On thursday, the Potomac Institute for policy studies brought together the former Defense Department and fbi officials to discuss the terror group isis. They reviewed the groups evolution and spoke about why the International Community did not detect them earlier. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you very much, mike, for the introduction. I would like to welcome the panelists as well as the audience and those who collaborated with us over the years in the Diplomatic Community in washington and internationally. As mike indicated, we are going to focus with isis and we have a very distinguished panel with rich backgrounds and experience. I will not go into details to introduce them, but first, we have professor ruth wedgwood. Right here to my left, not politically, but at any rate i am, actually. [laughter] she is a professor of International Diplomacy at Johns Hopkins university and the president of the International Law association and she has worked with different administr
What is the mission . Is it to tempt them down . Tamp them down . To contain them or defeat them . Should not be to tempt down or contained tamp down or contain. We saw what happened with hamas. Israel has attacked them. Six months or two years later, they are doing the same thing again. Wrong for thes way the u. S. And the europeans handle this by continuously beating up on israel. Clearly, they going to eliminate them as a threat. Same with isis. If you dont take this seriously and have the cool be elimination, it will come back to bite us. That is my opinion. The objective is to defeat them. Not all of japan or germany. The way we defeated the ussr. A long military, political, and social competition. If you get it right, you win. It doesnt take place all of the the war against japan or germany. There will not be a signing ceremony on a battleship or formal surrender. In addition, you cant kill all of them. And what they do every day needs to be replaced by something new. Really up t
The weapons. It became lucky. Obama issued a redline challenge. They brokered a deal in which syria gave up chemical weapons. They can still use chlorine gas and other things not classified officially as weapons. They are terrible and brutal. The Syrian Civil War led to serious not having chemical weapons. Ub. It makes the regime more tolerable from an israeli point of view. As for the alternative, there is a phrase going around they are at the fence. Israel holds most of the golan heights. Rebels have taken an area known by. Someone who might be the Free Syrian Army. The israelis watched this. They are at the fence. The response has been, in secret. Try to make contact with everybody. Try to be as friendly as we can. You heard about the hospital northern israel . Which is a good part of publicity . They are treating wounded people from the Syrian Civil War . Is that an intelligence bonanza opportunity to interview people and send them back in. Treat only your favorite people. Treat so
Likely to be republican. Have they delivered on the issues important to that community . We have had jewish members and legislature, but i have an jewish someone of the faith they could never win a statewide race in florida and 2014. Comments relating to racial matters. A latino man nor woman running or a redundantly latino area a black person or a white person in similar circumstances. Racialments relating to matters ever acceptable . Will we ever eliminate that . Acceptable is another one of those words. Will there be conversations or thoughts direct did towards race . Decide whether they are acceptable but accept them as a reality . A reality that we will either confront somewhere between references to liberty city as being the home of every person of color in miamidade county, for example. What does that bring into your mind . There are people who mean well. They do not appreciate. Just like i made a reference to a connotation of a very clever statement made earlier to make a point
Derailed, at frankford and wheatsheaf lane, you are now looking at a live picture from chopper six. Several cars are off the tracks, one kara peers to be all but destroyed. The philadelphia fire commissioner derek sawyer has labeled this a mass casualty incident. We have some video from the ground victims of this accident, i wish we could see them now, we are reporting that there are and an unknown number of fatalities. We dont know how many. But we are reporting that there have been, people killed. As you can see, Triage Centers have been set up, near the scene, victims, grabbing some water when they can and it is a big, mess at and near the scene. Hospitals, in the city of been told to expect casualties. Now, former bucks county congressman pat trick murphy, is on the train. He has gone on twitter to release pictures from inside, one of the cars. He is okay. He is helping injured passengers but these are pictures from inside one of the cars at this early juncture, there is no word wh