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terrorism, we have assembled a panel of leading experts to discuss these issues which include, by the way three generals with seven stars between them. coming to moderate the panel is jerry who was one of the original members of the delta force and commanded all of the army s green berets. today we are proud to announce he served as the vice president of the research council. ladies and gentlemen as these men come to the stage would do not just welcome them but also thank them for their service to the united states of america. [applause] thank you all very much. please be seated. my name is jerry boykin. tony is a marine and i normally start my presentation with a range of. having said that, general conway is a retired commandant of the marine corps, so i m going to skip that out of fear for my life. [laughter] we are going to go right into it. listen i know as americans we are all concerned about what we see today unfolding across the globe with the chaos that we see wit