And know that they were working with who they identified as their afghan brothers so just im regret that so much hey, bad i can remember the first time i went to afghanistan with sheila jacksonlee. She pointed out that bad news has no feet and excuse me. What is it . Good news has no feet and bad news has wings. And wow. But the bad the good thing is that extraordinary progress has been made and i agree with the chairman, too, that success in afghanistan is to deny terrorists safe havens which protects American Families and that we cannot forget it was september 11th, 2001, the attacks on our country, that were originated, planned and culminated from caves in afghanistan so im just very appreciative of your efforts and the largely bipartisan support we have here w. That in mind, with this special operations reliance of support from conventional forces, if conventional forces are reduced, as has been called for, how can special operations fill in this gap . Sir, today, we continue to ta
This subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. Iraq, syria and afghanistan. Historically in a broader context, what are the lessons . Is it always hard . Are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control . Are there lessons we can apply more broadly to Different Countries and our efforts to improve their Security Forces . We cant do everything ourselves. So nebraskas gsomebodys got t there helping us do it. Were trying to work with others. You just heard somebody today mention poland. We have allies of different capabilities. How well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities . I think this is a big, very important question. So is the hearing going to be oversight or education . Both. So were going to have close the roundtable, were going to have outside experts, were going to have administration witnesses at different events. So its try to understand, but its also hone in on what were doing now and is it working
Democratic forces could be a partner, to which you could send ammunition . Col. Warren i saw some press reporting about the Syrian Democratic coalition. Know who the members of the coalition are. Is, if different ethnic groups are coalescing around this common enemy called isil, that is a good thing. I dont have details on this newly formedoup or umbrella organization. Was only announced i guess publicly yesterday. I dont know. What i do know is anytime subgroups coalesce around this isil, andmy called seek to defeat this common enemy called isil, this is a good thing. As every leader in the u. S. Government has said, we will talk with anyone to fight i saw isil. I am from the washington examiner. What is going to happen to the u. S. Troops that were doing the training of the Syrian Rebels . Will they now be doing a couple days of training for the leaders or will they be reassigned . Col. Warren that is still to be determined. Many of those forces are continuing. There is one final cla
Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the constution, and the president pro tempore is. But no mention of a majority leader or minority leader and thats because the constitutn did n ancipatepolitical parts. I think they thoughat it was probably gng to happen, but they didnwant to encoure litica parties. Theyake no provision for it. And for most ofthe history of thesenate we had no jority lead. Om 1789 until 1913 there was noajit leader ofth senate. There re chairmen committees who wld sort of take care of things on the floor, there were th a
We are all one company and its not just hung up on silos and exactly where peer i. T. Is the same way. There is essential i. T. But they very much view their clients like controlling what they do and help setting priorities. The key thing is a lot of communication and i think a lot of senior level involved in. I dont mean senior people making all the decisions, but typically, especially those taken that kind of things, you need someone senior to make the call that we are going to prioritize this project over that project. A lot of collaboration. One of our core values this collaboration. It is hard to say how you get a culture, but it takes a great culture which causes collaboration and creates innovation. Are you concerned about discoverability to stay in illinois given the states tax structure and deficits . People are going they are in premed at because they are anonymous. Email, i think that chicago is our home. We are not going anywhere. I think that from a citizens perspective, i