Were in their height, the number of private security contractors outnumbered the us troops. How did that come to be . Again, i think we are like that one of the unintended consequences of relying on the all volunteer force and allowing the country to slide into a condition of permanent war. We ended up with too much work, too few warriors and so policymakers and the pentagon turned to the notion of defense contractors to try to fill the gap. At a very high cost. At a very high cost and i would argue with little evidence that they that they were worth the money. I know youre going to stay around and sign some books i want to thank you, colonel, professor,. You know, we barely scratched the surface of this book, so i really encourage you to pick up a copy and you will have a very indepth although somewhat pessimistic understanding of the wars of the middle east. Thanks again. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is book tv on cspan 2, television for serious readers. H
Syracuse happened to be one of the smaller ones because this was a swampy area. One thing that the canal did is it rain drained the swamp and that allowed for a lot of commerce to take place here. We have buildings all the way up and down the south side of the canal that would have storefronts facing the canal and storefronts facing the land. Things would be brought from the land to supply, and it was a very efficient way of carrying on business. Just about everything that could be purchased at the time was purchased in syracuse and was carried here by boat from other parts of the world. One thing that comes to mind is hats. They could buy a hat that was me here, they could i had that was made in england. What was shipped out of here was salt. We had salt springs here. A lot of salt was shipped out of here. This building was constructed in 1850 two way the votes that were carrying cargo on the year he canal. A fee was assessed for the weight of the cargo. Every vote was weighed at the
Was, i suppose youd call it adventurous. But this thing ruined everything. [laughter] we go far and wide, find the best writers that we can ask and bring them to albany. Its like bringing the world the a particular place. And i dont think i cant think of any other organization, even some of the better known ones in major cities that have such a regular flow of creative talent coming through and at no cost to the public. With our open door policy. We bring the literary world to albany. So all these people whose names, faces and dates, events you see are people who have come from far and wide to read to the general public here. And weve had somewhere, my most recent count now has gotten us up to at least 10 or probably 11 Nobel Laureates across the years ranging from Toni Morrison who actually used to teach at albany to most recently a South African writer, and along the way, i dont know, people like the nigerian writer, wally, or the caribbean writer derek walcott, or the irish poet, se
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