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People will overwhelmingly approve it. I thought it wouldve approved in 2000 or 2008. Im not sure about the palestinians. I have to be honest about that. I hope it would be the case they would support it as well. Asking the impossible conundrum. , i wroteof years ago an oped in the wall street journal. Was about the birth of it was about the book of jonas. Who the story of a profit say if you dond not repent, you will be destroyed. He realizes this is a nowin situation. If he tells them to repent and they do repent, three years later, they will say, why do we have to repent . Nothing happened. Or if he goes and they do not repent, then he is a false prophet. That is the paradox of prophecy. It is a nowin situation. You can house the same question about the maintenance of american hegemony in the middle east. If america had not maintained hegemony over 50 years, it may be nothing wouldve happened to the u. S. If america had let its guard something worse than 9 11 happened, and the parad
Followed by patrick tyler, author of fortress israel the inside story of the military elite who run the country and why they cant make peace. Watch this and more all weekend long on booktv. For a complete schedule can, visit booktv. Org. Strangle me [inaudible] give it to him hard hes not safe on that bus. Ive been on that bus. They are just as good as gold. As all of us, i think, in this country were starting to see people coming out and talking about their experience of this phenomenon that so many of us had experienced in one way or another and had had no words for other than adolescence, other than growing up. Finally people were starting to stand back and say, hold on, this isnt actually a normal part of growing up, this isnt a normal rite of passage. I think there was of a moment where there is a possibility for change, and director lee hirsch and i decided to start the film out of that feeling that voices were kind of bubbling up, um, coming up to the surface to say this isnt so
I am awfully happy to welcome the of plot back thank you. All of you to this gathering and this event. Stephen ambrose once said that hed been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, 19441945, had become teachers. He made the obvious link, which partly needs explication before audience like this but consider the chronology. If you were a 20 year old rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924. You are now 90, and if you have become a professor or teacher, you probably have left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years. Your education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill, and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and of military history. A successor generation of men and women in college, in the later 1960s and 70s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people now in their 60s and 70s, have furnished a large cadre of professors, administrators in universities. T
History. Well, its such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. Holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. Now. We are catching up a little bit on the terrace earlier trying to calculate the years, but its been it was back in the 1900s when we first met one another thats not amazing how that sounds now holly dr. Mayer is now a professor emerita from the mccannulty college in the graduate school of liberia arts at Duquesne University in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania where she taught for many decades she did i think two stints as chair of the History Department there after joining duquesne after receiving your phd at the college of william and mary. She also has served as the visiting heraldkay johnson chair of military history at the Us Army War College out in carlisle, pennsylvania at the Carlisle Barracks and is currently during this Academic Year at west point where shes serving as the charles bowl ewing visitor professor of history. She is also has been co