Im going to start on my immediate right in introducing them. After my introductions, im enclave meteorite his book predator the secret origins of the drug revolution is the book wes are discussing today. Ere he cut his teeth that us a rallied observer and in moving over to defense. I happen to be a fan of hisitteb earlier book called the dream machine and he had written this book predator both of which i wouldar contend are remarkable biographies. A remarkable book. Into mine left the author just recently two weeks ago a received an award of the most outstanding englishlanguage john ford affairs given by Foreign Policy magazine in university of toronto and global affairs. I remember staffer my time at the Naval Academy rating for the Baltimore Sun troyring a number of issues like the breakup of the soviet union in his most recent book is about the assassination so we start with the origins of thears to a technology of the drone warfare in the way andin the lastly that is for thehe draw
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Way back to france. Also. Im in the ecuadorian amazon where the government has gisent the green light to drill for oil. The u. N. Says the long drawn out battle between Government Troops and rebels in the democratic republic of congo is drawing to a close. Congolese soldiers are launching an assault to retake the last town held by armed fighters known as the m23 rebels. A bit of background. The m23 are a group of tute si fighters who defected from the government. The conflicts forced 800,000 people to flee their homes. The push by the congolese troops has been largely successful because they are backed by a u. N. Prevention brigade sent to crush the rebels. The m23 fighters abandoned their military positions in the east and are confined to a small down close to the ugandan border called rumanagabo. They have been fighting hard for days. They are getting ready to fight again. They are congolese Government Troops and have taken a string of towns back from the m23 rebels. The fighters hol
Raise it. You are 140,000 to order and 70 in debt. Right. I figure we should raise the limit to 170,000. I just bought a 60inch flat screen. John americans have bought plenty of plenty of flat screens. Promising everyone many more things. Is there no limit on what politicians in promised . Who will pay for . Case well. I have to take some of these. No, i am the old person. I need this. No, ive wont give it back. Stealing from kids is not fair. So tonight the week after government barricaded veterans away from a memorial, i say what americans need is a barricade to Keep Congress away from our money because we are up almost 17 trillion. That is our show tonight. And now john stossel. John okay. Congress kick the can down the road again, but this does not address the irresponsible spending that is going to bankrupt us. Tonight we will solve americas debt problems. Really. It is not that hard once you stop assuming that what makes america work is government. Our politicians did not always
Russianjapanese war, the first great war of the 20th century. Roosevelt invited envoys on both sides and he took them to portsmouth, actually in maine budgets across from the Portsmouth Naval facility, pretty secluded, and there they hammered out a peace treaty. George mitchell in Northern Ireland is an example. The soviets, but really in the whole history of the world theres just a whole lot of examples where two warring parties are brought together and compelled to make peace. My favorite example is in the 15th century when Pope Alexander the vi or solenoid that decided to resolve the dispute between the spanish and portuguese, so he divided the world between the two of them. The spanish were going to get the new world, and there was a line on the globe so north and south america, spain, and africa were all going to portugal. But the pope didnt know that brazil stuck at a little over the line. Thats why they speak portuguese today because they didnt, it became a portuguese province.