Feel free to come forward if you would like. Good afternoon. Im peter bergen and peter bergen and i run into National Security foundation and its my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend Michael Waltz who has this wonderful new book out warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan which really outlines mikes unusual career both being someone who is creating policy in the white house and the south asia adviser to Vice President cheney and carrying out the policies and the field as a special forces officer. Mike is also running a successful business. Hes a fellow here at the new America Foundation so he is going to outline the big ideas and some of the interesting stories in the book and then we will open up to question after session. Thank you. Mike. Thank you peter and thanks everyone for coming out today. I will just take a brief moment and talk about some of the broader Strategic Issues that i have tried to address in the book and really underl
All for joining us. [applause] youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. At the new America Foundation. It is my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend, mike waltz who has this wonderful book out today warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan, which really outlines by quite unusual career as both been somebody who is creating a white house with Vice President cheney and also carrying out the policies in the field as a special forces there. Mike also runs a successful business. If the fellow here at the new America Foundation and so he is going to outline kind of the big ideas in some of the interesting stories in the book and then well open it to a question with everyone. Thank you. So, thank you, peter. Thank you for coming out today. Lets take a brief moment and talk about some of the broader Strategic Issues that im trying to address in the book and really underline a lot of m
I really appreciate that question because actually when we develop caring across generations with those two demographic shifts in my. That there is enormous opportunity for us to think about how we are we being a whole new social contract in the fabric of our nation weeding and. And the truth is i want to go back to this point about multigenerational relationship and the imports of multigenerational relationships that help bridge a lot of the gaps. I think weve worked really hard in the campaign to think about people who are aging people with disabilities, the caregivers themselves whether their family caregivers or the workers themselves, and really the demographics of who are the workers and one of the need for those workers. But also looking at people like myself or in the Sandwich Generation who are also trying to figure out how we meet the needs of our children and also the needs of her aging parents. Or aging loved ones in our household. And even how we are managing ourselves in
And in fact what happens is the department of defense and the cia refused to cooperate with any psychological review boards. So they can get information and therefore every complaint filed against them has failed. Has the licenses im a psychologist. Have the licenses been pulled . And the answer was know. I want to thank you all for coming. Thanks again. I hope we can do it again soon, maybe with something more cheerful. [applause] well done. With the u. S. Senate in recess all week book tv in prime time continues wednesday night starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Chinas secret strategy to replace america as the global superpower. And after months and months of cleaning the house Charles Halpern who had been given that task was making one more walkthrough. And in the attic he looked over and saw an envelope with a kind of green seal on it and walked over and noticed the date was in 1832 document. He removed a single mail from a panel in an upstairs attic room and discovered a truck and bo
Subject that i have never seen before. Do you have an index on the people who worked on this in emails that touted i worked for the government. Is that in the index . Going to have a key with a large number of reactions. We see when we discover these names they were pushing amongst other things to keep secret the names of cia personnel and also the identities of governments that were collaborating not too surprising. On the order of things that can be legitimate to some extent except that this is Historical Program the fact that the government involvement have been disclosed in all countries the names are all really wellknown in the provides cover for people doing the wrong thing. I have seen time and again people involved in these programs come in National Security analysts. No analysts. Know disclosure that the person was involved in the program. We have got to get beyond that, but coming to the accountability principle i would say that there are some very interesting things that cam