Combat the terrorism of isis and other al qaeda affiliates. Then we would prevail in the region and the entire world. Thank you, mr. President. [applause] i think the deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs and expatriate for his statement. Coming up on cspan, deputy secretary of state William Burns talks about u. S. Foreignpolicy. Then a Panel Discussion on the evolution of the u. S. Middle east policy. That is followed by microsoft founder bill gates on the Ebola Outbreak response. Coming up on the next washington journal, the congressman from oklahoma and u. S. Efforts atinst isis and a look representative Donna Edwards of maryland. Tenlooking at the big conference, they continue at Ohio State University with. Xecutive Vice President you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. House Judiciary Committee chairman talks about executive powers tuesday at an event hosted by the heritage foundation. You can see it live at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. Ou
Kurdish town allowed the syrianturkish border. U. S. Warplanes struck isis targets in that region overnight in attempts to hold the insurgents. And other middle east policy issues or part of a recent discussion hosted by the Washington Institute that included a look at policies over the last 30 years. This is a little over one hour. M patrick claw sen clausen. Im the director here. I would like to welcome you to this event, the sam lewis symposium. As my friend said at the start of the symposium. We will have two panels. One of which is looking backward and one of which is looking forward. As we said a moving target the art and science of middle east policy planning. And couldnt be a better moment for discussion that issue as we hear from important sources like the president of the United States, the difficulties of formulating a strategy for the middle east and to discuss those issues weve assembled, i think a stellar panel of the first speaker. Youve got their bios in their little br
Phase, but it is quite interesting how many of his former associates and political allies express growing concern. Here the real question is not how severe the crisis is in russia, but the real question internationally is, will the russian economy implode in some significant, geopoliticallysignificant fashion first, or will ukraine implode in some significant geopolitical fashion first . A great deal of what putin is doing is not part of a comprehensive military invasion of ukraine, other than the specific seizure of crimea, but it is to sew discord disorganization, and the moralization demoralization. It is a regime that came to power after 20 years of very significant mismanagement of the ukrainian economy. The kind of needlesticking in which putin is engaging against ukraine produces not only blood in some moderate fashion annoying and painful, but could produce a much more serious economic crisis in ukraine. This is why i think we have to, in a sense, more credibly convince putin t
Im very happy to speak with you this morning. My question i have memories of the vietnam war from my preschool days until it ended. I was unable to be enlisted at the time. What about the ability of the u. N. , even now, in the present days on the president s enactment of using such a body to enable peace . And to avoid conflicts that are not reported well. As i remember of my military service. That is my question. Guest it is a wonderful question. I wish it were asked time and time again. The relationship that everything we go through in the nation these days relates to, on one side the grit of conflict, and on the other side, the feeling that we ought to spend more time and effort in pursuit of a peaceful resolution of the problem, rather than immediately retreat into a feeling that since we are the strongest nation on earth with our weapons, we will be able to get our way. This gets back to for me this is the central heart of the book and our problems it does not work that way. Its
We are live on this Tuesday Morning at the Atlantic Council here in washington, where the french, british, and german ambassadors will talk about europes role in the iran Nuclear Negotiations. Atlantic Council Senior fellow Barbara Slavin will monitor the session. It should get underway in just a moment live on cspan. Good morning, everyone. I am the executive Vice President or i he Atlantic Council and it is my pleasure to welcome our dismissed speakers. French ambassadors gerard araud, British Ambassador sir Peter Westmacott, and german ambassador peter wittig. It is a pleasure to host all of the other same time about the iran nuclear deal. I would like to welcome all of you on in the room and everyone joining us online and through the tv broadcast. We want to encourage everyone to join the conversation using the hashtag ac iran. The Iran Task Force was established to explore peaceful release Peaceful Solutions with iran. The Iran Task Force looks at it has published on this issues m