I mean, they have nothing to do with what the authorities have and they follow their own opinions. This new generation of people are those who were born between 1997 and 2012 and are now at the age of students. They are now entering university and the truth is that these people follow la. In addition to that, the American Government is actually behind israel with power. In particular, 80 of the congress is at least a supporter of israels genocide, and therefore we see that the opponents of this case and this israeli genocide. They are american youths, because the mohsens, whose duty is already known, mr. Spring bandand. An interesting aspect of these protests is that we see students cover their faces to hide their identity, yet they are present in their own universities. They are beaten by the police , they are arrested, they are threatened with being suspended from the university and even job opportunities. I was watching the speech of one of these students in america today. He said t
Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to my other friend and colleague, how branch, Henry A Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs for his comments. And we will turn to the office, to elliott and then opened the floor to you for your questions, and go from there. So with no further do, eric. Thank you, great to be here. I think its important that every book event remember the important part of a book event is to sell books
Good afternoon everybody. My name is thomas mahnken, Senior Research professor and ceo of the center for repeated and its my pleasure to welcome you here for a discussion of this book. The big stick, the big stick the limits of soft power and the neccessity of military force. What were going to do is let the authors always should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the last word. What im going todo his first turn to my colleague , ambassador eric edelman, a practitioner here at skype and counselor to the center for strategic and budgetary assessment for comments. Ill turn to my other friend and colleague, how branch, Henry A Kissinger distinguished professor of Global Affairs for his comments. And we will turn to the office, to elliott and then opened the floor to you for your questions, and go from there. So with no further do, eric. Thank you, great to be here. I think its important that every book event remember the important part of a book event is to sell books
It is my pleasure to welcome you for discussion of this book. The big stick the limits of soft power and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do is the author should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the first turn to my colleague, and residents and counselor for budget chair assessments. Sounding conspiratorial here. Henry kissinger, director of Global Affairs for his comments. Then we will turn to the other, eliot cohen and open the floor to you for your questions and go from there. With no further ado, eliot cohen. Great to be here. Important that every book event remember it is to sell books. A copy of the big stick, television audience, a very important book. On groundhog day we are meeting and that is very apropos. By the way those who dont know Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, we are in for another six weeks of winter. The movie groundhog day is one of my favorite movies. Those who have seen it know that bill murray wakes up every day and i
Great education but also as a service. So those people who have come from all over the world to Gain Knowledge and get an education have then gone out around changed the world around them. So its like going to the mecca where you can come and really know your spirit, your soul, expand your mind and the possibilities of the world around you and go out and change the world. So we feel its akin to a mecca. What were the circumstances that you became interim . My predecessor decided that he was going to step down and i was in the position of provost, which is considered the number two position. So i was asked to fill in on an interim basis. Where are you from originally . I was born in trinidad and tobago, many, many miles away from here. Howard had a very great reputation in trinidad, many physicians and so on that i interacted with while i was growing up were trained at Howard University, so it was a natural fit for me to come here. Where is Howard University located . At the Nations Cap