, general dempsey and they agreed with him that this force could in fact be armed equipped and trained robustly. But the administration did not do that. And tragically, as a result of that, the Free Syrian Army now is a mere shadow of its former self. It is frankly theres frankly not much of it left. Senator mccain and could i add, in desperation, isnt it true theyve joined forces with al nusra, an affiliated orlingnyization . Is that true . General keane organizations that were part of their organization have broken from them. They were islamic organizations, not radicalized and they have joined with alnusra, who has gain masters degree t