let us know whether you d eat that salmon. we ve been talking about it in the newsroom. you could eat more of it for the same price. would you want to? we begin with the big buzz in washington over a new book by bob woodward, it s called obama s wars and paints a picture of a president who was anxious to get out of afghanistan. ed henry joins us live from the big house on pennsylvania avenue this morning with the developing story. ed, if the story is accurate and bob woodward is known to be accurate, this president has had a touchy relationship with his top military people. you re right. we don t have a copy of the book yet, but it has a track record, published a couple dozen books, most of them considered pretty darn accurate. this is going to be a difficult story for this white house to handle. if you go through the details of this. broad brush we ve known that there s division, there has been division, there s division in every administration over war, policy,
do you think the world can realistically move off its addiction to oil and gasoline in the next 20 years? let me know what you think. some exciting news. we have received countless requests from you for an audio version of the gps podcast. the video file is too big, you said, you wanted to listen to it on your ipod, your car stereo, et cetera. we heard you, and we ve done it. you can now subscribe to either the audio or video podcast at itunes. and you can always see either version on our website, cnn.com/gps. all this is free. now, as i do every week, i want to recommend a book. i find that there s usually very little new to say about the middle east. but the author steven kinsler has found something quite novel and interesting to say in his new book reset: iran, turkey, and america s future. he recommends that the united states find new partners in the region, that saudi arabia and israel aren t cutting it anymore.
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obama pivoted off the oil spill to ask americans to embrace a clean energy future. he called for a national mission to move from reliance on oil and spoke of the need to overcome a lack of courage and candor. but candor does require that we admit that much as we might wish otherwise, there are no known technologies that can move us off petroleum in the next 20 or even 30 years. while we may be able to find green sources of energy to power our homes and factories in the future, nuclear, solar, wind, as a fuel in transportation there s really nothing that can remotely compete with the cost, portability, efficiency, and reliability of petroleum. that s why it s been the lifeblood of the industrial world for almost a century. now, we can use it more efficiently. we can stop wasting it on making plastic bottles and cans. and we should of course extract it more safely. but even 30 years from now in all likelihood we will be using oil as a transport fuel in planes, trucks, and some