My topic today is serious which presents one of most issuesl Foreign Policy we face. It lies to a heart critical to u. S. Security, a friend that is a place that is home to friends and partners. It is important because the Syrian Regime possesses chemical weapons that we cannot allow to fall into terrorist hands. It is important because the regime is collaborating with lockstep with in hezbollah. Syria is important because its people in seeking freedom and dignity has suffered unimaginable horrors. I also recognize how ambivalent americans are about the situation there. On the one hand, we americans share a desire, after two wars which have taken 6700 american lives and cost over 1 trillion, to invest taxpayer dollars in american schools and infrastructure. On the other hand, americans have heard the president s commitment that this will not iraq, this will not be afghanistan any use of force will be limited and tailored narrowly to the chemical weapons threat. On the one hand, we shar
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but that s kind of who i learned from, is confessional, personal singer-songwriters. aboutathartic to write loss, pain. it inspires one, unless you re hideously depressed, in which case you can t do anything. tavis: i suspect that it could be or would be, for some, cathartic, but it also requires a lot of, to my mind, at least, a lot of courage, a lot of openness, a lot of transparency. how d you get okay with that? i ve always kind of been okay with that. i ve never shied away from being open about my feelings. i really value honesty and openness. it sounds rather trite when i say it, but it s likealways i don t phoniness, i don t like artifice, i don t like posing and pretense. so i endeavor to be as real as i know how to be. tavis: see, writing about love and heartache for your records is one thing, but when you write a book like this one, a memoir, diamond in the rough, and you go beyond love and heartache and you talk about alcoholism and depression and anorexia. t
tavis: pleased to welcome shawn colvin to this program. the three-time grammy winner is out with a very personal and honest memoir about her life and career. it s called, like one of her previous songs, diamond in the rough. she s also out with a new cd, and from the new disc, here now some of the video for the title track, all fall down. we all fall down we all fall down we all fall down we all fall down tavis: nice video. good to have you on. it s great to be here, thank you. tavis: glad to have you here. i want to jump right into this. what is it about shawn colvin that has her consistently writing about love and heartache? if they categorized records in music stores well, there are no music stores anymore, but if they categorized records by theme, you d be in the love and heartache category. what else is there? tavis: fun, frolic. no, nobody writes tavis: social protest. i don t know, it could be a thousand things. no, no singer-songwriters
tavis: pleased to welcome shawn colvin to this program. the three-time grammy winner is out with a very personal and honest memoir about her life and career. it s called, like one of her previous songs, diamond in the rough. she s also out with a new cd, and from the new disc, here now some of the video for the title track, all fall down. we all fall down we all fall down we all fall down we all fall down tavis: nice video. good to have you on. it s great to be here, thank you. tavis: glad to have you here. i want to jump right into this. what is it about shawn colvin that has her consistently writing about love and heartache? if they categorized records in music stores well, there are no music stores anymore, but if they categorized records by theme, you d be in the love and heartache category. what else is there? tavis: fun, frolic. no, nobody writes tavis: social protest. i don t know, it could be a thousand things. no, no singer-songwriters