Good morning, everyone. Good morning to all the people watching us over cspan and other electronic means of communication. Very, very happy on behalf of Hudson Institute to welcome senator chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialogues that weve been having here at hudson over the last few years with a range of policymakers and important contributors to the American Foreign policy debate from both parties, from many different points of view. This is partly out of hudsons commitment to serious intellectual engagement over series questions. It also reflects my own view as an analyst over American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreign policy, often our policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view. Out of that sometimes contentious series of exchanges emerges ideas, compromises, directions that no single American School of thought might have come up with on its own. If you think about it, thats a little the way ou
Communication and very happy on the behalf of the Hudson Institute to welcome chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialogues that we have had at hudson over the last few years with a range of policymakers and important contributors to the market foreignpolicy debate from both parties for many different points of view, this is partly out of hudsons commitment to serious intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view of an analyst of the American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreignpolicy often are policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view and out of that sometimes contentious series of exchanges emerge ideas compromise instructions that no single American School mightve come up with on its own and if you think about it thats the way our constitution worked jefferson hated it, hamilton thought there were terrible compromises, franklin was not pleased with it. The constitution was may
Communication. Very, very happy on behalf of Hudson Institute to welcome senator chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dial ocean that we have been having here at hudson with a range of policy makers and important contributors to the American Foreign policy debate from both parties from many different points of view. This is partly out of hudsons commitment to ser yous intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view as an analyst of American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreign policy, often our policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view and out of that are contentious series of exchanges emerges ideas, compromises, directions that no American School of thought would have come up on its own. That is the way our constitution worked. Hamilton thought there were terrible compromises and franklin wasnt pleased with it. The constitution was maybe a bit better than it would have been if the
To welcome chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialog that we have been having here over the last few years, with a range of policy makers and an important contributor to the American Foreign policy debate, from many different points of view. This is partly out of houstons commitment to really intellectual engagement over serious questions. It also reflects my own view that if you look at the history of American Foreign policy often it works when you have many voices with many points of view, and out of that you have consensus exchanges, directions that no single American School of thought may have come up with on its own. If you think about it, thats the way our constitution works. Franklin wasnt all that pleased with it. The constitution was better than any of them to write what it was in their own head, so in that spirit i, hope we will have interesting conversation today. What i plan to do is to begin by exploring with senator murphys a series of ideas related t
Everyone who is watching overseas fan and other electronic means of communication. Im really happy to welcome chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dialog that we have been having here over the last few years, with a range of policy makers and an important contributor to the American Foreign policy debate, from many different points of view. This is partly out of houstons commitment to really intellectual engagement over serious questions. It also reflects my own view that if you look at the history of American Foreign policy often it works when you have many voices with many points of view, and out of that you have consensus exchanges, directions that no single American School of thought may have come up with on its own. If you think about it, thats the way our constitution works. Franklin wasnt all that pleased with it. The constitution was better than any of them to write what it was in their own head, so in that spirit i, hope we will have interesting conversation