jean-loup, i wanted to focus on yours, particularly on the comments that lorelei has just made about nato being a political military alliance rather than a military political alliance and my question resolves around how relevant that is to the nonproliferation agenda. let me take you to a thought experiment. what if you picked up nato's defense college and planted it into tehran, what kind of a world would it look like? what would you be advising the leadership of tehran today? how would they respond to a situation where there are american forces in those countries, nuclear forces, et cetera, et cetera. nuclear weapon states in pakistan and israel within striking distance. what would we be advising? because that is the relevant question when it comes to nato's response to nonproliferation. because as with our relationship with russia, deterrence is not in our capabilities. it is what in the minds of the russians or as it was, the soviets. and if we can influence what is in the mind of the iranians, that is the real goal when it comes to nonproliferation. if we surround them with more

lorelei lived in the u.s. for four years have two academic degrees from there i love and admire the american people a great deal you know believe me the last thing i be is anti american. i will always call a spade a spade and if there are international u.s. policies that are detrimental to our country or even to that of latin america i will denounce them strongly and i will never ever allow my country's sovereignty to be affected by them. by your government close the u.s. base. can you tell me why you decided to close this base because they said that here you know that it would you accept having a foreign base set up in your country julian. in any case if the matter is as simple as i once said you know ok it's not a problem to set up a u.s. base in ecuador but if we can give the go ahead as long as we are granted permission set up an ecuadorian military base in miami there is not an issue they should agree. but you having a lot of fun with the two if you julian i'm glad to hear that you need to. present. presi

my name is lorelei kelly. i have been in washington for more than a decade working on this issue of how do we reframe security, since the cold war of making an wonder and presley at the new america foundation where i'm exploring a new possibility, i'll just put it, simply crowd sourcing congress in two states and districts, special on the issue of global public interest where we are working with these old stodgy institutions who still see the world like it's 1948, it's still the way they refer information, store information, filter information and talk to itself so it can't compete with the 24 hour news cycle, nor can it compete with other information sources out there that have lots of control over the fate and destiny of people and nations and how we move forward. so what we're going to be here today is just moved from left to right, and start with the big picture about emergency could be challenges and our first speaker is philip worre. i'm not going to go on and on with a bias because you have been all rig

my name is lorelei kelly. have been washington for more than a decade working on this issue of had it we refrain security. -- how what do we refer aim -- how do we reframe security. we have been working with old institutions to still see the world like it is 1948. it is still the way they refer information and talk to itself. it cannot compete with the 24 hour news cycle. nor can it compete with other information sources out there that have lots of control over the fate and destiny of people and nations and how we move forward. what we are going to do is move from left to right. we are going to start with the big picture about emerging challenges. our first speaker is philip worre. i am not going to go on and on. you can look it up on line. we will start there and move down. >> thank you. good afternoon. i have the power point presentation -- a power point presentation. ok. my apologies for the delay. i will try to starred in and catch up with a few slides. good afternoon. my name is philip worre. i'm the exec