Policy. The council of Foreign Relations member and former analyst is the author of six nonfiction books, including the village, the strongest tribe and his 2011 release, the wrong war. Being wise, why do you call afghanistan toward the wrong war . Guest because we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen hurtling into the ninth century. That was too much. So what was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii, but doing in afghanistan, which is a pile of rocks in the middle of nowhere was the wrong war for that strategy. Host what wouldve been the right were . Guest very sent will. We shouldve finished al qaeda in 2001. Our general despair, but i think all of us. The rack, we were attacked on 9 11. More americans died in pearl harbor. We had al qaeda and we had Osama Bin Laden trapped in some mountains called tora bora. And then we le
Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end game in iraq and his 2011 release the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan. Why did you call the Afghanistan War the wrong war . Guest we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen going headlong into the ninth century. That was too much. It was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii but doing it in afghanistan which is a pil
Oh, yes, you can. Thats what a war is all about. And general mccristal and others said mcchrystal said we should spend 95 of our effort persuading the people and 5 attacking the enemy. That makes no sense. If you start putting all these restrictions upon the use of force, do you know that we ended up having a lawyer in every battalion who had to decide whether we could use air in an attack for fear that somebody would be courtmartialed . So we put restrictions on ourselves beyond the restrictions that police have in major cities in the United States. Host bing west, in your view, was the iraq war necessary . [laughter] guest with perfect 20 20 hindsight . Absolutely not. Host at the time what did you think . Guest at the time i did because i believed then, as did most of the American Public and the congress, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and would give them to terrorists. That turns out to have been wrong. Wrong idea. Host in your book about the iraq war, the stro
With the president to announce plans for the march on washington. In support of the Civil Rights Act. June 12th, 1963 as everest was returning home for the naacp meeting member byron shot him in his driveway as he was getting out of his car. Evers was killed instantly. Randolph and fellow americans , the National Urban league is honored to be a participant in this historic occasion. Our presence here reflects not only the civil rights communities increasing the awareness of the urban league, but most important it says and i hope what and clear that while intelligence, maturity and strategy dictates a Civil Rights Agency we use different methods and we are all united as never before on the goal of first class citizenship. To present to you the moral leader of the nation. I have the pleasure to present to you dr. Martin luther king. [applause] i am happy to join with you today what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause]
Were looking fine. We cleared out overnight. We had a cold front come through in the past couple of hours. We should be in for a good looking tuesday. It is windy out there at the moment. But later today, sunshine and high temperatures about other degrees as were shaping up to have a nice day. There is your radar. You can see things clearing out. The midatlantic, nice and quiet. You might see rain showers bubbling up down into South Carolina and down into the deep south. That is a frontal system and that will be part of our player in the next couple of days. We have a storm system developing down there moving in our direction during the day tomorrow. What will that bring us . I will have the details on that in just a couple of minutes. Right now, we are in the 40s, mid40s out there. So it is not an uncomfortable start at all. Police in Prince Georges County are on the scene of what they are calling a death investigation. They say a shooting occurred around 1 00 this morning on 36th str