U. S. Foreign policy, the growth of terrorism and especially isis, and all so the fate of minorities in syria. He is a historian who spent a number of years in the levant. He is a graduate of Princeton University and studied at oxford as a road scholar. He has written for the wall street journal and the times literary supplement. For those of you who are frequent visitors to our meeting, knows the we try to reach out to experts, new faces, new ideas so we are in for a very exciting next 25 minutes and then we will open the floor to your questions and we have an overflow of questions from the overflow. Thank you for coming. It is nice to be here. I have admired the Wilson Center added distance for a long time and it is a thrill to finally be speaking here as an author. I want to thank Haleh Esfandiari for the invitation. Thank you for being here. I want to begin briefly by telling you about the book, what am i doing here . Then i will talk about among the ruins syria past and present. S
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. They daycare with iraq. President obama authorized airstrikes targeting isis militants on thursday. Theyre the first of direct u. S. Military involvement in iraq since 2011. He concerns about renewed intervention. I will not allow the United States to be dragged into another war in iraq. Even as we support iraqis as they take the fight the terrorists, american combat troops will not be returning to fight with iraq. There is no American Military solution to the larger crisis in iraq. Isys militants have taken several cities and are approaching erbil in the rack. Iraq. John kerry said their actions are a wakeup call. This campaign of terror against the innocent, including the yazidi and christian minorities, targeted acts of violence, show all the warning signs of genocide. To writers for the new yorker, Dexter Filkins and george packer. I am pleased to have both of them here at this table. Here . , what is the risk, i guess it dep
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Actually said the head of their government today. The only two that didnt were russia and china. They sent their Foreign Ministers instead of their top political leader. Yes, that was meant to be catty and superior but only because International Diplomacy really is just Like High School and it always has been. But even with the chinese and russian mean girls flair for insult today, nobody there voted against this resolution from president obama. President obama personally made the ask for this thing and he got it. That success at the Security Council today followed president obamas other big moment this morning with his big speech on terrorism. A major address from president obama today in which we heard something new from him. He did talk about terrorism in some of the same ways that he has in the past, but he also went much further in terms of sounding very much like a president who is waging a war right now and not a war that he inherited by somebody else and hes winding down, but r