tomorrow the blix visit the los angeles lakers and we get a preview. a couple years ago when they faced each other they were both looking for championships. now they have them. boston beat the lakers in the series, humiliated them if the final game and the lakers came back last year and beat orlando. so it s a different series this time around because they each have championships so they re not seeking the holy grail. now they re trying to get one more added on to it. rose: biden and gray next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: joe biden is here. he is at the center of the administration s foreign and we domestic policy decisions. a host of grave issues confront the administration at this moment, from the israeli raid off the gaza coast to oil spill in the gulf coast. on tuesday, attorney general eric holder announced a criminal investigation into the spill, which is now the worst in u.s. history.
as we can to allow them to get building materials in. rose: that s what they were trying to bring in. building materials. we know that! but they could have easily brought in the here and we get it through. rose: we conclude with sports and jim gray who talks about tiger woods and the n.b.a. finals. tomorrow the blix visit the los angeles lakers and we get a preview. a couple years ago when they faced each other they were both looking for championships. now they have them. boston beat the lakers in the series, humiliated them if the final game and the lakers came back last year and beat orlando. so it s a different series this time around because they each have championships so they re not seeking the holy grail. now they re trying to get one more added on to it. rose: biden and gray next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. rose: joe biden is here. he is at the center of the administration s foreign
a conservatism is traditionalism. it s a system of belief that comes out of the wisdom and the experience of the people and the human race. and basically out of natural law, philosophy. what mankind s human nature is like. let me give you one example of that. woodrow wilson said back in 1917, we re going to war to make the world safe for democracy. it was nonsense. we went to war because our ships were being sunk by the germans and that s what got us into the war. the british empire, the russian empire and the japanese empire. and italy, which wanted shares of the austrian hungarian empire and romania which wanted to carve out part of hungary. none were going to war for democracy and the idea that the united states could bring democracy to the world was preposterous and in that world we lost 116,000 dead. and, of course, that war ushered in hitler, stalin and mussolini. and the idea that we can create democracy worldwide or something like that, it is a belief system that s no