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I am also very troubled about how deep the political divide is mainly between democrats and republicans but even within the two parties it is restive, it is not settled. People are not happy. For a lot of reasons. We are racially divided you saw that terrible shooting in georgia that got into the news the last couple of dates. Were trying to figure out what it means to be american and weve talked about that many times the book project has helped me a lot to reflect on that larger question and he began with a pretty ordinary way. I was writing a series of blog posts. I wouldnt call them quite articles. It began around 2010. All around the one 50th anniversary of our civil war. In the idea was that we could find younger historians who were comfortable in and the digital the environment to put up more articles about history in the online New York Times that they would have been able to put in the printed paper when it started the online New York Times was kind of like a backyard that no o
We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
A change of administration. A warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me carrying. Our top story u. S. President donald trump has confirmed negotiations with the taliban have been scrapped it has been hoped they would bring the americas longest war to an end blames the insurgent groups recent attack in kabul in which an american soldier was killed. They thought that that it killed people in order to put themselves at a little better to go share the visitation when they did that they killed 12 people one happened to be a Great American soldier you cant do that cant do that with me so theyre dead as far as im concerned and weve hit. The taliban harder in the last 4 days that theyve been hit over 10 years we beat them militarily but as soon as we leave it seems to form again we would beat them very easily militarily if we wanted to by doing certain things and im not talking to clear we could have that over with very very rapidly but youd lose millions and millions of lives an
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