Facebook, and twitter, and we sit down with john sopko, the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction to talk about the latest report. Host good morning on this monday, november 27. Congress is back for what is expected to be at least three weeks of work. Some are calling it a year and yearend sprint of work. President will be meeting with congressional leaders early this week to talk about all of it. At the same time, plenty of news from overseas, including one headline that says victory or failure in afghanistan . 2018 will be the deciding year. That is our focus for the full washington journal. Should the u. S. Stay or leave afghanistan . If you think the u. S. Should stay, call 202 7488000. If you think they should leave, 202 7488001. We have a separate line for afghanistan veterans. We look forward to hearing your opinion. Your number is 202 7488002. If not by phone, weigh in on social media. cspanwj is our twitter handle. Also post a comment on our facebook page, f
About france . We love france. I will start and you will finish. France is really important. Did people hear her . We are talking about france. The pivot of our book we would agree. What we needed to do was get jefferson out of virginia. He was having a rough time there as you know, and give him a chance to be a visionary, to get some perspective on the American Revolution and the state of virginia. Being in france enabled him to do that. To suddenly see that a space that he wanted, had great doubts about his fellow virginians and they are all over his book about the state of virginia. In france those doubts diminished because he saw something much worse. He saw the old regime and he said what we have in america, we have wholesome families, farming their farms, this is the foundation of a healthy, Natural Society and also, this is the crucial argument we make and it is one of annettes great contributions of course it is all her book, to our understanding of jefferson, that is how jeffe
And no political power. There is in france no legislature, theres no way for the people to be able to actually speak and to change things. And so he sees a decadent political system that he locates as decadent because of the family. The family life in france is decadent to him. Women, women out in the street scary. Was scary. He liked them, you know, obviously. [laughter] women out in the street, all these things. Sigmund was not around then, zig money freud was not around then Sigmund Freud was not around then, but women out in the streets looking for pleasure, they should be back in their nurseries, theyre not attending to whats at home. Is so he has this idealized version of family. We talk about the importance of home, of family, hes not at home until he gets to retirement. Hes there 17 years. Family, heath idealizing the women. His wife is dead and hes there by himself. He begins to look at the world, at virginia, in a very, very through a sentimental haze. And he begins to look a
Democratic Party Platform did not support emancipation. This hourlong discussion was part of a symposium on the 1864 election hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. Our next speaker is known to many of us. And some of us have the strength to have read one of the two volumes this is the second volume covering the period of todays symposium, of Abraham Lincoln a life by Michael Burlingame who holds the distinguished chair at university of illinois at springfield. His earlier work, the inner world of Abraham Lincoln, is being discussed on saturday mornings monthly by a Book Discussion group that is sponsored by the Lincoln Group of d. C. And we meet at fords theater education center. Michael has done the most Massive Research on Abraham Lincoln of any scholar. He has edited 12 major books that lay out original source material from those who knew lincoln or studied him closely in the early years after lincoln. So, we are very pleased to have, as our final speaker before our panel, professor
Afghanistan and this has included 43 individuals and companies identified as having actively supported insurgent groups. Unfortunately, not every agency in the u. S. Government has the same fire in the belly. When we refer companies or individuals for suspension and debarment, those individuals are not acted on expeditiously as we want. We have proposed granting sigar or the theater commanders that can allowance to get rid of bad actors as soon as we find them. We are also working more closely than any other Law Enforcement agency with the Afghan Police and prosecutors to get afghans charged, tried, and convicted in afghan accords for bribery and corruption. Remember, this may sound odd to you, why are we using u. S. Court stepped in afghanistan, unlike in iraq where u. S. Contractors were predominant, the u. S. Government promoted an Afghan First Initiative which emphasized prioritizing contracts with afghanowned and operated companies. That is why in order to fulfil our mission of co