Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
What is the mission . Is it to tempt them down . Tamp them down . To contain them or defeat them . Should not be to tempt down or contained tamp down or contain. We saw what happened with hamas. Israel has attacked them. Six months or two years later, they are doing the same thing again. Wrong for thes way the u. S. And the europeans handle this by continuously beating up on israel. Clearly, they going to eliminate them as a threat. Same with isis. If you dont take this seriously and have the cool be elimination, it will come back to bite us. That is my opinion. The objective is to defeat them. Not all of japan or germany. The way we defeated the ussr. A long military, political, and social competition. If you get it right, you win. It doesnt take place all of the the war against japan or germany. There will not be a signing ceremony on a battleship or formal surrender. In addition, you cant kill all of them. And what they do every day needs to be replaced by something new. Really up t
Are bearers and there are writers. Must acknowledge that each of us has both a role and value to contribute to the society to the people in dubuque, iowa, are praying that we demonstrate today. Eu, afteri apologize these two great speakers that this is what you get for sitting in the back of the class. I have great hope in the millennials. Signsare buildings with that said no blacks, no puerto ricans, no dogs. This current generation, i have a 20yearold and a 12yearold. Maybe in urban areas like ours where they grew up with diversity, particularly public education, kids like mine who are puerto rican, cuban, jewish, russian what are they . They embrace diversity and ways. They dont tolerate it. They are race at. Tolerance is a horrible word. I tolerate pain. We use that term a lot. That has probably been a right word to use. Diversity, maybe. I think newer generations embrace it. Its all they know. Thats why a lot of young people coming back to south florida because they like it. Im ho
Interests are there. They can really be that Democratic State we have always sought in the middle east from the u. S. Perspective. One of the frustrating things, i think in the past decade, and what really has been revealing to me, is the notion of democracy is a way to bring these things together is a broad philosophy. A flawed philosophy. It is not going to bring about the result we want. We will not see another version this nited states in these countries, due to the ethnic and tribal differences that have been there for centuries. So i am for looking at breaking up these countries or allowing them to cook autonomous. That doesnt just apply to iraq. Somalia is an example where we have seen a country that has functioned as three countries or nationstates for quite some time. That could actually give us allies, it could give us some sort of strength in the region. Rather than trying to compete with other adversaries like iran to push our influence in a country like iraq. I am open to