Much more beyond being an elected office having some sort of title. I think the title he cared most about was father, grandfather, brother cousin. His family was so absolutely important to him. I read through his obituary, and it reminds me to some extent of how i felt after i wrote and read my fathers own obituary in that its a wonderfulm but it doesnt come close to really saying who this man was. Mike gave his entire life to his brother and sister, both as family, but also when i say that i mean collectively, his entire society. Truly someone who will be missed dearly. His wife of 45 years kathleen his three children, one of whom is a member of our own Police Department lt. Mike nevin. A great man who leaves a great legacy, not just in San Mateo County but throughout the region. I know i can say it on behalf of everyone here, his family is. Lnk sent our deepest condolences. President condolences if we could president chiu if we could adjourn as a board for mike nevin and kay gulbenga
Policy. The council of Foreign Relations member and former analyst is the author of six nonfiction books, including the village, the strongest tribe and his 2011 release, the wrong war. Being wise, why do you call afghanistan toward the wrong war . Guest because we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen hurtling into the ninth century. That was too much. So what was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii, but doing in afghanistan, which is a pile of rocks in the middle of nowhere was the wrong war for that strategy. Host what wouldve been the right were . Guest very sent will. We shouldve finished al qaeda in 2001. Our general despair, but i think all of us. The rack, we were attacked on 9 11. More americans died in pearl harbor. We had al qaeda and we had Osama Bin Laden trapped in some mountains called tora bora. And then we le
Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end game in iraq and his 2011 release the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan. Why did you call the Afghanistan War the wrong war . Guest we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen going headlong into the ninth century. That was too much. It was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii but doing it in afghanistan which is a pil
Oh, yes, you can. Thats what a war is all about. And general mccristal and others said mcchrystal said we should spend 95 of our effort persuading the people and 5 attacking the enemy. That makes no sense. If you start putting all these restrictions upon the use of force, do you know that we ended up having a lawyer in every battalion who had to decide whether we could use air in an attack for fear that somebody would be courtmartialed . So we put restrictions on ourselves beyond the restrictions that police have in major cities in the United States. Host bing west, in your view, was the iraq war necessary . [laughter] guest with perfect 20 20 hindsight . Absolutely not. Host at the time what did you think . Guest at the time i did because i believed then, as did most of the American Public and the congress, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and would give them to terrorists. That turns out to have been wrong. Wrong idea. Host in your book about the iraq war, the stro
The shooting in 40hood and one of the Fastest Growing countries in africa. Remembering the rawandan genocide sixty years later. Something talk about race in motion. Great whales battle back from distinction. Its been one month since Malaysian Air flight 370 is accident happened. Now, a few discovery could shed light on actually what happened. Australian and chinese officials have picked up three signals over the weekend that they think could be from that planes data and voice recorders. All of this is happening in the southern indian ocean off of the west coast of australia. Crews also spotted debris about 55 miles away from where those sounds were heard. Still, wild the lead may be encouraging, australias Prime Minister is sounding at best daughtersly optimistic. Its a difficult search. While we certainly are throwing everything we have at it and while the best brakes and technology in the world will be deployed, we need to be very careful about coming to hard and fast copclusions too