I think radio is the longest and best form of media thats left. What we are doing now in our long conversations like cspans is longform conversation you and charlie rose are the guys that read books the way that i read books. Its german asleep revealing when it authors had their book read these days because they dont get many people who have read their books and know what theyre talking about with page notes. Its so rewarding to them. I get a great deal of satisfaction and in fact the highest compliment thats the best interview ive had on this book tour. I just got it from Charles Krauthammer and i loved the interview of things that matter his new collection of essays on that are autobiographical. That makes my day. Three hours is an abundance of time and i can do so many Different Things. Up next on booktv after words with guest host sub and eight of foreignpolicy magazine talking with Christian Caryl on his book strange rebels 1979 and the birth of the 21st century. In the book is se
Prepared by nature for that existence. That idea preexisting rights of the Scientific Academy of north america but it gets coopted by science. In many ways science becomes one of the key areas for defending race and for defending the injustices of modern slavery. I write about that in the book for a few reasons. One of the good ones is actually thats the path that allows universities to emerge by the 1830s. As independent actors in the political sphere. Its precisely the ability of university and faculty and officers to argue in defense of slavery that creates the space in the public sphere. Host i assume because it is the university that they are the center of learning so therefore what more appropriate place to take place and validate this racist science or raise science youre talking about . Gaska the prestige of the university rises with race and then race creates the prestige of the university so that race ultimately unfettered if you remember the beginning of our conversation we
And then dry them out the cia succeeded. That it didnt see the global jihad was coming i think is in retrospect a clear failure. Thats looking backwards. Thats a little unfair to the people at the time to make those decisions. And in just a couple of minutes i would like to open this up to questions. Looking out amongst the group, i see a number of people who are deeply knowledgeable and well get some good and even perhaps tough questions. I shouldve mentioned in introducing bruce something that many of you know, and that is that president obama asked bruce to chair a policy review on afghanistan and pakistan. So if you could kind of leave over this story to the Lessons Learned and maybe some lessons that were not learned in our own engagement in afghanistan. I think theres a lot of lessons. First thing i would say though is we are not fighting the soviets more. We did not invade afghanistan unprovoked. We did not go in and kill the communist leader of the country which we have helped
You are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. Up next, bruce riedel. That all happens next on cspan2s of tv. Bruce riedel who retired with 30 years in the cia talks about the cias involvement in afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, the last battle in the cold war between the u the u. S. And the t union. This is about one hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Im Strobe Talbott and its my pleasure to welcome you to a conversation that i hope will engage as many of you as possible. Bruce riedel and i go back a ways. We got to know each other in the 1990s when we were working on a part of the world is going to be focusing on here, which is to say south asia, which included primarily for us at the time india and pakistan, two countries that have intense interest in afghanistan which is the subject of his new book. And bruce and i came to brookings around the same time. He is a 30 year 29 year i guess, better and of th
The. Host i think that is so important. One of the most popular things we have ever done on our website , a terrific photo essay called once upon a time in afghanistan. And people just cannot get enough of pictures of women in pencil skirts. Snazzy magnumera. Guest film students. Host absolutely. Development projects, groovy record hang out kind of clubs. There was a sense of afghanistan on a trajectory of development and actually in that time before it all started to go down the u. S. Was competing for influence both of them building these big projects. The tunnel that connected afghanistan north with the capital. These are incredible. There were moving Society Forward in very significant ways. The poor, landlocked country. People are astonished to learn that it is such a bad experiment, there was an alternate trajectory that was possible for afghanistan, and i do think we all become sort of historical determinist. After the fact relic, that was inevitable. Like about your book is it