book. that is what i came for because they promised me they would give me one. actually you know, i was lucky enough to serve with eric over in fallujah area and a lot of other great people one of whom i will mention here in a minute and i know eric s biography and some of you have read the jacket of the book. you know eric is smart. he is a rhodes scholar and goes to ask her and gets his ph.d. and then becomes a navy s.e.a.l. and only published one book already with his humanitarian work so most of us are just hanging out looking for the next party that eric has gone over the world to help people so pretty incredible. so way smarter than me. way better looking than me. [laughter] all that good stuff, but when i met eric back in 2007, i had no idea of any of this. he was just another you know, person. he was a navy s.e.a.l. and i was a marine. he was another person in iraq to do his job and when i met him he was totally unassuming. he walked up to me and said hey i m eric and
and of course to bring this sort of parity, equality within the public square, and unfortunately the paradigm, the measure of political and economic liberation and mobility because of those programs became reduced to those things that people have versus those that do not have those things. so, affirmative action, birth control, government set-asides in terms of contracting for businesses and things like that. so, you know, i personally believe that this process versus result, understanding what it means to live a virtuous life was the beginning of undermining this distinction between two home does the constitution apply and how and how do we measure that in terms of long-term outcomes? thank you very much. [applause] next, eric greitens talks about joining the navy seals after doing humanitarian work and earning a ph.d. from oxford university. it is about an hour. good afternoon everybody. and if you read the book, then i m the guy that when the bomb went off so that is