Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period that we became a much more Democratic Society by the early 19th century and that this transformed our culture in fundamental ways, and that became my book the radicalism of
Any one of them individually much less all of them simultaneously. No, he was not demented. No, he was not on meds. None that i nkewknew of. In a few weeks time when the messed president of afghanistan is that man will lead one from a change for the better and the 12 plus, nearly 13 years that Harmid Karzai assumed his office. While today Harmid Karzai finds himself strongly criticized. I believe to search and Detailed Analysis of his administration and his presidency of him as a man will return a balanced appraisal of his legacy. And how it was that after all these years of conflict, afghanistan could have come so far under his leadership. Thank you. Thank you general. There is a huge amount there that we will be able to engage with a little bit later on. Now you have put me in the position of doing something that you wisely have never done which is to ask an afghan what he thinks of president karzai and his legacy. The floor is yours. Thank you, scott. Im humbled to be part of such a
Romney, well, clearly hes in debt to the hawks, the neoconservatives who write the stufer we heard last night, this talk of accusing the president of iran of genocide for the things he said about israel. Its purely political stuff. That and what he said about russia being our number one enemy in the world today. All this old cold war stuff. Whats beneath it . Who knows. What we do know is he feels the need to wear that neocon suit. Will he rip it off if elect . Why would anyone think that . He spoke about wanting a peaceful planet. Talk about learning a dance for the occasion. John rileman and ron reagan join us. Mitt has a tendency to assume whatever political profile he thought would best help him win. In 2007 facing a relatively moderate john mccain and rudy giuliani, he tacked to the hard write. Everything could always be tweaked, reshaped, fixed, addressed said one former aide describing his outlick. Saying it was foreign to him on policy issues that Core Principles mattered that