If you gun large scale begin large scale special forces impact, you are going to have an impact on that country. So what are you doing about the political impact you are having on that country. So follow up. What global warming, that our whole focus is going to change too. Yeah. Were going to lose interest. Yeah. Thats going to come pound it, were going compound it, were not dependent on oil anymore finish. Right. And maybe that is the solution. Yeah. And i was concerned, you know, we need some sort of, somebody who understands the culture right. How do you handle that. Yeah. I mean, its something we, we have were not well versed into what works. Right. You know, whether its helping people with their, you know, their hospitals or right. Or dealing with water problems and right. I think we buy a lot of goodwill with that. Yeah. And we have more, that kind of instead of threatening and intimidating people yeah. You buy goodwill. But thats only one approach. We need somebody, a cultural a
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Occupations or ad hoc invasions that dont seem to be part of any kind of broader strategy. I think because we as a country are not willing to embrace the idea of imperialism or that we are going to occupy these countries and tell them what to do, and that all fine. Im not in favor of imperialism or of going back to the british control of the world, but im saying what were doing also doesnt make much sense because we go into these countries, we start a war, we invade, and then we dont really follow up with much of a political governance piece of that. Most recently you saw that in libya and syria, where we have had air campaigns but and we helped overthrow gadhafi but then we didnt do anything to resolve the fundamental political structure, and in syria its so screwed up now its hard to tell what policy we have. And in iraq, we invaded and then allowed the shia to dominate the government. So, im not suggesting that we open a Colonial Office like the british did where they had they actua
Is next, from hyde park, new york, home of the fdr president ial library and the annual roosevelt reading festival. Hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. To for oh who are new, welcome to the 2016 ralph reading festival. Were so glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. Well talk for half an hour, about ten minutes of question and answer, and then i will go back and set up and you can get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this year here at the library. This is going to be our 75th 75th anniversary. The end of june and we are celebrating in many ways in the reading festival is one thing we think frank loan and eleanor would both be happy about. This is exactly how they wanted this site to be used, as aer in for people to talk about the presidency, about the roosevelt era, and to bring people together to have a meaningful conversation. To support programs liking this you probably sow saw we
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