Reporter for the Washington Post and i cover immigration and so on international issues. On a very brave person although my very, very first job was at the annapolis evening capital 1974. Now you know,. [laughter] it is all uphill ever since. [laughter] we have very little time this morning. Only 45 minutes so i will speak quickly and i hope everybody else will be brief i will introduce my to gas, the two authors starting on my left, a professor of history and coordinator of latin american studies at Salem State University in massachusetts. Her book undocumented. Is a comprehensive ban provocative look at the history and chefs of immigration policy. And how it has blurred and punished the population it was called they take our jobs and 20 other mess and also the history of cuba and the castro revolution to my left is Alberto Gonzalez former attorney general anne white House Counsel under president george to be bush. In his job he became the highestranking hispanic to hold the federal o
Enabling [inaudible] its minds boggling howment of tens of billions dollars we have wasted in countries like iraq and afghanistan building while elephant projects of no earthly use and actually battling the insurgency. The Water Treatment plants. Im not sure why we were doing it. I think its something we call the gratitude theory of counterinsurgency. If you give them cool stuff, they will like. You a. If you give them cool stuff and not in control of the area, the other side claim credit for it. And so if you build stuff inside the city but dont control the city, guess what, they will claim it. But the larger problem is if you dont have security, it doesnt matter how much people like you. Theyre not going to come over to your side if they get killed for doing it. Theyre not suicidal. Theyre not going commit suicide because they love a Water Treatment plant. So you have to have basic security. And to establish basic security. You have to have men with guns on the street 247. Its the es
Right strategy . Thereve been many approaches but essentially they come down to what i would call what is known today as populationcentric counterinsurgency or hearts and minds. There was kind of a controlled experiment run by to the great nations of europe, britain and france in the 1950s to show which of these approaches is more successful because britain and france were each fighting counterinsurgency is an different colonies on different sides of the world. The french were fighting in algeria from 1954 to 1962. The british were fighting in malaya from 1948 to 1960s and they adopted very different methods of fighting with the french exemplifying the approach in the british applying the british if you want to find out one good way of doing it is by simply renting this wonderful movie the battle of algiers which i would recommend to anybody interested in what happened in algeria because its actually pretty accurate in what it depicts is what happened in 1957 when the french try to bre
Closer than it does now. What is now washington as you walk that end, that was the neck as you come and from now the south bend into boston. This was an island and one of dozens of islands that occupy gigantic boston harbor. They had ships scattered throughout the harbor in strategic areas and cap the entrance opens so that they could get revisions whether they be from england or from canada. This meant even though they were completely surrounded by land boston as it british occupy a garrison is going to starve. So it became a stalemate that then erupted into violence in the battle of bunker hill in june 1775. And this was a battle like none other. It was a terrifying cater for those not only living in boston but in towns around because all of the roofs of boston were filled with people watching as more than 2000 british regulars made their way across the harbor into the Charles River to the charles town financial and began the assault that would erupt into the battle of bunker hill. S
Analyst serving a senior role in the campaigns of then senator john kerry and ted kennedy and shes a principal at the dewey square group. Her specialty the happiest way to travel. Mary anne marsh is here. Lets do this. Pick the comments appreciated. Obstruction of justice accusations the central focus of todays hearings with james comeys claim that resident trumps that i hope you can let this go over the flynn investigation, leading to this exchange today. Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice or, for that matter, any other criminal offense where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome . I dont know well enough to answer, and the reason i keep saying is, i took it as a direction. He is the president of the United States with me alone saying i hope this. I took it as this is what he wants me to do. I didnt obey it, but thats what i took it as. He said i hope. Those were her exact words. You dont know anyone whos been charged for hoping