A day of artillery and air strikes that killed at least six people turkeys president says the next target will be men b. J. And other towns under kurdish control the taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack at the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan Capital kabul. The sixteen hour siege is now over leaving at least six civilians dad as well as five attackers the gunman stormed the building on saturday night the taliban say they were targeting government workers Security Forces and foreigners and afghan Officials Say one hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been rescued so far. There have been multiple deaths from a roadside bomb that struck a vehicle in afghanistans western Herat Province the vehicle was carrying thirteen civilians there are reports between eight to twelve of the passengers were killed in the explosion provincial police are blaming the taliban and the taliban have also claimed responsibility for a saturday night ambush on progover
Hes received numerous prestigious awards incluing the lincoln including the lincoln prize, the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book prize, and he authors regularly a number of articles that are published in leading newspapers; usa today, the wall street journal, washington post. And hes featured regularly on television and radio programs such as nprs weekend edition. He is the [inaudible] professor of civil war era at Gettysburg College where he serves as director of the civil war era studies program. However, he is on sabbatical from Gettysburg College this year, and he serves as the William Garwood visiting professor in the James Madison program of american ideals and institutions at Princeton University. You can learn more about allens work either by visiting his web site, allenguelzo. Com, but perhaps most importantly allen is a regular speaker at the union league of philadelphia and for the Abraham Lincoln foundation. He is also a member of the union league of philadelphia. So, please,
Im told there will be time for q a, but that it depends on your succinct questions that end in question marks and then i can repeat for the benefit of the filming of this production. Can someone close the door . Thank you. The title of my remarks this morning is notes on the passing of liberal culture, and theres a story that might be abrock with fall but too good not to share which is told about ma ham mahatma gandhi. [laughter] hi, jamie. All right. Im going to begin again for jamies benefit. Theres a story, too good not to share told about mahatma gandhi. The Indian Independence leader was asked by a journalist, what do you think of western civilization . Gandhi thought for a moment and replied, i think it would be a good idea. Ive been pondering that line for the better part of a year is a consider the state of liberal culture, both in the United States and throughout the world. What do i think of liberalism . I think it would be a good idea. In fact, it could be our salvation as a
Be careful what you wish for. People expect you to go to every game. If think arrange would to there. We like a sweep of the nats. Youre not big fans of the gnats around nats around here. Eggslily. Im ben sim minute sim know. Im juliet huddy. I got lots of pictures. Someone tweeted me, sorry, ben the nats are going to lose. Apparently you dont watch the show, if you did i really despise the washington nationals. The hatred unparalled. I dont know how you could confuse that. Glad you had a nice weekend. Mike woods is here. Nice weekend. Temps get into the upper 80s but not 90s. How about could we start today . Cools down a little bit. Doesnt look like it will happen at least not are we complain about this. I dont know. Seems like someone was complaining last friday. Someone was. Show you this monday morning. Hopefully you had a nice weekend. We have 77 degrees. Not bad central park. Kind of on the warm side. Newark, 72. 73 degrees in montauk. Here are what the winds are doing, coming in
Iran and sucker punched venezuela. The protocol girls were waiting for the president to overstep polite bounds and he sent them into a tizzy with this doozy. The United States has great strength and patience. But if its forced to defend itself or its allies, well have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. Kennedy thats a harsher and more pointed version of the exact same thing the previous three administrations said. The only way it works is if he thinks hes getting stuffed in his cell. Here is the president on venezuela. The problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. Kennedy of course truthful statements like that elicit statement from every spot on the spectrum. Iran, sweden and france had it it. Go back to your and naivian. What remains to be seen is where do we go from here with iran and north korea and what exactly is the trump doctrine. Ill ask ambassador bolton in a second. Im kennedy. Kenne