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thethen finally, playing role of panelist, i will try to talk a little bit about military or in my opinion, the lack of good military options. this is something that will follow naturally from some of the questions in the polling. so let me just add a couple more our panelists, then without further ado, we'll get presentation. shibley is the anwar sadat chair at the university of maryland, where he's had a distinguished career and been associated with the middle east u.s.-islamice world. one of the most eloquent voices broadest islamic world. but he's also started a critical issues polling effort. we get today's material from, in large part. the first time that he's extended in a major way to asia. much of that polling began with ands on the middle east united states. i look forward very much to the results. reaffirmations of what you might expect. there are also some potential surprises that will have time to discuss and then have your questions on later. head ofkudo is the toa tokyo, where he's done a lot of polling but also proponent and practitioner of track two dialogues with a number

thethen, a discussion of north korea nuclear threat. carson wasretary ben the keynote speaker at a panel about disparities facing african-americans in the u.s. posted by the manhattan institute, -- hosted by the manhattan institute, this is two hours. >> i think we are ready to get started. i want to thank everyone for joining us today. riley, i'm ason senior fellow at the manhattan institute and i would like to welcome everyone to our symposium, which is called prospects for black america. dean ball,ke to thank i want togton and thank them for their hard work. the idea is to bring people from different points of view about addressing racial problems in america. you will be hearing from liberals, conservatives, but most importantly, you will hear from people who have given serious thought to these issues. everyone here is here to engage. there are people who are not afraid to touch third rails. tois not because we want promote for the sake -- provoke for e being provocative, it is that we do not want to shy away from addressing the diff