you read interventionist literature and in particular i focus on the widely influential book by samantha power, "a problem from hell: america and the anal of genocide," there's an assumption that intervention will only act to improve human rights. there's no consideration given for the possibility that intervention by military force itself will cause a great deal of damage and take many lives, as inevitably it will, nor is there much consideration beginning to the possibility that -- given to the possibility that it can intense phi the violence that it was supposedly trying to stop. and i point out that in yugoslavia that's exactly what happened. okay. for the rest of the talk, or most of the rest of the talk, i'm going to focus upon one chapter of the book which is the chapter on kosovo. i'm not going to deal with the other parts of the book which deal with the other yugoslav wars, again, to leave some time for questions and, you know, to keep it manageable. and i should add that kosovo, the kosovo intervention of 1999 whereby nato went to war for ten weeks against the republic of serbi

china is offering to finance it with uncle sam's and aunt samantha's dollars into the american unit for which the chinese have a trillion accumulated in terms of u.s. treasury debt. instruments as such. and lastly is a commitment it off explore the possibilities of not repeating what they did with a joint command in the northwest part of saudi arabia inside from kuwait. but rather a rapid deployment force of their own with double-headed soldiers and sailors and air personnel in the six armed forces that will include a special operations component. theoretically and strategically to begin to match the special operations component that iran has. i'll answer any questions including the dccc or any of its member countries to the best of my ability. [applause] >> excuse us while we do this for a moment so we can use the microphone. dr. anthony, iran was included in last year's meetings or invited but not this year. why? >> it was not included in last year's it was included in the year before last. the only two times that oman has -- iran has been included has been when qatar was the host. an

china is offering to finance it with all sam and and samantha's >dollars -- with local sam -- uncle sam's adnd aunt cement the's dollars. that will include a special operations component. the radically and strategically, it would match the special operations component that iran has. i will answer any questions, including the gcc to the best of my ability. [applause] [inaudible] >> dr. anthony, iran is -- was including in last year's meetings but not this year. why? >> it was not included in last year's. it was in the year before last. the only two * that iran has been included has been when qatar has been the host. they've been pushing the envelope. on the two locations, it was catarrh that extended the invitation. -- it was qatar that extended the invitation. >> how are they using their economic and political capital to pressure the united states to be an honest broker in the arab- israeli conflict and to champion the cause of the palestinian state that strongly? >> i am not aware of there being any effort to pressure the u.s. there are difference of agreements among the six. their inves