I had been d well, in the office with my colleagues. I used to have a morning staff meeting in the white house. I was the special assistant to the president and senior director of the region that included afghanistan. Had my own staff meeting and the first plane hit the tower, to the i was on my way senior staff meeting at condi the National Security advisor chaired. Lost ught the plane had its way and hit the tower after the first attack, or the first incident. And then when i was sitting to left, and in the in f meeting which happened the operation area of the white house, the situation room, and gave her d in a note. The second plane hit the second tower, she closed her book and rushed out, and i went back to my office. Nd the world changed that day for me and for the United States. Host how long did it take for youd figure out that not only were born in afghanistan, you were a muslim that part ofity on the world . R. Khalilzad it took them a few days because id been so that ed in g
I used to have a morning staff meeting in the white house. I was a special assistant to the president and senior director to the region that included afghanistan. , and my own staff meeting the first plane had hit the tower. I was on my way to the senior staff meeting that condoleezza the security advisor, shared. We thought that the plane had lost its way and hit the tower at the first attack with the first incident. Then, when i was sitting to condoleezzas left in the staff what happened in the operation area of the white house, the situation room, somebody walked in and gave her a note that a second plane had hit the second tower. She closed the book and rush out rushed out. , andt back to my office the world changed that day for me and for the United States. Host how long did it take them to figure out that you not only were born in afghanistan, you were a muslim and an authority on that part of the world . Mr. Khalilzad it took them a few days because i have been so involved in go
Rice, the security advisor, chaired. We thought that the plane had lost its way and hit the tower at the first attack with the first incident. Then, when i was sitting to condoleezas left in the staff meeting, what happened in the operation area of the white house, the situation room, somebody walked in and gave her a note that a second plane had hit the second tower. She closed the book and rushed out. I went back to my office, and the world changed that day for me and for the United States. Brian how long did it take them to figure out that you not only were born in afghanistan, you were a muslim and an authority on that part of the world . Mr. Khalilzad it took them a few days because i had been so involved in government and Foreign Policy issues that who i was and my background had escaped a lot of people. I remember at one point there was discussion of reaching out to the head of the Northern Alliance, and people did not know quite how to reach him, because the taliban, were reall
Of booknotes. Richard perle appeared on booknotes in 2004 to discuss his book an end to evil how to win the war on terror. Mr. Perle argues the u. S. Should sever ties with saudi arabia disregard the opinion of our european allies and overthrow the government of iran. Cspan Richard Perle, coauthor of an end to evil how to win the war on terror, you wrote on page 195, ultimately the blame for our failed terrorism policies of the 1990s belongs to the weakwilled leaders who could not muster the nerve for decisive action. Who are you talking about . Guest im talking about the Clinton Administration for sure, and i dont think the Previous Administration was as robust as it should have been. Cspan you mean George Herbert walker bush. Guest thats right. Cspan why are they weakwilled . Guest they failed to respond in a manner that the terrorists would recognize as as a real defense of this country. So there was one attack after another. And the weakness of the response only convinced the terro
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