Mechanized unit capability. These guys have got multiple rocket launch systems and a regular resupply of ammunition coming from iran. These guys have got kurds forces come partcompartmented intelligence within their headquarters that are linking them to the kurds force Drone Operations overhead. Iranian air support potentially or iraqi air support thats being facilitied by the iranians in some ways. Theyre wellarmed networked into the ministry of interior and some of the other key Iraqi Security headquarters. Theyre transnational, linked to other aspects of the axis of resistance. So this is not these are people who will undermine your strategic independence going forward. Luckily, bringing us around to the solution at the end i think a lot of the moderate shiite leadership in iraq recognize that, whether theyre in the political sphere, whether theyre military men or whether theyre in the religious sphere. Iraqi military does not like militia. It never did. It doesnt like, i think, hav
Its my great pleasure and honor to welcome all of you here. With respect to our guest of honor, ambassador rice i want to welcome her back to this premises. She is a former colleague of martin index and mine both here at the Brookings Institution and in government during the 1990s. And special welcome to her mom, how about that . Her mom has come out [applause] to hear her daughter speak on a very important subject. I have to say just a quick word on lois rice. Im quite sure 99 year history there has only been one motherdaughter team both senior fell lows. One in Foreign Policy and susan and lois in economic studies and lois continues to be an important part of the since staougs. As all know, susan is here to talk about the National Security strategy for 2015 and into the future. The origins goes back to the aftermath of world war ii and the dawn the cold war. Today the big challenge facing the United States and its partners and allies in the International Community is not contain the.
But we also believe we are not doing them a disservice. We are doing them a service. They may be sometimes uncomfortable with what we say, but all of us are pushing in the same direction and that is for the betterment of the people of the country concerned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] we are looking for them to have the full protections the law provides for. Thank you. Just one last question. What do you think of the escalation . Thank you very much for that question. The office which i lead has a Monitoring Mission in ukraine that has been in place really almost since the crisis. Since the crisis began in the eastern part of the country. We have periodic reports we make available to the international community, and yes we discuss ukraine with a large number of countries. Nationally it is of great concern to the international community. This is a very serious crisis. And we have seen, of course even though we have, all of us have cause for further complianc