Are doing here and why we are doing it, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that historical current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program its not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context helping inform policymakers as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. I also want to thank regional weekly in the back of the room, which is the assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . Good morning. Thank you for coming. I have been Teaching I
Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan, and the purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide Historical Context to help inform policymakers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. Theso want to thank assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . David good morning. Thank you for coming. My name is david paynter. Er. David paint i have been Teaching International history at Georgetown University for 30 years. The rest of it is in t
What took us 50 years to build since the war on drugs from nixon will take us decades to undo. We are thrilled to be working with koch industries. We are thrilled to be working with the american legislative executive council. We are thrilled to work with Interest Groups who come to this not just for the economic imperative but with a moral imperative. At the end of the day this is not just about balancing budgets. This is about to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is about turning the other cheek. This is about whether or not america is a country that believes in the value of redemption and whether each one of us should be judged for the rest of our lives for the worst act we have done on our worst day of our life. And if we dont believe that rule should apply to us than it ought not to apply to her criminal justice context and that is where i think the opportunities are enormous and i look forward to working with anyone else with whom i was i disagree on other fr
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The u. S. Naval academy is in annapolis maryland. This class is about 50 minutes. Afternoon, class. All right, last time we were talking about the korean war. You had a reading. Author said to midi. Timidity. Thats interesting. Were not going to go over all of the errors that the authors went over, but do you agree with the author that the greatest error of the war was timidity . Now, you know, its a trick question. Youre going to get in trouble. Right. I kind of agree with them in the fact that the timidity problem, if we werent so timid in the war, it would have solved us making the errors of the landing and the other errors that he quoted, a lot of them wouldnt have happened. Okay, so why are we so, quote, timid . Right . I think the authors reasoning is we were afraid that it would kind of set off the spark within the soviet union. Oh, okay. He didnt want to invoke anything. That seems important, doesnt it . Yes . A basic fear of escalation. Limited war is something we dont like, g