welcome to csis. i am the head of the project on military diplomatic history. thank you all especially for braving today s weather. it s great to see all this interesting world war i. for those who haven t been here before a project is focused on history that provides insight into contemporary affairs. we are delighted to cohost today s event with csis project and prosperity and development. sam runde runs at project here and thank you for your support. when we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in world history world war i usually comes out at number one but americans actually fixated on other wars like the civil war and world war ii. this one is the most important and we are here today to provide additional awareness. 100 years ago to this very day woodrow wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his working points speech. wilson had been a professor at princeton and the president of that ins
forum. [inaudible conversations] welcome to csis. i am the head of the project on military diplomatic history. thank you all especially for braving today s weather. it s great to see all this interesting world war i. for those who haven t been here before a project is focused on history that provides insight into contemporary affairs. we are delighted to cohost today s event with csis project and prosperity and development. sam runde runs at project here and thank you for your support. when we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in world history world war i usually comes out at number one but americans actually fixated on other wars like the civil war and world war ii. this one is the most important and we are here today to provide additional awareness. 100 years ago to this very day woodrow wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his working points speech. wilson had been a professor at prince
conversation with the ambassador of the islamic republic of pakistan to the u.s., mr. aaziz ahmad chaudhry. he s from tufts university and from punjab, and had an interesting career in the foreign service, basically all the big jobs in the foreign service, ambassador to the netherland and it really, we re very fortunate to have someone of his caliber representing pakistan at this time. it s obviously a very challenging time for our relations between the united states and pakistan. we wanted to have this conversation with the ambassador. i think everyone is aware of all of that, but i think we think there s a so i think we need to talk about the challenges in our relationship and the things that need to be addressed. and then i think we want to also have a conversation that opens up the conversation a bit. because there are some things that don t have enough attention at all. i ll turn it over to the ambassador and then we will have an armchair conversation. please welcome th
lot more normal for this time of year. palo alto 38 degrees, mountain view 38, san jose at 41 and santa rosa at 32 degrees. today s temperature trend will be rather interesting. we have this trough sitting off of the pacific and that s going to bring a cooling air mass over the area. you might start seeing a combination of sun and clouds although right now it s not very cloudy, but that s going to keep our temperatures in the 50s and low 60s for today. believe it or not we are not expecting any 70s, even though earlier this week we hit daytime record highs. that will be interesting to watch and might each feel chilly in some spots. 62 degrees by 10:00 for santa clara. the doppler radar showing that upper level low i ve been mentioning. i will talk about who is going to get the chance of possibly seeing a couple showers. let s take you over to the winter olympics, if you ve been watching you are there in spirit, maybe you want to experience the cold but maybe not. it is 9 de
welcome to csis, and thank you for braving today s weather. it is great to see all of the interest in world war i. for those who have not been here before, our project is focused on history that also provides insights into contemporary affairs. we are delighted to co-host today s vent with the world war i centennial commission, and the csis center, and thank you dan fundy for your support. when we think about, when historians think about what are the most important events in world history, and world war i usually comes out at number one, and americans tend to be fixated on the other wars like the civil war and world war ii, but this is the most important, and we are here today to try to provide some additional awareness, and so 100 years ago to this very day, woodrow wilson appeared before a joint session of congress here in washington to deliver his 14 points speech. wilson had been a proare fes sor at princeton and president of the institution, and he drew upon the academic