Things are changing by the minute. Is it really realistic to think that you can calibrate the level of support that precisely . Reporter you know, that is the question. Youve heard about precision strikes with missiles, but how do you do precision strikes with whom you give either money or arms to . And thats just because it wasnt complicated enough, bob . In morells view, there are four wars going on there. There is the war of the people against the dictator. There is the war of sunnis versus shias. Theres the war of the proxy war in the shadows of the saudis, versus the iranians for dominance in the region. So the idea of providing arms or support to one side and knowing that youve got the right side, or in the cases that weapons are often traded, they wont end up in the wrong place. You know, he who doesnt study history is doomed to repeat it. We were chasing Stinger Missiles in afghanistan to fight the russians and there are 20,000 of those floating around since the fall of the sov
Reading your book, maybe i am reading in to this but did you talk with the queen in crafting your book . Well, the queen, as a policy and is probably sensible from her standpoint, which is that in her entire 60 year reign she has never given an interview and that has helped probably to preserve her mystique and is kept her from having to pick and choose who she might give interviews to. I was lucky to meet her three times and private social settings and i describe her three times in the book. At each of them was brief, but revelatory and in each case it gave little glimpses of that private side, that gaiety of spirit, the flash of wit and so, they were very valuable to me. I also watched her a lot in different settings. I traveled with her overseas. I traveled with her around the u. K. So i could see how she interacted with people. In addition to interviewing people there were lots of other ways that i developed my sense of who she is and how she goes about her job. Was she aware that
She played an amalgam of maybe about a woman who just got caught after 30 years [inaudible] susan something or other. Went back in the joint. So patty plays one of these women who was a terrorist and has been in jail and is up for parole hearing, and the person who has been her parole officer, played by debra winger, is interrogating her, trying to decide whether to let her go or not. I think its pretty cute. Youre going to leave humming selections from marx. And who could ask for anything more. Thank you very much. Plawps plawps block. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] block. Thank you everyone. Get home safely. Good night. Good night. For more information visit the authors web site. David mamet. Com. Up next on book tv, after afterwards with. This week, filmmaker oliver stone and peter kuzck sunday the untold history of the United States and they say the leaders must first face the countrys troubling history of drifting further away from its democratic traditions. One or bo
Bomb and it always fascinated me because i was born the year after it dropped, and a controlled and my father was republican and conservative and served in world war ii with eisenhower. So obama everything we did was in the shadow. I was curious about it. He said the story does have another origin and he went into the 1930s and hes written a book about the scientists but above all he mentioned a figure in 1944 he was bumped by the political bosses. And that led of course to the 45 decision by truman so now we begin the origin of the current idea for the documentary or movie and he wrote the script, it didnt work for me, but that story the other day he is still teaching the class and we decided to go ahead and do a documentary. Not one hour turned into a bigger, our arms were bigger than our stomachs and i think we tried for 12 Hours National Security State story from 1940s to now in the expansionary war and ended up in 2012 but we started in the series now the book we decided this is g
10 episodes appeared on showtime. Oliver stone Work Together with historian untold history of the United States. Peter kuznick. It is a multipart documentary that features a companion book with the name, untold history of the United States. It draws on archival findings recently declassified documents from the atomic bombing of japan to the cold war to the fall of communism and continuing all the way through to president obama. I want to go back to my interview with oliver stone and Peter Kuznick from when the showtime series first aired. First, this is the trailer of oliver stones, untold history of the United States. Exciting and i want to make it as exciting as it can be. We take a history subject and make it not only dramatic, but we are compassionate. There was a disconnect about what is officially reported and what actually happened. You cant accept that something is just handed down. This is the key to the whole series, the find out how we got to where we are and who we are. It