Well, okay. Well, thank you very much again. And thank again. Its an honor to be the kennedy lecture. And here. Is well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of all of us involved with Andrew Jackson hermitage, its my pleasure to welcome you, to our seventh president home. Im Howard Kittell president and ceo of the Andrew Jackson foundation. Today, there are few americans who are not in some way grappling with our nations history of slavery, how it shaped our countrys formation from the colonial era up to the present and how it impacts our lives today, however, its virtually impossible to come to grips with that topic of slavery in america without understanding the laws that both permitted and shaped the practice. Just as we see elements of ourselves in our ancestors. So our legal, economic and social system are rooted in the laws that surround it too, surrounded slavery. And fostered it. Professor sharfstein is the at worksafe. Mr. Page here. Apologies tonight. We are honored
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Theyre very familiar with those weapons is done by contractors and i know Beltway Companies that stilling gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan wherever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs are presently run by the agency cia and it goes on and on and on and the way it probably happened in a number of ways is that they really captured or they went to opposition fighters who may have joined isis but in many some of them were actually mislaid when they were parachuted in either of those approaches and in the one case when isis initially took over mosul back in two thousand and fourteen. They took incredible amounts of weaponry from the iraqi fighters who went and then mosul fell so they were theyve been able to get these weapons theyve been able. To. Actually modify it to to suit their purposes and and be able to adjust launch tubes for example so that they can comply with. The weapon systems itself so the ice is engineers if you will were very very cl
Weeks. Of the watch of the hawks i robot and im having a while and then joining us today to discuss the arms business in syria is former pentagon analyst Michael Maloof thanks for joining us pleasure always a pleasure so michael let walk us through this how exactly in your expertise in your belief do you believe these weapons and that up in the hands of isis what do you know they told us that they are being are the syrians and then they ended up at isis house what do you think happened well it was a very clandestine program to obtain from Eastern Europe a lot of the weapons that syrian. Opposition forces were very good half million with. A k forty seven zero r. P. G. Where do you get them from Eastern Europe and the you still have surplus is there today youre very familiar with those weapons by contractors and nobel waco. But is it still in gauging that activity happens also in afghanistan where ever you have this kind of activity you have clandestine programs principally run by the ag
Ourselves that we could use her help and we need to coordinate with you because so many of our interests overlap. One final point that i think is valid for all of us, you hear and us in europe, what the terrorists want more than anything else from us is for us to overreact severely, to in other words, to deny our own values, to deny the values and inform the constitutional order. So that they can use that as excuse for the next attack. If we betrayed those values while fighting them, we have already lost again. Thank you very much and i look forward to your questions. [applause] we will take questions from the audience, before the we do that, we have a tradition here of giving a student the first question. She has opened up an opportunity for you to give another talk. Here in the United States, there has been much talk in conversation about the value of nato and its financial cost to the american people. Is it nato still important to europe, and if so, why is it not played a more decis