Autocracy. That has people around the world much more exercised than in washington, where it seems like this is just another political game. Its another government shutdown, or another fight over the debt ceiling. Know, if we dont deliver this money to ukraine, they will lose territory. They will lose people. They will lose momentum on the front line of the biggest War In Europe since world war ii. And our politics cant seem to process that. Its a real statement of priorities on behalf of the United States of america. Thank you so much for your time and thoughts tonight, really appreciate it. That is our show for the evening, now its time for last word with lauren, good evening, lawrence. At evening, alex. I was listening to discussion and i have some concerns about the way we use the word strongman, because i fear it can sound just too good to too many voters who think, well isnt the president of the United States supposed to be a strong man . Its a term weve been using for decades in
Afters greatest art. African union and somali groups have cap one of alshababs last strongholds. The operation in the coastal town has been cleared of alshabab fighters while they had patrolled the town since 2008. The next few days special forces will be securing the city looking for alshabab. She willing understand that there might be a smile sniper, and many people are very afraid of alshabab and afraid of this new force in town. It is a city that has not seen any government presence in decades. This is alshababs main economic hub. They use it to bring in fighters, collect taxes, and its offensive operation that grab alshababs supply route. Although the groups have control of major accounts of alshababs cities, it was forced out of the capitol of mogadishu in august of 2011. The next major blow was the loss of kismayo. And in the same year they retreated from the town baidoa. Alshabab still roles of much of rural somalia. We go to the director of the think tank which specializes in
Theres much more over there on the counter. She will be signing here at the table to my left. This was fascinating. Please give her a pig hand. A big hand. [applause] thank you. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get uptodate information on events. Facebook be. Com booktv. Heres a look at some books that are being published this week. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv. Org. What were told both as student ands as a nation in terms of popular imagination is that theres all kinds of sitins and marches and demonstrations that occur, but theyre really done by these famous, iconic people. Base clue, its rosa parks who just basically, its rosa parks who just was so tired that she refused to get up from the bus in montgomery, alabama, and basically a young preacher who even the president referred to duri
Possibility of progress in syria. In other words can from the Human Rights Watch makes his argument. A cousin of this fragile brief window where it could get a deal with iran its very cautious and very reluctant to push iran on these other issues like syria. This is not the moment for that so the tragedy to me is that these are two good things. It would be very good to get iran to push syria in the direction of allowing the aid caravans and for example. Its also very good to strike as nuclear deal with iran that these two good things are actually working against one another. They are at odds with one another and thats tragic. Do you have any last comments before we close . I grieve for standing on that last point. Thank you both for coming and for those people that thought that syria doesnt matter and the world as a matter for the United States im here to tell you that it actually does. We can take this conflict much more serious and we need to have a serious debate about syria. Syria
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