Together in my brief stint in the government. He has had a distinguished. Areer in the Foreign Service he is the state Department Coordinator for sanctions, policy, prior to that ambassador fried was assigned to the Guantanamo Bay facility, which we will discuss briefly. The main focus of the conversation will be on sanctions. He also had additional responsibilities. Previously as assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, senior director of the National Security council, universe u. S. Ambassador to poland. It is wonderful to welcome you. Thanks for being here. Mr. Fried thank you. I appreciated. One of the interesting things about Foreign Policy is, as people have gotten, grown disillusioned with the effectiveness of military force, as an instrument of version in american Foreign Policy, a lot of attention has focused on sanctions. As a way to get others to do what we want, and not have to use military force but use a financial instrument to try and get others to
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One thing that we are seeing in terms of the 72hour detention. Some of the folks have been taken to buses so they can be sent to the other facilities. But the numbers are so overwhelming that the bus stations are closing because theres not enough buses. Some of the local nonprofits are having to take care of some of those families. My question is, what federal Grant Programs are there that we can tap into on an urgent basis so these nonprofits working alongside cbp and dhs down there can work with . I know we had a terrific volunteer effort. I know the red cross has really stepped up as well as a number of texasbased volunteer organizations have done a heroic job. In terms of grant making, id have to take a closer look at that to see what might be available. Perhaps administrator fugate has thoughts. Id have a take a closer look at it. We can work with your offi. C. E. On those few points. I want to thank you, mr. Vitiello and agents at border customs and patrol. I have witnessed first
Thanks for the question. I think that the appropriate way to do this is pretty much whats being done right now actually, and such using airstrikes to limit the freedom of movement and the ability to move oil and smuggle it as easily as isil was able to be for the airstrikes started. Meanwhile, buying time for an advice and assist effort and Capacity Building effort to try to stand up in some cases local Security Forces or the iraqi army to conduct effective operations is insulated to push isil back from the territory is controlling. I appreciate that, i dont mean to cut you off but from 20032011 we spent 24 billion, the United States taxpayer spent 24 billion training 938,000 iraqis how to fight. And to equip them, train them. And who we have 30,000 sunni that are over running the country. As isis gets stronger and stronger, we are back again with this training operation and i just have some misgivings about, you know, whats that saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same