Crucial foreign policy and security issues facing the Obama


	Crucial foreign policy and security issues facing the Obama

chedare

1-16-2009 12:24 AM

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non violent, crisis managing, post-conflict stabilization

chedare says:

Some of the most notable of the day's speakers were General David Petraeus, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, General Tony Zinni, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General Lakhdar Brahimi, and Chairman of the Institute for State Effectiveness Ashraf Ghani.

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