War college in carlyle, pennsylvania. And these are legitimate questions. What would we have done or should we have done or both. I threw a lot of information at you tonight, but at least there were pictures, not totally words. But i must remind you that it is very complicated. I spent a long time trying to figure it out. It is a big puzzle, but a very interesting one. And there are several books, several blog sites and now we have the template from afghanistan being reproduced in iraq and syria. This is what Osama Bin Laden wanted to do, take over afghanistan. I dont think he realized or believed this could happen. But now we have a caliphate deck lated in iraq and syria and it comes directly out of the model from afghanistan. So when we took our eye off the ball in 2003, on march 19th, went into iraq, that sent another signal to the world, that we werent serious about afghanistan. And if you talk to a lot of many of you must have military friends or friends that are still serving or
Which isnt easy. Our country is a lot bigger and its different and we know that. Thats why we need support for that because it is a daunting you know, experience. Ford foundations already, you know, pledged their support. We need other powerful entities within our own country to think this is an important issue. So certainly that is one of the areas we feel theres a huge gap. The other one is were really hoping American Media can find ways to collaborate. Certainly in the field, thats so important. Jim seemed to feel that freelancers did as a whole, thats all they had is one another so they tended to Work Together in the field. But we really would love to see if we couldnt do more as American Media for colleagues in captivity, if you will. I realize this complex is very competitive here in our country. Its not a simple thing. But thats something i think jim would have liked to have seen. You know, some of the hostages mentioned to us once, this really was a big hostage issue. I mean, c
Not . So, i mean, spot on. But progressive caucus is looking for partnership and were so proud to be working with six and we want to do nothing but work more and more with six. On the progressive caucus front, the thing is, when you have like nancy pelosi is a progressive, so, right now, you know, we basically go to nancy and say, nancy, if you really want to push on this issue, we got you. And shes like, awesome. Now, we may, if we had a conservative leadership . Well, then we would still have to say, look, you got 72 people in this caucus who dont think that what we need to do, you know, we dont actually believe rich people dont have enough money and poor people have too much. So, were not going to help you cut foot stamps. At the end of f the day, every leader of every caucus that you all are in is trying to build a consensus and if you and if were organizeded within your caucus, you create a gravitational pull in the other direction. Dont yall remember the days when you know, there
They cost us republicans three senate seats. We were poised to win nevada delaware and colorado where the incumbents delaware wasnt an incumbent, but mike cassell was running and hes tremendously popular, the tea party came in, the people did not participate in the primaries to the degree they should have, and the tea party nominated unelectable nominees in all three states and handed the democrats three seats they would not have otherwise had. In 2012 they handed the democrats three more with scary candidates. In 2010 it was the candidate who ran her Campaign First televised ad saying, i am not a witch. Thats a really, really jaunty catchy kind of political platform to run on. And then the other guy in 2012 was talking about legitimate rape, another political position i would recommend any of you thinking of being candidates you should avoid being in favor of that kind of thing. Add it all up if we had those we republicans this those six seats from the two previous elections, plus whe
Engineer, a Petroleum Engineer early part of her career, then a banker for a good portion of her career, a chief executive of a publicly held company and lastly a mountain climber and a kayaker. I think the last two attributes that she brings to this job are probably going to be the most important attributes of washington climbing mountains and avoiding rocks in the rapids. So i think she is extraordinarily well credentialed for this position. Ive had sometimes distressing experience and Energy Policy formation. I have a lot of i see Bennett Johnson in the background here. A lot of us have bruises that have lasted for years from that process. Senator, good to see you. Bob frye, the late bob frye was the head of resources for the future, once testified before the committee i was on that the task of defining the Energy Future was to chart a safe, secure response environmentally responsible energy path that would sustain Human Progress for present and future generations. That was probably