On Sunday, October 25, from 4:00-5:30pm, Windham World Affairs Council is delighted to host Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith in a Zoom webinar on "US National Security and the Election: What is at Stake." Specifically, he will discuss how the choices US voters make will affect US national security interests with regard to the pandemic, climate change, NATO, Europe, the Near East, Iran, China, Russia, and the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against terrorism. The talk will be followed by a community Q & A held via Zoom. Registration is required. To register, follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PMdXmsGpRAW7bihkZ5pCCA. The registration link can also be accessed via the WWAC website: https://www.windhamworldaffairscouncil.org.
Peter W. Galbraith’s thirty-year career in public service includes serving as the first US Ambassador to Croatia, an Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations in Afghanistan in 2009, a Cabinet Member in East Timor’s first Transitional Government in 2000-2001, a Senior Professional Staff Member with the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and a Senator in his home state of Vermont. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books on the Iraq War, including the best selling The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created A War Without End.
Since 2013, Galbraith has been engaged in several mediation projects involving the Syrian opposition and the Syrian Kurds. He made 15 trips to Northeast Syria since 2014 including in November 2019, just after Turkey invaded. At the request of the Syrian Kurdish Administration, he has been working to find a solution for the 10,000 foreign (neither Syrian nor Iraqi) ISIS women and children currently detained in Northeast Syria. In November 2019, he rescued three German children and one American child who had been held in the ISIS camps.
Galbraith’s most recent talk at the WWAC was in November of 2019 when he spoke on “The Betrayal of the Kurds,” in which he discussed the Trump administration’s abandonment of the Syrian Kurds, who had been the US’s staunchest allies in the fight against Isis. Galbraith’s annual talk at the WWAC continues a tradition his father, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, established.
Like all WWAC events, this lecture is free and open to the public. The WWAC is the smallest member of the national organization World Affairs Councils of America (https://www.worldaffairscouncils.org), and the only one run entirely by volunteers. Annual memberships support the operating costs of the WWAC. If you are interested in becoming a member, find further information on the website: https://www.windhamworldaffairscouncil.org.
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