It was continuing conversation in which i have been engaged in most of my life. If you want examples. If you want immediate instances of the kind of encounters that led inevitably to putting down notes on the subject matter of the book, which tries to cover quite a bit of range. Lets just take the religious side. With newly i saw on the wall a poster, titled announcing a lecture and the title is the greatest show on earth. And above i saw, and the god illusion. Now, very strange to think that in certain parts of the world today, for daring to put up such a poster, much less admitting to be in the author of such a book, the god dilution, delusion, you might be stoned to death or put to death for blasphemy. The second incident. I was speaking to a young lady, and she was telling me about her experience. Shed obviously was lamenting the prejudice, extremist, very intolerant prejudices that were taking place among the various religions of the world, she said, i grew up in an environment wh
Way that is sympathetic. I am sympathetic thats true in either way, just the facts. So you try to tell the story in a way that is, where the reader is on the edge of his or her of ceasing all my god, what would ive done in this situation . And any great movie, any great book that youve read, so i novelized biography, its a creation, and artistic creation. But i would say other than just the bare facts as you saw in that book, anything thats written about her necessarily 100 years later has to have some degree of projection of whoever is writing. So what i have tried to do is show her as much as a man can get into a womans head or into a womans heart, show her going through the various struggles and surmounting a lot of these difficulties that she was able to surmount in her life. What it did for her inside and out a broader to this place. That whole catholic world reveres her and explained that in such a way to tell the story to people who find it an enjoyable experience, to read and e
You are watching by tv. Next thomas ricks looks at why so many world war ii era generals are held in high regard while history is not than suband a general sick amanda troops during later wars. Its a little over an hour. Good evening everyone. Welcome and thank you for joining us. My name is Richard Konte and im the president of the center for no america security. Its a pleasure to welcome you here to celebrate the publication of senior fellow thomas ricks book the new generals American Military command from world war ii to today. Speaking of books, we have some for sale so if youre interested it will be on sale after the event. I already picked up on which i see some of you have in the ballroom lobby. Thomas ricks has been a member of of the family for quite a while serving as a senior fellow at the center. Tom writes a widely read blog called the best defense which won the 2000 National Award for best blog of the year. He is wellknown for his book fiasco the American Military adventu
President hamid karzai, whos enraging many in washington. Now, karzai, i dont think anybody knows what game he is playing. Reporter 26,000 u. S. Forces will leave afghanistan by december. But the obama plan would keep 8,000 u. S. Forces in the country as trainers. The afghan army is not yet capable on its own. Americas top soldier, chairman of the joint chiefs, general Martin Dempsey in afghanistan today said if u. S. Trainers cannot stay through 2015, the main core of al qaeda could rebuild here. I think the principle reason for us to remain post 14 is to maintain pressure on al qaeda. Reporter but karzai wont sign a socalled forces agreement to give u. S. Troops the usual waiver from prosecution and the like. Unless karzai does sign, dempsey and his commander, president obama, say no u. S. Troops will stay. U. S. Nato allies told defense secretary, chuck hagel today, their 5,000 troops wouldnt stay either. All u. S. Forces pulling out is what most americans want according to recent p
My name is jan mason. And i didnt ive been that we all like to know things we like to be in the know but whats paramount importance for an investigative journalist is to know when we dont know something. And im guessing thats true for our historians to Buzz Bissinger is not a military man. He grew up raised by World War Two veteran. But like so many World War Two vets, his dad, not one to regale the family with war stories around the dinner table. Buzz doesnt have firsthand stories or even secondhand stories about. War to share. But what he does have is an extortion naturally inquisitive mind, a mind that changed the landscape of sports forever. In 1990, with publication of friday night lights ushering in a new era in genre. I think about it those investigative sports documentaries that we all love, they started to show up after 1990. What this mans mind apart is his infinite ability ask but why. Asking that kind of question about its complicated. Asking that kind of question about the