Preservation and the literary editor of civilization a former book editor and odcolumnist and former editor at the Washington Post. His essays and reviews of fiction have appeared in numerous publications including americann scholar , american short fiction the Atlantic Monthly the new republic and the smithsonian and Washington Post magazine and on the atbat one oped open in pages the New York Times and usa today and the Washington Post he lives in virginia please give a warm welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you. I appreciate your introduction work i hope your app works better than the iowa caucuses. [laughter] thank you to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning its good to see so many of youou here and i want to thank cspan for all it does to support but culture in america. I would be tempted to say normally its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. I love being here in savannah. We live outside of washington dc with a place on panhandle of f
Have just seen take place . You know, proportional response is really in the eyes of the beholder. You know, if the iranians were hoping that we would be able to go ahead and destroy some aircraft, maybe injure or kill some american personnel, and hopefully minimize the damage to any iraqi civilians that are on those bases, they do exist, there. Then that is really subject to chance. So, we are going to have to wait for the light to come up and find out how many casualties are there. What has actually occurred in terms of damage to the u. S. Facilities. The u. S. Aircraft, our personnel. They have been wounded or killed. And, then we will determine what that proportional response is going to be. Again, the term proportional may not even play into our dynamic when we go to determine how it is we will respond. We are hearing word of iraqi casualties. Are we in this seemingly endless retaliatory situation, now we are forced to respond, there will be a response and then they will respond .
It was not a normal dropoff in sonoma today, there was more than cold and more than a little shock and concern. Its scary, small town snow marks and you dont expect things like this. The Sonoma County sheriff has jesse leon granadolopez in custody, attempt to commit rape on a 14yearold student. He grabbed her all the street, assaulted her, released her, and went for a second girl. This is a very traumatic incident and i think that the best thing we can do is put together a really good case. The first attack happened on this corner, a walking route to school that parents and teachers and neighbors consider to be safe. Carina heinz who lives there heard nothin. I think they need to at least have some kind of monitor or guidance around this area. Reporter the Sonoma Unified School District sent a letter to parents, praising the brave student for reporting the issue. Some parents told us they felt that the letter fell short. The school down played it, and i was upset about that. They made
Many more americans. In the event iranians make another bad choice the president will respond in the way he did last week. I know that the efforts that we have taken, not only last week with the strike against soleimani, but strategy we employed saved american lives. Neil what happens next . What are we worried about happens next especially when the iranians are talking about a swift and Immediate Response . Former u. S. Deputy secretary of defense under bush 43, Paul Wolfowitz on all of that. Sir, always good having you. Iran is making it very clear that theyre not going not to respond. How far do you think they push it . What do you think theyre up to . Look i think both sides dont want to see a larger war. I think that will lead to some restraint. But, they keep saying theyre going to respond at time of place of their choosing. Which i suppose is consistent with the idea that revenge is a meal best eaten cold as they say. I think, i think it is very important to keep an eye on iraq
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