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the chinese state is much smarter than the monarchies of europe because the monarchies of europe tried to keep down the middle class. the communist party, the they are not particularly communist and agree to the middle class and make them stakeholders so if you were to talk to most entrepreneurs most professionals in china they don't want to change the system they are happy and that raises the question is this stable? if those with a wealth and power are able to change it and are happy with something like dead democracy, does that give moble staying power, and if the chinese can make decisions about the high-speed rail and the network about investment for the long run, the of the five-year plan, a ten year plan, and the united states, believe it or not, we have a lot of government agency but nobody is doing the long-range economic planning. that is why i think the china model if it is going to carry the day it isn't going to be the model that everyone ascribes to, but there will be one version of modernity. it will have a large place in the world in the 21st century and the western mod
the chinese state is much smarter than the monarchies of europe because the monarchies of europe tried to keep down the middle class. the communist party, the they are not particularly communist and agree to the middle class and make them stakeholders so if you were to talk to most entrepreneurs most professionals in china they don't want to change the system they are happy and that raises the question is this stable? if those with a wealth and power are able to change it and are happy with...
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the chinese state is much smarter than the old monarchies of europe because the monarchies of europe tried to keep down the middle class. the communist party, the so-called communist party because they're not particularly communist, has integrated the middle class. they have made them stakeholders in the state. and so if you were to talk to most entrepreneurs, most professionals in china, they don't want to change the system. they're happy. and can that raises the question, well, is this stable? if those with the wealth and power to change it are actually pretty happy with something less than democracy, does that give that model staying power? and if chinese can make decisions about high-speed rail, about highway network, about investment for the long run, right? thea got a five-year plan. they've got a ten-year plan. and the united states, believe it or not, we've got a lot of government agencies, but nobody is doing long-range economic planning. and that's why i think the china model isn't going to carry the day, it's not going to be the model that everyone ascribes to, but it will
the chinese state is much smarter than the old monarchies of europe because the monarchies of europe tried to keep down the middle class. the communist party, the so-called communist party because they're not particularly communist, has integrated the middle class. they have made them stakeholders in the state. and so if you were to talk to most entrepreneurs, most professionals in china, they don't want to change the system. they're happy. and can that raises the question, well, is this...
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the rest of the world didn't think so, but western europe and the americans thought it was china. as of the most recent numbers before they were asked which is the end of 2010, the american gdp was almost three times the chinese gdp. and that's before you look at questions of per capita income. i think just the total gdp. ours about 15 trillion, theirs a little over five. no question china has been growing faster and may well catch up, but no time soon, incidentally. and this image we have as well as europeans have of a shrunken america to the point where it's less than the largest economy is one of these, again, disconnects between really. some of the rest of the world, though, has this reality in their mind, and american and, for that matter, the rest of the west's economic lead over their lives is enormous over their life expectancies, over their economies, their personal wealth. for that matter, the lack of, relative lack of chaos in our society versus theirs. there are many differences, and there are many reasons for them to look at this place in the way that it can be envied
the rest of the world didn't think so, but western europe and the americans thought it was china. as of the most recent numbers before they were asked which is the end of 2010, the american gdp was almost three times the chinese gdp. and that's before you look at questions of per capita income. i think just the total gdp. ours about 15 trillion, theirs a little over five. no question china has been growing faster and may well catch up, but no time soon, incidentally. and this image we have as...
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post-christian europe for example, it's fascinating to me. post-christian europe, and to use that phrase not provocatively. i use that phrase because the european commission or use it to me once, when we talk about the state of the european union and called it post-christian europe and, in other words, we refer to all that mumbo-jumbo and we do not have a perfect society. and in the way they did but just one generation. because it has no transcendent purpose and it's very difficult, even atheists, even atheists, if they think about it, honest, will understand that their life will be more agreeable in certain kinds of society than it would, if you ask the average atheist he would rather live in a judeo-christian society than in the soviet union, for example, you have to have some kind of transcendent power. it's very difficult for that. >> host: mark steyn, rf field tweets into you, if you would talk about about george macdonald fraser and why he wasn't influenced. >> guest: i think this was on my favorite authors. what i love about him, georg
post-christian europe for example, it's fascinating to me. post-christian europe, and to use that phrase not provocatively. i use that phrase because the european commission or use it to me once, when we talk about the state of the european union and called it post-christian europe and, in other words, we refer to all that mumbo-jumbo and we do not have a perfect society. and in the way they did but just one generation. because it has no transcendent purpose and it's very difficult, even...
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in several areas of europe is mohammed. >> yeah. that one where people say, it doesn't -- that's just bus it has a perk significance in the muslim world. and they go, you can only get by eding mow mad me with an o and a u and a mm and one m. but in point of fact it is a significant marker. cultural demographic transformation is always the most interesting because who human capital is the best indicator of where that society is headed, and generally speaking, while we tell ourselves certain fluffy and reassuring stories about demographic transformation, it doesn't always work out well. sometimes it works out to messily in relatively benign way. if you take northern ireland, which is a place i know well. that's the -- the fact that the fractiousness between what catholics regard as a native population and an imposed protestant population linger hundred office years after. you look at fiji where the british brought in indians, an indian population to be the civil service and mercantile class. fiji has decayed in a bicultural ruin. so d
in several areas of europe is mohammed. >> yeah. that one where people say, it doesn't -- that's just bus it has a perk significance in the muslim world. and they go, you can only get by eding mow mad me with an o and a u and a mm and one m. but in point of fact it is a significant marker. cultural demographic transformation is always the most interesting because who human capital is the best indicator of where that society is headed, and generally speaking, while we tell ourselves...
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and he went to africa for about a year, then he went to europe for three months after that. he was gone about 15 months. his son, kermit, was the photographer and his kind of -- he called him my side partner in the operation in the dedication of his book. kermit was 20, 19 or 20 years old, a little bit adventuresome, maybe too much for his father. he went off by himself at times and sort of scared his father to death. [laughter] but they had a great time. and photography was also very important. in fact, roosevelt said about the expedition that maybe the most important thing would be the photographs that they took. because they made a record of how the animals actually lived on the ground. at the same time, they were taking big game -- the smithsonian expedition brought back 11,000 specimens from elephants down to, you know, invertebrates. for a long time, the natural history museum in washington had a huge hall full of exhibits which they've now taken down. there's only one thing left significant there on display, and that's a white rhino which he shot. it has a tiny little
and he went to africa for about a year, then he went to europe for three months after that. he was gone about 15 months. his son, kermit, was the photographer and his kind of -- he called him my side partner in the operation in the dedication of his book. kermit was 20, 19 or 20 years old, a little bit adventuresome, maybe too much for his father. he went off by himself at times and sort of scared his father to death. [laughter] but they had a great time. and photography was also very...
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this is a fixation of anti-american ends you find culturally in europe and elsewhere in then i turned to another example. that interest be the most the most importance of the book led cultural attitude. it is anti-american and if you look at the attitude of religious indoctrination coming in a primitive village and the maternity and t-shirts with mickey mouse and sell funds and a threat and your position you will never accept it. maybe the rest of the village wants to change but you don't. that threatens the life position usually and another attitude that is very pro america and in one that has the greatest danger. and those doing things of which they don't approve is the american and they see no particular shock than the world has the majority spending in admiration of what the country has come a what it does and what it stands for and what they think it could and should be for them. some is their own self-promotion some is in their own imagination. and then all over the world tantalizing and taunting them in the refuge is on hopes of redemption in those far outweigh the risks to the
this is a fixation of anti-american ends you find culturally in europe and elsewhere in then i turned to another example. that interest be the most the most importance of the book led cultural attitude. it is anti-american and if you look at the attitude of religious indoctrination coming in a primitive village and the maternity and t-shirts with mickey mouse and sell funds and a threat and your position you will never accept it. maybe the rest of the village wants to change but you don't. that...
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if he won in russia, he would then be master of europe. he would then have only two countries left to subdue, actually three. two were in the iberian peninsula, portugal and spain. he had alreadyic saided them -- invaded them; portugal in 1807, spain in 1808. he had been fighting a guerrilla war in spain for all of those years. the english had an army there trying to fight him. it was led by the duke of wellington. but everybody figured once he got, once he got done with russia that napoleon himself would come to spain, and he would win the war. his lieutenants had been fighting in spain and portugal prior to this time, and they might not have been doing so well, but when the master himself came, it looked like he would conquer there as well. and then you have the whole continent. and who was next after he did that? it was the british. all right. so madison thought in view of this fact that the british would not want to at the same time be carrying on a war with the united states. and, therefore, they'd be willing to negotiate with him abo
if he won in russia, he would then be master of europe. he would then have only two countries left to subdue, actually three. two were in the iberian peninsula, portugal and spain. he had alreadyic saided them -- invaded them; portugal in 1807, spain in 1808. he had been fighting a guerrilla war in spain for all of those years. the english had an army there trying to fight him. it was led by the duke of wellington. but everybody figured once he got, once he got done with russia that napoleon...
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britain and europe's decline was cushioned by the united states. who is out there to cushion america's decline? there is no answer to that. >> host: you have a time traveler. how you put that together? >> guest: i use the time machine if only from the cheap movie version they make from time to time. this is a guy in victoria london who creates a time machine and those 800,000 years into the future to discover a world where a humanity is divided into two species. it is a very -- of the way most futuristic fiction is the only thing ag will got wrong is instead of being 800,000 years later it showed up pretty much 100 years later. he was off by 799,900 years. other than that he was pretty spot on. i use a victorian time traveler and pitch him forward to 1950. eighteen 90 to 1950. i think of him -- don't think i made explicit but i was thinking of someone in my small town in new hampshire. great-grandparents' of some of my neighbors. if you propel someone forward from one of those houses 1890 to 1950 they would be astonished at the transformation. the
britain and europe's decline was cushioned by the united states. who is out there to cushion america's decline? there is no answer to that. >> host: you have a time traveler. how you put that together? >> guest: i use the time machine if only from the cheap movie version they make from time to time. this is a guy in victoria london who creates a time machine and those 800,000 years into the future to discover a world where a humanity is divided into two species. it is a very -- of...
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>> the nazis had overrun nearly all of europe. they controlled from the atlantic circle of northern norway through the southern part of europe and the lot of people want that collapse or cave in in a matter of weeks. france has been overrun, several weeks, many people thought that britain would follow. it didn't happen. this is the story about why that didn't happen. churchill's leadership was a big part of it. the british people rallied to winston churchill. the germans couldn't come across the channel on account of the royal navy but they did send thousands of airplanes to bomb britain in hopes of invading britain eventually. they couldn't overcome the royal air force. eventually october came along. bad weather began. the germans couldn't invade britain and they had to put off any invasion plan until spring. this is the story about those months. they were critical months. >> after the bombing ended did the bombing end in october? >> it continued. in britain they had a battle of briton and then the bullets -- blitzkrieg. the germ
>> the nazis had overrun nearly all of europe. they controlled from the atlantic circle of northern norway through the southern part of europe and the lot of people want that collapse or cave in in a matter of weeks. france has been overrun, several weeks, many people thought that britain would follow. it didn't happen. this is the story about why that didn't happen. churchill's leadership was a big part of it. the british people rallied to winston churchill. the germans couldn't come...
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it was about uniting europe, and erasing the lines of the cold war. and when he arrived in washington in 94, this idea of uniting europe was unpopular, beleaguered minority, and rather tattered with the scorn of the general bureaucracy. within about three months, it was u.s. policy and on the road to success. and it is so successful, it's seldom remarked upon. at this year we lost richard holbrooke, and also ron, who was one of richard's protÉges and one of, with richard, one of the people who made this happen. so he deserves, he deserves remembrance for not only the peace, stopping the war in the balkans, but extending a piece on a very wide, on a very wide stage. >> amen. >> thank you. [applause] >> my name is eleanor bachrach. i'm not a prominent person from holbrooke's life, but it has occurred to me sitting here that i experienced the bulldozer effect, both at the beginning of my career and at the end, or late. in the beginning i was a shy freshman at brown, then pembroke, who thought she wanted to be a journalist. and richard was big important
it was about uniting europe, and erasing the lines of the cold war. and when he arrived in washington in 94, this idea of uniting europe was unpopular, beleaguered minority, and rather tattered with the scorn of the general bureaucracy. within about three months, it was u.s. policy and on the road to success. and it is so successful, it's seldom remarked upon. at this year we lost richard holbrooke, and also ron, who was one of richard's protÉges and one of, with richard, one of the people who...
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[laughter] did she think libya was in northern europe? i mean, you know. a serious presidential candidate. you tell me this country is not overt? but you know, i mean there is no doubt in my mind that 10 years from now, we will be making more on some country on the other side of the planet, spending trillions of dollars on it. chad, to ghana, antarctica, it doesn't matter. we have got to have an enemy in order to function. that is the whole problem with negative identity. i mean the only way america could possibly -- slow the mess down is what jimmy carter wanted to do, stop blaming the outside he said. let's look at ourselves. it was a very christian point of view, don't look at, what is the line, respect your enemy? >> yeah, right. so i mean that is what we need to do of course. you know the result, he was voted out of office and a buffoon was elected for eight years he basically sponsored that in latin america and said ketchup was a vegetable. >> hi, to paraphrase your postmortem comment, i had a question. in the postmortem a valuation of the patient i
[laughter] did she think libya was in northern europe? i mean, you know. a serious presidential candidate. you tell me this country is not overt? but you know, i mean there is no doubt in my mind that 10 years from now, we will be making more on some country on the other side of the planet, spending trillions of dollars on it. chad, to ghana, antarctica, it doesn't matter. we have got to have an enemy in order to function. that is the whole problem with negative identity. i mean the only way...
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and then he went to europe. he had promised edith that he would give her a sort of second honeymoon if she'd let him go on the safari. they made a deal. so they went to italy and tried to recreate their honeymoon of 1885, but the crowds wouldn't let them. i mean, they were basically mobbed. because he was a star. i mean, he was a media star, you know, around the world. and even though he wasn't president anymore, they treated him like he was president. and he didn't want to have to meet with kings and queens and royals but, of course, he did everywhere he went and every country they fell over themselves to try to get him to come to the palace and tell them stories, and he regaled them with tales of the spanish-american war and tales of being president and also his western days, you know? he was this cowboy, he had this cowboy strain in him from his days as a rancher. >> did he like that kind of attention? >> oh, certainly. i mean, he was a political animal, and he loved being in the spotlight. there's the old st
and then he went to europe. he had promised edith that he would give her a sort of second honeymoon if she'd let him go on the safari. they made a deal. so they went to italy and tried to recreate their honeymoon of 1885, but the crowds wouldn't let them. i mean, they were basically mobbed. because he was a star. i mean, he was a media star, you know, around the world. and even though he wasn't president anymore, they treated him like he was president. and he didn't want to have to meet with...
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he went to africa for year, then went to europe few months after that. he was gone 15 months. his son kermit was the photographer. call to my side partner in the operation in the dedication of his book. kermit was 20, 19 or 20 years old. a little bit adventuresome, maybe too much for his father and went off by himself at times. photography was very important. roosevelt said the expedition may be the most important thing would be the photographs they took because they may record of how animals lived on the ground at the same time they were taking big game charts. the smithsonian expedition brought back 11,000 from elephants down to in vertebrates. for long time the natural history museum had a huge hall for exhibit which they have taken down. only one thing left of significance on display and that is the white rhino which he shot. a tiny little tag. for long time verities dioramas. they shot family groups. that isn't what you did in those days. you took family groups and put them in dioramas and painted backgrounds. you can see this in museums today. that ended up being a very
he went to africa for year, then went to europe few months after that. he was gone 15 months. his son kermit was the photographer. call to my side partner in the operation in the dedication of his book. kermit was 20, 19 or 20 years old. a little bit adventuresome, maybe too much for his father and went off by himself at times. photography was very important. roosevelt said the expedition may be the most important thing would be the photographs they took because they may record of how animals...
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he is less known but should be more known for his role in the unification of europe after the end of the cold war. he came back from germany with one big idea command was several big ideas but one in particular it was called nato enlargement but that isn't really what it was about. it was about uniting europe and the racing the lines of the cold war, and when he arrived in washington in '94, this idea of uniting europe was on popular, beleaguered minority and rather tattered with the scorn of the general bureaucracy within about three months it was u.s. policy and on the road to success, and it is so successful it's seldom remarked upon. but this year we lost richard holbrooke and also ron who was one of richard's proteges and one of the people who made this happen. so he deserves remembrance for not only the peace in stopping the war in the balkans but extending piece on a very wide stage. >> amen. >> thank you. [applause] >> my name is eleanor. i'm not a prominent person from his life, but it has occurred to me sitting here that i experienced the bulldozer affect at the beginning o
he is less known but should be more known for his role in the unification of europe after the end of the cold war. he came back from germany with one big idea command was several big ideas but one in particular it was called nato enlargement but that isn't really what it was about. it was about uniting europe and the racing the lines of the cold war, and when he arrived in washington in '94, this idea of uniting europe was on popular, beleaguered minority and rather tattered with the scorn of...
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these committees served as a template for later movements in europe and the u.s. by summer the uprisings had spread to sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influenced the people who later participated in occupy wall street. company ya from the press working group noted, for example, that latina occupiers got big inspiration from a less-publicized movement in chile, mexico and venezuela. but of all the protests of 2011, the massive spanish encampments of the indignants had, program, the largest impact on the the forum and strategies of occupy wall street. coordinated through facebook and twitter, the spanish may 15th movement marched in roughly 60 spanish cities. highly visible public scares giving occupiers another name, campouts. willie, an activist involve inside some of the earliest planning sessions for ows described the camps he visited in june. these camps become centers of revolutionary life. council booths focused on the environment, the military, women's rightses and held meetings, teach-ins and public discussions. they c
these committees served as a template for later movements in europe and the u.s. by summer the uprisings had spread to sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influenced the people who later participated in occupy wall street. company ya from the press working group noted, for example, that latina occupiers got big inspiration from a less-publicized movement in chile, mexico and venezuela. but of all the protests of 2011, the massive spanish encampments of the...
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as far as that's go, 38 states have capital punishment, something regarded as barbaric in europe. university of michigan study that ran from 1979 to 2009 among college students measured there had been a 48% drop in empathy among that age group. the ability to feel what the other person is feeling or to know there point of view. a therapist in washington calls this empathy deficit disorder. americans are suffering empathy deficit disorder. it just means they're vicious. fancy word for nasty folks. we got a lot of them. kind of depressing. one of the major arguments i made in "why america failed" is all this stuff i am talking about is not abstract. it shows up in the behavior of daily life. this is on page 56 of the book, quote, as george walton rights in god won't save america, psychosis of a nation quote that the peculiarities of nations good and bad tend to reflect the temperaments and qualities of their people. as plato once remarked where else would they have come from? my editor was going over the manuscript of year ago or nine months ago and came to that part he rode in the
as far as that's go, 38 states have capital punishment, something regarded as barbaric in europe. university of michigan study that ran from 1979 to 2009 among college students measured there had been a 48% drop in empathy among that age group. the ability to feel what the other person is feeling or to know there point of view. a therapist in washington calls this empathy deficit disorder. americans are suffering empathy deficit disorder. it just means they're vicious. fancy word for nasty...
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in a series of evolutions in 1848 in europe failed. it failed democratcat include, and they see the united states that the world's last shot. if it doesn't work here, it will never be tried again. so a few states think they can destroy the government, because they didn't like who we elected we have to say self-government doesn't work so we have to prove this thing can survive. and that's how they start. but you don't have to be the south very long before they begin to think, hmm, why did they get into this fix to begin with? they talked to southerners, and they're really struck by how we got into this problem to begin with, because of this institution of slavery, and if you want to solve a problem, the only way to do it is to root out the cause. so, union soldiers made a shift. much, much earlier than i anticipated. the big shift begins in the summer of 1861, where soldiers beginning to write home to their families and also to their elected officials, to say if we want to win this war and if we don't want to fight it again in ten years
in a series of evolutions in 1848 in europe failed. it failed democratcat include, and they see the united states that the world's last shot. if it doesn't work here, it will never be tried again. so a few states think they can destroy the government, because they didn't like who we elected we have to say self-government doesn't work so we have to prove this thing can survive. and that's how they start. but you don't have to be the south very long before they begin to think, hmm, why did they...
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first, we in america will be watching what happens in europe, and will not be pretty. second, science will underline that the pen names of the welfare state. there, it will become increasingly obvious that there is a simple and affordable way to replace the entire apparatus of the welfare state. and fourth, the persistence of americans in allegiance to the american project will turn out to be far greater than my argument if accomplished so far. let's go to the first of those. the simple way that the advanced welfare state was the attractiveness of the bankruptcy of the welfare state is inevitable. it's inevitable partly because the self-destructive nature of the welfare state has publicly financed the benefits go surfing the populations that find that they need them. that is simply true everywhere. always has been paid in europe you have an additional problem which is you have to tell the rates in greece and spain and portugal are only the beginning. the united states will have a chance to watch these events unfold before the situation and they are taken to avoid going
first, we in america will be watching what happens in europe, and will not be pretty. second, science will underline that the pen names of the welfare state. there, it will become increasingly obvious that there is a simple and affordable way to replace the entire apparatus of the welfare state. and fourth, the persistence of americans in allegiance to the american project will turn out to be far greater than my argument if accomplished so far. let's go to the first of those. the simple way...
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couples are not allowed to get married so i was watching the debate and watching what was going on in europe and realized the debate was very similar and focused on a lot of questions that i could answer as a social scientist. >> what is the current state of gay marriage in america in terms of states which permit gay marriage or states that are moving in the direction of realizing gay marriage? >> we have about 20 states that have utilize some form of relationship for same-sex couples. six allowed gay couples to g they realize that unless the parents had a relationship there was putting the kids in some danger, so there were lots of different things happening in the gay community that highlighted the need to have some kind of recognition and actually some of the first places to recognize was the big corporations who started giving domestic partnership benefits to their employees. these were very important to us in a lot of companies have actually come through. >> have some states permitted state workers to have health care benefits to share with their partners? >> yeah. roughly 20 states hav
couples are not allowed to get married so i was watching the debate and watching what was going on in europe and realized the debate was very similar and focused on a lot of questions that i could answer as a social scientist. >> what is the current state of gay marriage in america in terms of states which permit gay marriage or states that are moving in the direction of realizing gay marriage? >> we have about 20 states that have utilize some form of relationship for same-sex...
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these committee served as the template for later movements in europe and the u.s. by summer, the uprisings had spread sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influence a people who later participate in occupy wall street. from the press working group noted, for example, that latino occupiers got a really big inspiration from less publicized movements in chile, colombia, argentina, brazil, mexico and venezuela. but of all the protests in 2011, the massive spanish in canada most -- the indignant, had perhaps the largest impact on the form and strategies of occupy wall street. coordinated through facebook and twitter, the spanish may 15 movement marched in roughly 50 spanish cities and set up camps in highly visible public squares getting occupiers another name, campouts. willie, an activist involved in some of the earliest planning sessions for ows, described the spanish encampments he visited in june. these camps became centers of information, protests and revolutionary lives, and distribute free food, council booth focus on individual
these committee served as the template for later movements in europe and the u.s. by summer, the uprisings had spread sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influence a people who later participate in occupy wall street. from the press working group noted, for example, that latino occupiers got a really big inspiration from less publicized movements in chile, colombia, argentina, brazil, mexico and venezuela. but of all the protests in 2011, the massive spanish...
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on the other hand, he's tremendously popular in europe, translated into 20 # languages and four editions constitute of bulk of his sales. criticism is not possible in this world, of course, and the u.s. is good at marginalizing writer attempting to critique the country in a fundamental way. americans are not interested in such things anyway, which is why overt censorship is unnecessary in the united states, but the result as in the famous goya painting devouring his son, the united states is now imploding eating itself alive. i argue this in dark ages of america in 2006, the data assault and battery stanuating this -- sub stanuating since then is enormous. i'm running out of room in my house. there's not a single american institution that is not seriously corrupt, and i could sit here for hours documenting this. again, i know you want to get home or go to pink taco or something. rather than that, let me cite a few examples. first, leading intellectuals did an essay in the new york review of books showing that the supreme court is now a quote of men and not laws. five out of the nine of t
on the other hand, he's tremendously popular in europe, translated into 20 # languages and four editions constitute of bulk of his sales. criticism is not possible in this world, of course, and the u.s. is good at marginalizing writer attempting to critique the country in a fundamental way. americans are not interested in such things anyway, which is why overt censorship is unnecessary in the united states, but the result as in the famous goya painting devouring his son, the united states is...
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[laughter] did she think libya was in northern europe? you know? a serious presidential candidate in the united states. you know, you tell me this country's not over? i mean, how could it not be over? and, but it's, you know, i mean, there's no doubt in my mind that ten years from now we'll be making war on some country on the other side of the planet spending trillions of dollars on it, you know, chad, ghana, an arty ca, it -- antarctica, it doesn't matter. we've got to have an enemy in order to function. that's the whole problem of negative identity x that's the, i mean, the only way america could possibly save itself, and it can't, but it could slow the mess down is what jimmy carter wanted to do; stop blaming the outside, he said, let's look at ourselves. it was a very christian point of view. don't look at the what's that line the mote of dust, the speck of your enemy's eye but -- >> [inaudible] >> yeah, right. you know, so, i mean, that's what's needed to do. of course, you know, you know the result. he was voted out of office, and a drooling
[laughter] did she think libya was in northern europe? you know? a serious presidential candidate in the united states. you know, you tell me this country's not over? i mean, how could it not be over? and, but it's, you know, i mean, there's no doubt in my mind that ten years from now we'll be making war on some country on the other side of the planet spending trillions of dollars on it, you know, chad, ghana, an arty ca, it -- antarctica, it doesn't matter. we've got to have an enemy in order...
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and when they depend on europe, the jewish nation always -- the jewish people always gets in trouble when they go over there because we simply can't sustain. >> host: going to jump in there, thank you. russ feingold? >> guest: well, iran isn't just a threat to israel, which it is, it's a threat to the united states of america if they get nuclear weapons. so both because israel's an ally and because of the direct threat to our security as well as other european allies of ours, i think we need to take seriously what's going on in iran, but that doesn't mean i'm advocating attack. and as to foreign aid, you know, i agree with the caller a little bit with regard to this. i don't want us to just throw a bunch more money at a lot of different countries in order to solve our problem. what i try say in my book "while america sleeps," is i'd like to see a small apt -- amount of money to help improve our knowledge of countries and having a more positive relationship with people this other countries. you know, let's be citizen diplomats. let's help americans maybe with grants to go for two or t
and when they depend on europe, the jewish nation always -- the jewish people always gets in trouble when they go over there because we simply can't sustain. >> host: going to jump in there, thank you. russ feingold? >> guest: well, iran isn't just a threat to israel, which it is, it's a threat to the united states of america if they get nuclear weapons. so both because israel's an ally and because of the direct threat to our security as well as other european allies of ours, i...
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the only outlet they will have will be to go back to europe. when they depend on europe, the jewish people always get in trouble when they go there. we simply cannot sustain this. host: russ feingold? guest: iran is not just a threat to israel. they are also a threat to the u.s. if they get nuclear weapons. because israel is an ally as well as the threat to our security, i think we need to take seriously what is going on in iran, but that does not mean i advocate an attack or invasion. as to foreign aid, i agree with a little bit. i do not want us to just throw more money at different countries in order to solve our problems. but i say in my book, "while america sleeps," it is to help reach out and improve our knowledge of these countries while having a more positive relationship with these other countries. let's be citizen diplomats. maybe we should go for two or three weeks per year to help them learn certain things that would be of use to them and it did help us learn things as well. there's one guy in wisconsin named damon. he came to me in
the only outlet they will have will be to go back to europe. when they depend on europe, the jewish people always get in trouble when they go there. we simply cannot sustain this. host: russ feingold? guest: iran is not just a threat to israel. they are also a threat to the u.s. if they get nuclear weapons. because israel is an ally as well as the threat to our security, i think we need to take seriously what is going on in iran, but that does not mean i advocate an attack or invasion. as to...
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europe had been alive. there is no king. everything seemed possible. there was this whole fix, and he arrived in london having on board ship while traveling and had to go to new amsterdam. only a few miles away. he had been banished. he wrote a book called the key to language of america. a brilliant anthropological study. many books and indians. this is by far the best. actually, i think tom can give you a copy. anyway, no longer just a friend of cromwell begging for attention. he was a person in his own right his views were sought out. by no means the only person. he was a close friend of john milton. depending on how will you know in this politics, his closest friend. very tight. end then he struck out of the largest question, the series of publications the question of church, state, and freedom. finally he produced a masterpiece, something called the bloody ten a persecution. it is a 4-under page analysis of history, law, logic, experience, and, of course, conscription. he lived through what happens in the church in massachusetts and the political e
europe had been alive. there is no king. everything seemed possible. there was this whole fix, and he arrived in london having on board ship while traveling and had to go to new amsterdam. only a few miles away. he had been banished. he wrote a book called the key to language of america. a brilliant anthropological study. many books and indians. this is by far the best. actually, i think tom can give you a copy. anyway, no longer just a friend of cromwell begging for attention. he was a person...
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napoleon said that there actually are only two countries in europe. there is russia and everyone else. in that think that the distinction which he so accurately noted is really the distinction between the two different ways of looking at the individual human being. in the united states and the west and the country's of the world that are under western influence, for better or worse, the individual is understood as an end in himself. he cannot be used for just any purpose or as in russia the understanding is the individual is the means to an end. what this means for the history of russia is that millions of people can be sacrificed for political and and their deaths can be very little noted. the lessons of mass atrocities can be overlooked, and they can continue to have influence the political situation in the country. in one generation after another. i remember when i was a correspondent in the soviet union, a friend of mine came back after being completely unnerved by something he had seen. he was driving along outside a moscow. he was watching as a
napoleon said that there actually are only two countries in europe. there is russia and everyone else. in that think that the distinction which he so accurately noted is really the distinction between the two different ways of looking at the individual human being. in the united states and the west and the country's of the world that are under western influence, for better or worse, the individual is understood as an end in himself. he cannot be used for just any purpose or as in russia the...
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by summer, the uprisings had spread to sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influence the people's who participated in occupy wall street. the press working group notice for examples that latino occupiers got a big inspiration from less publicized movements in chile, colombia, argentina, brazil, mexico and venezuela but all the protests of 2011 the massive and camp tents of the indignant had perhaps the largest impact on the form and strategy of occupy wall street. coordinated to facebook and twitter, the spanish movement marched through roughly 60 spanish cities and set up tents and public squares giving occupiers another name, los ahca prados or campouts. and activists involved in some of the earliest planning sessions for ows describe the spanish encampment in june, these camps became centers of information, protests and revolutionary lives and they set up kitchens distributing free food, counsel booth speaking on different issues. the environment, the military, women's rights and held meetings, teachings in public discussions. they cove
by summer, the uprisings had spread to sub-saharan africa, latin america, asia and europe. all these protests influence the people's who participated in occupy wall street. the press working group notice for examples that latino occupiers got a big inspiration from less publicized movements in chile, colombia, argentina, brazil, mexico and venezuela but all the protests of 2011 the massive and camp tents of the indignant had perhaps the largest impact on the form and strategy of occupy wall...
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african descent from jamaica and barbados, a few thousand from spain, a few thousand from more than europe. a very diverse group and yet the united states structures the labour force using a kind of biracial -- biracial sort of approach similar to jim crow in the united states. there is a photo of the west indian work force in the canal zone. in this biracial approach put white workers, u.s. workers on the so-called gold wrote -- and backward groups in the west indies were on the silver role and paid in silver. life was very different for those two groups but a lot of what is fascinating about the canal zone is so many workers didn't quite fit into that black versus white structure. the spaniards. fascinating group. the u.s. imported 6,000 spaniards to work on the canal thinking they would prod the black workers to work harder. in fact they did have a lot of energy but in ways that complicated life for the other officials. they were classified as non-white or sometimes referred to as colored or semi white workers. they were excluded from the white hotels and cafeterias, excluded from white
african descent from jamaica and barbados, a few thousand from spain, a few thousand from more than europe. a very diverse group and yet the united states structures the labour force using a kind of biracial -- biracial sort of approach similar to jim crow in the united states. there is a photo of the west indian work force in the canal zone. in this biracial approach put white workers, u.s. workers on the so-called gold wrote -- and backward groups in the west indies were on the silver role...
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this is the period as the world turned upside down and europe had been alive when there was no king to read everything seemed possible. there was this whole mix and he arrived in london having the ship while traveling as he had to go to new amsterdam because he couldn't leave for boston. boston was on the few miles away but he had been banished. a burly and anthropological study there have been many books, many. this is by far the best to it i think tom can get you a copy still in print. this book made him a celebrity. it was no longer just a friend of cromwell hanging around and begging for attention. he was a person in his own white whose views were shown up and he was the only person who was a close friend of john milton, henry, depending on how the english politics was the closest friend, and then he struck on the question with a series of publications on the question of church and state and freedom and then finally produced a masterpiece something called the bloody tenant of persecution which had just incredible influence. it's a 400 page analysis of history, rall, logic, experien
this is the period as the world turned upside down and europe had been alive when there was no king to read everything seemed possible. there was this whole mix and he arrived in london having the ship while traveling as he had to go to new amsterdam because he couldn't leave for boston. boston was on the few miles away but he had been banished. a burly and anthropological study there have been many books, many. this is by far the best to it i think tom can get you a copy still in print. this...
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and in 1848 and europe as they see if it failed to read it field of the democratic revolution and they see the united states this is it this is the last shot. so it works here or it will never be tried again. if these states think they can destroy the government which is how they see it because they don't like how they are elective then we have to say this of government doesn't work so we have to prove that it can survive and that's how they start. but we don't have to be an assault very long before they will begin to think why did they get into this to begin with? they talked to the southerners and a sleeveless and they are really struck by how we got into this problem to begin with because of this institution of slavery. if you want to solve a problem the only way to do it is to rule out the cause. so the union soldiers made a shift much earlier than i had anticipated. it begins in the summer of 1861 where they are beginning to write home to their families but also their elective officials to say that if we want to win the war and we don't want to fight again in ten years we need to
and in 1848 and europe as they see if it failed to read it field of the democratic revolution and they see the united states this is it this is the last shot. so it works here or it will never be tried again. if these states think they can destroy the government which is how they see it because they don't like how they are elective then we have to say this of government doesn't work so we have to prove that it can survive and that's how they start. but we don't have to be an assault very long...
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we're wasting a hell of a lot of money while our boys are fighting and dying in europe and north africa and in the south pacific, and we've got to stop it, and here's how. and people said, gee whiz, he did that intelligently, honestly and in a nonpartisan manner. maybe there's something to this harry truman guy. which takes us to 1944. franklin roosevelt is looking for a fourth term. the war's still on, and in 1940 he had dumped his vice president, john nance gardener, who had grown a bit too conservative for the new deal, and he puts in henry a. wallace, his secretary of the agriculture. who is a very left-wing, kind of new age kind of guy for back then. and he forces wallace on the ticket in 1940. the democratic party does not really want him. and in 1944 roosevelt is getting the word back, you keep this guy on the ticket he could cost you a million votes. roosevelt's a great politician. he knows what this means, and he says i've forced henry wallace on the party once, i can't do it twice. i can't do it twice. he's got to go. not in so many words, not in so many words, but he eventual
we're wasting a hell of a lot of money while our boys are fighting and dying in europe and north africa and in the south pacific, and we've got to stop it, and here's how. and people said, gee whiz, he did that intelligently, honestly and in a nonpartisan manner. maybe there's something to this harry truman guy. which takes us to 1944. franklin roosevelt is looking for a fourth term. the war's still on, and in 1940 he had dumped his vice president, john nance gardener, who had grown a bit too...
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we were surprised by the war, and he knew besides that churchill would want a europe first strategy, defeet germany -- defeat germany first. when the public and the united states clearly wanted to defeat japan. after all, it's japan who had attacked us. and hitler reciprocated. he told the german people, we now have an ally that has never lost a war in 3,000 years. so he expected to win this one too, and he declared war on the united states. we did not declare war on germany until they declared war on us, and that was a few days after pearl harbor. so we were at war with both germany and japan. not having expected to be at war with either one on december 7th. if at all, we expected to be at war with germany because we had begun convoying ships to britain hoping to get supplies to britain, and some of our ships, including destroyers, were torpedoed and sunk by the germans. it wasn't enough of a provocation on the part of the germans to convince congress to declare war on germany. we had an isolationist congress, they did not want a second war. after all, the war that ended in november
we were surprised by the war, and he knew besides that churchill would want a europe first strategy, defeet germany -- defeat germany first. when the public and the united states clearly wanted to defeat japan. after all, it's japan who had attacked us. and hitler reciprocated. he told the german people, we now have an ally that has never lost a war in 3,000 years. so he expected to win this one too, and he declared war on the united states. we did not declare war on germany until they declared...
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one of the theory -- first african-american and a first liaison to the british embassy we grew up in europe, japan, 17 different it and we do need to help privileged writing on the before not the first talented painfully aware on the shoulders of the giants of which i stand. not just my parents. but if you think the efforts that it took for me to stand here it is truly amazing. i could not have been anybody but here. they don't understand struggle the mothers to barbara bush my tin can of a civic them lowered dented it is the more it is worth when it is stolen. and i keep a terrible cough. can and car and i marched in their because the family is moving into the american fabric housing project. five the generations of public housing nobody has ever worked provide estimated the unemployed rate was 70% back then. what we face right now with our sustained recession/depression they would be throwing a party over what we suffered now. 20% unemployment would be a gift in this community because there are no jobs in the surrounding area with a vibrant working-class 127,000 jobs left that area. not e
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it's just remarkable to watch, in the intimate and around the environment of the old-style eastern europe high and -- european circus so as close as you guys are to me he is with these lions with a net between us and one has to wonder how secure that net is. he puts his head -- though i said to him, what are you thinking about when you put your head into the mouth of the line and lion and i'm expecting this spectacular piece of philosophy that i can use in some way and related to my own life, but maybe not in the world are dealing with university students is going to be my equivalent of sticking his head in the mouth of the lion. and he said, but i'm thinking about when i put my head into the mouth of a lion is i just want this over with and get my head out of the mouth of the lion, which i thought was remarkable especially since he does three shows a day. can you imagine doing that? this is one straight ahead guy. he undoubtedly really is thinking that he wants his head out. so is there abused there? this lion is undoubtedly bread and he has raised this line from a pop. i know they're no
it's just remarkable to watch, in the intimate and around the environment of the old-style eastern europe high and -- european circus so as close as you guys are to me he is with these lions with a net between us and one has to wonder how secure that net is. he puts his head -- though i said to him, what are you thinking about when you put your head into the mouth of the line and lion and i'm expecting this spectacular piece of philosophy that i can use in some way and related to my own life,...
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maybe that is a problem that europe's when you have members of the supreme court that have never run for office before. but i think that there was an ulterior motive here. that critical finding of the fact of the wrong as it was was the linchpin for the rest of the analysis. if that finding of the fact isn't there, the entire decision falls to pieces. and so i think we need to be careful about attacking that finding of fact. the previous case of the over will have plenty of the findings to the contrary. legislative hearings have developed plenty of findings and experience tells you the contrary. whether it is the company that comes in and drops $4 million worth in the last minute of the race against one candidate for another anderson was to say that there is no allegiance between the candidate and the company that did that? that's bonkers. it gets worse when you take it to the next step which many people think about citizens united overlooked. citizens united isn't just dangerous because the corporations will do under citizens united. it is dangerous because of what they will threate
maybe that is a problem that europe's when you have members of the supreme court that have never run for office before. but i think that there was an ulterior motive here. that critical finding of the fact of the wrong as it was was the linchpin for the rest of the analysis. if that finding of the fact isn't there, the entire decision falls to pieces. and so i think we need to be careful about attacking that finding of fact. the previous case of the over will have plenty of the findings to the...
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minor league player so that would be one way to do it and that might generate and then certainly in europe that is something that communities love their team and it's not a university at all. that is a possibility. i thought the direction you were going in was to say is there any reason to think we couldn't have many of the same benefits if these were not such professional operations? that is if you cut them back in some way and so imagine the army-navy game. that gets a lot of attention and what if the duke carolina teams just had different rules but they have the same rules for eligibility. would there be the same amount of interest? some might say that purists can already see that this is an mba in college basketball beat they will forgive them because they're amateurs but if you start paying them it will be just like minor league so i think it's not obvious how it would go. but a lot of the benefits i'm talking about might be casher bowl otherwise but you might also say that is one of the thing that makes it and i'm not here to say that race relations in college sports are perfect but
minor league player so that would be one way to do it and that might generate and then certainly in europe that is something that communities love their team and it's not a university at all. that is a possibility. i thought the direction you were going in was to say is there any reason to think we couldn't have many of the same benefits if these were not such professional operations? that is if you cut them back in some way and so imagine the army-navy game. that gets a lot of attention and...
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it seems to me that today with the european crisis likely to do more than drive our relations with europe and the with the economic growth of china posing fundamental challenges in this that area, if it wasn't obvious before, it's obvious now that people need to understand this linkage between economics and security issues. >> host: just looking back at some of the national security adviser, henry kissinger, condoleezza rice, colin powell all went from nsa to secretary of state. is that significant? >> guest: that is significant in the sense that they, um, they -- the secretary of stateship even though it's not always the most influential position is often thought of as the most prestigious and the most prominent, certainly the most senior cabinet position in the united states. they all, i mean, their paths were quite different. powell was only national security adviser for a year, basically, at the end of the reagan administration. he was promoted from deputy. he then became chairman of the joint chiefs of staff as a military officer and then later on he was very prominent. he could have
it seems to me that today with the european crisis likely to do more than drive our relations with europe and the with the economic growth of china posing fundamental challenges in this that area, if it wasn't obvious before, it's obvious now that people need to understand this linkage between economics and security issues. >> host: just looking back at some of the national security adviser, henry kissinger, condoleezza rice, colin powell all went from nsa to secretary of state. is that...
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our boys are fighting and dying in europe and north africa and in the south pacific. we have to stop them. here's how. people say, as u.s., he did that intelligently, honestly, in a non-partisan manner. maybe there's something to this hairy charming guy. but state system 1944. franklin roosevelt was looking for a fourth term. the war is still long. and in 1940 he had done to is vice-president who had grown a bit too conservative for the new deal, and he puts and henry a. wallace, his secretary of the agriculture who is of very left wing, kind of new-age guy for back then. he forces wallace on the ticket in 1940. the democratic party does not really one of. and in 1944 rose about is getting the word back. you keep this guy on the ticket. he could cost you a million votes. roosevelt is a great politician. he knows what this means. and he says, i forced henry wallace on the party once. i can't do it twice. i can't do it twice. he has got to go. not in so many words, not in so many words, but he eventually slips wallace's throat. so who does he replace him with? the guy y
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we have leaders in europe, africa and all across -- promoting ideas of liberty on college campuses. >> when was it found and where? >> it was founded in 2008 by a group of interns in the d.c. area, have a rou
we have leaders in europe, africa and all across -- promoting ideas of liberty on college campuses. >> when was it found and where? >> it was founded in 2008 by a group of interns in the d.c. area, have a rou
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the seven year old was playing soccer and i sat with the five-year-old and said europe brother is playing soccer in your jobless. we can do anything. he felt about it and said i think i would like to do science experiment to get okay. we are on the right track here. but i met him play games anyway. [laughter] >> even the late 18th century science was expensive and it was easier suppose if you were an aristocrat. i wonder if it is known what he thought about the guillotine whether he regarded this as working in mysterious ways. >> that's a great question to the key was priestley's rifle who really did kind of fully identify and name oxygen who in the two different tests of how the societies deal with other scientists we pass buy not departing priestley and the french revolution didn't do quite as well by executing. you know, i don't know. i don't remember him ever actually talking about the fact. he had been a great supporter and during that time there was the kind of mr. fight question of what is happening in france and there's a famous exchange that priestley had with adams over breakfas
the seven year old was playing soccer and i sat with the five-year-old and said europe brother is playing soccer in your jobless. we can do anything. he felt about it and said i think i would like to do science experiment to get okay. we are on the right track here. but i met him play games anyway. [laughter] >> even the late 18th century science was expensive and it was easier suppose if you were an aristocrat. i wonder if it is known what he thought about the guillotine whether he...
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so we grew up in europe or quit growth in japan. we grew up in 17 different places in the united states. and grew up a lot in taxes. they graduate from high school in texas. i do think we need to help texas. we need to help texas. we really do. we need to help texas achieve its aspiration which is to secede. i think -- [laughter] i think i need to go help them achieve their aspiration. i have been incredibly privileged to ride on the wings of all of the pioneers before me. i am so painfully aware that we are not the first talented black people okay. i am so painfully aware of the shoulders of the giants upon which i stand. not just my parents they are the first, but if you think about all of the effort that it took for me to stand here it is truly an amazing thing. i love this country. i couldn't have been created anywhere but here. the cocktail mix of my blood could only have been done here. i could live anywhere else not anywhere. there are a lot of places where folks, jumble lifeblood streams but my particular jumble life could'v
so we grew up in europe or quit growth in japan. we grew up in 17 different places in the united states. and grew up a lot in taxes. they graduate from high school in texas. i do think we need to help texas. we need to help texas. we really do. we need to help texas achieve its aspiration which is to secede. i think -- [laughter] i think i need to go help them achieve their aspiration. i have been incredibly privileged to ride on the wings of all of the pioneers before me. i am so painfully...
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there was, churchill was pressuring roosevelt to devote material and the arsenal of democracy first to europe and then wait for the pacific later. and, indeed, there's some evidence that roosevelt was more inclined to see it in two stages. one is to help great britain and be then, two, to take on the japanese. >> would any of that had to do with the current condition at the time of our military? would we have been -- >> very much so. yeah, very much so. it's just that we didn't really have a two-ocean navy, and so we were moving ships back and forth between the atlantic and the pacific. and, of course, the japanese had done great damage at pearl harbor to, you know, much of the fleet. fortunately, the three carriers had been out on assignment so that they weren't there, and that was the principle target of the japanese were the three american carriers. so fortunately, they were out. but we were completely defensive in the pacific. we eventually lost wake island, we eventually lost guam, we eventually lost the philippines, the british eventually lost hong kong and singapore and malay ya. they
there was, churchill was pressuring roosevelt to devote material and the arsenal of democracy first to europe and then wait for the pacific later. and, indeed, there's some evidence that roosevelt was more inclined to see it in two stages. one is to help great britain and be then, two, to take on the japanese. >> would any of that had to do with the current condition at the time of our military? would we have been -- >> very much so. yeah, very much so. it's just that we didn't...