Cusack preoccupation with president ial greatness of princely to expectations and causes president s to miss judge their own capacity. We would be better off if we never had another great president. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome to e Miller Center at american forum. I am Douglas Blackmon 11. When the United Statess cold war with the president of which the soviet union came to a halt there was wide open at our country would enter a big golden era at. Our form of capitalism and triumphs would be extended to hundreds of millions of people, new levels of prosperity would follow for all, vindicating our economic system, a peace dividend could be redirected to combat in hundred misery, the National Budget would finally balance. The american president s of the future from whatever Political Parties had the opportunity to engineer for the world a new hybrid of democracy and free enterprise. How different these things appear now. Longest wars in our nations history against the minis
Calculation when we take a find from these people and put these people in jail and did make kind of sense. What you end up with his people in jail and a lot of people who pay money over here. Was anything is surprising your findings . No. What i was surprised by is how i did know a lot about how the criminal Justice System worked or people on public assistance or for undocumented emigres. Ive never covered that story before. It was kind of eyeopening to me to find out how aggressive than we let us that system is. If you are a single mom on welfare come on welfare, you have to sign an affidavit once every three months. Its an automatic drug case you can do time. You could lose your kids. Its amazing. If you commit 100 million fraud on wall street, the likelihood is you personally will never pay a single cent. Digs for your time. Thank you. Next, Aaron David Miller argues that her preoccupation of president ial greatness overinflate their expectations and causes president to misjudge the
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Most of them are not. And the harsh reality is to get them to move, actually to take isis on they will have to be convinced that there is reckoning for a longterm political inclusion in this new government. It is a major issue for us. The province will be largely sunni tribes with some iraqi army assisting to retake that river valley. Peshmerga will not participate. Sunni tribes will also be needed to participate in a counteroffensive to retake mosul. While they will not be the main force, theyll need to be a supporting force because of the tribes that are up in that region. So yes, its key, and i think weve known that from the outset. So in effect, the politics will drive the military operations. Without effective political reconciliation or signals from baghdad, our military efforts, as strenuous as we may mount are not wont be particularly successful. Yeah, i just it would be hard to visualize a scenario with a successful counteroffensive to retake the territory thats been lost with
Done to combat Islamic State militants marching toward turkey. Ifill a new book explores what makes a great commander in chief and why americans might not want another abe lincoln. We want to turn the president into a combination of Harrison Ford and air force one and superman. And the realty is we dont have a president like that anymore. Woodruff plus, chinas most famous artist, aei weiwei, barred from leaving the country, explores what it means to be free with an exhibition inside americas most notorious prison alcatraz. We basically cannot touch the walls. We cannot touch anything. We cannot add anything. The hanging installation, the prisoners themselves, it was only there for a period of time. Ifill those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a mor