To solve him on this one. Right now, we are gonna shift over to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit. We have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the extreme right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four Different Countries egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador. She was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and thugs portfolio and she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the deputy chief in baghdad and ankara. At the end, doctor vaez was on the International Crisis group where he previously served as
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Coming out. Thank you also to cspan for covering this in our cspan viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their
Viewers. Im going to introduce the who is the advisor to the National Security program and she is a Longtime Department of defense she most recently defense fory of energy security. Apparently, you all realize it is snowing, so we are grateful that you braved the weather to come and join us for a very important conversation and fastmoving situation. I want to to start with peter has a new book out that you should all read and his book just about two weeks ago, i said you are writing about a president and National Security team before the story is over, so what is the next chapter . [laughter] you see where this is going. President has not had a genuine foreignpolicy crisis yet. We dont know the capabilities, so make sure you ask his projections on the market and Everything Else and here we are. I would encourage you to read the detailed biographies of our panel because we would be here all afternoon going through their qualifications, but i want you to know that they are not only the t
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i