to my right is ambassador ryan crocker, who is the kissinger senior fellow at the el universal. he has served recently as our ambassador to afghanistan, his long career included ambassadors for iraq as well as our ambassador to pakistan, syria, kuwait, and lebanon. from may to august of 2003, he served as the government's director for the coalition provisional authority in baghdad, and his career in the foreign service included a tour in lebanon at the same time in the early 1980's, at the moment of the it israeli invasion as well as the bombing of the marine barracks. to his right is ambassador samir sumaida'ie. in 2006 he moved here to washington to serve as iraq's ambassador. prior to his appointment to the united nations, the ambassador to serve as the minister of interior in baghdad. ofore that he was a member iraq's governing council. he is currently working as a consultant and a writer. to the far right, is a senior fellow at the yale jackson institute. she has worked at senior levels on behalf of the united states and united kingdom government and in israel. into this an

. >> there is a quotation from ambassador crocker one of our wisest diplomats who said in the end what we leave and what we leave behind will be much more important than how we came. we've been arguing about how we came, but it's really what we leave behind. that is the true test of thishi war. >> rose: the events and lessons of iraq when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: 10 years ago this week, the united states sent troops into iraq to remove saddam hussein as part of the r global war on terror, it wast side. it was the start of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in american history. it lasted almost nine years. the iraqi y death toll stands at over 100,000. on the tenth anniversary of the war, many are reflecting on why it hammond, how it ended, and what it means for american foreign policy.me joining me is michael gordon.jo he is chief military correspondent for the "new york times." his new book is called "end game: theis inside story of the struggle for iraq." i am pleased to

they live adjacent to crocker amazon park and wanted to use the steps that are in total decay. they volunteered to do maintenance once the project is completed and to watch over it and supervise it. they went to their churches and school groups to gather the signatures and these people are so grateful how government works. thank you. >> thank you. any others to speak on the consent calendar? being none, this item is closed. commissioners we would need a motion to approve the consent calendar without 5e. >> item e will be taken off? >> yes. >> and then provided separately after this vote. is there a motion? >> commissioner harrison? >> i apologize. >> before we vote on, this and i'm sure it will be unanimous, i just wanted to compliment the people. i have been blessed and lucky enough and honored to be on that committee with these folks jake and jenny and the staff put together a great committee. there it's unbelievable that the work and the interest these people take in making sure these important projects get money to get done. it's just as some of our folks have mentioned it'

we will show you that at 8:00 evening.s iraq whichthe war in remarks from ryan crocker. this is from the carnegie endowment for international peace. it is an hour and a half. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] good morning. i am the president of the carnegie endowment for international peace. it's a pleasure to welcome you today to help us take stock 10 years after the launch a what turned out to be america's scented longest war. it is too soon for history. many of the war cost direct outcomes and most of its indirect consequences are both at home and in the region are still unfolding. one can certainly see the facts of the iraq war in our current agonized effort to try to decide what to do about syria, both in terms of public opinion and policy makers' thinking. but if journalism is the first draft of history, then 10 years is certainly time enough to step back and reevaluate and perhaps a time for a good third draft. we cannot trace all the defense, all the issues, and the impacts of the war

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to my right is ambassador ryan crocker, who is the kissinger senior fellow at the el sity. sal.-- yale univer he has served recently as our ambassador to afghanistan, his long career included ambassadors for iraq as well as our ambassador to pakistan, syria, kuwait, and lebanon. from may to august of 2003, he served as the government's director for the coalition provisional authority in baghdad, and his career in the foreign service included a tour in lebanon at the same time in the early 1980's, at the moment of the it israeli invasion as well as the bombing of the marine barracks. to his right is ambassador samir sumaida'ie. in 2006 he moved here to washington to serve as iraq's ambassador. prior to his appointment to the united nations, the ambassador to serve as the minister of interior in baghdad. before that he was a member of iraq's governing council. he is currently working as a consultant and a writer. to the far right, is a senior fellow at the yale jackson institute. she has worked at senior levels on behalf of the united states and united kingdom government and

and stanford and huntington and his confederates including a guy called charles crocker put down a little bit of money, and this railroad scheme starts to take off. they call it the central pacific railroad. it just happens that in the same period the united states is being torn apart by that little thing called the civil war. a railroad scheme has been proposed in previous years in congress, it's gone nowhere because the northern senators and congressmen want the railroad to go from chicago across the northern states to california. the southern senators and congressmen would like it to go from new orleans across texas and up through the southwest. so no one can devise a bill that satisfies the regional conflict. well, this thing has, the civil war breaks out. all the southern congressmen and senators leave washington, they go down to richmond to join the new enterprise known as the confederacy leaving the capitol half populated only with northern congressmen. stanford comes to california -- to washington with this railroad scheme, and congress takes the bait. saying we've got -- the war

to my immediate right, ambassador ryan crocker, who is now a fellow at yell institute.ed as ambassador to 2011 and 2012 and his long career included posts as ambassador to, importantly for this discussion, iraq, as well as investor to pakistan, syria, kuwait and lebanon. two-august, 2003, he he served in baghdad. his long and distinguished career in the foreign service also included a tour in lebanon at the same time in the early 1980s at the same moment of the israeli invented it -- invasion. he is a recipient of the preferential medal of freedom, the highest award. to the un inted 2004, and moved to washington to serve as ambassador. prior to his appointment to the united nations, he served as the minister of interior in baghdad. before that, he was a member of the governing council during the initial months of the occupation. he is currently working as a consultant and a writer. to the far right is, scott, also at the l jackson institute. she teaches courses on international politics for the middle east and the new iraq. she has worked at senior levels on behalf of t

ryan a phrase from crockers' book president karzai has the hardest job on the planet.he things he has had to deal with on a regular basis, he does have a difficult mission. he does have a difficult set of challenges on any gifpble day on virtually all issues. he has to balance a domestic constituency that is both tribal and ethnic. he has to balance his rhetoric with the potential for peace. he has to balance what he says with regard to his regional neighbors. all of that goes into the pot, i says, n terms of what he how he says it, when he says it. when i was in afghanistan, my mother passed away. i didn't tell anybody. i didn't want anyone to focus on that. i didn't tell him of course. i had the chance to come home and lay my mother to rest. afterwards my family -- we were having dinner and he called me -- i got a call that the palace wanted to talk to me. i thought this is not good. so i went outside and took the call and it was president karzai and saying i just learned your mother died. why didn't you tell me? i said, mr. president you carry the weight of the worl

and the beauty of this book is that in the very beginning he quotes from the betty crocker cookbook about how this is recipes, and we're going to take you step by step, and we've checked absolutely everything we think we can check, and we're trying to bring you precisely how we are doing everything, and we've studied it, and we think we really have it down, and please let us know if you don't. and that's all an algorithm is. so when you're having an algorithmist -- which i probably will give you a new name since i can't pronounce this one -- coming with the algorithms in how we look at this big data and account for what we're all just tossing around here, because it's a dynamic kind of a thing. .. they need to use physical packages. they need to use analysis tools and with a wide variety of tools and methods available and they need some really good grounding in the latest statistics. a lot of the statistical methods that we use were designed for small -- so there might need to be a need to upgrade or improve them to an extent. and then they might also need some sense of visualizing the da

65 degrees for those of you in fremont 65 in santa clara 66 expected than ever in this afternoon crocker the warm spot in the east bay. mid- 60's for livermore today and mid-60's also along the eastern shores. were you finished it off with the peninsula and the north bay. 59 degrees in ocean beach and in the north they will cease and 70 degree readings there. and your 7 day around the bay is showing us that were going to continue to the '70s right into the work week. you can see by tuesday and wednesday we could see close to mid-70s. >> plans are already underway for a re-opening, a sprinkler stone chez panisse restaurant. the friday morning blaze caused up to 200-thousand dollars in damage. investigators believe it was electrical wiring under the building's porch that started the fire. a sprinkler system inside the restaurant helped stop the fire from spreading to the rest of the building. >> alameda county through evidence from a gang raid that led to nearly 20 arrests. state, local and federal officials worked together on "operation cease-fire." it's a crime-fighting plan meant to hel

ryan crocker, talks about the future of u.s. relations with iraq 10 years after the u.s.and the u.s. invasion. he spoke on the panel that included the former iraqi ambassador to the united states and the former adviser to raymond odierno. this is one hour and a half. >> good morning. i am the president of the carnegie endowment for international peace. it's a pleasure to welcome you today to help us take stock 10 years after the launch a what turned out to be america's scented longest war. it is too soon for history. many of the war cost direct outcomes and most of its indirect consequences are both at home and in the region are still unfolding. one can certainly see the facts of the iraq war in our current agonized effort to try to what to do about syria, both in terms of public opinion and policy makers' thinking. but if journalism is

>> for the first time i have to disagree with ambassador crocker. >> thank god. ideologically, religious parties are by nature sectarian, and sectarian politics is divisive, and they are incompatible with a national vision, in my view. this has been proven in practice. people who see themselves as champions of this sect or that see themselves or be champions of the whole nation. have twoountry, you one major parties, protestant, and one catholic, and you see what happens of that. in iraq, we have paid the price and had paid the price of the american view of how workable this is, because it is not. back to a couple of squares. now of the people who are leaders in iraq were born and regime,during somaddam's which lasted for about 35 years. people were conditioned by the andthe government was run, by this highly entrenched and of effective system of money the goodies -- le who moneyfitful, it is a system of patronage this generation. you take this generation and say, now we are born to play under different rules, where drug that parliament, the judiciary will be ind

draw a phrase from ryan crocker's book, president karzai has the hardest job on the planet. and with the number of years he's been in place, the things that he's had to deal with on a regular basis, he has -- he does have a difficult mission. e does have a difficult set of challenges on any given day on virtually all issues. he has to balance a domestic constituency that is both tribal and ethnic. he has to balance his rhetoric with the potential for peace. he has to balance what he says with regard to his regional neighbors. you know, all of that goes into the pot, i think, in terms of what he says and how he says it and when he says it and where he says it. when i -- when i was in afghanistan, my mother passed away and i didn't tell anybody. i didn't want anyone to focus on that. i didn't tell him, of course. eventually, i had the chance to come home and to lay my mother to rest. and afterwards my family, we were having dinner and he called me. i got a call that the palace wanted to talk to me at a diner out in the shenandoah valley. and i thought, this is not good. so i w

ambassador crocker said that history, history, history.hat is most important in understanding what is going to be the nature of a particular conflict is that most recent history. that werehe factors most important were the fact that the iraqis had been living under a brutal, murderous regime over three decades, a regime that had engaged in a destructive and extremely costly war between 1980 and 1988 with iran, a regime that had invaded kuwait after which un sanctions put an additional strain on iraqi society while at the same time strengthening criminal patronage networks associated with sadaam hussein. effectociated polarizing on iraq's communities, they had become pitted against each other, how the regime had used weapons of mass destruction on his own people, the kurds, and how he had persecuted the majority of the population in the wake of the 1991-1992 gulf war, the shia population, and ideologies to in turn people's frustration away from the regime and towards the west and israel and so forth, in the context of the zionist crusader c

they didn't exist maybe that one betty crocker book. recipes stored in her heart.earned them. >> clayton: see how we can go through meatballs here and do creative stuff. what i'm doing here is i'm -- being that today is national meatball day, right? you can buy my meatballs in any supermarket. go to momma mancini.com. i have a restaurant called meatball obsession and serve meatballs this way. i want to show everyone how to serve a meatball different than the way we are taught. typically pasta or a sandwich. >> clayton: you have pesto. >> deacon instructed pesto. pine nuts and fresh basil and parmesan cheese. right? >> clayton: delicious. over here you have little pass tall te'o in there. >> peas and you think i don't knows. this is mozzarella pearls. take fresh mozzarella. >> you don't each need to worry about the pasta if you are not doing carbs and want to do straight up meatballs that's the way to go. >> here this looks like is that broccoli. >> roastedcoal flower. cauliflower. here in the united states we have done the reverse, giant bowl of pasta and meatballs

to draw a phrase from ryan crocker's book, president karzai has the hardest job on the planet.the numbers of years and he has been in place, the things that he has had to deal with on a breaking basis, -- on a regular basis, he does have a difficult set of challenges on any given day, on virtually all issues. he has to balance a domestic constituency that is both tribal and ethnic. he has to balance his rhetoric with the potential for peace. he has to balance what he says with regard to his regional neighbors. all of that goes into a pile i think in terms of what he says and how he says it and when he says it and where he says it. when i, when i was in afghanistan, my mother passed away and i didn't tell anybody. i didn't want anyone to focus on the. eventually i had the chance to come home and lay my mother to rest. and afterwards, my family, we were having dinner, and called me, i got a call at the palace want to talk to me in a diner in the shenandoah valley. and i thought this is not good. i went outside and took the call but it was president karzai who said i just learned