John Kelly Speech Keynote Address Dec 17 2014 Interview 1

yeah I mean great question I think
I think the reason this this Southern
Command has probably you know 15 or 20
years ago Joel and I don't know how long
ago but it's quite a while it was my
idea by the way it's a great idea though
I wish I had it I think it's because the
unique aspect of Latin America Central
America and the Caribbean the other
combatant commands you might think of as
wall fighting commands obviously Central
Command involved in a in a war now
Europe European Command just this side
of peace believe me with Russia and the
Ukraine what's going on in Africa I
think probably Africa would be better
served to have a stand alone it's not to
say that the other combatant commanders
don't care about human rights I just
think it was unique to this because of
the the history of the particularly of
the Civil War period the civil wars
during the during the 80s and I think as
as democracy came to places like
Argentina Chile Brazil I in in the rest
of the the area middle yes miss I think
it it made sense because those countries
were coming out of some pretty pretty
tough human rights times and I think
probably someone that sat in my seat 15
or 20 years ago said you know this would
make sense as these militaries
out of the Pinochet era whatever that
that we helped them get their heads
straight relative to human rights yeah