Freedom. It is a big topic and it needs to be discussed and investigated. Host where do you begin talking about u. S. Involvement . Guest the u. S. Involvement in the valleys goes much further back. We specifically look at the persian and gulf even though they sent some ships it is really world for to the United States and military get involved in a big way. Surprisingly it does not have to do with the oil. World war ii marked the entry of the United States and its military to provide a secure pathway for supplies to the beleaguered soviet russian allies in their quest to defeat the germans. The persian gulf was one pathway to bring e equipment through the back channel through persia through the mountains picked up by a the russians by tehran. And a much smaller percentage were involved with trading missions with there and and saudi arabia. But our 60,000 uniformed troops left the supply Delivery Business to rush up. Those small numbers of the advisers stuck around for decades and that
Naval career flying aircraft for the u. S. Navy, and about ten years ago made the transition to academia, where the navy provided an outstanding opportunity to go back to graduate school and get a specialty in a geographic part of the world where i specialize in middle eastern history. Host and now an author. The politics and security of the gulf is the numb of your book. Thats kind of a big topic. Guest it is. Its part of the world where the United States has been involved in three hot wars in the past generation, the iraniraq war, Desert Shield, desert storm, and Operation Iraqi freedom. Its a big topic, and it needs to be discussed, and investigated, which is part of the reason why we took on this topic. Host in your book, where do you begin talking about u. S. Involvement in the middle east . Guest well, the u. S. Involvement in the middle east goes much further back. Were specifically looking at the persian gulf, and although u. S. Navy frigates and ships paid some port calls in p
The ability to resuscitator rehabilitate i always give the president the benefit of the doubt. The president deserves his team. General David Petraeus is a good choice. Got remember something about the army or the service. The Foreign Service like many of you, the war is not general David Petraeuss war, it is the president s war and the military, all the people who work in the government follow the policy of the elected civilian government. They can give their opinions and they need to end military leaders would have more forcefully given their opinions over the last five years, might be a lot better. I have not made any secret that i am very disappointed in some of these people. I have said publicly some of these guys in my opinion wouldnt be corporals in miami and some are four star generals. Nevertheless i am not the president. On the face of that they deserve their commanders. General David Petraeus is qualified. We will take yours and be real quick. I hope this is not too philosop
Virginia Lieutenant Governor ralph northam. Democratic candidate for governor. Well be watching next week to see how you do. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thanks so much, katy. That wraps things up for me this hour. Ali velshi, my friend it is friday. Are you done . The president is overseas. Right. I think were going to have a quiet weekend. I dont know. Just say it. Might have a quiet weekend. Theres always one. I have property to sell you in florida. Katy have a great afternoon and i hope you do have a quiet weekend. I hope we all do. Im ali val shi, as katy alluded to, President Trump will arrive in hawaii, the one stop before he kicks off his highstakes visit to asia. The longer overseas trip of any president since 1991, but the president is traveling with some hefty political baggage as the russia investigation looms. Mr. President , do you remember George Papadopolos during that march meeting i dont remember much about that meeting. It was a very unimportant meeting that took p
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