And surcharging Medicare Coverage for smokers and the obese. You can watch this and other q a interviews all this week at 7 p. M. Eastern here on cing span 3. Cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your its provider by your television provider. Host and this week on the communicators, gordon smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters, our guest reporter is paul kirby of telecommunications report. Senator smith, you started at nab nearly four years ago. How have the issues changed in those four years . Guest well, it seems like the issues just keep on coming, and they tend to be very major issues affecting both radio and television. But clearly on the radio side, the whole issue of performance rights, performance tax, whatever you want to tribe it as, is an ongoing challenge. Hopefully, the day will arrive when both the digital and the terrestrial platform can come up with a model that actually gr
Now military historian Victor Davis Hanson on his book the savior generals profiles of five military leaders he says saved wars that otherwise would have been lost. Over the next hour, that he is interviewed by Kimberly Kagan founder and president of the institute for the study of war. Host first of all congratulations professor hanson on another great look, the savior generals. Guest thank you for reading it. Im glad i wrote it. A little different than past books but im excited its finally done. Host tell me, how do you define a savior general . Guest you you know the words savior sort of ambiguous. They not only say things to Say Something that has to be lost to begin with and savior with the adjectival ending means it should these saved so great generals like modell or xerxes we are not sure they shouldve say the things they did so is trying to do two things. Describe generals who are put put in a position where things didnt look too good and they didnt start the war and their cause
The microphones well get to you. Please identify yourselves. All right. Thank you. Thank you what was the luck excuse me, the rule of law in regards to this. Well, its very hard to win with this type of strategy. They still didnt manage to pacify afghanistan in the 1980s, even though they were wanting to kill a million people. Because the nazis and the soviets offered nothing positive. They offered no reason why the people of yugoslavia or afghanistan would support them. They offered nothing but death and desolation it was not a winning dratted he. People want to see the rule of law. Not necessarily our law, but there law. That is something that our people respond positively to. Rather from stealing from them and raping their daughters, they will be more likely to support those soldiers. I would argue that this is a crucial element of successful counterinsurgency. Right here . Hello. How do we do this . We have done this before twice in iraq and afghanistan. There have been. Periods of
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