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The Middle East Institute’s (MEI) Syria Program is pleased to convene a public panel bringing together three unique voices to reflect on Syria from the outside – events past and present, opportunities taken and missed, lessons learned and what the future might hold. ....
Real concept of what s happening in 3,000 troops go back to afghanistan. shouldn t we hear from the commander in chief? dan: i think we should. when i was chief of the cia near east division and secretary and secretary of defense gates was at an air force base at a young soldier asked him what kept them up at night and that soldier probably thought secretary gates would answer with iran, terrorism, china, russia, the taliban. secretary gates said you people do. you re all out here in harm s way behind enemy lines and what keeps me up at night is your safety and your security. we have got our people right now in harm s way in afghanistan and i think that our citizens would like to see the president on the job in the white house and addressing the nation if needed from the white house. i don t know that we can say one way or another whether kabul will still be in the hands of the afghan government is weekend. it might not be. it s a good time to be on the job and that s already getting ....