thing, though, that has far reaching consequences for us as a country. not for what we ve done, but for what we do next. if you ask iraq and afghanistan veterans about the distance between people in the military and their families who have been at war for ten solid years now, if you ask about the distance between them and the rest of the country, ask iraq and afghanistan veterans if after ten years of the military fighting these wars the rest of the country understands military personnel, if you ask them whether the public at large gets them and their family and their issues right now, 84% of iraq and afghanistan veterans say no. that is horrifying. that chasm, this yawning gap between american civilian life and the american military s life in the last ten years is horrifying. the radically different experiences in the ten years since 9/11 for military families and non-military families, that is fauundamental change for whoe are and moving forward. joining me now, former fbi
lion to be stuffed and displayed. this presumably important bill earned overwhelmingly support by democrats and republicans. if only that same bipartisan spirit could be used to ending tax laws sending jobs out of state. best country western single released by a conservative democratic senator and reviewed this week by the omaha world herald newspaper, that award goes to ben nelson of nebraska, who, in the song, sounds way more like kermit the frog than i would have expected. but i mean nit a good way. i m going home where the buffalo rome so i can see my next of kin it s not easy being ben. best country and western single released by a conservative democratic senator and reviewed
money. new estimates out this week are that tv ads for the 2012 election will total more than $3 billion. we re told to expect almost a quarter billion dollars of that will come just from karl rove s group, american cross roads group which announced last month they were doubling their fund-raising goal to $240 million. 92% of the millions they raise this year so far was from three people. three zillionaires. that fund-raising isn t going to be hard. every season is campaign season, where every campaign season is driven by cash and where there s so much cash the cash only counts if you can divide it into $100 million increments. we are not much for public intellectuals in this country. we have celebrities and politicians and activists, public intellectuals we do not have many. lawrence lusti fwrks g is an intellectual we have as a nation. the way you can tell that
control of afghanistan after we pull out that that s what we see today. that struggle that s happening and the emergence of haqqani network as a major player in afghanistan. and in the an senbsence, the no effect we re going to have n on these people have been killing each other hundreds of years and will continue unfortunately to kill each other for hundreds. years. we need to leave but in a way we can guarantee afghanistan won t be a launchpad for transnational terroristic groups to attack the west and attack the united states. so in order to have the security guarantees, we have to have regional agreements and tribal agreements in the country. you can put 200,000 troops in afghanistan and that s not going to make a difference. the book is called black banners: the inside story of 9/11 and the war against al qaeda. ali, because you re here, i have to ask you something personally as a favor. i ve been using your book essentially as an almanac since it came out. will you publ
you can t work on proliferation anymore. it is the one thing you have not only discredited yourself but by your actions you basically discredited our entire country. you can work on anything you want. you can become a color by numbers genius. you can invent a new form of recycling container, write amazing sci-fi novels, be a stay at home dad but can t work on the weapons of mass destruction thing anymore. if you re the uranium from africa guy. that s the one thing you can not do. mitt romney named the uranium from africa guy co-chair of his counterproliferation working group. the uranium from africa guy is going to be mitt romney s uranium from africa guy. this would be like hiring somebody from black water saying forward looking foreign policy. oh, wait, cofer black who left in the middle of the bush presidency to become an executive at black water has been named a mitt romney foreign policy adviser. mitt romney picked up dan senor