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but he really understood iraq. and as i said, with his sunni-controlled military, he was able to, you know, hold himself in power. and then, the united states realized that if we weren't going to get rid of him, we had to control his weapons of -- or his weapons, not just mass destruction; we wanted to get rid of his conventional forces and his missiles, and everything. and so that was what originated as the -- as the -- you know, the arms embargo against -- well, actually, it's a total embargo against iraq, under the auspices of the united nations. and every time saddam hussein would make a move that would threaten one part of the country or another, the united states would -- for lack of anything else they knew to do -- was to set up a no-fly zone. the first one was with the kurds. because the kurds really did suffer a great deal in their rebellion. and the advantage they had over the shia, who had rebelled first, was that the international press could come in over the borders of turkey and iran and really see wh
but he really understood iraq. and as i said, with his sunni-controlled military, he was able to, you know, hold himself in power. and then, the united states realized that if we weren't going to get rid of him, we had to control his weapons of -- or his weapons, not just mass destruction; we wanted to get rid of his conventional forces and his missiles, and everything. and so that was what originated as the -- as the -- you know, the arms embargo against -- well, actually, it's a total embargo...
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in iraq, they have all this money that goes to the government from their oil. in afghanistan, they do not. afghanistan is a poor country. >> host: i want to clarify one thing to read that you talk about how the military was arguing we need to train 400,000 police and afghan military. the president talked about the fact it would cost 8 billion to do that, and an annual i think passionate is the intention to united states will continue on its and paying for the afghan military? >> guest: no. hopefully not. but, you know, this is one of the question marks, and this is one of the reasons president obama kept saying, i'm not going to spend a trillion dollars, because his budget director gave him a memo saying 10 years more in this war will cost $889 billion. there are all kinds of numbers thrown around. we know from the war in afghanistan and iraq that all of those numbers are global, that it always costs more. >> host: this of you want to click occasion. you said a minute ago the present would like out of afghanistan. he asked does afghanistan -- does obama want ou
in iraq, they have all this money that goes to the government from their oil. in afghanistan, they do not. afghanistan is a poor country. >> host: i want to clarify one thing to read that you talk about how the military was arguing we need to train 400,000 police and afghan military. the president talked about the fact it would cost 8 billion to do that, and an annual i think passionate is the intention to united states will continue on its and paying for the afghan military? >>...
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of respect for the iraq war. probably if i'd done due diligence as they say in business, i would have realized we were going into iraq so poorly prepared. not so poorly prepared from our point of view, but so poorly prepared from the point of view of the iraqi people. so -- sir. >> just to follow up on your response to that. how do you reconcile -- [inaudible] just to follow up on what you just said, how do you reconcile that with your analysis previously about the gimme rights versus the get out of here rights? it seems like providing the iraqis with electricity, providing them with water, all that nation-building infrastructure stuff seems to fall on the side of gimme rights rather than get out of here. >> well, you're right, you're correct. that certainly does. and if we had invaded america -- but we didn't, you know? [laughter] you know. if our government had invaded us, and i suppose some would say they had in a way. they would be under a certain obligation to provide for our welfare. i speak of it only real
of respect for the iraq war. probably if i'd done due diligence as they say in business, i would have realized we were going into iraq so poorly prepared. not so poorly prepared from our point of view, but so poorly prepared from the point of view of the iraqi people. so -- sir. >> just to follow up on your response to that. how do you reconcile -- [inaudible] just to follow up on what you just said, how do you reconcile that with your analysis previously about the gimme rights versus the...
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one of your several on president bush and the iraq war. talking about the president relationships with the generals. let's listen in. >> the problem is george bush never really solved the dilemma of how -- what is the interaction between the civilian and in the military? he never had the generals so they were close to him so he knew what was going on. so this is all taking place at a distance, or over secure video links to baghdad. and there's not that moment of i kind of call it a come to jesus moment or meeting when he got everyone together and said, look, this is a mess. >> host: compare, contrast, president obama and the generals? >> guest: one the themes here is the relationship between the civilian leadership and the uniform military. and in the obama case, as is laid out in great spread sheet detail as one reviewer said, you see the military resisting and saying look we -- you have to send 40,000 troops. this was last year in the strategy review. you have to have kind of an open-ended commitment. president obama did not buy that. an
one of your several on president bush and the iraq war. talking about the president relationships with the generals. let's listen in. >> the problem is george bush never really solved the dilemma of how -- what is the interaction between the civilian and in the military? he never had the generals so they were close to him so he knew what was going on. so this is all taking place at a distance, or over secure video links to baghdad. and there's not that moment of i kind of call it a come...
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i focus mostly on iraq but there the failure of intelligence on our part was extraordinary. why? i was trying to think of this over time but it makes you think comparatively in ways that make people uncomfortable. buzz when you go backwards you go back to world war ii and at one point* and the book by end up at the philippines in the turn-of-the-century and the early 1900's and the rhetoric was there i have a line if you went to find day goes behind the ghostwriters come and go back to the rhetoric or the language. to think about war as a culture is very painful because the earlier and an age where we have technology that may change press somehow i doing at levels of the individual and the institution and. in the end i came apart talking about the concepts of the institutional bureaucrat dysfunction. very, very hard things to wrestle with and took a long time but that is where it ended. >> host: speaking of george bush, have you or will you be reading "decision points" or the chapters on afghanistan or i iraq? >> guy read very fair extensively his memoirs by everybody investigati
i focus mostly on iraq but there the failure of intelligence on our part was extraordinary. why? i was trying to think of this over time but it makes you think comparatively in ways that make people uncomfortable. buzz when you go backwards you go back to world war ii and at one point* and the book by end up at the philippines in the turn-of-the-century and the early 1900's and the rhetoric was there i have a line if you went to find day goes behind the ghostwriters come and go back to the...
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i went to iraq later on on and off after the ev mission in 2003. just covering the events and watching everything more or less fall apart has been far from my experience in afghanistan and iraq. >> so this book has been about nine years in the making? >> yeah, that book is drawn from reporting that goes from 2001 to about 2006-2007. yeah, and it took a few years to write and get out into the market, so yeah, it's about a decade of my life. >> where did you come up with the title, quote kuhl every man in this village is a lawyer"? >> it comes from afghanistan. the was a phrase someone said to me before i went to afghanistan, every man in this village is a liar. it derived from an old greek paradox, where the person who says i think it is actually all of the cree tins are lawyers the the person who says a is a creetin so it is and logical possibility that if he is telling the truth he's lying. i use it because it seems the elusive nature of the truth in war and the difficulty of reporting in a war zone. village in some ways, it's a global village as
i went to iraq later on on and off after the ev mission in 2003. just covering the events and watching everything more or less fall apart has been far from my experience in afghanistan and iraq. >> so this book has been about nine years in the making? >> yeah, that book is drawn from reporting that goes from 2001 to about 2006-2007. yeah, and it took a few years to write and get out into the market, so yeah, it's about a decade of my life. >> where did you come up with the...
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in iraq. just a disastrous failure of intelligence upon the united states. and so then you have got pearl harbor which was a japanese tag correctly brilliant strategic idiotic thing. you have the war of choice of the islamist and america is doing a war of choice. so i'm a historian and i wanted to understand, does not all the same but i wanted to see how you could do things comparatively about war and then every side is talking holy wars and war has always been with us in our modern times, even with their new technology. i really wanted to wrestle with it. it was a wrestling. i had to try to figure some things out for myself on some questions i hadn't asked. >> vietnam is not a focus of your book. why? >> it is not a focus of the book because there was simply not space to do it. the vietnam figures and that's one of the major "cultures of war". it is mentioned in passing and a number of ways. vietnam figures in both as a place where you deliberately target, targeted noncombat. vietnam figures
in iraq. just a disastrous failure of intelligence upon the united states. and so then you have got pearl harbor which was a japanese tag correctly brilliant strategic idiotic thing. you have the war of choice of the islamist and america is doing a war of choice. so i'm a historian and i wanted to understand, does not all the same but i wanted to see how you could do things comparatively about war and then every side is talking holy wars and war has always been with us in our modern times, even...
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. >> host: one thing, also, that surprised me on iraq and there are yet again reports that iraq was having a new government, that iraqis dislike intrusion and interference from iran as much as they do from the united states. >> guest: yeah. >> host: i thought that was interesting as well. >> guest: yeah. >> host: you know, with the stereotype that somehow iraq is now good manying like iran -- becoming like iran. >> guest: yeah. and i think if we paid more attention to some of the polling in the iraq early on, we would have altered our course. but, you know, the iran question is critical in that whole region because it's not just the iraqis that are concerned there. a lot of fuss was made over a recent poll we did where we had arabs looking favorably in some countries on the iranian nuclear program. but if you look at the other numbers we have, not looking favorably on iran itself. they see iran as a threat, but there's almost a screw you factor to their nuclear program. it's like we opposed it, and so people are going to say, okay, he's defying you, that might not be a bad thing. but they'
. >> host: one thing, also, that surprised me on iraq and there are yet again reports that iraq was having a new government, that iraqis dislike intrusion and interference from iran as much as they do from the united states. >> guest: yeah. >> host: i thought that was interesting as well. >> guest: yeah. >> host: you know, with the stereotype that somehow iraq is now good manying like iran -- becoming like iran. >> guest: yeah. and i think if we paid more...
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i would say the same thing about iraq. i do not think we should be fighting these wars in distant countries. the full scale counterinsurgency wars. i just think it makes no sense. so my answer would be, i think we should in a perfectly reasonable way withdraw. we should do our best to make -- you know, to help make the situation as reasonably as stable as possible and possible plans for doing this which i won't go into here, but i think the answer is, we should withdraw. we should defend what really matters to us and we should put our money where it does matter because the truth is -- the problem, the real problem here is that while we're putting our money into those wars, we are weakening at home. in all sorts of ways that truly matter. our infrastructure is going. i mean, look at the unemployment in this country. it's rather startling -- i mean, this country is in a state of incipient and increasing decline. there can't be any doubt that it was pushed over that edge by these two wars. i mean, one war was an utter war of
i would say the same thing about iraq. i do not think we should be fighting these wars in distant countries. the full scale counterinsurgency wars. i just think it makes no sense. so my answer would be, i think we should in a perfectly reasonable way withdraw. we should do our best to make -- you know, to help make the situation as reasonably as stable as possible and possible plans for doing this which i won't go into here, but i think the answer is, we should withdraw. we should defend what...
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nonfiction category for cultures of war, pearl harbor from hiroshima, 9/11 and iraq. .. >> i wasn't doing it for theatrics but i have a brand new fit. [applause] >> i loved it. but the rest of the body has caught up. we go slow. nobody is moderating us. we are just talking. >> we are talking about frederick douglass, libraries, literacy and liberation. >> absolutely. let me start with literacy. because a want other people to know about it what we did. i am interested obviously in literacy. i am impressed with what recently discovered which was that this country is unique in the world in terms of the distribution of libraries throughout the country. you cannot go in rural areas in europe or in africa or in asia. rural areas the way you can hear which, a little town. not to speak of the huge university library that jumps out of nowhere in indiana or someplace. in pennsylvania you go 100 miles and there is this enormous university was more books than cambridge. it is an extraordinary thing. the other thing is about literacy, which i am interested in, is on the one hand the power of reading a
nonfiction category for cultures of war, pearl harbor from hiroshima, 9/11 and iraq. .. >> i wasn't doing it for theatrics but i have a brand new fit. [applause] >> i loved it. but the rest of the body has caught up. we go slow. nobody is moderating us. we are just talking. >> we are talking about frederick douglass, libraries, literacy and liberation. >> absolutely. let me start with literacy. because a want other people to know about it what we did. i am interested...
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president, 2002, 2003, you 0 contemplated the possibility of military action against iraq. it was asserted by many intelligence agencies that he had weapons of mass destruction and programs to build them as he had done in the past. some of that information turned out to be wrong. how did that happen, and does it, in retrospect, would that have changed your point of view, your decision on the iraq military action? >> yeah. michael, that's one of thosehose questions that i just didn't have the luxury of answering. in other words, i can try to answer it, but it just didn't happen that way, and this book lays out how history unfolded.ur i mean, i laid out a doctrine that said, the bush doctrine, that in order to protect the country, we had to be on theorde offense, we had to hold people to account who harbored terrorists, and we had to deal with threats before they fully materialized.ll that's one of the lessons of the attack of september 11th. plus, we would spread freedom as an alternative to the ideology of those who murder thetern innocent. and the world saw sa doom hussein
president, 2002, 2003, you 0 contemplated the possibility of military action against iraq. it was asserted by many intelligence agencies that he had weapons of mass destruction and programs to build them as he had done in the past. some of that information turned out to be wrong. how did that happen, and does it, in retrospect, would that have changed your point of view, your decision on the iraq military action? >> yeah. michael, that's one of thosehose questions that i just didn't have...
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they have been getting the material about activities in afghanistan and iraq and the war on terrorism. it's quite remarkable. and i think i would be remiss if i did not thank them. and they did in the forward to my book but, you know, tom johnson and bob hennig and a host of other nsa historians literally made my job so much easier. it basically allowed me, i spent 25 years piecing together little bits of pieces of the nsa's history. and when nsa declassified for my book, literally it was like everything opened up. everything, all the little pieces i've been thinking leading for over two decades suddenly became clear. it was only when nsa began declassifdeclassifying this material, beginning in the late 1990s, i was able to write this book in a cogent and organized fashion. before that my book was basically, the entire order of battle of nsa. i knew where every officer had been, office names. in other words, it would have bored all of you to tears if i had -- no publish would have published it. but any rate, the book itself also, thanks to dr. johnson and the other nsa historians, i t
they have been getting the material about activities in afghanistan and iraq and the war on terrorism. it's quite remarkable. and i think i would be remiss if i did not thank them. and they did in the forward to my book but, you know, tom johnson and bob hennig and a host of other nsa historians literally made my job so much easier. it basically allowed me, i spent 25 years piecing together little bits of pieces of the nsa's history. and when nsa declassified for my book, literally it was like...
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. >> guest: in iraq my feeling is that we shouldn't have gone into iraq at all after 9/11 because it took the attention away from afghanistan and bin laden. and it, it was a recruitment boon for the terrorists when we went into iraq. and it also convinced a lot of people in the muslim community that we were not just anti-terrorist, we were anti-muslim because we had gone against -- we invaded a muslim country that wasn't actually, they didn't perpetrate 9/11. >> host: now, on the back of your book, former inspector general of the cia and author of "why spy" who's been on booktv, by the way, writes this: susan hasler cuts too close to the bone of real life politicalization of intelligence. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: is it pretty politicized? >> guest: it has -- i feel that most of the people that i worked with have a pretty strong work ethic in that they do not want to politicize intelligence. i mean, our job, i think -- i can't remember which former directer, it might have been colby, said our job is to be the skunk at the garden party. we tell policymakers things they don't want to
. >> guest: in iraq my feeling is that we shouldn't have gone into iraq at all after 9/11 because it took the attention away from afghanistan and bin laden. and it, it was a recruitment boon for the terrorists when we went into iraq. and it also convinced a lot of people in the muslim community that we were not just anti-terrorist, we were anti-muslim because we had gone against -- we invaded a muslim country that wasn't actually, they didn't perpetrate 9/11. >> host: now, on the...
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navy ships and bases around the world, including desert camps in iraq and afghanistan. these are extraordinary groups. i'm really proud to -- i haven't been able to give them awards this week on behalf of the national book foundation. [applause] okay, just a couple more people to think here. we'll get through this. so thank you to my fellow board members, especially market in japan and lynn nesbitt, who are also dinner cochairs along with high about shelley ranger. they have completely transform this event in the last few years. a great thanks to them. they deserve laws. [applause] also, thank you to tina brown, "the daily beast" in st. john for sponsoring this event after party. somehow tina has found time to do this, including editing "newsweek" and everything else. thank you, tina. commack thank you to executive director into the outstanding shots at the national book foundation for all their hard work, making this evening possible. [applause] part of what makes this industry so much fun is the diversity of our publishers. and you can see that tonight this year's fin
navy ships and bases around the world, including desert camps in iraq and afghanistan. these are extraordinary groups. i'm really proud to -- i haven't been able to give them awards this week on behalf of the national book foundation. [applause] okay, just a couple more people to think here. we'll get through this. so thank you to my fellow board members, especially market in japan and lynn nesbitt, who are also dinner cochairs along with high about shelley ranger. they have completely...
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also on the surge where you talk about in the spring of 2006, may come to believe our strategy and iraq was failing you needed to make changes in that. that resulted in the surge strategy which i think was successful. how did, why did you change your mind and how did you turn around the government? >> guest: i changed my mind because i felt we were beginning to lose and a loss would be the major blow to the security of the united states and the sacrifices would be in vain in dimpled and enemies and send shock waves throughout the middle east and i have always believed that freedom exist in everybody's seoul and if we could get the right strategy to bring security in place, people would be given a chance to express their concerns, but the problem is the politics first and reverberate a successful but it deteriorates to the point* where democracy cannot take hold. i decided it would be catastrophic. my just past nine national security adviser for options and it took awhile to implement. i walked the leaders through >> host: you talk about changing your mind on this strategy. >> guest: in
also on the surge where you talk about in the spring of 2006, may come to believe our strategy and iraq was failing you needed to make changes in that. that resulted in the surge strategy which i think was successful. how did, why did you change your mind and how did you turn around the government? >> guest: i changed my mind because i felt we were beginning to lose and a loss would be the major blow to the security of the united states and the sacrifices would be in vain in dimpled and...
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by essentially accepting the view that petraeus' surge in the iraq had solved the problem. by sticking to bush's plans on a so-called withdrawal from iraq without bringing about any change there at all. by pushing these plans through which are essentially very simple, withdrawing combat unit from the main cities of iraq, building huge military bases in that country and keeping between 50 and 70,000 troops there permanently. that is what the withdrawal is, and it's not new. the british tried it in the '20s and '30s, exactly the same plan, and it imploded when there was a revolution in iraq in 1958, and they had to, they threw the british out. and it's very likely in some shape and form, not in the shape and form of the '50s, but a similar thing will happen if these troops stay in there. on iran, once again this administration has carried on with the old policies essentially in the case of iran appealing the israelis because the big pressure for not doing any deal with iran both on the nuclear question and generally on other issues comes from the israelis who are prepared to
by essentially accepting the view that petraeus' surge in the iraq had solved the problem. by sticking to bush's plans on a so-called withdrawal from iraq without bringing about any change there at all. by pushing these plans through which are essentially very simple, withdrawing combat unit from the main cities of iraq, building huge military bases in that country and keeping between 50 and 70,000 troops there permanently. that is what the withdrawal is, and it's not new. the british tried it...
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the loss in iraq would mean a major blow to the security of the united states. it would have meant that the sacrifices that had gone on prior to that moment would be in vain. wimbledon enemies in sending shockwaves throughout the middle east. i have always believed in the universality of democracy. freedom exists and everybody sold. if we can get the right strategy to bring security in place then people would be given a chance to express their desire to live in a free society. the problem is that the politics -- we push politics first. we are very successful initially in terms of the constitutionality. but the comes a point where democracy could not take hold. i decided it was just -- it would have been catastrophic, as far as i was concerned. i asked my national security adviser to get some options. it took awhile to implement. i walked the reader through why. >> but you talk about changing your mind on strategy in the spring. >> beginning during the spring. i needed to see options. >> the announcement comes in january of a seven. >> that's right. i needed to s
the loss in iraq would mean a major blow to the security of the united states. it would have meant that the sacrifices that had gone on prior to that moment would be in vain. wimbledon enemies in sending shockwaves throughout the middle east. i have always believed in the universality of democracy. freedom exists and everybody sold. if we can get the right strategy to bring security in place then people would be given a chance to express their desire to live in a free society. the problem is...
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and then suddenly we have a war of choice against iraq. and then we have a terrific failure of intelligence in iraq, just a disastrous failure of intelligence on on the part of the united states. and so then you've got pearl harbor which was a japanese tactical, tactically brilliant, strategically idiotic thing. you have the war of choice of the islamists, then america's doing a war of choice. so i'm a historian, and i wanted to understand it's not all the same. but i wanted to see how you could do, think comparatively about war and then every side is talking holy wars. and war's always been with us in our modern times, even with our new technologies. and i really wanted to wrestle with it. it was a wrestling -- i had to try to figure some things out for myself, questions i hadn't asked. >> host: vietnam is not a focus of your book. whysome. >> guest: it's not a focus of the book because there was simply not space to do it. vietnam figures in the as one of the major cultures of war. it's mentioned in passing in a number of ways. vietnam fi
and then suddenly we have a war of choice against iraq. and then we have a terrific failure of intelligence in iraq, just a disastrous failure of intelligence on on the part of the united states. and so then you've got pearl harbor which was a japanese tactical, tactically brilliant, strategically idiotic thing. you have the war of choice of the islamists, then america's doing a war of choice. so i'm a historian, and i wanted to understand it's not all the same. but i wanted to see how you...
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where the president, remember obama was against the iraq war before the afghan war that was a good war where terrorism really was producing to be eager to win. but yet here is a general and obama does not care. i would suggest one reason he may be in different is he does not want to win. would if he feels a iraq and afghanistan are wars of colonial occupation they are occupied the same way british occupied can you? it is not about fighting terrorism but the rogue elephant grabbing what it can then his goal is not to win but figure out a way to get out. he would see the lead article a few days it ago karzai entering into negotiations with the taliban. i first thought these afghans, you cannot trust them leave them alone they will negotiate their trying to make a comeback. horrible karzai is featuring america fast forward with the front-page headline the obama administration supports and has been helping to orchestrate the meetings between karzai a and the taliban. it is encouraging the karzai government to meet with the enemy plug in the theory that obama wants to get out does not care
where the president, remember obama was against the iraq war before the afghan war that was a good war where terrorism really was producing to be eager to win. but yet here is a general and obama does not care. i would suggest one reason he may be in different is he does not want to win. would if he feels a iraq and afghanistan are wars of colonial occupation they are occupied the same way british occupied can you? it is not about fighting terrorism but the rogue elephant grabbing what it can...
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they looked like they were going to do something about iraq. i got three or four million people in libia. they can roll over us tomorrow. i better cut the deal that i can. he had the weird relationships that allowed him to sort of beginning negotiation to give them of. when he coughed up, we found the following. they underestimated the danger of his programs. they were fully weaponnized and usable. we didn't know that. his nuclear program was far closer to the creation than anybody in the west thought. intelligence gets it's wrong in both sides of the equation. which is a real problem for policymakers in the united states today. we cannot go around blindly in the world with intelligence that gets it wrong both ways. >> weren't we trying to get osama bin laden? how did it shift to saddam hussein? >> we could not let the threat in the middle east. he had defeated in the first war, and was supposed to live up to the terms of the agreement, he was open supporter of terrorists, funded hezbollah and hamas. he was an active opponent of our interest, a
they looked like they were going to do something about iraq. i got three or four million people in libia. they can roll over us tomorrow. i better cut the deal that i can. he had the weird relationships that allowed him to sort of beginning negotiation to give them of. when he coughed up, we found the following. they underestimated the danger of his programs. they were fully weaponnized and usable. we didn't know that. his nuclear program was far closer to the creation than anybody in the west...
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people can argue about iraq, and we'll know one of these days. but on balance it's been a good thing for the world because we're not imperialists anymore, and whatever we do we do partly because we have a capacity most other countries don't. but we have to have an alliance that's economic and political in order for the military to make a lick of sense. otherwise it's just kind of a floating, isolated element out there. i think it's really important. and the thing i think is interesting is how it has transcended the personalities. you know, hillary and i felt comfortable with cherie and tony, i loved being around their kids, i love being around their kids whether they're around or not. it was a personal thing. and it was awkward when i became president and john major was there because there had been this big story that at the request of my predecessor's campaign, he had had an intelligence service rifling through the files of the british passport office to see if i had ever tried to give up my american citizenship. that was one of the things i use
people can argue about iraq, and we'll know one of these days. but on balance it's been a good thing for the world because we're not imperialists anymore, and whatever we do we do partly because we have a capacity most other countries don't. but we have to have an alliance that's economic and political in order for the military to make a lick of sense. otherwise it's just kind of a floating, isolated element out there. i think it's really important. and the thing i think is interesting is how...
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it's invading other countries like iraq, afghanistan. it is consuming resources like oil out of proportion to what it has. president obama for akamai says with 2% of the worlds oil, but we use 25%. so we are in a way to greedy exploiters eating up more of our share. so anti-colonialism is the idea that domestically you've got to bring these concentrations of economic power down and internationally got to put a leash, a lasso on the rogue elephant that is america and pull it back from exploiting the world. now, the question we have to ask is, did young obama adoptive father's ideology? interesting line, obama did not follow his father is a man. obama recognized as he got older that his father was a very smart guy. nevertheless, obama made an important distinction. a distinction between his father as a man and his father is a vision for his father's dreams. obama has a great sin in his book. in fact come as the climax of his book where he goes to his father's grave. he finds his father's grave and he weeps and he flings himself on the grou
it's invading other countries like iraq, afghanistan. it is consuming resources like oil out of proportion to what it has. president obama for akamai says with 2% of the worlds oil, but we use 25%. so we are in a way to greedy exploiters eating up more of our share. so anti-colonialism is the idea that domestically you've got to bring these concentrations of economic power down and internationally got to put a leash, a lasso on the rogue elephant that is america and pull it back from exploiting...
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himself, if this war is kind of crazy, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to unilateral and then iraq. so he starts going to party gatherings in iowa and saying this stuff. and people start cheering. and they get kind of into it, and they say, dean is onto something. but no one really knows who he is. so there's this key moment in the book, 2003, he said he state democratic party gathering in washington, the annual winter meeting in washington. he flies and i read i. he meets with his supporters, he meets with his aides about half an hour before he sets the stage and he says what am i going to talk about. his campaign manager who's a bit of a bomb thrower, i will talk about him any second, rancheria brown's campaign against clinton is always a hopeless insurgent, never wins but always stirs things up. history will repeat itself soon enough. in any case, he says you've got to pose these questions about what's wrong with the democratic party. say what the bleep is wrong with the democrats. and dean says no, that's too controversial. how about if i just posed these questions about what's
himself, if this war is kind of crazy, it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to unilateral and then iraq. so he starts going to party gatherings in iowa and saying this stuff. and people start cheering. and they get kind of into it, and they say, dean is onto something. but no one really knows who he is. so there's this key moment in the book, 2003, he said he state democratic party gathering in washington, the annual winter meeting in washington. he flies and i read i. he meets with his...
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for example, how could there be children caught in bombings in iraq? how does god allow this? so we melted it down to this, is there anything outside of god? so she spent the week pondering that question and looking around her. is your computer outside of god? is your hand outside of god. he's a homeless person at the side of the road with a sign asking for a handout outside of god? so the koan is a way to dig down through the layers of confusion to have insight into a deep truth. if you've read about koan, they found nonsensical. people often read about the koan, what is the sound of one hand clapping. that's actually a very deep inquiry into sound, first of all and then into deep listening. with all koan to have to parse them of the extra words so it becomes, what is the sound of one hand or what is the sound of one or what is the sound? of the teacher will help the student refined essence of what the question is and then guide them into learning so you begin to listen to all of the sounds of the world without listening to them. listen to them as if you've never heard them b
for example, how could there be children caught in bombings in iraq? how does god allow this? so we melted it down to this, is there anything outside of god? so she spent the week pondering that question and looking around her. is your computer outside of god? is your hand outside of god. he's a homeless person at the side of the road with a sign asking for a handout outside of god? so the koan is a way to dig down through the layers of confusion to have insight into a deep truth. if you've...
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by essentially accepting the view that the surge in iraq had solved the problem. by sticking to bush's plans on a so-called withdrawal from iraq without bringing about any change there at all, by pushing these plans through which are essentially very simple. withdrawing combat units from the main cities of iraq, building huge military bases in that country and keeping between 50-70,000 troops permanently, that is what the withdrawal is. and it is not new. the british tried it in the '20s and '90s. and it improsed. imploded. they threw the british out. and it's very likely in some shape and form -- not in the shape and form of the '50s -- but a similar thing will happen if these troops stay in there. on iran once again this administration has carried on with the old foils, essentially, in the case of ryen iran, appeasing the israelis. the big pressure for not dealing with any work comes from the israelis who are prepared to do anything to preserve their own weapon technology. and the failure of this administration to break with those policies of the previous admini
by essentially accepting the view that the surge in iraq had solved the problem. by sticking to bush's plans on a so-called withdrawal from iraq without bringing about any change there at all, by pushing these plans through which are essentially very simple. withdrawing combat units from the main cities of iraq, building huge military bases in that country and keeping between 50-70,000 troops permanently, that is what the withdrawal is. and it is not new. the british tried it in the '20s and...
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it was really the same question which was explain why the united states was -- that the invasion of iraq was criminal, the united states was -- it was a criminology course which is why this kept coming up. which was the same question. but the education media inside higher ed.com, you know, they linked to my response to all this. but the fact was it was kind of blitz rated. obliterated. why did they call me a liar? because it would have been inpolitic for them to call the students liars which is basically what they were doing. we have hundreds and hundreds of testimonies by students about what goes on in the classroom, and it's not very subtle. professors will go on incredible rants about george bush, about america being racist and sexist, imperialist and so forth. and some -- every now and then a ward churchill, you know, is exposed. but if you, if you don't have some respect for what students are telling you, nobody else is in the classroom who will tell you. a professor's not going to tell you what he's teaching. we had our greatest success -- well, by pursuing this legislative resolut
it was really the same question which was explain why the united states was -- that the invasion of iraq was criminal, the united states was -- it was a criminology course which is why this kept coming up. which was the same question. but the education media inside higher ed.com, you know, they linked to my response to all this. but the fact was it was kind of blitz rated. obliterated. why did they call me a liar? because it would have been inpolitic for them to call the students liars which is...
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america intimidating from watching a complete with a professor of english goes on the rant about a war in iraq completely unprofessional, completely outside of their expertise. there are -- there are some good places that have appeared as a result of our campaign. the last year's president of the modern language association, professor gerald crafts to become graff of university of l.a., he is a leftist. professor graff is a very leftist. he writes for magazines like radical teacher. but he has -- this actually -- he has a theory that teachers should teach the conflicts the shouldn't be advocates on either side of the conflict. the should teach the conflict. they shouldn't impose on students. it seems like very basic elementary stuff. and he has been challenged. he is a lone voice, let me tell you. he's challenged now by professors particularly in the education field where they have devised the argument they held that he can have one of two views, you can have the radical view of social justice, social justice is now a part of the curriculum. social justice meaning of the redistribution of inco
america intimidating from watching a complete with a professor of english goes on the rant about a war in iraq completely unprofessional, completely outside of their expertise. there are -- there are some good places that have appeared as a result of our campaign. the last year's president of the modern language association, professor gerald crafts to become graff of university of l.a., he is a leftist. professor graff is a very leftist. he writes for magazines like radical teacher. but he has...
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sea in the north to the persian gulf in the south and bordered by nine countries including russia, iraq, pakistan and turkey. iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous civilization famous for its philosophy and achievement in medicine, astronomy and mathematics. it also boasts a rich literary heritage. with world famous poets such as -- [inaudible] today on display at the united nations. cyrus the great wrote a charter 500 years ago in deference to basic human dignity. people are curious about life in prison, especially in the islamic republic of iran where the rulers do everything in the name of god and the religion. in 1988 as the maaing of political prisoner was underway under direct orders of ayatollah khomeini, i was on the verge of being executed. i lied in the court and safed myself. saved myself. perhaps so that many years later one day i could stand in front of you to describe the tragic holocaust of islamic republic of iran. what i have tried to do is not simply record the past. today as i speech with you, my torturers who have not attained full political power of i
sea in the north to the persian gulf in the south and bordered by nine countries including russia, iraq, pakistan and turkey. iran is home to one of the world's oldest continuous civilization famous for its philosophy and achievement in medicine, astronomy and mathematics. it also boasts a rich literary heritage. with world famous poets such as -- [inaudible] today on display at the united nations. cyrus the great wrote a charter 500 years ago in deference to basic human dignity. people are...
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and for the most part and not even talking about iraq. i'm talking about pakistan. on a daily basis mosques are bolona mycenae's. it is not the result of western occupation because we are not in pakistan. it has been going on for quite some time. it is understandable. the problem we have is that someone like osama bin lauden, while you can say he is distorting the faith of islam, it is not really obvious how hee . ou you really have to split hairsao to see. i now, if he were on-or it jane or regi a buddhist it would be absolutelyw obvious how he wast distorting his faith. his behavior would be unintelligible. it is all too intelligible by the light of islam. to deny that is to simply liempy about the contents. >> i'm so sorry that we don'trem have any more time perwill be questions. tebow be back. th thank you very much.ank [applauding] muh. [applauding] >> for more on sam harris and his work visit sam harris got org. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. forty-eight hours of nonfiction books beginning every saturday at 8:00 a.m. here's our primetime live for tonig
and for the most part and not even talking about iraq. i'm talking about pakistan. on a daily basis mosques are bolona mycenae's. it is not the result of western occupation because we are not in pakistan. it has been going on for quite some time. it is understandable. the problem we have is that someone like osama bin lauden, while you can say he is distorting the faith of islam, it is not really obvious how hee . ou you really have to split hairsao to see. i now, if he were on-or it jane or...
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very glad now that i was given the contract which i signed without fully appreciating the implications iraq the book is called the art and politics of science, thd i've written a number of books, and each time you decide to write a book, at least i feel, you ask yourself the question. and i wrote about franklin roosevelt, and i wanted to find and answer the question was he as my eve during world war ii as many were alleging in the post-world war two period. this talk was about the american foreign policy. i wrote about john kennedy and i looked at the polling data which said that the great american presidents in the eyes of most people were predictably washington, lincoln, fdr, but the included kanaby. it was a puzzle to me. he was only their fourth house in the days and yet he had become an iconic figure, and i wanted to get into the archives, read the material, and make some assessment of what his whole presidency was light. i worked for several years on the two volume life of lyndon johnson, and one of the principal questions that captured my attention was how can someone who, as brillia
very glad now that i was given the contract which i signed without fully appreciating the implications iraq the book is called the art and politics of science, thd i've written a number of books, and each time you decide to write a book, at least i feel, you ask yourself the question. and i wrote about franklin roosevelt, and i wanted to find and answer the question was he as my eve during world war ii as many were alleging in the post-world war two period. this talk was about the american...
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. >> in the book you talk about iraq's secret program. how did the story of this bomb program grow? and even if they didn't have any bombs, or they haven't found any bombs so far. >> you know, we went into that first gulf war argues that they did have a bomb program. which we did not know at the time. but afterwards when inspectors from the united nations and the international atomic energy agency went in, they found a huge effort to enrich uranium to make material for a bomb. they cleaned all of that out. so did the iraqis. they were tired of having our people. they blew up all of their stuff. but they didn't keep records. so when the second bush came along with an interest in resolving and settling the country down and getting rid of saddam, there wasn't any proof. but the fact is it was fully cleaned up by 1998. >> speaking of cleaning up, you talk also in the book about the scramble for what was left over about the soviet nuclear arsenal. talk to us about that. >> it wasn't so much the arsenal . los alamos director said to me, they know the -- it was the material they used to ma
. >> in the book you talk about iraq's secret program. how did the story of this bomb program grow? and even if they didn't have any bombs, or they haven't found any bombs so far. >> you know, we went into that first gulf war argues that they did have a bomb program. which we did not know at the time. but afterwards when inspectors from the united nations and the international atomic energy agency went in, they found a huge effort to enrich uranium to make material for a bomb. they...
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some of the serious issues and sometimes the cops and robbers stories that came out after inspecting iraq after the first gulf war. ultimately what i talked about was the serious question of can we get rid of nuclear question. the usual question today, what about iran. as if a country that has not figured out how to build a bomb is as much of a threat to the world like a major power. like the united states which has at least 1200, 2,000 maybe 5,000 bombs. we tend to think we're the good guys. that make it is okay. it's a basic imbalance in the world that we maintain large nuclear arsenal but say other countries can't. that was the kind of issue that i discussed in talking about how we get to zero. >> the book, "the twilight of the bombs: recent ch say, ain'to be in austin, texas. [applause] 'd [applause] >> i'd like to welcome you to the texas book fair. writer and columnist for the austin american -- thank you. [applause] >> i will be your moderator today. you might say that this is like a first date for me because it is the first time i have moderate for the texas book festival and, boy
some of the serious issues and sometimes the cops and robbers stories that came out after inspecting iraq after the first gulf war. ultimately what i talked about was the serious question of can we get rid of nuclear question. the usual question today, what about iran. as if a country that has not figured out how to build a bomb is as much of a threat to the world like a major power. like the united states which has at least 1200, 2,000 maybe 5,000 bombs. we tend to think we're the good guys....
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david axe works in iraq and afghanistan. we then return for a talk by simon winchester who published a book about the thraptic ocean -- atlantic ocean. he was on our program in 2004 and in 1998 to discuss the professor and the madman about the oxford english dictionary. after that, we'll interview authors about the book "sea gull one," an organization founded and efforts to save people fleeing cuba on rafts. after that meggan mccain will speak about her book, "dirty, sexy politics," and after that nonfiction for children entitled "heros for my son." then bill press, doug shaun all taking part in that discussion and appeared on booktv in the past. after that is eliza here to take your calls on christianity and islam. after that, another opportunity for you to call in. charles will be here about "robert morris." the final event from the conference center is from jon than franzen, "freedom." that book made the news this summer while president obama bought it on summer vacation. if you are in the area, it's sunny and 80 degrees
david axe works in iraq and afghanistan. we then return for a talk by simon winchester who published a book about the thraptic ocean -- atlantic ocean. he was on our program in 2004 and in 1998 to discuss the professor and the madman about the oxford english dictionary. after that, we'll interview authors about the book "sea gull one," an organization founded and efforts to save people fleeing cuba on rafts. after that meggan mccain will speak about her book, "dirty, sexy...
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and "mission rejected" dealt specifically with soldiers who came back from the iraq war opposed to the war or decided that they were not going to deploy and refused their orders, some of them going up to canada. and i was here talking about that book to a packed audience, and it was a hot summer day, and just as i am tonight, i was wired up with the c-span microphones, and as the evening progressed, the questions were difficult, the subject matter dealt with the war in iraq and its effect on these soldiers and the soldiers who made these very difficult decisions not to go to the war or came back facing the reality that they were now opposed to the war and, hence, were in conflict with their service in the military. and after about an hour of this it seemed like it was enough. it was difficult conversation, and we had achieved
and "mission rejected" dealt specifically with soldiers who came back from the iraq war opposed to the war or decided that they were not going to deploy and refused their orders, some of them going up to canada. and i was here talking about that book to a packed audience, and it was a hot summer day, and just as i am tonight, i was wired up with the c-span microphones, and as the evening progressed, the questions were difficult, the subject matter dealt with the war in iraq and its...
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before the invasion of iraq, you have muslims, shiite and sunni living side-by-side into marriage. but then saddam hussein and ramadan was she a person. all right, 2006, bring the special forces were brought in with special forces and were apprehended -- >> alright, i get the point. >> what would be what happened -- and then, most people here are intellectual. they know what's going on. >> would you like a response? i get the gist of your question. let me respond to your question. do you ask a want a response? well, first of all, you're wrong about the status of cheeses in islam. he is certainly respected here it is considered a prophet, but he's not divine and that the crucial distinction. and if you really want to push the conversation further, what is the status of hinduism. if i were going to grant you there's no conflict between islam and christianity, there's no reason to grant. there is clearly a conflict between islam and hinduism. the polytheism is perfectly anathematize under islam. and there's no debate there and there are a billion hindus who are absolutely wrong only f
before the invasion of iraq, you have muslims, shiite and sunni living side-by-side into marriage. but then saddam hussein and ramadan was she a person. all right, 2006, bring the special forces were brought in with special forces and were apprehended -- >> alright, i get the point. >> what would be what happened -- and then, most people here are intellectual. they know what's going on. >> would you like a response? i get the gist of your question. let me respond to your...
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southern gentleman when i talk to this man who i once actually hurt speak just before the war with iraq and say, you know, the weapons of mass distraction for search later. and if there's a rattlesnake in your yard, you have to kill it. that was his metaphor. and i actually went in to see him because he's frequently mentioned as a mentor for condi rice and i wanted him to talk about that and maybe other mentor relationships that is a part of. it wasn't clear on early on that he didn't want to talk about that in particular. and so i thought okay, this is probably an interview i'm going to scrap. but then he said, you know, he said the reason i decided to do this interview with you. i had written about the book, i believe teaching is really important and in thinking about it i realize that in every job i've ever had in my life i've basically been a teacher and not for him the first teaching experience was coming back to princeton as a senior, thinking it was going to be his year on the football team. but he got his knee bone not impact is. and so one of the coaches saw in him a potential
southern gentleman when i talk to this man who i once actually hurt speak just before the war with iraq and say, you know, the weapons of mass distraction for search later. and if there's a rattlesnake in your yard, you have to kill it. that was his metaphor. and i actually went in to see him because he's frequently mentioned as a mentor for condi rice and i wanted him to talk about that and maybe other mentor relationships that is a part of. it wasn't clear on early on that he didn't want to...
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america, intimidated for lodging a complaint when a professor of english goes on a rant about the war in iraq, completely unprofessional, completely outside their expertise. there is one -- there are -- there are some good places that have appeared as a result of our campaign. last year's president of the modern language association, professor gerald graff at the universe be a villain only if they -- and everything he's a leftist. professor graff is a leftist. he writes for magazines like radical teaching. but he has -- and actually, he has a theory that teachers should teach the conflicts, the day shouldn't be at the kids on either side of the conflict. they should teach the conflicts. they shouldn't impose on teachers. it seems like very basic elementary stuff. and he's been challenged. he is a lone voice, let me tell you. he has challenged now by professors, particularly in the education field, where they have devised the argument that they held is that you could have won of two views. you can have the radical view of social justice. social justice is no part of the curriculum. social just
america, intimidated for lodging a complaint when a professor of english goes on a rant about the war in iraq, completely unprofessional, completely outside their expertise. there is one -- there are -- there are some good places that have appeared as a result of our campaign. last year's president of the modern language association, professor gerald graff at the universe be a villain only if they -- and everything he's a leftist. professor graff is a leftist. he writes for magazines like...