And now live from the mississippi book festival a panel of writers from the heritage of mississippi series. Good morning everyone. Thank you for coming to the panel. Im Chris Goodwin. Welcome to the heritage of mississippi series panel. Katie blunt is the director of the Mississippi Department and a longtime member of the Mississippi Historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. Pleased to be here. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors. Thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the state capital we are very proud of this building in it was recently designated a National Historic landmark. Its very appropriate in our bicentennial year. Im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a by centennial initiative. The series will cover the mississippi history in 17 volumes. Seven of them have already been publishe
Im chris goodwin. Welcome to the heritage of mississippi series panel. Katie blunt is the director of the Mississippi Department and a longtime member of the Mississippi Historical society. Two of the groups are responsible for the series she will moderate this penal. Thank you very much. Pleased to be here. I want to begin by recognizing our sponsors. Thank you very much for making this panel possible. I want to thank you all for joining us here in the state capital we are very proud of this building in it was recently designated a National Historic landmark. Its very appropriate in our bicentennial year. Im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a by centennial initiative. The series will cover the mississippi history in 17 volumes. Seven of them have already been published and there are seven scholars working in their fingers to the bone on the next volume and then a few yet to be signed. The series as i said it is meant to cover the
In the extreme cases of getting involved in a land war somewhere or setting a bad example that leads people elsewhere to question your power, the assumptions of your questions are correct. I want to follow up on that. There is a perception that there is not another actor like the United States if the United States is not act, it is not clear who will act. If it looks like we are retrenching, if it looks like we establish red lines but do not act on them, that does send a message. The point you made about the increasing dependency upon energy from the gulf area and the understanding that we are the ones who have been made sure that the sea lines of communication have remained open , where does that leave us . There is a desire for us to be smart about how we use our power. There is a concern that if we begin to retrench and we appear that our dependence on our end up it is not a source of great reoccurrence reassurance to those in asia. One other point i want to throw out there, it is t
That, and they are willing to continue to work with the afghan troops, and theres really no other way to do it. You cannot mentor from behind a wall, or another base, or over the phone. You have to put yourself out there a little bit. It is one of the unfortunate realities, and it is not something that is taken lightly. Host rick in nashville, tennessee, on our line for independents. Caller i do not understand why we cannot take our troops out of afghanistan, and use our drones, technology, to help with the afghan army. We cannot trust them. We have our kids coming back. We have a Health Care Issue that is hampering the problem. Put the troops on the border, and you kill three birds with one stone and make America Great like it is because at this rate we are going downhill and they will loan us. Us. Guest you bring up a good us. Guest you bring up a good point, while we cannot remove troops and maintain some level of awareness of what is going on in afghanistan and still be able to tar
As part of the first that, called for to be concluded within one years time. There are ways to address the concerns of the sanctions. The administration worked closely with the israelis on identifying the sanctions that most mattered, identifying the possible ways to avoid sanctions, identifying how you could close loopholes, working to ensure commercial activity and those that might engage in it understand the high reputational cost. We could again engage in that work with the israelis and we can do that with the saudis as well. We could do Something Else. I see that i am coming up on my concluding time. We could do Something Else hear the administration has made it very clear that no deal is preferable to a bad deal. While i understand very well the desire not to hire tie our hands in terms of giving away bottom lines, one thing we can do is make it clear, what do we mean by a bad deal . We have not spelled that out. In private with the saudis and others that may have concerns, we co