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Leading our discussion is daniel, policy analyst they focuses on transatlantic Security Issues he provides expert analysis and radio and television appearances. Prior to joining us at heritage and the Thatcher Center he worked at a nonprofit washington, d. C. As a policy analyst and on the Advisory Board company has associate and associate director. [applause] thank you everybody. Were honored today to be joined by mark moyar whose book was describe a National Review as a valuable and highly rea...

Please silence your mobile devices. We will post todays program on the homepage for everyones future reference. Leading our discussion is daniel, policy analyst they focuses on transatlantic Security Issues he provides expert analysis and radio and television appearances. Prior to joining us at heritage and the Thatcher Center he worked at a nonprofit washington, d. C. As a policy analyst and on the Advisory Board company has associate and associate director. [applause] thank you everybody. Were...

Given envelope, you could have a significant increase in staff with very little cost. That wasnt true with the older model. Again, i think the Standard Embassy Design taught us a lot, but i think we can improve on it. We can improve on it in meaningful ways that give us more flexibility for the long term. And mr. Green, as you respond to that question, i just want you to include from your research from your committees activities, in fact, isnt that what standard build is supposed to do, is to in...

Office. I wanted to ask a question about i used to work in the pentagon dealing with a lot of military competition issues and one of the things and concerns i think its u. S. Service members being forced out by the initiatives and event you also have other folks offered more money to go back and see and other things like that and some of the policies that have come out of that have been a little conflicting kind of sending a mixed signal. I know professor coming you mentioned about cutting the r...

Its too premature to speak about his legacy. After all yesterday we began an audit of these 8 million votes according to the deal that secretary kerry brokered last week. It will be a complicated audit and i wouldnt be surprised having gone through something similar myself with the ambassador and it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree question that we are going to talk about today cannot president karzais legacy will also be affected by how this election comes to ...

Palestinians. While the president has been continuously engaged in efforts to secure a comprehensive ceasefire including efforts by egypt and turkey among other concerned countries in the region and beyond, israel has , continue waging war on our people. Command, thect Occupying Forces are killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinian Civilians. The majority of children and women destroying homes and infrastructure and displacing thousands of families. Beingother disaster is inflicted, traumatizi...

And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereign...

Nothing about the Afghan Society and also a misunderstanding of karzai as an afghan leader because when you meet him it isnt like the other traditional afghan leaders but nor is it like the leaders that have spent decades abroad to receive their education etc. He is there and its easy to think here is a western oriented leader dressed in afghan clothes and its far from the truth. President karzai is afghan to the core. He is an afghan political leader and he lives in two worlds at the same time....

It will be a complicated audit. I would not be surprised, having gone through something similar myself with ambassador ida, that it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree, the question that were going to talk about today, president karzais legacy, will be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless, i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leading afghanistan in one way or the other for the last 13 years since december 2...

Peak, he thinks he will reach the top in a few days. But it takes weeks to approach. They reached what we believe is a Lower Mountain on the flanks of pikes peak called mount rosa. At that point pike wrote, given the conditions, given the equipment that they had at the time, no one could have summited the peak. Pikes peak inspired america the beautiful written by katherine bates. And the view down to the plains from the top of the mountain inspired the poetry and inspired the images that are cap...