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Afghanistan. The discussion hosted by the Stemson Center in washington, d. C. Included analysts like stuart bolin, Inspector General for iraq reconstruction and his recent report arguing that a the u. S. Does not have a well executed plan to implement and oversee the reconstruction efforts. Defense department and u. N. Officials also participated in the discussion. This is an hour and a half. Good morning everyone. I am Ellen Laipson and im delighted to welcome you to the Stimson Center for this muggy of this conversation about war and peace new tools for messy transition. We are gathering at ...

The fact of the matter is we repay and we finally applied a counter is counterinsurgency strategy. Once the people thought we were going to die protecting them from a something which attend to that point and have the capability to do it, the war turned to our favor and strangely at the same time, the al qaeda had fallen in on iraq because of our presence. That is a true statement, so that was a huge negative outcome as a result of the invasion of iraq. Al qaeda cell in on iraq because they saw as a huge opportunity to render a defeat for the united state and they feared strategically the Unite...

Recommended they not be used . I read reports of that, sir. Okay. You were once an rso, correct . Yes, sir. In your distinguished career, do you ever remember recommending that a service not be used . That being hired over your protest or yourar recommendation . Not in my experience, sir. Okay. But you would have at some point recommended somebody or maybe not recommended anybody . Was it your job to look at the performance of these people tht you were w aware of . When when we have barredded contracts. When we find the contractor is not performing we have variety of ways to deduct money and u...

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Authority. Releasing Authority Means you can go out with a message that youre the commanding general, second marine division. You dont give those, that authority away, and thats why i brought up that point that whoever signs that, basically the secretary, the way i understand it is concurring with all those decisions that are made. Its on his or her watch, correct me if im wrong. If its signed for general hickey by one of the staff yes, this is the official comments. Okay. All right. In terms of your role and i think its very, very important to go back to how would you even be more pro active ...