we'll hear from foreign service officer walter douglas who spoke at the center for strategic and international event for 50 minutes. >> john was hinting at the origin of this report. it went up on the website last week. i am not going to go through it because i think you can read it, but i want to point out how the things came about and where it takes us. as john said, what was fascinating, as we looked at 26 reports since 9/11 dealing with the middle east, how amazing it was that how few of them had been spoken to the officers in the field. in the sense of we have a lot of advice coming, that the best they can come up with is give public diplomacy more money. money does not solve all the problems. and so that was one of the incentives for doing this. what goes on over there? how does it work? i've been associated with public diplomacy and spent the past 10 years working in that region. the arab middle east, pakistan, afghanistan, and if you look at the officers in that region to come up with suggestions, challenges, what faces us out there, i stayed away from policy because that is the white

we'll hear from walter douglas, a foreign service officer. it's hosted by the center for strategic and international studies, and again, that'll be live on c-span2 starting at 11 a.m. eastern. on c-span today at noon eastern, the cato institute will host a discussion on america's nuclear weapons policy coming in conjunction with the institute's recently-released paper on why current policy is outdated. again, that's at noon on c-span. also president obama will continue his west coast fundraising trip today with several events including one at the home of hall of fame basketball player magic johnson. before that, though, the president will deliver remarks on immigration, continuing his call for the house to pass a plan. you can see the president speaking at a chinese recreation center live on c-span, that starts at 2:35 eastern. >> years ago i don't think anybody would have looked into a crystal ball and thought that some, you know, somebody on a college campus would be streaming, you know, netflix onto an iphone to watch a movie. and so i thi

so ladies and gentlemen, walter douglas. [applause] >> it's wonderful to be back at csis. [inaudible] excuse me. jon, thank you very much for the introduction. as jon said we met in riyadh in 2006 when i was -- actually bob casey was in riyadh with me at that time. we hit it off and i've always found him to be one of the sharpest observers of what's going on in the middle east, and i find myself still quoting him on what's going on over the years. so it's wonderful to be back here with jon. when i was at cis dashing csis, i was able to benefit from his input pic specifically he read this report twice. first time taking a very rough peace and shaping it and the second time refining it. it would be nothing, a shadow of itself without john's input. so thank you very much. i'd like to thank a few of the people who are here today before get into it. one is i should think the state department for giving me the detail to come over to csis. and it was really an eye-opener for me at a lot of the strategic thinking i've learned when i came here. i've been able to get back to the sta

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