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In the middle east was a catastrophic mistake but not who did what in the invasion of iraq and how bad that was but a long held american policy of arming, funding, and training sunni, jihaddist militants that goes back to the decision in the Carter Administration in 979 to arm, train and fund the knew hauge make Immediate Fund the mahajmadine and get them in the quagmire we had in vietnam and though it had shortterm gains in getting the soviets out of afghanistan, that policy has been zast us for the United States and it goes to the precursor elements in al qaeda and after the invasion in iraq, as we were desperate to try to bring in these sunni groups that were not accepting this upending of the political order we had arranged engineered in iraq with the invasion, desperate to corrupt some of the sunni elements, the surge looked at in washington think an unmitigated success took us right back to that policy and entailed beyond sending 30,000 troops to the baghdad area, it entailed arm
Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. They held the Board Meeting in San Francisco this week where janet that p napolitano gave her address. Well sdatart anexploring a tuition policy. Napolitano faces additional challenges. They speak 120 million more from the state. Governor brown calls that unrealistic. No stranger to tough challenges. The former Arizona Governor was president obamas secretary of Homeland Security when she was chosen as the first woman to head the uc system. Her surprise election set up protest for immigration policy during her tenure in washington. Shes focused on governoring a system with ten campus, five medical centers and nearly a quarter million students. Scott shafer sat down earlier with janet napolitano. President napolitano, welcome. Thank you. This has been a tough few years for the university of california, budget cuts, tuition increases. You had rare good news and tuition for the coming year but you need help from sacramento. What do you need for th
Almost 3200 workers got the bad news tonight. Atlantic city revel casino will shut down this summer and those workers will lose their jobs if the owners of the casino cannot find a new buyer. Its thursday night and the big story on action news tonight is the financial crisis for the Revel Casino Hotel coming to a head. Revel fired for chapter 11 for the second time today since it opened in 2012 and dap those jobs are hanging in the balance. Jim, i hate to say it. Revel is on life support. Many had high hopes for the mega resort hoping it would be the economic spark to turn things around in Atlantic City. From the beginning it seems we watched a slow, painful death and sparkling city by the sea. And the 2. 4 billion mega resort and casino opened a fan fair with stunning design nont embrace the sun and ocean and anyone who stayed her would till the same thing. Theyre pretty and well and one of the best weve ever seen. I love the architecture of the space and restaurants are amazing. It s
Atlantic city revel casino will shut down this summer and those workers will lose their jobs if the owners of the casino cannot find a new buyer. Its thursday night and the big story on action news tonight is the financial crisis for the Revel Casino Hotel coming to a head. Revel fired for chapter 11 for the second time today since it opened in 2012 and dap those jobs are hanging in the balance. Jim, i hate to say it. Revel is on life support. Many had high hopes for the mega resort hoping it would be the economic spark to turn things around in Atlantic City. From the beginning it seems we watched a slow, painful death and sparkling city by the sea. And the 2. 4 billion mega resort and casino opened a fan fair with stunning design nont embrace the sun and ocean and anyone who stayed her would till the same thing. Theyre pretty and well and one of the best weve ever seen. I love the architecture of the space and restaurants are amazing. It seemed to die revels future seem to be cast fro