Effect of thec coronavirus. Well take your calls and you can join on facebook and twitter. Is next. State, and local response to the covid19 coronavirus ramped up over the weekend. Last night, the two leading president ial candidates faced off in a debate dominated by of the virus. We will spend the first 90 minutes, hour and a half talking about those developments, the response to the coronavirus, your thoughts on what you are theing and reaction to debate between joe biden and walk Bernie Sanders. Lines for democrat, 2027488000. Epublican, 2027488001 independents and others, 2027488002. Texts as well, 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. On twitter we are cspanwj and it is facebook. Com cspan. Copingted in how you are with the restrictions and the measures in place or coming in place across the country and states. We will have to hear your thoughts on that and about the debate last night, what you hear from the candidates in particular on coronavirus and othe
Substantial forces in europe. After world war ii we were prepared to fight in east asia and have fought before 1980 pretty substantial wars in asia one in korea and one in vietnam. We havent been fighting that we are prepared to fight in the islamic world since 1990 strikingly virtually every american soldier whos been killed in combat has been killed in that part of the world and i believe its something americans should be more attentive to what the geographical specificity. The numbers are on the screen if you want to chat with the retired army officer. For those in the mountain and pacific time zones we will get to those calls right away. Oil is always defined the race for the war on the greater middle east. Lution on is the iranian revolution that perceived to be a great threat to u. S. Interests in the region. The second events occurring in 1979 was the soviet invasion of afghanistan and the perception that washington is together those threatened our access to the persian gulf at
Theres a huge muslim fundamentalist population in pakistan and the reason that the pakistanis never said anything publicly about having them is when they told us, he came in, it could be earlier. The pakistanis kept them secretly because the public will go nuts. The public loved bin laden. 450 of the country saw him as a hero and so as long as they had bin laden they can privately tell alqaeda groups and both pakistan and afghanistan, we have your guy, pay more attention to us, keep us informed, they had more control. That was their argument, the second argument they made is explanation for keeping them is the saudis paid him a lot of money. The Saudi Arabian came from big construction family, not royal family but major constructionists in building and very wealthy and the assumption we make and i make is that nobody wanted an american Interrogation Team to talk to him. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Book tvs Live Programming from the Miami Book Fair conti
Cope public until three hours after the first word and what was going on was a fight because there was pressure on him, political pressure from his political advisers not to wait seven or 10 days. As they were angry at robert gates the republican secretary of defense who gauge saidd basically reappointed he had been hece replaced rumsfeld by george bush and he was close to the bush family and when obama came himd he reappointed him, but to a half years later there was tension inside with a republican doing things and gates was very much against some of the things that. Thought happened in the operation and he that we should just bomb the place and let it go not jeopardize the seals because if something had gone wrong and they had been captured they had no protection and they were basically committing a war crime. He was a prisoner of war and t and they executed a prisoner of war and they went into a country without any notice to the authorities. Anyway, heres what the issue was gates,