1 00:00:04,810 --> 00:00:08,360 [ APPLAUSE ] THIS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,450 SERIES IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROSITY OF MAJOR GENERAL AND 3 00:00:12,450 --> 00:00:16,450 MRS.ROBERT J. SMITH TO ESTABLISH AN UNDO YOU MEANT IN 4 00:00:16,450 --> 00:00:25,810 HONOR OF GENERAL ACRE. WE THANK THE FOUNDATION. 5 00:00:25,810 --> 00:00:30,090 LECTURE COMMEMORATES THE MANY IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT 6 00:00:30,090 --> 00:00:36,090 CONTRIBUTIONS TO SECURITY MADE BY GENERAL ACRE. 7 00:00:36,090 --> 00:00:44,360 -- AND NOW TO OUR SPEAKER AMBASSADOR -- SUSAN RICE. 8 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,450 THE JOB OF NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR IS TO BE JUDGE, TRAFFIC 9 00:00:48,450 --> 00:00:53,540 COP, ARBITRATOR, FIREMAN AND CHAPLAIN AND OCCASIONAL HITMAN. 10 00:00:53,540 --> 00:00:59,270 THIS REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHICH ROLE AMBASSADOR RICE WILL BE 11 00:00:59,270 --> 00:01:01,720 PLAYING TONIGHT. SHE OVERSEES THE NATIONAL 12 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:07,090 SECURITY COUNCIL STAFF, PROVIDES THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL DAILY 13 00:01:07,090 --> 00:01:14,540 SECURITY BRIEFING. PRIOR TO ASSUMING THE ROLE IN 14 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:19,450 JULY OF 2013 AMBASSADOR RICE SERVED FOR FOUR AND A HALF YEARS 15 00:01:19,450 --> 00:01:22,540 AS THE REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED NATION AND A MEMBER OF 16 00:01:22,540 --> 00:01:30,450 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CABINET. SHE WORKED TO STRENGTHEN THE 17 00:01:30,450 --> 00:01:35,360 WORLD'S SECURITY AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. 18 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,360 AMONG OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENT THE U.S. MISSION TO THE UNITE NATION 19 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:44,720 HELPED WIN THE STIFFEST U.N. SAKESES EVER AND SUPPORTED 20 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:53,630 LIFESAVING -- AND PROVIDE VITAL U.N. ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN 21 00:01:53,630 --> 00:01:57,450 AND IRAQ. SHE TRAVELED BACK TO DC TO SPEND 22 00:01:57,450 --> 00:02:00,540 TIME WITH HER HUSBAND AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN. 23 00:02:00,540 --> 00:02:05,630 BEFORE HER TIME AT THE U.N. SHE SERVED AS A SENIOR FELLOW AS 24 00:02:05,630 --> 00:02:09,180 ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS AND SENIOR 25 00:02:09,180 --> 00:02:14,810 DIRECTOR OF THE NSC STAFF. SHE RECEIVED HER IN FILL AND -- 26 00:02:14,810 --> 00:02:19,360 FROM NEW COLLEGE OXFORD UNIVERSITY WHERE SHE WAS A RODE 27 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:30,720 SCHOLAR AND -- AND RECEIVED HER B.A. IN HISTORY WITH HONORS FROM 28 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:36,270 STANFORD. FOR ALL OF HER HONORS AND TITLES 29 00:02:36,270 --> 00:02:40,090 IT IS BEST SUMMED UP BY WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA DESCRIBED HER. 30 00:02:40,090 --> 00:02:44,810 THE PRESIDENT MADE SURE TO NOTE AMBASSADOR RICE'S GREAT TENNIS 31 00:02:44,810 --> 00:02:48,450 GAME AND PRETTY GOOD BASKETBALL GAME BUT ALSO COMMENTED ON HOW 32 00:02:48,450 --> 00:02:53,630 SHE IS FEARLESS AND TOUGH. AND HERE AT THIS ACADEMY I THINK 33 00:02:53,630 --> 00:02:58,450 THESE TRAITS ARE ALL WHAT WE CAN APPRECIATE AND STRIVE FOR. 34 00:02:58,450 --> 00:03:05,450 WITH THAT IT'S MY GREAT HONOR TO INTRODUCE AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE. 35 00:03:05,450 --> 00:03:16,270 [ APPLAUSE ] >> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. 36 00:03:16,270 --> 00:03:25,630 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT INCREDIBLY KIND INTRODUCTION. 37 00:03:25,630 --> 00:03:30,450 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EAT WITH THE SENIORS AND I'VE BEEN 38 00:03:30,450 --> 00:03:35,270 LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS VISIT. MAYBE NOT AS MUCH AS SOME OF YOU 39 00:03:35,270 --> 00:03:38,720 ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DANCE BUT NONETHELESS I'VE BEEN 40 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:45,360 LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. DEFINITELY NOT AS MUCH AS THE 41 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,630 FIRST CLASS CADETS ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO GRADUATION. 42 00:03:48,630 --> 00:03:56,090 [ CHEERING ] [ APPLAUSE ] 43 00:03:56,090 --> 00:04:04,270 IN 49 DAYS BUT WHO'S COUNTING? MY ONLY REGRET IN BEING HERE IS 44 00:04:04,270 --> 00:04:07,630 THAT THEY WOULD NOT LET ME GO UP IN ONE OF THE GLIDERS ALTHOUGH I 45 00:04:07,630 --> 00:04:10,360 DID GET A GOOD LOOK AT ONE FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE 46 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,360 TODAY. TO START, THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE 47 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,720 I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE. THOUGH I UNDERSTAND RECOGNITION 48 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,180 IS A SEARING EXPERIENCE THAT IS WELL BEHIND YOU ALL. 49 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:24,630 I WANT TO THANK YOUR SUPERINTENDENT GENERAL MICHELLE 50 00:04:24,630 --> 00:04:29,540 JOHNSON FOR SO WARMLY WELCOMING ME HERE. 51 00:04:29,540 --> 00:04:32,630 ALSO THE HEAD OF THE POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT FOR 52 00:04:32,630 --> 00:04:38,540 SPONSORING THIS LECTURE AND CAPTAIN BRAD DEWISE FOR MAKING 53 00:04:38,540 --> 00:04:41,270 THIS ALL HAPPEN. I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE 54 00:04:41,270 --> 00:04:44,810 SOMEONE ELSE AND THAT IS MY BELOVED LATE FATHER. 55 00:04:44,810 --> 00:04:49,270 DR.EMMITT RICE. DURING WORLD WAR TWO HE WAS A 56 00:04:49,270 --> 00:05:01,180 CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY AIR CORE. ONE OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN. 57 00:05:01,180 --> 00:05:07,810 [ APPLAUSE ] I CAN'T LIE SO I WON'T TELL YOU 58 00:05:07,810 --> 00:05:15,180 HE WAS AN ACE PILOT BUT HE WAS A GREAT MAN WHO SPENT THE WAR 59 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:19,270 SERVING IN MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS. 60 00:05:19,270 --> 00:05:23,360 HE LOVED HIS COUNTRY DEEPLY AND SERVICE WAS HIS CALLING 61 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:25,450 THROUGHOUT HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER. 62 00:05:25,450 --> 00:05:30,180 BUT HE NEVER FORGOT THE STING OF HAVING TO SERVE IN A SEGREGATED 63 00:05:30,180 --> 00:05:33,360 UNIT. BEING TREATED AS A SECOND CLASS 64 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,810 CITIZEN. IT ACTUALLY IMPACTED HIM RATHER 65 00:05:36,810 --> 00:05:39,810 PROFOUNDLY. YET HE NEVER LET IT HOLD HIM 66 00:05:39,810 --> 00:05:45,270 BACK. AFTER THE WAR HE GOT HIS PhD 67 00:05:45,270 --> 00:05:49,180 IN ECONOMICS. HE TAUGHT AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY 68 00:05:49,180 --> 00:05:52,630 AND SERVED AT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND THE WORLD BANK 69 00:05:52,630 --> 00:05:55,540 AND RETIRED AS A GOVERNOR OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE. 70 00:05:55,540 --> 00:06:00,270 HE TAUGHT ME THAT THE ONLY LIMITS THAT SHOULD CONSTRAIN ME 71 00:06:00,270 --> 00:06:04,360 ARE THE BOUNDARIES OF MY OWN DREAMS. 72 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,810 SO I THINK HE WOULD RATHER RELISH THE IRONY ALL OF THESE 73 00:06:08,810 --> 00:06:11,270 YEARS LATER OF HIS DAUGHTER SPEAKING AT THE AIR FORCE 74 00:06:11,270 --> 00:06:16,000 ACADEMY AS THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR. 75 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,180 FOR ME IT IS A TREMENDOUS PRIVILEGE TO LOOK ACROSS THIS 76 00:06:20,180 --> 00:06:24,720 AUDIENCE AND SEE SO MANY BRIGHT, YOUNG CADETS WHOSE OWN DREAMS 77 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:30,450 ARE BOUNDED ONLY BY THE VASTNESS OF THE SKY. 78 00:06:30,450 --> 00:06:32,630 YOU HAVE LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES. 79 00:06:32,630 --> 00:06:37,450 NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM. NO MATTER WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE. 80 00:06:37,450 --> 00:06:39,720 WHAT FAITH YOU HOLD OR WHOM YOU LOVE. 81 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,090 YOUR PRESIDENT, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND I COULD NOT BE MORE 82 00:06:45,090 --> 00:06:47,810 PROUD. OF ALL OF YOU. 83 00:06:47,810 --> 00:06:51,540 AND I KNOW THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA LOOKS VERY MUCH FORWARD TO 84 00:06:51,540 --> 00:06:54,810 SAYING THAT TO YOU PERSONALLY AT GRADUATION IN JUST A FEW SHORT 85 00:06:54,810 --> 00:06:58,090 WEEKS. [ CHEERING ] 86 00:06:58,090 --> 00:07:08,720 [ APPLAUSE ] BACK IN WASHINGTON I'M 87 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,540 PRIVILEGED TO WORK WITH MANY OUTSTANDING LEADERS INCLUDING 88 00:07:11,540 --> 00:07:15,720 AIR FORCE OFFICERS AND GRADUATES OF THIS ACADEMY SUCH AS THE VICE 89 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:22,180 CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS. PAUL SYLVA AND OUR SUPREME 90 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:28,000 ALLIED COMMANDER IN EUROPE GENERAL PHILLIP. 91 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,630 I'M ALSO VERY PLEASED TO BE JOINED TODAY BY SPECIALIST 92 00:07:31,630 --> 00:07:35,180 ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR THE DEFENSE 93 00:07:35,180 --> 00:07:41,810 POLICY AND STRATEGY AND RETIRED AIR FORCE COL. TROY THOMAS. 94 00:07:41,810 --> 00:07:47,180 NOT BAD FOR A GUY WHO SPENT SO MUCH TIME SITTING CONFINEMENTS 95 00:07:47,180 --> 00:07:56,090 HERE WELL -- [ APPLAUSE ] 96 00:07:56,090 --> 00:08:01,720 HE WON'T TELL ME WHAT HE SAT FOR BUT -- I'M SURE -- 97 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:08,540 [ INAUDIBLE ] YOU MIGHT ALSO KNOW HIS MOM CANADA IS THOMAS 98 00:08:08,540 --> 00:08:12,090 WHO HAS KEPT YOU ENTERTAINED FOR THE PAST 19 YEARS. 99 00:08:12,090 --> 00:08:16,270 I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO MEET HER. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE 100 00:08:16,270 --> 00:08:22,270 TONIGHT. [ APPLAUSE ] 101 00:08:22,270 --> 00:08:25,630 FOR THOSE OF YOU ABOUT TO GRADUATE TROY'S STORY IS 102 00:08:25,630 --> 00:08:29,540 INSTRUCTIVE. BY THE TIME HE GRADUATED IN 1991 103 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:34,000 THE COLD WAR HAD ENDED. THE PERSIAN GULF WAR HAD STARTED 104 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 AND ENDED. TROY WAS SITTING IN FALCON 105 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,360 FIELD FEELING PROUD, RELIEVED AND WONDERING IF HE HAD MISSED 106 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,360 OUT. WELL FOR TROY AND ALL OF HIS 107 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,180 FELLOW GRADUATES THE LAST 25 YEARS HAVE SEEN NO SHORTAGE OF 108 00:08:48,180 --> 00:08:53,090 OPERATIONS WHERE SKILLED AIRMEN ANSWERED THE NATION'S CALL. 109 00:08:53,090 --> 00:08:58,630 FROM THE BALKANS TO IRAQ TO AFGHANISTAN. 110 00:08:58,630 --> 00:09:03,630 TROY'S OWN SERVICE TOOK HIM FROM KOREA TO THE MIDDLE-EAST TO 111 00:09:03,630 --> 00:09:07,180 AFGHANISTAN SO IF ANY OF YOU DOUBT THAT THERE IS IMPORTANT 112 00:09:07,180 --> 00:09:11,360 WORK FOR TO YOU DO DON'T. THE WORK OF ENSURING OUR 113 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,810 NATIONAL SECURITY NEVER ENDS. YOUR SKILLS, YOUR LEADERSHIP 114 00:09:15,810 --> 00:09:19,720 WILL BE IN HIGH DEMAND FOR DECADES TO COME. 115 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:24,450 AS YOU BEGIN YOUR SERVICE YOU WILL DO SO IN A WORLD DEFIND BY 116 00:09:24,450 --> 00:09:28,360 BOTH INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITIES AND PRESSING CHALLENGES. 117 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,540 ACROSS THE GLOBE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE EMERGING FROM 118 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:37,180 POVERTY. MIRACULOUS TECHNOLOGIES ARE 119 00:09:37,180 --> 00:09:40,720 REVOLUTIONING EVERYTHING FROM THE WAY WE HAIL AND CAB TO THE 120 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,000 WAY WE TREAT DISEASE. OUR ECONOMY IS DYNAMIC AND 121 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,360 GROWING. OUR ALLIANCES ARE ROBUST. 122 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,090 AS THE PRESIDENT SAID WHEN HE WAS HERE IN 2012 THE UNITED 123 00:09:51,090 --> 00:09:57,090 STATES IS STRONGER AND SAFER AND MORE RESPECTED IN THE WORLD. 124 00:09:57,090 --> 00:10:03,090 AT THE SAME TIME WE ALSO FACE SERIOUS THREATS TO OUR SECURITY. 125 00:10:03,090 --> 00:10:06,810 EVERY MORNING I BRIEF THE PRESIDENT ON THE MOST SOBERING 126 00:10:06,810 --> 00:10:10,270 CHALLENGES WE CONFRONT. ON ANY GIVEN DAY WE MIGHT BE 127 00:10:10,270 --> 00:10:14,630 DEALING WITH RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE ACTIONS IN UKRAINE, DEVELOPMENTS 128 00:10:14,630 --> 00:10:19,090 IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES OR 129 00:10:19,090 --> 00:10:23,450 GLOBAL ECONOMIC INSTABILITY. THE SAME TECHNOLOGY THAT IS 130 00:10:23,450 --> 00:10:28,270 UNLEASHED SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES ALSO ENABLES TERRORISTS AND 131 00:10:28,270 --> 00:10:35,810 CYBER CRIMINALS. WE FACE THE MENACE OF ADVANCING 132 00:10:35,810 --> 00:10:39,360 CLIMATE CHANGE. THERE ARE FAILING STATES. 133 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:45,180 A GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS AND INSIDIOUS DISEASES LIKE EBOLA 134 00:10:45,180 --> 00:10:47,360 AND ZIKA. TWO WEEKS AGO THE PRESIDENT 135 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,720 HOSTED A NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT. 136 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,450 THE FOURTH AND FINAL ONE. TO GALVANIZE THE WORLD TO WORK 137 00:10:54,450 --> 00:10:57,270 TOGETHER TO PREVENT NUCLEAR TERRORISM. 138 00:10:57,270 --> 00:11:01,630 SO WHEN I BRIEFED THE PRESIDENT IN THE MORNING IT'S RARELY A 139 00:11:01,630 --> 00:11:05,630 BRIEF -- BRIEFING. BUT THIS EVENING I WOULD LIKE TO 140 00:11:05,630 --> 00:11:08,270 FOCUS ON ONE THREAT IN PARTICULAR. 141 00:11:08,270 --> 00:11:12,540 THE THREAT THAT IS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE PRESIDENT'S AGENDA 142 00:11:12,540 --> 00:11:18,090 AND THAT IS ISIL. WE OF COURSE REMAIN VIGILANT 143 00:11:18,090 --> 00:11:21,450 AGAINST THE FULL RANGE OF TERRORISTS THREATS CONFRONTING 144 00:11:21,450 --> 00:11:24,090 OUR COUNTRY. IN FACT IN RECENT WEEKS WE 145 00:11:24,090 --> 00:11:28,270 REMOVED TWO KEY al-QAIDA LEADERS IN SYRIA. 146 00:11:28,270 --> 00:11:33,450 HIT A TRAINING COUPLE' IN THE ARABIAN PENN IN YEMEN AND TOOK 147 00:11:33,450 --> 00:11:38,540 OUT A SENIOR LEADER IN SOMALIA. BUT TODAY ISIL IS THE MOST 148 00:11:38,540 --> 00:11:42,270 DANGEROUS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WE FACE. 149 00:11:42,270 --> 00:11:47,360 AS WE WERE REMINDED BY LAST MONTH'S ATTACK IN BRUSSELS. 150 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:52,720 ISIL THREATENS OUR PARTNERS AND ALLIES, THE UNITED STATES, AND 151 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,630 PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. OUR HEARTS BREAK FOR THE VICTIMS 152 00:11:57,630 --> 00:12:02,000 OF THOSE BRUSSELS ATTACKS. INCLUDING AIR FORCE LIEUTENANT 153 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,810 COL. CADDO MARTINEZ . HIS FOUR CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE 154 00:12:06,810 --> 00:12:12,810 GAYLE WHO WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED. WE'VE SEEN HORRIFIC ATTACKS 155 00:12:12,810 --> 00:12:19,000 AROUND THE WORLD FROM PARIS TO ISTANBUL AND FROM NIGERIA TO 156 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,270 JAKARTA. USE CHEMICAL WEAPON AS RECENTLY 157 00:12:24,270 --> 00:12:27,540 AS A FEW WEEKS AGO. IT IS HORRIFYING TO WITNESS THE 158 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:32,540 EXTREME BRUTALITY OF THESE TWISTED BRUTES WHO SLAUGHTER 159 00:12:32,540 --> 00:12:38,360 INNOCENCE, EXECUTE PRISONERS AND ENSLAVE WOMEN AND RAPE CHILDREN. 160 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:42,810 AND TERRORISTS AT OUR COMMON HUMANITY. 161 00:12:42,810 --> 00:12:47,450 WHAT MAKES ISIL ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS HOWEVER IS THAT ISIL 162 00:12:47,450 --> 00:12:52,000 IS PRESENT BOTH ON THE GROUND ATTEMPTING TO FUNCTION AS A 163 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:57,720 STATE AND ON-LINE. IT'S ESSENTIALLY A HYBRID. 164 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,450 A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION AND AN INSURGENCY. 165 00:13:02,450 --> 00:13:10,360 WHICH EXPLOITED THE CHAOS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ TO OCCUPY LARGE 166 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,360 SWATHES OF TERRITORY. AT ONE POINT TERRITORY MORE THAN 167 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,450 A THIRD THE SIZE OF COLORADO. HOLDING TERRITORY PROVIDES ISIL 168 00:13:18,450 --> 00:13:21,540 WITH FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND MAN POWER. 169 00:13:21,540 --> 00:13:26,090 IT BUTTRESSES THEIR FALSE CLAIM TO A SO-CALLED CALIPHATE. 170 00:13:26,090 --> 00:13:31,000 GRANTING THEM A UNIQUE AND POWERFUL APPEAL TO POTENTIAL 171 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,360 FOLLOWERS. AT THE SAME TIME THEY'VE 172 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:37,270 HARNESSED THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO RECRUIT FIGHTERS AND 173 00:13:37,270 --> 00:13:43,630 INSPIRE LONE WOLF ATTACKS. SO ISIL POSES AN ENORMOUS DANGER 174 00:13:43,630 --> 00:13:46,720 TO CIVILIANS UNDER THEIR BRUTAL REIGN. 175 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,360 IT'S A DESTABILIZING FORCE IN THE MIDDLE-EAST. 176 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,810 AND IT'S A THREAT TO PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. 177 00:13:52,810 --> 00:13:56,270 BUT LET'S BE CLEAR. AS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS 178 00:13:56,270 --> 00:14:02,720 EMPHASIZED ISIL DOES NOT POSE A THREAT TO OUR NATION. 179 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:08,270 WE HAVE FACED DOWN AND DEFEATED MUCH GREATER ADVERSARIES. 180 00:14:08,270 --> 00:14:13,360 ISIL IS NOT -- NAZI GERMANY. IT'S NOT THE SOVIET UNION AT THE 181 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,180 HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR. THIS IS NOT WORLD WAR THREE. 182 00:14:17,180 --> 00:14:21,450 OR THE MUCH HYPED CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS. 183 00:14:21,450 --> 00:14:29,540 ON THE CONTRARY. WE'LL ALIENATE OUR MUSLIM 184 00:14:29,540 --> 00:14:34,360 FRIENDS AND WE DISCOUNT THE VICTIMS OF BRUTALITY WHEN PEOPLE 185 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:40,090 RECKLESSLY AND WRONGLY CAST ISIL AS SOMEHOW REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE 186 00:14:40,090 --> 00:14:44,180 OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST RELIGIONS. 187 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:49,720 ISIL IS A TWISTED NETWORK OF MURDERS AND MANIACS AND THEY 188 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:55,270 MUST BE ROOTED OUT AND HUNTED DOWN AND DESTROYED. 189 00:14:55,270 --> 00:14:58,000 AS PRESIDENT OBAMA TOLD THE NATION FOLLOWING THE SAN 190 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:04,270 BERNARDINO ATTACKS WE WILL PREVAIL BY BEING STRONG AND 191 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:09,450 SMART. RESILIENCE AND RELENTLESS AND BY 192 00:15:09,450 --> 00:15:14,180 DRAWING ON EVERY ASPECT OF AMERICAN POWER. 193 00:15:14,180 --> 00:15:17,720 AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. 194 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,180 FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN LEADING A 195 00:15:21,180 --> 00:15:26,450 COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO DESTROY ISIL AND ITS IDEOLOGY OF 196 00:15:26,450 --> 00:15:28,450 HATE AND I DO MEAN COMPREHENSIVE. 197 00:15:28,450 --> 00:15:32,360 WHEN WE'RE SITTING AROUND THE SITUATION ROOM TABLE WE'RE USING 198 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,000 ALL ASPECTS OF OUR POWER. MILITARY, DIPLOMACY, 199 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:40,180 INTELLIGENCE. COUNTERTERRORISM, ECONOMIC. 200 00:15:40,180 --> 00:15:44,360 DEVELOPMENT, HOME LAND SECURITY. LAW ENFORCEMENT. 201 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,090 OURS IS TRULY A HALL OF GOVERNMENT CAMPAIGN. 202 00:15:48,090 --> 00:15:52,180 IT'S A MULTI-FACETED EFFORT BUT NOT ONE CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED 203 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:56,810 STATES ALONE. AT THE HEART OF THE CAMPAIGN ARE 204 00:15:56,810 --> 00:16:00,090 THE ROBUST PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'VE BEEN BUILDING AND 205 00:16:00,090 --> 00:16:04,630 LEVERAGING AROUND THE WORLD. WE'VE ASSEMBLED A BROAD 206 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:09,450 COALITION OF 66 PARTNERS FROM NIGERIA AND MEMBERS OF THE ARAB 207 00:16:09,450 --> 00:16:13,000 LEAGUE TO AUSTRALIA AND SINGAPORE. 208 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,720 AS THE PRESIDENT SAID AT THE OUTSET OF THE EFFORT AND I 209 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,540 QUOTE, "THIS IS AMERICAN LEADERSHIP AT ITS BEST. 210 00:16:21,540 --> 00:16:24,810 WE STAND WITH PEOPLE WHO FIGHT FOR THEIR OWN FREEDOM. 211 00:16:24,810 --> 00:16:29,450 AND WE RALLY OTHER NATIONS ON BEHALF OF OUR COMMON SECURITY 212 00:16:29,450 --> 00:16:34,810 AND COMMON HUMANITY." THIS CAMPAIGN REPRESENTS AN 213 00:16:34,810 --> 00:16:38,360 EVOLUTION IN OUR BROADER STRATEGY OF HOW WE THINK ABOUT 214 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:41,540 AND CONFRONT THE THREAT OF TERRORISM. 215 00:16:41,540 --> 00:16:46,090 AS A NATION WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT IN THE PAST 15 YEARS. 216 00:16:46,090 --> 00:16:49,180 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE LEARNED IS THAT NOT EVERY 217 00:16:49,180 --> 00:16:53,450 CONFLICT REQUIRES THE DEPLOYMENT OF LARGE NUMBERS OF U.S. GROUND 218 00:16:53,450 --> 00:16:56,540 FORCES. THAT IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST WAY 219 00:16:56,540 --> 00:17:02,810 TO ACHIEVE OUR -- SO OUR FIGHT AGAINST ISIL IS NOT LIKE THE 220 00:17:02,810 --> 00:17:08,450 AFGHANISTAN OR IRAQ WAR. IN SYRIA AND IRAQ WE'RE HELPING 221 00:17:08,450 --> 00:17:11,630 TO STRENGTHEN AND SUPPORT LOCAL INFORMATIONS BECAUSE GAINS ON 222 00:17:11,630 --> 00:17:15,360 THE GROUND HAVE TO BE SUSTAINABLE. 223 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:22,450 AND THIS INCREASINGLY DYNAMIC CAMPAIGN IS IDEALLY SUITED FOR 224 00:17:22,450 --> 00:17:27,540 AIR POWER AND FOR THE AIR FORCE. UTILIZED SMARTLY IN SUPPORT OF 225 00:17:27,540 --> 00:17:33,090 OUR PARTNERS ON THE GROUND. BROADLY SPEAKING OUR STRATEGY TO 226 00:17:33,090 --> 00:17:38,630 DESTROY ISIL IS FOCUSED ON FOUR MAIN DIMENSIONS. 227 00:17:38,630 --> 00:17:44,180 WE'RE RELENTLESSLY ATTACKING ISIL'S CORNER SYRIA AND IRAQ. 228 00:17:44,180 --> 00:17:49,540 WE'RE TARGETING ISIL'S BRANCHES. DISRUPTING THE GLOBAL NETWORK 229 00:17:49,540 --> 00:17:54,000 AND WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO PROTECT OUR HOME LAND. 230 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,810 IT'S A COMPLEX EFFORT. IT WILL NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED 231 00:17:56,810 --> 00:18:02,360 FULLY IN JUST A FEW WEEKS OR MONTHS OR EVEN IN A FEW YEARS. 232 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:07,090 BUT DAY BY DAY MILE BY MILE STRIKE BY STRIKE WE'RE MAKING 233 00:18:07,090 --> 00:18:10,720 SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS. AND AS THE PRESIDENT OUTLINED IN 234 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:15,000 HIS REMARKS YESTERDAY AT THE CIA WE'RE GOING TO KEEP UP THE 235 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,180 MOMENTUM. SO LET ME LAY OUT WHERE THIS 236 00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:22,720 CAMPAIGN -- IS GOING SINCE YOU AS TOMORROW'S AIR FORCE LEADERS 237 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:28,180 WILL PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE. FIRST, WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAMMER 238 00:18:28,180 --> 00:18:32,540 ISIL'S CORNER IRAQ AND SYRIA. COLLISION FORCES HAVE CONDUCTED 239 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:39,720 MORE THAN 11,500 STRIKES. YIELDING NEARLY 90,000 240 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:46,720 SORORITIES. THESE ARE PRECISION STRIKES. 241 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:50,540 TWO-THIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES AIR STRIKES BY THE WAY HAVE COME 242 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:56,090 FROM THE AIR FORCE. OF COURSE IT'S NOT ALL DROPPING 243 00:18:56,090 --> 00:19:02,720 HELL FIRE MISSILES. WE'RE DEPLOYING ASSETS IN SPACE 244 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,090 AND CYBERSPACE. DELIVERING FUEL AND CARGO AND 245 00:19:06,090 --> 00:19:10,180 HUMANITARIAN AID AND AS WE BUILD A MORE COMPLETE PICTURE OF 246 00:19:10,180 --> 00:19:14,090 ISIL'S OPERATIONS IN A HIGHLY COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT THE AIR 247 00:19:14,090 --> 00:19:17,540 FORCE HAS BEEN PROVIDING ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL 248 00:19:17,540 --> 00:19:22,810 INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE CAPABILITIES. 249 00:19:22,810 --> 00:19:28,450 TO ITS CREDIT THE AIR FORCE HAS RAMPED UP BOTH MANNED AND 250 00:19:28,450 --> 00:19:32,720 UNMANNED ISR CAPACITY. IN THE PAST DECADE THE AIR FORCE 251 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:37,180 HAS INCREASED REMOTELY PILOTED AIRCRAFT CAPACITY NEARLY FIVE 252 00:19:37,180 --> 00:19:41,720 FOLD. JUST SINCE 2014 THE AIR FORCE 253 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:47,000 HAS ALMOST DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF ISR SORORITIES FLOWN. 254 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:55,810 FROM NEVADA TO QATAR ROUGHLY 11,000 AIRMEN ARE DEDICATED. 255 00:19:55,810 --> 00:20:00,000 THIS ISR IS THE VERY BEST IN THE WORLD. 256 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,720 AND IT HAS ENABLED COUNTLESS STRIKES AND OTHER OPERATIONS. 257 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:09,540 AT THE SAME TIME IT'S NO SECRET THAT WE NEED MORE. 258 00:20:09,540 --> 00:20:14,630 MORE ISR. MORE RPA PILOTS TO GET US THAT 259 00:20:14,630 --> 00:20:18,000 ISR. IT'S A REAL CHALLENGE AND I WANT 260 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,720 THE APPLAUD THE AIR FORCE FOR ITS LEADERSHIP IN 261 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,720 INSTITUTIONALIZING THIS CAPABILITY. 262 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,810 AND IN RECENT MONTHS WE'VE SEEN IMPORTANT CHANGE THAT'S WILL 263 00:20:27,810 --> 00:20:32,360 HELP TRAIN AND RETAIN MORE PILOTS. 264 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:36,000 IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR RPA PILOTS. 265 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,810 BIGGER BONUSES TO THOSE WHO STICK AROUND AND RPA AIR CREWS 266 00:20:39,810 --> 00:20:46,630 ARE NOW ELIGIBLE TO LOG COMBAT TIME WHEN FLYING IN HOSS -- 267 00:20:46,630 --> 00:20:51,360 HOSTILE AIR SPACE. I KNOW NOT EVERYONE GREW UP OF 268 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:54,810 PILOTING A DRONE BUT AS GENERAL WELSH HAS SAID AND I QUOTE 269 00:20:54,810 --> 00:21:00,810 "AERIAL WARFARE CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. 270 00:21:00,810 --> 00:21:03,540 OUR GREAT AIRMEN ARE LEADING THE CHANGE. 271 00:21:03,540 --> 00:21:06,630 THEY ARE IN THE FIGHT EVERY DAY." 272 00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:11,180 RPAs HAVE TAKEN MORE STRIKES AGAINST ISIL THAN ANY AIRCRAFT 273 00:21:11,180 --> 00:21:17,090 BUT THE B1 AND THE F-15. DRONE WARFARE IS FINDING ITS WAY 274 00:21:17,090 --> 00:21:24,000 INTO THE UPCOMING TOP GUN SEQUEL. 275 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,720 THESE CAPABILITIES ARE ESSENTIAL. 276 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,810 TO THIS CAMPAIGN AND WILL BE TO FUTURE ONES. 277 00:21:31,810 --> 00:21:37,540 SO AS YOU CONSIDER CAREER OPTIONS DO KNOW THAT ISR IS A 278 00:21:37,540 --> 00:21:42,360 SURE FIRE WAY TO GET IN TO THE FIGHT AND DO KNOW HOW CRITICAL 279 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:46,630 THAT CAPABILITIES TO THOSE OF US INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT OF THE 280 00:21:46,630 --> 00:21:52,450 UNITED STATES WHO RELY EVERY DAY ON WHAT THOSE PILOTS AND THOSE 281 00:21:52,450 --> 00:21:58,810 DRONES PROVIDE. DO IN PART TO OUR UNPRECEDENTED 282 00:21:58,810 --> 00:22:02,720 VISIBILITY OF THE BATTLE FIELD. OUR COALITION CAMPAIGN IS HAVING 283 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:07,360 A REAL IMPACT. EVERY FEW DAYS WE'RE TAKING OUT 284 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:19,090 ANOTHER KEY ISIL LEADER. WE REMOVED -- HA JA ISIL'S 285 00:22:19,090 --> 00:22:22,000 NUMBER TWO. THE FINANCIAL CHIEF. 286 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:27,450 AND ANOTHER TOP LEADER AND A KEY ON-LINE RECRUITER AND PLOT ERA 287 00:22:27,450 --> 00:22:31,180 AMONG MANY OTHERS. THESE STRIKES ARE ALSO SQUEEZING 288 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:34,630 ISIL'S FINANCES. WHICH FLOW FROM THEIR CONTROL OF 289 00:22:34,630 --> 00:22:38,630 VAST OIL RESOURCES. THEIR EXTORTION AND TAXATION OF 290 00:22:38,630 --> 00:22:43,270 LOCAL POPULATIONS AND THEIR LOOTING AND ELICIT SALE OF OUR 291 00:22:43,270 --> 00:22:46,720 CULTURAL HERITAGE. WE'VE LAUNCHED WAVES OF STRIKES 292 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,180 AGAINST ISIL'S OIL INFRASTRUCTURE. 293 00:22:49,180 --> 00:22:55,180 WE'VE EVEN TAKEN OUT THEIR CASH STORAGE SITE IN MOSUL. 294 00:22:55,180 --> 00:22:59,000 AS THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID ISIL'S MONEY IS QUITE LITERALLY GOING 295 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,360 UP IN SMOKE. AS WE SHRINK THE TERRITORY IT 296 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:06,630 CONTROLS ISIL IS FEELING THE PINCH. 297 00:23:06,630 --> 00:23:10,630 ITS OIL REVENUES ARE DOWN AND ISIL FIGHTERS ARE MAKING ABOUT 298 00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:14,360 HALF THE SALARIES THEY DID A YEAR AGO. 299 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:18,360 MEANWHILE WE'LL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT LOCAL FORCES IN IRAQ AS 300 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:23,540 THEY ROLL BACK ISIL. SO FAR THEY'VE TAKEN BACK MORE 301 00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:27,360 THAN 40% OF THE POPULATED TERRITORY THAT ISIL ONCE HELD. 302 00:23:27,360 --> 00:23:37,090 LOCAL FORCES HAVE ROUTED ISIL FROM TIKRIT. 303 00:23:37,090 --> 00:23:41,720 -- MAKING PROGRESS IN HEAT. THEY'VE BECOME MOVING TOWARD 304 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,450 MOSUL. AS IRAQI FORCES ADVANCE WE'LL 305 00:23:45,450 --> 00:23:48,360 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IRAQI AUTHORITIES AS THEY WORK TO 306 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:51,720 REBUILD THE DEVASTATED COMMUNITIES LEFT BEHIND. 307 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,450 AND TO SUPPORT AN INCLUSIVE GOVERNMENT THAT WILL INVEST IN 308 00:23:55,450 --> 00:23:59,630 ALL OF IRAQ'S PEOPLE. THIS FIGHT WILL CONTINUE TO 309 00:23:59,630 --> 00:24:05,180 REPAIR THE COURAGE AND THE PERSEVERE ANC OF THE IRAQI 310 00:24:05,180 --> 00:24:07,810 PEOPLE AND ALSO THE SUSTAINED FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE 311 00:24:07,810 --> 00:24:11,360 INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO WIN THIS 312 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:15,090 FIGHT. WE MUST ALSO WIN THE EVENTUAL 313 00:24:15,090 --> 00:24:19,270 PEACE. IN SYRIA THE LOCAL FORCES 314 00:24:19,270 --> 00:24:23,360 INCLUDING FORCES BACKED BY OUR SPECIAL OPERATORS RECENTLY 315 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:29,540 RECAPTURED THE STRATEGIC TOWN OFF AL-SHADDADI -- THE OPERATION 316 00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:36,540 TOOK JUST SIX DAYS AND SEVERED A VITAL LINK IN RAQI. 317 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:44,720 WE CONTINUE TO OTHER LAY THE GROUNDWORK AND WILL KEEP UP THE 318 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,810 PRESSURE. SINCE ISIL THRIVES ON CHAOS AND 319 00:24:47,810 --> 00:24:53,450 VIOLENCE THE BEST WAY TO DESTROY ISIL A CORE IS TO END THE WAR IN 320 00:24:53,450 --> 00:24:58,090 SYRIA. WE KNOW FULL WELL JUST HOW CHALLENGING THAT WILL BE. 321 00:24:58,090 --> 00:25:02,450 THE CONFLICT IN SYRIAN IS NOT ONLY A CIVIL WAR BETWEEN A 322 00:25:02,450 --> 00:25:07,540 RUTHLESS REGIME AND OPPOSITION IT'S ALSO A SECTARIAN PROXY WAR 323 00:25:07,540 --> 00:25:12,000 BETWEEN REGIONAL POWERS. MORE OVER IT'S A CATASTROPHIC 324 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,540 HUMANITARIAN CRISIS THAT HAS KILLED MORE THAN 270,000 325 00:25:16,540 --> 00:25:21,720 PEOPLE AND DISPLACED 12MILLION. BUT AS MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE 2 326 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,540 JOHN KERRY LIKES TO SAY WHEN HE IS RECALLING THE WORDS OF 327 00:25:26,540 --> 00:25:32,810 ANOTHER FRIEND AND HERO OF MINE, FORMER ISRAELI PRESIDENT SHARON 328 00:25:32,810 --> 00:25:39,000 PEREZ PEREZ ALSO OFTEN USED TO SAY THERE ARE NO HOPELESS 329 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,270 SITUATIONS. ONLY HOPELESS PEOPLE." 330 00:25:42,270 --> 00:25:46,720 SO THANKS TO THE TIRELESS EFFORTS OF SECRETARY KERRY AND 331 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:52,630 AN INTERAGENCY TEAM OF DIPLOMATS AND MILITARY AND INTELEGENCE 332 00:25:52,630 --> 00:25:57,360 OFFICERS WORK ALONG SIDE RUSSIA AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS. 333 00:25:57,360 --> 00:26:03,360 WE HELP FACILITATE A CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE ASSAD 334 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:07,000 REGIME, THE BACKERS AND THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION. 335 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,180 THIS HAS LARGELY HELD BUT IN RECENT DAYS WE'VE SEEN A 336 00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:15,630 SIGNIFICANT UP TICK IN FIGHTING. WE'RE INCREASINGLY CONCERNED 337 00:26:15,630 --> 00:26:20,090 THAT THE REGIME'S PERSISTENT VIOLATIONS OF THE CESSATION AND 338 00:26:20,090 --> 00:26:23,720 THE HOSTILE ACTIONS WILL UNDERMINE EFFORTS TO QUIET THE 339 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,630 CONFLICT. BUT DESPITE OUR VERY REAL 340 00:26:27,630 --> 00:26:33,630 DIFFERENCES THE UNITED STATES IS NOW INTERACT CAN ALMOST DAILY 341 00:26:33,630 --> 00:26:40,180 WITH RUSSIA, OUR COCHAIR IN THIS PROCESS -- TO INVESTIGATE AND 342 00:26:40,180 --> 00:26:44,720 ADDRESS VIOLATIONS OF THE CESSATION TO DECONFLICT OUR 343 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,540 RESPECTED MILITARY EFFORTS IN SYRIA AND TO TRY TO BUILD COMMON 344 00:26:48,540 --> 00:26:53,540 GROUND AMONG SYRIANS. ASSAD MAY CONTINUE TRYING TO 345 00:26:53,540 --> 00:26:57,540 DISRUPT AND DELAY THE GOOD FAITH EFFORTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL 346 00:26:57,540 --> 00:27:00,810 COMMUNITY AND THE SYRIAN COMMUNITY TO BROKER A POLITICAL 347 00:27:00,810 --> 00:27:04,450 TRANSITION. BUT HE CANNOT ESCAPE THE REALITY 348 00:27:04,450 --> 00:27:09,360 THAT THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT THE ONLY WAY THIS ENDS 349 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:13,810 IS THROUGH A POLITICAL PROCESS THAT BRINGS ALL SYRIANS TOGETHER 350 00:27:13,810 --> 00:27:17,630 UNDER A TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT. A NEW CONSTITUTION. 351 00:27:17,630 --> 00:27:22,180 AND CREDIBLE ELECTIONS THAT RESULT IN A NEW GOVERNMENT 352 00:27:22,180 --> 00:27:27,090 WITHOUT ASSAD. THIS IS THE VISION ENSHRINED IN 353 00:27:27,090 --> 00:27:34,720 THE UNITED NATION'S ROAD MAP FOR SYRIAN PIECE AND THE VISION OUR 354 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:41,450 NEGOTIATORS ARE WORKING TO FACILITATE. 355 00:27:41,450 --> 00:27:45,810 THAT HUMANITARIAN AID GETS TO THOSE MOST IN NEED AND THAT WE 356 00:27:45,810 --> 00:27:50,180 EMBARK ON A POLITICAL TRANSITION THAT WILL LEAD TO THE END OF THE 357 00:27:50,180 --> 00:27:56,630 WRENCHING CONFLICT. SECOND, BEYOND ISIL'S CORE -- 358 00:27:56,630 --> 00:27:59,810 WE'LL CONTINUE TO RAMP UP EFFORTS WITH OUR PARTNERS TO 359 00:27:59,810 --> 00:28:05,450 DEGRADE ISIL'S EXISTING BRANCHES AND PREVENT THE EMERGENCE OF NEW 360 00:28:05,450 --> 00:28:07,180 ONES. REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS IN 361 00:28:07,180 --> 00:28:12,090 SYRIA AND IRAQ ISIL WILL CONTINUE TRYING TO CARVE OUT 362 00:28:12,090 --> 00:28:17,360 TERRITORY IF FRAGILE STATES AND LAWLESS REGIONS. 363 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:24,000 THEY'VE DECLARED EIGHT BRANCHES. THEY'VE SENT ENVOYS TO PROVIDE 364 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,360 THEIR AFFILIATES WITH MONEY, FIGHTERS AND EVEN MEDIA 365 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:30,450 TRAINING. BY ALIGN WITH ISIL LOCAL 366 00:28:30,450 --> 00:28:34,630 FIGHTERS TRY TO APPROPRIATE ISIL'S BRAND AND RESOURCES. 367 00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:38,360 AND ISIL TRIES TO EXPAND ITS REACH. 368 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,810 THESE EMERGING ISIL BRANCHES DESTABILIZE COUNTRIES AND CAN 369 00:28:42,810 --> 00:28:49,000 PROVIDE SAFE HAVEN FOR ISIL TO RETREAT EVEN AS WE DEGRADE ITS 370 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000 CORNER IRAQ AND SYRIA. AND WHERE ISIL DOES TAKE HOLD SO DO 371 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,090 THEIR MOST BRUTAL TACTICS. OVER THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF 372 00:28:58,090 --> 00:29:04,270 ISIL HAS ATTEMPTED ROUGHLY 150 ATTACKS OUTSIDE OF SYRIA AND 373 00:29:04,270 --> 00:29:07,180 IRAQ AND THAT IS WHY AS THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID WE CONTINUE 374 00:29:07,180 --> 00:29:12,180 TO GO AFTER ISIL WHERE EVER IT TRIES TO TAKE ROOT. 375 00:29:12,180 --> 00:29:17,810 IN LIBYA, ISIL THREATENS NOT ONLY NORTH AFRICAN STABILITY BUT 376 00:29:17,810 --> 00:29:29,540 SUB SAHARAN AFRICA AS WELL. WE'VE LAUNCHED STRIKES INCLUDING 377 00:29:29,540 --> 00:29:35,360 TAKING OUT ISIL'S LIBYAN LEADER. AND TAKING OUT A TRAINING CAMP. 378 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,090 BUT JUST AS IMPORTANTLY WE'RE HELPING TO STAND UP THE NEW 379 00:29:39,090 --> 00:29:41,180 LIBYAN GOVERNMENT. NATIONAL ACCORD. 380 00:29:41,180 --> 00:29:46,360 SO THAT LIBYANS CAN SECURE AND STABILIZE THEIR OWN COUNTRY. 381 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:53,000 IN NIGERIA TODAY MARKS EXACTLY TWO YEARS SINCE BOKO HARAM 382 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,720 TERRORISTS KIDNAPPED MORE THAN 200 GIRLS FROM THE SCHOOL. 383 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,450 SINCE THEN THE GIRLS HAVE TRAGICALLY NOT BEEN FREED BUT 384 00:30:02,450 --> 00:30:08,540 BOKO HARAM HAS A FILLED WITH ISIL AND BECOME THE GROUP'S 385 00:30:08,540 --> 00:30:11,630 DEADLIEST BRANCH. BUILDING ON THE LONG-STANDING 386 00:30:11,630 --> 00:30:15,270 TIES WITH NIGERIA WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE PRESIDENT TO 387 00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:19,810 DEGRADE ISIL IN WEST AFRICA WE'RE SHARING INTELLIGENCE AND 388 00:30:19,810 --> 00:30:23,000 TRAINING SECURITY FORCES. WE'RE CONTRIBUTING TO A 389 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,540 MULTINATIONAL JOINT TASK FORCE THAT IS COOPERATING TO BREAK THE 390 00:30:27,540 --> 00:30:36,090 GRIP OF BOKO HARAM. -- TO HELP SECURE NIGERIA WE'RE 391 00:30:36,090 --> 00:30:39,810 SUPPORTING EFFORTS TO REDUCE VIOLENT EXTREMISM AND 392 00:30:39,810 --> 00:30:44,180 REINTEGRATE LOW LEVEL FIGHTERS WHILE ALSO WORKING TO STRENGTHEN 393 00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:47,360 THE RULE OF LAW AND BOOST THE GOVERNMENT'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE 394 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,630 ESSENTIAL SERVICES. MEAN WHILE IN AFGHANISTAN AND 395 00:30:51,630 --> 00:30:57,540 PAKISTAN ISIL HAS ESTABLISHED A BRANCH CALLING ITSELF ISIL. 396 00:30:57,540 --> 00:31:02,090 LARGELY COMPOSED OF FORMER AFGHAN AND PAKISTAN TALIBAN 397 00:31:02,090 --> 00:31:05,630 MEMBERS. WHILE ISIL -- HAS HAD TO CONTEND 398 00:31:05,630 --> 00:31:10,000 WITH RIVAL EXTREMIST GROUPS SUCH AS AL QAEDA AND THE AFGHAN 399 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,450 TALIBAN THEY REMAIN A DESTABILIZING AND DANGEROUS 400 00:31:13,450 --> 00:31:16,090 FORCE. THEY'VE GAINED TERRITORY IN THE 401 00:31:16,090 --> 00:31:20,540 EAST AND LAUNCHED ATTACKS IN MAJOR CITIES THROUGH A 402 00:31:20,540 --> 00:31:25,540 COMBINATION OF U.S. AFGHAN AND TALIBAN PRESSURE WE'VE LIMITED 403 00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:31,630 ISIL'S GAINS THUS FAR. AS PART OF THE U.S. COUNTER 404 00:31:31,630 --> 00:31:40,720 TERRORISM MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS AUTHORIZE -- 405 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,540 -- AUTHORIZED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. 406 00:31:43,540 --> 00:31:48,720 WE'VE JUST LAUNCHED A SERIES OF STRIKES AND JOINT OPERATIONS 407 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,720 KILLING HUNDREDS OF MILITANTS AND REGAINING ISIL HELD 408 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,810 TERRITORY AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET UP. 409 00:31:54,810 --> 00:31:59,360 IN YEMEN ISIL AFFILIATES HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF ONGOING 410 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,360 STABILITY TO ATTACK MOSQUES AND NURSING HOMES. 411 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,270 IN SAUDI ARABIA ISIL HAS TARGETED SECURITY FORCES AND 412 00:32:07,270 --> 00:32:11,000 CIVILIANS. TO ADDRESS THESE OFFSHOOTS WE'RE 413 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000 DEEPENING OUR SECURITY OPERATION WITH COUNTRIES IN THE GULF 414 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,000 REGION. WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA ATTENDS THE 415 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,720 U.S. GULF COOPERATION COUNSEL SUMMIT RIYADH NEXT WEEK ISIL 416 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,540 WILL BE AT THE TOP OF OUR AGENDA. 417 00:32:26,540 --> 00:32:29,450 WE'LL ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH COUNTRIES WHERE 418 00:32:29,450 --> 00:32:36,270 ISIL ASPIRES TO GROW LIKE SOMALIA AND INDONESIA AND THE 419 00:32:36,270 --> 00:32:39,000 PHILIPPINES. WITH SMART SUSTAINED INVESTMENTS 420 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,630 WE HAVE A CHANCE TO PREVENT ISIL FROM TAKING ROOT IN THESE 421 00:32:43,630 --> 00:32:51,090 DESPERATE CORNERS BY ASSISTING PARTNERS AND PROVIDING 422 00:32:51,090 --> 00:32:56,450 DEVELOPMENT AND COUNTERING ISIL'S NEFARIOUS NEVERRIVE AND 423 00:32:56,450 --> 00:33:01,090 TO BE CLEAR EVEN AS WE ADDRESS ISIL'S EMERGING BRANCHES WE HAVE 424 00:33:01,090 --> 00:33:06,180 NOT TAKEN OUR EYE OFF AL QAIDA A AND IT'S AFFILIATES. 425 00:33:06,180 --> 00:33:11,540 OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS WE'VE DECIMATED AL QAEDA'S LEADERSHIP 426 00:33:11,540 --> 00:33:15,090 IN AFTER AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN AND CONTINUE TO 427 00:33:15,090 --> 00:33:22,000 PRESSURE THE REMNANTS. THE GROUP'S LEADER IS IN HIDING. 428 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,450 AND EXERCISES LITTLE INFLUENCE OVER REMAINING AL QAEDA 429 00:33:26,450 --> 00:33:32,180 AFFILIATES. AND WHILE THESE AFFILIATES 430 00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:35,540 CONTINUE TO OPPOSE THREATS WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS 431 00:33:35,540 --> 00:33:39,540 RELENTLESSLY TO TARGET AND DIMINISH THEIR CAPABILITIES. 432 00:33:39,540 --> 00:33:43,270 AND IN SOMALIA WE REMOVED THE LEADER. 433 00:33:43,270 --> 00:33:47,090 AND WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION. 434 00:33:47,090 --> 00:33:52,360 IN THE REGION OF AFRICA WE'RE WORKING WITH THE FRENCH AND 435 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:57,810 LOCAL PARTNERS TO DESTROY AL QAEDA -- WHICH HAVE LAUNCHED A 436 00:33:57,810 --> 00:34:06,360 SERIES OF DEADLY ATTACKS. IN SOUTH ASIA PAKISTANI FORCES 437 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:12,360 ARE WORKING TO PUSH AL QAEDA OUT WHILE U.S. AND AFGHAN FORCES 438 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,360 TARGET FIGHTERS WHO CROSSOVER INTO AFGHANISTAN. 439 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:22,450 IN YEMEN CONFLICT AND CHAOS HAVE CREATED A VACUUM THAT HAS BEEN 440 00:34:22,450 --> 00:34:26,360 FILLED BY AL QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA. 441 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:37,000 WE AIM TO DEGRADE AND DEFEAT -- ON FIGHTERS WHO POSE AN IMMINENT 442 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,720 THREAT TO AMERICANS IN THE REGION. 443 00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:44,540 SO WHETHER THE TERRORISTS ARE AL QAEDA OR ISIL OUR MESSAGE AS THE 444 00:34:44,540 --> 00:34:49,090 PRESIDENT HAS SAID IS CLEAR. YOU CANNOT HIDE. 445 00:34:49,090 --> 00:34:54,450 YOU ARE NEXT. AND THIS BRINGS ME TO THE THIRD 446 00:34:54,450 --> 00:34:57,630 ELEMENT OF OUR STRATEGY AGAINST ISIL. 447 00:34:57,630 --> 00:35:02,180 DISMANTLING THE GLOBAL NETWORK. THE ATTACKS IN PARIS HIGHLIGHTED 448 00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:05,450 THE THREAT OF ISIL FIGHTERS RETURNING HOME. 449 00:35:05,450 --> 00:35:08,180 ESPECIALLY ONES WITH WESTERN PASSPORTS. 450 00:35:08,180 --> 00:35:13,180 AFTER THE PARIS ATTACKS WE SENT TEAMS TO EUROPE' TO STRENGTHEN 451 00:35:13,180 --> 00:35:15,720 OUR COUNTERTERRORISM COOPERATION. 452 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:19,270 THESE FOREIGN FIGHTERS SURGE TEAMS ARE ASSISTING OUR EUROPEAN 453 00:35:19,270 --> 00:35:23,270 ALLIES AS THEY IMPLEMENT LONG-TERM STRUCTURAL REFORM TO 454 00:35:23,270 --> 00:35:27,630 IMPROVE INTELLIGENCE SHARING AND PREVENT FUTURE ATTACKS. 455 00:35:27,630 --> 00:35:31,360 AT THE SAME TIME THE UNITED STATES IS ENHANCING OUR OWN 456 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,720 AVIATION SECURITY AND SCREENING AND WORKING WITH INNER POLL TO 457 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:39,000 SHARE SHOWERSES OF PROFILES OF SUSPECTED FIGHTERS. 458 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,180 ROUGHLY 45 COUNTRIES HAVE ESTABLISHED MECHANISMS TO 459 00:35:43,180 --> 00:35:47,270 IDENTIFY AND FLAG TERRORIST TRAVEL TO IRAQ AND SYRIA. AND 460 00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:51,450 DOZENS OF COUNTRIES HAVE ARRESTED FIGHTERS OR ASPIRING 461 00:35:51,450 --> 00:35:53,810 FIGHTERS. TOGETHER WITH OUR PARTNERS WE'RE 462 00:35:53,810 --> 00:35:58,090 SLOWING THE FLOW OF FOREIGN TERRORIST FIGHTERS IN TO AND OUT 463 00:35:58,090 --> 00:36:02,270 OF IRAQ AND SYRIA INCLUDING SEALING ALMOST ALL OF THE BORDER 464 00:36:02,270 --> 00:36:08,360 WITH TURKEY. STILL, SINCE 2011 NEARLY 40,000 465 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:14,180 FOREIGN FIGHTERS HAVE TRAVELED TO SYRIA FOR MORE THAN 120 466 00:36:14,180 --> 00:36:19,450 COUNTRIES INCLUDING 6900 WHO HAVE TRAVELED FROM THE WEST. 467 00:36:19,450 --> 00:36:23,360 WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO 468 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,630 PREVENT THEM FROM RETURNING AND LAUNCHING ATTACKS IN OUR 469 00:36:26,630 --> 00:36:30,630 COUNTRIES. ISIL'S WEB OF TERROR IS 470 00:36:30,630 --> 00:36:35,180 EXTREMELY WELL FUNDED. SO WE'RE CRACKING DOWN ON ISIL'S 471 00:36:35,180 --> 00:36:40,810 FINANCES. PART OF THAT AS -- I MENTIONED 472 00:36:40,810 --> 00:36:44,810 IS THE AIR STRIKES AGAINST THE OIL STRUCTURE AND CASH FLOW FOR 473 00:36:44,810 --> 00:36:50,090 AGE SITES. WE'RE DEGRADING THE FINANCIAL 474 00:36:50,090 --> 00:36:55,000 INFRASTRUCTURE. THE UNITED NATION'S SECURITY 475 00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:02,180 COUNCIL HAS PASSED A -- AND ESTABLISHED A ISIL FINANCE GROUP 476 00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:07,000 CO-LED BY THE UNITED STATES, ITALY AND SAUDI ARABIA WHICH IS 477 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,450 BLOCKING THE ABILITY TO RAISE AND RECEIVE FUNDS OR USE OTHER 478 00:37:10,450 --> 00:37:14,720 COUNTRY'S BANKS TO STORE AND ROUTE THEIR ELICIT EARNINGS. 479 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:21,090 AND THE RAID LAST YEAR -- AGAINST ISIL'S FINANCE CHIEF 480 00:37:21,090 --> 00:37:24,180 YIELDED A WEALTH OF INFORMATION ON ISIL'S FINANCIAL 481 00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:29,180 VULNERABILITY. SEVEN TERABYTES OF FLASH DRIVES. 482 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:33,360 CDs PAPERS AND OTHER DATA. THAT IS MORE THAN WE GOT OUT OF 483 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,630 THE BIN LADEN RAID AND WE'LL CONTINUE USING THE INFORMATION 484 00:37:36,630 --> 00:37:42,270 AND OTHER TOOLS TO TURN OFF THE ISIL FUNDING TAP. 485 00:37:42,270 --> 00:37:46,000 ULTIMATELY THIS IS ALSO A BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS. 486 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:50,810 AS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SAID IDEOLOGIES ARE NOT DEFEATED WITH 487 00:37:50,810 --> 00:37:53,810 GUNS. THEY ARE DEFEATED WITH BETTER 488 00:37:53,810 --> 00:37:56,360 IDEAS. SO WE'RE WORKING HARD TO EXPOSE 489 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:02,090 ISIL'S TWISTED INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM AND UNDER SCORE THAT ISIL 490 00:38:02,090 --> 00:38:07,000 IS NOT DEFENDING MUSLIMS. THEY ARE KILLING MANY INNOCENT 491 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,540 MUSLIMS. RECOGNIZING THAT THE UNITED 492 00:38:08,540 --> 00:38:12,270 STATES IS NOT NECESSARILY THE BEST MESSENGER WE'RE WORKING 493 00:38:12,270 --> 00:38:15,810 WITH PARTNERS ACROSS THE GLOBE INCLUDING IN SAUDI ARABIA AND 494 00:38:15,810 --> 00:38:21,630 THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND ASIA, THE STATE'S DEPARTMENT NEW 495 00:38:21,630 --> 00:38:25,630 GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER IS AMPLIFYING ANTIISIL VOICES 496 00:38:25,630 --> 00:38:30,090 INTERNATIONALLY FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO ISIL DEFECTORS. 497 00:38:30,090 --> 00:38:32,810 WE'VE BROUGHT TOGETHER GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTOR 498 00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:37,090 LEADERS FROM SILICONE VALLEY, HOLLYWOOD AND MADISON AVENUE TO 499 00:38:37,090 --> 00:38:41,000 EXPLORE INNOVATIVE WAYS TO COUNTER ISIL'S POISONOUS 500 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,810 PROPAGANDA AND WEEK BY WEEK THESE VOICES ARE ERODING ISIL'S 501 00:38:46,810 --> 00:38:50,270 PEEL. A NEW POLL SHOWS THAT NEARLY 80% 502 00:38:50,270 --> 00:38:55,180 OF YOUNG MUSLIMS FROM SAUDI ARABIA TO EGYPT TO TUNISIA ARE 503 00:38:55,180 --> 00:39:02,270 NOW STRONGLY OPPOSED TO ISIL TO. DEFEAT ISIL'S IDEOLOGY FOR GOOD 504 00:39:02,270 --> 00:39:05,540 HOWEVER WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONDITIONS THAT HELPED DRAW 505 00:39:05,540 --> 00:39:11,360 PEOPLE INTO ISIL'S DESTRUCTIVE MESSAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE. 506 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,270 AROUND THE WORLD COUNTRIES AND COMMUNITIES INCLUDING THE UNITED 507 00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:22,270 STATES MUST CONTINUE TO OFFER A BETTER MORE COMPELLING VISION. 508 00:39:22,270 --> 00:39:25,180 WE MUST DEMONSTRATE AS THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID THAT THE 509 00:39:25,180 --> 00:39:31,360 FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO BUILD NOT THOSE WHO DESTROY. 510 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,810 THAT INCLUDES PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND 511 00:39:34,810 --> 00:39:38,450 ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES. IT MEANS LETTING PEOPLE EXPRESS 512 00:39:38,450 --> 00:39:42,180 THEMSELVES FREELY AND PARTICIPATE IN THE POLITICAL 513 00:39:42,180 --> 00:39:45,270 PROCESS. IT MEANS RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE 514 00:39:45,270 --> 00:39:49,720 AND PROTECTING THE DIGNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLE. 515 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:53,450 WHERE ISIL OFFERS HORROR COUNTRIES AROUND WORLD MUST 516 00:39:53,450 --> 00:39:58,810 OFFER HOPE. FOURTH, AND FINALLY AS WE FIGHT 517 00:39:58,810 --> 00:40:03,540 THIS BAT OLD ALL FRONTS WE CONTINUE TO DO ALL WE CAN TO 518 00:40:03,540 --> 00:40:09,630 PROTECT OUR HOME LAND. WE HAVE HEARTENED OUR DEFENSES. 519 00:40:09,630 --> 00:40:13,630 STRENGTHENED IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE. 520 00:40:13,630 --> 00:40:22,000 WE'RE BETTER PREPARED THANKS IN PART TO THE AIR FORCE LEADERSHIP 521 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:26,180 AND YOUR CAPABILITIES. OUR TASK FORCE IS COORDINATING 522 00:40:26,180 --> 00:40:29,720 EFFORTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO COUNTER VIOLENT 523 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:33,270 EXTREMISM AT HOME INCLUDING ENGAGING WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES 524 00:40:33,270 --> 00:40:39,180 FROM BOSTON TO MINNEAPOLIS. THE UNITED STATES HAS THE BEST 525 00:40:39,180 --> 00:40:44,360 COUNTERTERRORISM LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS 526 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,000 ON THE PLANET. DEVOTED TO CONNECTING THE DOTS 527 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,270 TO PREVENT ATTACKS AND TO TAKE THE FIGHT TO ISIL EVERY SINGLE 528 00:40:52,270 --> 00:40:55,810 DAY. OUR BORDERS WILL REMAIN STRONG. 529 00:40:55,810 --> 00:41:00,630 OUR COUNTERTERRORISM EXPERTS WILL REMAIN HYPER VIGILANT. 530 00:41:00,630 --> 00:41:04,810 ARE THE ENDURING SOURCE OF AMERICA'S STRENGTH HOWEVER COMES 531 00:41:04,810 --> 00:41:09,810 FROM UPHOLDING OUR CORE VALUES. THE SAME ENDURING VALUES 532 00:41:09,810 --> 00:41:16,270 EMBODIED IN EACH OF YOU AT THIS -- ACADEMY. 533 00:41:16,270 --> 00:41:20,810 IT'S WITHIN PEOPLE FEEL PERSECUTED OR DISEMPOWERED THAT 534 00:41:20,810 --> 00:41:25,360 EXTREMISM CAN TAKE HOLD SO OUR COMMITMENT TO THE DIGNITY AND 535 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:30,810 EQUALITY OF EVERY HUMAN BEING MUST REMAIN IRONCLAD. 536 00:41:30,810 --> 00:41:38,360 ESPECIALLY IN CHALLENGING TIMES -- WE MUST CONTINUE TO REAFFIRM 537 00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:43,000 THE BELIEFS. WHETHER REFUGEES, IMMIGRANTS OR 538 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:50,360 NATIVE BORN AMERICANS. OUR OBLIGATIONS LIKE OUR RIGHTS 539 00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,720 APPLY EQUALLY TO ALL AMERICANS NO MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE, 540 00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:59,180 WHERE THEY CAME FROM, OR HOW THEY WORSHIP. 541 00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:04,180 AND IN THE FACE OF ISIL'S BARBERRISM AMERICA MUST REMAIN 542 00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:08,180 RESILIENT AND DEFIANT IN OUR FREEDOM. 543 00:42:08,180 --> 00:42:12,180 OUR OPENNESS AND OUR INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY. 544 00:42:12,180 --> 00:42:18,360 SO THIS IS OUR STRATEGY. INFORMED BY HARD WON EXPERIENCE 545 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,720 TO PUT ISIL ON THE PATH OF LASTING DEFEAT. 546 00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:27,360 DESTROYING ISIL'S CORE. DEGRADING ITS BRANCHES. 547 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:32,090 DISMANTLING ISIL'S GLOBAL NETWORK OF TERROR AND PROTECTING 548 00:42:32,090 --> 00:42:37,450 THE HOME LAND INCLUDING OUR VALUES AND DIVERSITY. 549 00:42:37,450 --> 00:42:42,180 AS WE EMBRACE THIS INCREASINGLY MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TO 550 00:42:42,180 --> 00:42:45,540 FIGHTING TERRORISM AND DESTROYING ISIL WE WILL CONTINUE 551 00:42:45,540 --> 00:42:51,090 APPLYING ALL ELEMENTS OF OUR POWER TO SUSTAIN THIS FIGHT. 552 00:42:51,090 --> 00:42:56,450 THIS LONG CAMPAIGN WON'T END WITH A STATUE TOPPLED OR A FLAG 553 00:42:56,450 --> 00:43:00,000 RAISED. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, WE'RE IN A 554 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,270 REAL FIGHT. AND THROUGH THE STRENGTH OF OUR 555 00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:07,450 PARTNERSHIPS AND THE POWER OF OUR VALUES AMERICA IS LEADING 556 00:43:07,450 --> 00:43:12,630 THE WAY. AMERICA IS LEADING WHEN A B1 557 00:43:12,630 --> 00:43:18,270 SQUADRON SPENDS FOUR MONTHS PROVIDING AIR SUPPORT WHILE 558 00:43:18,270 --> 00:43:23,360 KURDISH AND ARAB FIGHTERS BATTLE ISIL BELOW. 559 00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,270 YOU HAVE REFUELING AND COMMAND AND CONTROL ASSETS ALL INVOLVED. 560 00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:30,360 YOU HAVE AIR CONTROLLERS WORKING WITH THE LOCAL FORCES WHO ARE 561 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,540 CALLING IN TARGETS. THE B1 CREWS GOING WINCHESTER. 562 00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:38,270 AND THE FIGHTERS ON THE GROUND CONFIRMING HITS. 563 00:43:38,270 --> 00:43:43,360 THAT IS HOW OUR LOCAL PARTNERS RECAPTURED KABANI. 564 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:47,810 AMERICA IS LEADING WHEN THREE YOUNG AMERICANS INCLUDING AN 565 00:43:47,810 --> 00:43:53,360 ARMY SPECIALIST AND AN AIRMAN STAFF SERGEANT SPENCER STONE 566 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:59,090 SPOT THE FLASH OF AN AK47 ON A TRAIN IN FRANCE, SPRING INTO 567 00:43:59,090 --> 00:44:02,540 ACTION AND THWART A DEADLY TERRORIST ATTACK BECAUSE THAT IS 568 00:44:02,540 --> 00:44:06,720 THE KIND OF VIGILANCE AND QUICK RESPONSE THAT HELPS US SECURE 569 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:11,720 OUR OWN HOME LAND AND SUPPORT OUR PARTNERS AND ALLIES. 570 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:16,720 AMERICA IS LEADING WHEN WE WELCOME REFUGEES WHO ENRICH OUR 571 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:19,540 NATION. THAT INCLUDES THE SYRIAN HEADED 572 00:44:19,540 --> 00:44:24,000 TO MISSOURI WHO SAID AMERICA IS THE COUNTRY OF FREEDOM AND 573 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,270 DEMOCRACY. THERE ARE JOB OPPORTUNITIES. 574 00:44:27,270 --> 00:44:30,630 THERE IS GOOD EDUCATION. AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO 575 00:44:30,630 --> 00:44:36,000 HAVING A GOOD LIFE. THAT IS THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP 576 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:41,090 WE NEED TO FIGHT NOT ONLY THE ISIL OF TODAY BUT ALSO THE 577 00:44:41,090 --> 00:44:46,000 SECURITY CHALLENGES OF TOMORROW. IT'S KIND OF LEADERSHIP THIS 578 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,180 ACADEMY HAS INSTILLED IN EACH OF YOU. 579 00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:56,000 GENERAL ACRE -- THE MAN FOR WHOM THIS LECTURE IS NAMED ONCE SAID 580 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,270 AND I QUOTE, "THERE ARE NO RELUCTANT LEADERS. 581 00:45:00,270 --> 00:45:05,270 A REAL LEADER MUST REALLY WANT THE JOB." 582 00:45:05,270 --> 00:45:11,270 AS WE LOOK TO THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE THE UNITED STATES 583 00:45:11,270 --> 00:45:15,270 OF AMERICA LEADS AND STILL REALLY WANTS THE JOB. 584 00:45:15,270 --> 00:45:22,360 AND SO I KNOW DO ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU. 585 00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:47,720 [ APPLAUSE ] >> I WOULD BE HONORED TO TAKE A 586 00:45:47,720 --> 00:46:03,090 FEW QUESTIONS. >> GOOD EVENING, AMBASSADOR. 587 00:46:03,090 --> 00:46:08,000 MY NAME IS STEPHEN. YOU REFERRED TO ISIL AS A 588 00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:12,540 TWISTED NETWORK OF MURDERS AND MANIACS AND MURDERS THEY MAY BE 589 00:46:12,540 --> 00:46:17,000 BUT ON THE MANIAC SIDE THEY'VE -- RAISED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF 590 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,000 REVENUE. THEY'VE ESTABLISHED 591 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,360 INFRASTRUCTURE AND FIGURED OUTWEIGHS TO PENETRATE OURS AS 592 00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:29,270 WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES EXTENSIVE NETWORKS SO DOES 593 00:46:29,270 --> 00:46:35,810 REFERRING TO THEM IN THIS WAY IMPLY THAT THEY HAVE A MENTAL 594 00:46:35,810 --> 00:46:42,810 INCAPACITIES -- >> I DON'T THINK IT DEGRADE OUR 595 00:46:42,810 --> 00:46:45,720 ABILITY TO FIGHT THEM EFFECTIVELY BUT REMEMBER THESE 596 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:52,000 ARE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT BE HEAD INNOCENCE AND SEND OUT ON VIDEO 597 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,000 FOR THE BE HEADINGS TO SEE AND WHO RAPE GIRLS AND BEHAVE IN THE 598 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:02,630 MOST HORRIFIC AND INHUMANE WAYS SO IS WHAT I MEANT. 599 00:47:02,630 --> 00:47:07,000 NOT TO SAY THEY NOT EFFECTIVE. JUST GAVE A SPEECH ABOUT WHY WE 600 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:13,270 HAVE TO HAVE A MULTI-PRONGED CAMPAIGN AGAINST THEM. 601 00:47:13,270 --> 00:47:20,000 [ CHEERING ] PRECISELY BECAUSE WE'RE IN A 602 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,630 REAL FIGHT AGAINST A VERY SERIOUS THREAT. 603 00:47:22,630 --> 00:47:28,810 SO, MY INTENT WAS NOT TO SUGGEST THAT THEY DON'T HAVE UNIQUE 604 00:47:28,810 --> 00:47:31,810 CAPACITIES. IN FACT I TRIED TO ELABORATE A 605 00:47:31,810 --> 00:47:36,360 FEW WAYS IN WHICH THEY ARE QUITE UNIQUE BUT RATHER THAT THEY ARE 606 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,810 ALSO CHARACTERIZED BY AN IN HUMANITY AND BRUTALITY THAT MOST 607 00:47:40,810 --> 00:47:44,270 HUMAN BEINGS FIND UNRECOGNIZABLE. 608 00:47:44,270 --> 00:47:45,810 >> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. 609 00:47:45,810 --> 00:47:54,270 [ APPLAUSE ] >> AMBASSADOR MY NAME IS CADET 610 00:47:54,270 --> 00:47:58,360 THIRD CLASS -- [ INAUDIBLE ] MY QUESTION IS 611 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:01,720 WHAT SPECIFIC COURSE OF ACTION WILL THE UNITED STATES PURSUE IN 612 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:09,810 REGARDS TO RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE REPORTS FOR TURKEY. 613 00:48:09,810 --> 00:48:13,720 >> DON'T THEY TEACH YOU HERE NOT TO GO OFF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE 614 00:48:13,720 --> 00:48:18,090 REPORTS. >> MY APOLOGIES MA'AM. 615 00:48:18,090 --> 00:48:22,270 >> BUT YOU RAISE A SERIOUS QUESTION WHICH IS THE ROLE OF 616 00:48:22,270 --> 00:48:26,540 TURKEY. OUR NATO ALLY IN THIS VITAL 617 00:48:26,540 --> 00:48:32,180 FIGHT AND TURKEY'S INTERESTS ARE COMPLEX BUT TURKEY PLAYS A 618 00:48:32,180 --> 00:48:36,270 CRITICAL PARTNERSHIP ROLE AS A MEMBER OF THE COALITION. 619 00:48:36,270 --> 00:48:40,810 IN DEFEATING ISIL AND IN RECENT MONTHS I WOULD SAY ACTUALLY OVER 620 00:48:40,810 --> 00:48:46,360 THE COURSE OF THE LAST YEAR WE'VE SEEN TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTION 621 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,630 GREATLY ENHANCED IN WAYS THAT HAVE BEEN BENEFICIAL TO THE 622 00:48:49,630 --> 00:48:52,540 COALITION. SO WE'RE NOW OPERATING AND 623 00:48:52,540 --> 00:48:59,000 FLYING ARMED ASSETS OUT OF TURKISH BASES AS ARE OUR OTHER 624 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,000 COALITION PARTNERS. TURKEY HAS TAKEN STEPS TO LIMIT 625 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,180 THE FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS INTO THEIR COUNTRY AND ACROSS 626 00:49:05,180 --> 00:49:10,540 THE BORDER INTO SYRIA. TURKEY HAS ALSO TAKEN STEPS TO SHARE 627 00:49:10,540 --> 00:49:14,090 INFORMATION ON FOREIGN TERRORIST FIGHTER FLOWS AND WITH OTHER 628 00:49:14,090 --> 00:49:18,450 ALLIES AS WELL TO SEAL THE BORDER AND TO TRY TO REDUCE THE 629 00:49:18,450 --> 00:49:23,000 FLOW OF FINANCE. THERE ARE WAYS IN WHICH WE THINK 630 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:28,720 WE COULD STILL BENEFIT FROM EVEN GREATER TURKISH CONTRIBUTIONS 631 00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:32,720 AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THE TURKS AND COLLABORATING ON WAYS THAT 632 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:35,630 WE CAN DO MORE TOGETHER AGAINST ISIL AND THERE ARE SOME AREAS IN 633 00:49:35,630 --> 00:49:40,810 WHICH WE MAY NOT NECESSARILY SEE PRECISELY EYE TO EYE BUT WE VIEW 634 00:49:40,810 --> 00:49:46,450 TURKEY AS A CRITICAL ALLY IN THIS FIGHT AGAINST ISIL AND MUCH 635 00:49:46,450 --> 00:49:51,450 OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO AS A COALITION HAS TO BE CREDITED 636 00:49:51,450 --> 00:49:56,810 TO THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS. >> THANK YOU, MA'AM. 637 00:49:56,810 --> 00:50:01,540 >> WE HAVE TIME FOR ONE MORE QUESTION? 638 00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:08,810 HOW ABOUT TWO? >> HOW ABOUT A COUPLE MORE HERE. 639 00:50:08,810 --> 00:50:21,450 [ APPLAUSE ] >> GOOD EVENING AMBASSADOR. 640 00:50:21,450 --> 00:50:24,810 MY QUESTION IS -- GIVEN YOUR EXPERIENCE AS AN AFRICA 641 00:50:24,810 --> 00:50:29,630 SPECIALIST AND AFRICA EXPERT HOW WAS THE TRANSITION TO SERVING AS 642 00:50:29,630 --> 00:50:35,090 UNAMBASSADOR AND NOW YOUR CURRENT ROLE AS NATIONAL 643 00:50:35,090 --> 00:50:38,000 SECURITY ADVISOR. ANY ADDITIONAL SKILLS THAT YOU 644 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,630 ARE REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT. DO YOU MISS A CERTAIN AREA AND 645 00:50:41,630 --> 00:50:45,180 FOCUS ON THE AFFAIRS OF THAT CERTAIN AREA? 646 00:50:45,180 --> 00:50:51,090 THANK YOU. >> WELL, BEFORE I WAS AN AFRICA 647 00:50:51,090 --> 00:50:58,090 EXPERT I WAS ACTUALLY AN EXPERT IN MULTI-LATERAL ORGANIZATIONS, 648 00:50:58,090 --> 00:51:02,630 PEACE KEEPING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND IT WAS FROM THAT 649 00:51:02,630 --> 00:51:07,450 THAT I GOT INTO AFTER A WORKED AT THE NFC AND THE STATE 650 00:51:07,450 --> 00:51:10,000 DEPARTMENT. FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND I ENJOYED 651 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,450 THAT GREATLY AND THEN I LEFT GOVERNMENT FOR A PERIOD OF EIGHT 652 00:51:14,450 --> 00:51:17,720 YEARS AND I SPENT MUCH OF MY TIME AT THE BROOKINGS 653 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:20,630 INSTITUTION AND DURING THAT PERIOD I WORKED ON A PRETTY WIDE 654 00:51:20,630 --> 00:51:25,090 RANGE OF ISSUES. FAILED STATES. 655 00:51:25,090 --> 00:51:28,270 ASPECTS OF THE MIDDLE-EAST CONFLICT. 656 00:51:28,270 --> 00:51:32,090 COUNTERTERRORISM. ASPECTS OF NONPROLIFERATION SO 657 00:51:32,090 --> 00:51:37,540 IT WAS AN INTERESTING PERIOD FOR ME TO DELVE INTO A WIDER 658 00:51:37,540 --> 00:51:41,090 SPRECTRUM OF NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES AND THEN OF COURSE AT THE 659 00:51:41,090 --> 00:51:44,720 U.N.th WORLD. BUT INTERESTINGLY THE WORK OF 660 00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:50,810 THE SECURITY COUNCIL IS 60-70PERCENT ABOUT AFRICA 661 00:51:50,810 --> 00:51:54,630 BELIEVE IT OR NOT BECAUSE THE U.N. HAS SO MANY PEACE KEEPING 662 00:51:54,630 --> 00:51:58,540 AND OTHER MISSIONS DEPLOYED TO AFRICA AND A LOT OF RESOURCES OF 663 00:51:58,540 --> 00:52:01,360 THE SECURITY COUNCIL ARE SPENT ON THAT. 664 00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:05,090 BUT ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ON ISSUES LIKE NORTH KOREA, 665 00:52:05,090 --> 00:52:08,540 IRAN, MIDDLE-EAST PEACE. HAITI. 666 00:52:08,540 --> 00:52:12,540 SO AT THE U.N. I GOT THE ENTIRE GLOBE. 667 00:52:12,540 --> 00:52:16,630 AND NOW OF COURSE AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR AS I WAS SAYING 668 00:52:16,630 --> 00:52:19,720 TO SOME OF YOUR COLLEAGUES the world plus. 669 00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:25,000 It's plus the defense -- portfolio plus the intelligence 670 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,090 portfolio, law enforcement. The homeland. 671 00:52:27,090 --> 00:52:34,540 So I feel like each experience has been tremendous preparation 672 00:52:34,540 --> 00:52:38,180 for the next I like doing what I do now which is to get to see 673 00:52:38,180 --> 00:52:44,270 the full sprectrum of issues and work on a wide range of things 674 00:52:44,270 --> 00:52:50,090 simultaneously. I enjoyed every stage of my 675 00:52:50,090 --> 00:52:54,720 professional career I've found fascinating and stimulating and 676 00:52:54,720 --> 00:53:01,450 each is built on the other but no I don't miss today being an 677 00:53:01,450 --> 00:53:05,450 area expert in one area. I get very excited and 678 00:53:05,450 --> 00:53:11,720 stimulated by working on multiplicity of issues on any 679 00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:13,270 given day. >> Thank you. 680 00:53:13,270 --> 00:53:22,360 >> Thank you. [ APPLAUSE ] 681 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:26,180 >> Ambassador, you talked a lot about our efforts in fighting 682 00:53:26,180 --> 00:53:30,090 ISIS and defeating them but all of our efforts won't be worth 683 00:53:30,090 --> 00:53:34,270 their weight in salt if we cannot develop a sustainable 684 00:53:34,270 --> 00:53:40,450 peace in Syria and that is hinged upon a group of moderates 685 00:53:40,450 --> 00:53:44,450 around a government and with the refugee crisis the better 686 00:53:44,450 --> 00:53:48,540 educated Syrians have been fleeing the country and those 687 00:53:48,540 --> 00:53:53,360 left behind have nowhere to go to get a solid education. 688 00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:59,720 So how do we build. And do you see us negotiating 689 00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:06,180 with Turkey in order to create stability? 690 00:54:06,180 --> 00:54:10,090 [ APPLAUSE ] >> So our hope and our vision is 691 00:54:10,090 --> 00:54:15,720 for Syria that remains whole and intact. 692 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:20,270 And that evolves into a more representative government 693 00:54:20,270 --> 00:54:24,000 without destroying the institutions of the state. 694 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,720 That is the lesson learned from past experience. 695 00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:30,630 And so what does that mean? That means that in the first 696 00:54:30,630 --> 00:54:34,630 instance have a transitional government that can lead to 697 00:54:34,630 --> 00:54:37,630 national elections. 18 months or so hence. 698 00:54:37,630 --> 00:54:42,180 The transitional government is going to be built in part on 699 00:54:42,180 --> 00:54:44,810 some of the existing government structures. 700 00:54:44,810 --> 00:54:47,720 And then it's going to have to incorporate members of the 701 00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:53,000 moderate opposition. Civil salt. 702 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:59,090 -- civil same and the Kurds. An integral part. 703 00:54:59,090 --> 00:55:02,540 So this transitional government is going to have to be more 704 00:55:02,540 --> 00:55:05,090 representative. Write a new Constitution we 705 00:55:05,090 --> 00:55:08,720 imagine. And it will open up for 706 00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:12,000 internationally supported and monitored elections. 707 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:18,540 That allow the members to vote and that is critical because not 708 00:55:18,540 --> 00:55:22,000 only are some of the most talents people are outside the 709 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,270 country but a huge portion are out of the country. 710 00:55:26,270 --> 00:55:35,090 One of the key pillars of our approach united nations 711 00:55:35,090 --> 00:55:39,450 resolution and agreed upon is when the elections occur are 712 00:55:39,450 --> 00:55:46,000 going to have to be open to Syrians who are scattered around 713 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,630 the world. Once the new elected government 714 00:55:48,630 --> 00:55:53,000 is in place and the institutions of the state can rebuild and 715 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,360 rehabilitate we all very much would want to encourage Syrians 716 00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:01,720 who have left Syria particularly those with the most skill and 717 00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:05,630 talent to go back and rebuild their country and I think the 718 00:56:05,630 --> 00:56:10,360 Syrian people have shown an enormous resilience in the face 719 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:14,360 of the most intense and horrifying violence and many 720 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:19,270 have stayed despite that. Many have committed to return. 721 00:56:19,270 --> 00:56:24,720 And I think it would be in everybody's interfor our plan to 722 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:32,090 be one where the Syrian -- feels that it is able and desirous of 723 00:56:32,090 --> 00:56:35,540 coming home. So can I -- let me take this 724 00:56:35,540 --> 00:56:49,630 question and I have not had a question yet from a woman yet. 725 00:56:49,630 --> 00:57:00,000 >> then I'll feel like -- we've done us a little bit of justice 726 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,540 here. Come on all of y'all women. 727 00:57:02,540 --> 00:57:03,810 Okay. Sir. 728 00:57:03,810 --> 00:57:08,360 Please. >> -- 729 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:14,360 [ inaudible ] eagle 8 -- [ CHEERING ] 730 00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:18,450 Ambassador rice shortly after the Paris attacks there was a 731 00:57:18,450 --> 00:57:24,720 hashtag that surfaced. #not in my name. 732 00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:30,630 A bunch of Muslims that took pictures that supported Islam 733 00:57:30,630 --> 00:57:35,540 but not a part of ISIS and ISIL. And that is a point that you 734 00:57:35,540 --> 00:57:39,090 hingessed on tonight and it's very important and my question 735 00:57:39,090 --> 00:57:44,540 for you tonight Ma'am is if we elect a leader who does not 736 00:57:44,540 --> 00:57:49,270 believe that ISILs separate from Islam how will our national 737 00:57:49,270 --> 00:57:53,540 security strategy change and is that possible? 738 00:57:53,540 --> 00:57:57,450 Without saying any specific names of candidates -- have any 739 00:57:57,450 --> 00:58:04,720 presidential candidate but if that candidate got elected how 740 00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:11,360 would that change. >> Thankfully I won't have to 741 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:16,180 write that but you ask a serious question. 742 00:58:16,180 --> 00:58:18,360 And I want to be clear what I'm saying. 743 00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:24,720 I'm saying that ISIL does not own, represent or define Islam. 744 00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:31,720 It's a bastardation of a faith used for destructive and violent 745 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:35,180 purposes. We need leaders who understand 746 00:58:35,180 --> 00:58:38,000 the nature of what makes us strong. 747 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,810 And how we are going to win this fight. 748 00:58:40,810 --> 00:58:49,630 We're not going to win this fight if we -- alienate the 749 00:58:49,630 --> 00:59:03,000 Muslim and Arab world. We cannot win this fight if we 750 00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:09,630 are divided internally and we stigmatize one another on the 751 00:59:09,630 --> 00:59:14,720 bases of religion or any other disstrings. 752 00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:19,000 We have to be whole as a nation and with our partners and allies 753 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:23,720 around the world including Muslim and Arab countries. 754 00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:27,270 So if we have a commander in chief who did not understand 755 00:59:27,270 --> 00:59:34,270 that or who differed with that perspective I quite honestly 756 00:59:34,270 --> 00:59:40,360 fear that we would be at a far great -- at a great disadvantage 757 00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:46,090 in trying to defeat ISIL in a Rogerrable time frame and we 758 00:59:46,090 --> 00:59:52,090 would more over on find that our leadership globally was 759 00:59:52,090 --> 00:59:57,270 diminished and in some quarters completely rejected and instead 760 00:59:57,270 --> 01:00:03,000 of being the world's leading power feared and respected and 761 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:08,270 emulated by many around the world I think we would be in a 762 01:00:08,270 --> 01:00:11,000 different situation. >> Yes, ma'am, thank you very 763 01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:18,630 much. [ APPLAUSE ] 764 01:00:18,630 --> 01:00:22,720 >> Good evening. Second class -- from -- 765 01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:27,000 [ inaudible ] I think his question opened the floor for my 766 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,270 own. As a Muslim cadet thank you for 767 01:00:30,270 --> 01:00:36,180 your comments. I don't think that -- accurately 768 01:00:36,180 --> 01:00:40,360 represents my religion and on top of the comments the 769 01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:45,720 president made could you go into more specifics. 770 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:53,720 How we're fighting the ideology side of the war. 771 01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,630 As well as how we're accommodating the situation 772 01:00:57,630 --> 01:01:03,090 where we cut off one head and two more spring forth? 773 01:01:03,090 --> 01:01:07,810 >> Thank you. [ APPLAUSE ] 774 01:01:07,810 --> 01:01:11,810 >> I think quite honestly that one of the areas in which we 775 01:01:11,810 --> 01:01:18,090 have had to learn and grow the most as we take on the campaign 776 01:01:18,090 --> 01:01:24,180 and had the least body of lessons to draw on is in fact in 777 01:01:24,180 --> 01:01:31,810 this realm of countering the narrative and the message. 778 01:01:31,810 --> 01:01:38,270 Partly because ISIL has employed sophisticated tools to great 779 01:01:38,270 --> 01:01:44,810 effort in terms of propaganda and recruiting. 780 01:01:44,810 --> 01:01:47,720 When the United States government tries to take 0 this 781 01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:53,540 effort ourselves as I said in my remarks we have acknowledged and 782 01:01:53,540 --> 01:01:57,180 discovered that we're not the most effective messenger. 783 01:01:57,180 --> 01:02:01,090 We may be good at getting the message out but not very good 784 01:02:01,090 --> 01:02:04,720 yet at crafting it so we've acknowledged that and rather 785 01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:08,720 than having folks in state department trying the get on 786 01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:16,630 twitter we are -- not a joke -- [ LAUGHTER ] 787 01:02:16,630 --> 01:02:22,540 >> We are trying to draw on the perspectives and the messages 788 01:02:22,540 --> 01:02:30,000 that those much closer to the to understanding the change of 789 01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:34,090 radicalzation can help us craft so we've been working with 790 01:02:34,090 --> 01:02:38,450 religious leaders. We've turned to ISIL defectors 791 01:02:38,450 --> 01:02:43,450 who have seen firsthand the inside of ISIL territory. 792 01:02:43,450 --> 01:02:49,720 And have come out alienated and tell a story to prospective 793 01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:53,720 recruits about what they experience and also drawing on 794 01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:58,180 our partners in the Arab and Muslim world who are potentially 795 01:02:58,180 --> 01:03:02,090 better at crafting a message that would resonate with their 796 01:03:02,090 --> 01:03:06,360 own people and with others who may be vulnerable to ISIL's 797 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,540 message. And this is an area where we've 798 01:03:08,540 --> 01:03:14,000 got a lot of learning to do. We've taken -- we've taken on 799 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:17,630 board some of our shortcomings. We've tried to retool the global 800 01:03:17,630 --> 01:03:20,540 engagement center now at the state department. 801 01:03:20,540 --> 01:03:24,360 We think is a step in the right direction and focus on what we 802 01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:28,360 do well and we do know advertising and we do know 803 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,270 technology. And so this project I described 804 01:03:32,270 --> 01:03:36,090 is called Madison valley wood project. 805 01:03:36,090 --> 01:03:39,720 Working with Madison avenue folks and Hollywood folks 806 01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:46,450 together to try to understand the intricacies and subtilties 807 01:03:46,450 --> 01:03:56,090 of messaging and branding. The packaging is something that 808 01:03:56,090 --> 01:03:59,630 many people know how to do well so we're trying to learn from 809 01:03:59,630 --> 01:04:05,630 these different elements and continuously improve our efforts 810 01:04:05,630 --> 01:04:09,720 in that regard. >> Thank you, Ma'am. 811 01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:09,720 Thank you. [ APPLAUSE ]