Welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually, but the book entitled seven pillars and the discussion is to look more broadly and deeply at the drivers of instability of the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil if we cant become a land of before and tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning intentions into the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts it was a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for the success or failure are the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so,
Tragically despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning intentions into the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts it was a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for the success or failure are the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region and if so, how. In this regard, the editors of seven pillars, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis and their co contributors have given a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify art is long gone era ideology by the military, education, economy and governance. Ive found many of the authors perspectives to be unique and to begin looking at al
The Editorial Page Editor of the miami herald. You have been in that position since 2013. Delighted you are here. First time we have had the herald participate. On her way. She should be here any minute, National Correspondent for politico. What will be next to her is matt kamensky, her boss, global editor at politico and editor in chief of politico. He had been at the wall street journal before that. Last but not least is jonathan Foreign Policy magazine. Delighted to have all three of you here. Jonathan, welcome. Matt has been here before. Natasha will join us when she arrives. I want to start with the latest developments with this year, the situation with iran. I wanted to ask each and jonathan, i will start with you and then we will reverse the flow. How do you think the president has handled the situation . Jonathan thank you for having me and to all of you for listening. I had a funny thought which i head,expected to enter my which is if iran doesnt respond any further than it ha
President trumps impeachment. , and thetion with iran upcoming 2020 elections. And theinternational Mccain Institute posted this as part of its state conference as part of the world. So we are going to jump right in on this panel. With me to my right is nancy, the Editorial Page Editor of the miami herald. You have been in that position since 2013. Delighted you are here. First time we have had the herald participate. On her way. She should be here any minute, National Correspondent for politico. What will be next to her is matt kamensky, her boss, global editor at politico and editor in chief of politico. He had been at the wall street journal before that. Last but not least is jonathan Foreign Policy magazine. Delighted to have all three of you here. Jonathan, welcome. Matt has been here before. Natasha will join us when she arrives. I want to start with the latest developments with this year, the situation with iran. I wanted to ask each and jonathan, i will start with you and then
National security correspondent for politico. Then what would be next to her is matt, our boss who is global editor at political and privacy editor in chief of politico. And had been at the wall street journal before that. Last but not least is editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine. Delighted to all three of you here. Welcome to you. Matt has been here before but a warm welcome to you as well. Im going to jump in and natasha will join us when she arrives and i want to start with the latest developments of this year, and that is a situation with iran. I wanted to ask it to do maybe jonathan i will start with you if you dont might and they will come back this way and reverse the flow. How do you think the president has handled the situation with iran . First of all thank you for having me here and thanks to all of you for listening. I had a funny thought today which i never expected to enter my head, which is if iran doesnt respond any further than it has today, or yesterday, and if