Syria and us military leadership in conflict zones. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to our newly renovated headquarters. I am gerald feierstein, Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. Welcome to todays important and timely panel, examining centcoms approach to the middle east. This gives us an opportunity to reflect on the approach and explore prospects for an effective us military role in the region especially given current news from northeast syria. We have a great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Kenneth pollack, dana stroll and we are pleased to welcome back senior fellow director of the defense of Security Program after a 1year fellowship in the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue of the washington quarterly entitled broken partnerships, can washington get Security Cooperation right . Moderating todays panel of distingui
We, of course, welcome those who will join us on cspan booktv in the future. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing us at speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, Senior Research fellow in our center for national defense. Mr. Woods served in the u. S. Marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. Upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. For five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments budgetary assessments. Please join me in welcoming dakota wood. Dakota . [applause] thank you, jon. Its a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. Crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it . The fastest run hes ever made to d. C. , so were glad
So the odds are that as we speak, he somewhere in the air, going to australia or china for israel or france. He is constantly on the road. We are out of time. This is a memoir called never look an american in the eye. Thank you very much. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this q a. Org. Visit us at also available as podcasts. We are live now at the Brookings Institution here in washington dc for a discussion about the politics of the arab world. We will be hearing from former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former National Security advisor stephen hadley. At 6 30 eastern, we will be live from the council on Foreign Relations for a conversation about president ial transitions. Were just waiting for the former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Nationa
We are confident it will come soon. But i know that it is a specific concern of that community. We have been working with the state of missouri not just to address that landfill, but it is an area where this is not the only thing to worry about in terms of impact on the environment in that area. We have been doing an awful lot of work, looking at the area as well, as well as this small landfill. It is a big deal and we are being as responsive as we can. We will at the record of decision as quickly as we can. Some are worried about a protective action guide regarding radioactive water. Why is the epa proposing this, and does the protective action guide pose a risk to the public . There are two ways that we are looking at this protective action guide. And i will explain this from the viewpoint of someone at work at state for 17 years. This guideline is a guideline to explain to states what they should do when an emergency happens, when there is a release of radioactive material, and how
Are there people elsewhere who will come to the zone could you do have to ask yourself for whom would you be attracted to be in such a zone . And secondly who probably some of the folks in germany who wouldve rather stayed in their own country. If they wish to return to the part of the country for which, in which the zone is created. But again it would depend on where it was and would be contested let me ask you, barrel bombs, weve talked about this time after time. Why are we unwilling to send a message to assad that if he continues with mail bombing we will stop them and crater his runways . We have not undertaken to engage as they use military the syrian military. We have not taken a step. How do you ever stop the federal bombing . Beryl bombing. Just to go back to what weve been saying repeal it is for assad to depart and for the to be a political speech i would be depart at this point . Because the opposition to him is intense and strengthening. As far as i can see you said three