Comparison was to compare enough in iraq, there was a huge stabilization of the situation. Refugees came back from turkey. Lets imagine now that the u. S. Did not intervene in 91, what would have happened to this refugee camp in turkey . Trust me. You have the same scenario inside turkey would have been an extremely bad civil war. It shows entered sbr at the right moment, in syria, the idea was not to send troops. The idea it was going against the strategy of beshar in a very efficient way. Thats one thing. The second thing is and this is crucial. This is the most difficult. There is no clear thought on what im going to say. But the tradeoff between shortterm and longterm, lets take two examples. The drones in yemen and the drones in afghanistan. In both cases the drones are in a way useful because theyre killing enemies. From time to time, they are not enemies, they are mistakes but basically you can say that its useful. But at the same time, you know that drones are very, very, very
President deborah rudder discusses issues relevant to the performing arts. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently hosted a discussion on radical extremism. Speakers looked at specific events in the middle east and how they are led to escalating violence in places like afghanistan, syria ander remark. This is an hour and a half. Welcome it is my particulare to afternoon to say that this event is cosponsors by the middle east program as well. In that regard, im happy that we have our Dear Colleague fred with us. The question is entirely in the title, Jihadist Movement in afghanistan, syria and iraq. I mean what are the reason for what we see today and where does it lead and where do we go. To what extent these are social phenomenon, or its the result of perhaps not so smart policy for the past decade or even longer. This is not totally ann er rei irrelevant question, its the question we will try to address this afternoon. To do so, we have three speakers, or four speaker
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Have become the first palestinians in modern time to become Roman Catholic saints. Reports are coming in that a key city in iraq has fallen to isil according to al jazeera sources. They say troops have left the citys Counterterrorism Center and regrouped west of the city. State t. V. Is reporting that the iraqi premier has ordered troops not to abandoned their positions in ramadi. This amateur footage shows what appears to be Government Forces fleeing. The men filming say this is the futile military the failed government. Watch their tank leave. Earlier, isil fighters attacked a government buing with suicide car bombers killing 22 security officials. U. S. Led coalition, meanwhile, is hitting isil positions with airstrikes in ramadi as well as elsewhere in iraq. Anbars provincial council, sunni, is allowing shiia muon lim officials to join the fight. Ramadi is in the center of iraq the capitol of Anbar Province which has been mostly under isil control since last year. It is 100 kilomet
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