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Good evening. Were deeing highed have join us erre van dick, investigateoff journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region and our moderator, Senior Vice President of programs at World Affairs. Were recording tonights program so please take a moment to silence your cell phones. Im tim, the Program Officer here at World Affairs. If you enjoy the discussion and are interested to learn more about the organization, ill be around after the program. I want to turn it over to our modern rater. So, good evening, everything, and thank you for joining us. Its my great pleasure to introduce o...

Discovered dozens of unpublished photographs. They were hugely popular, unpublished black history. The monthlong series explored the history behind the photos, garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. Were thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors who were involved with creating the book inspired by their discovery, unseen, unpublished black history from the New York Times Photo Archives, which is available for purchase and signing following the program. Darcy eveleigh is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times, and the creator and editor of the livel...

[speaking foreign language] it is a long way from iran to fort bragg, north carolina. Halfway around the world, you might say. But that is where the story begins. It is my story, but it could be the story of a great number of other u. S. Army advisors. Who served in nearly 50 countries overseas. My name is captain paul weinman. My assignment with the military Assistance Advisory Group in iran is as an advisor to the Imperial Iranian Army special forces group. But before you teach, you have to learn the hard way. At fort bragg, we learned our special forces lessons well. Lessons that would make...

Them substantial opportunity to determine their own destiny within the territory that they control. That is what multisectarianism in iraq would mean. As you indicate, its a lot tougher in syria. But thats the objective that we have to have sunnis i would like to see the sunni tribal leaders that you met with be as successful as the kurds are. We would welcome that. Thats what were trying to stimulate. And were willing to do more as the chairman indicated and i indicated when we have a capable ground force that we can support the way we did support over the weekend the kurds in the north with ...

Considering how much we invested, the soldiers general dempsey led in iraq. So im worried im not happy about this. I think delusion is a word thats too accurate. So i just want to say that here at the beginning. I hope we will get into more details about what you plan to do to reverse this action. And at some point the president s going to have to change his mind, it seems to me. He cannot just function based on a Campaign Promise when reality is different. Secretary carter do you want me to answer that question . It is a fair question, let me go back to the issue of the strategy, and then i w...