Offensive. Thank you for hosting this fabulous book festival. I am happy to be participating in this. And delighted tonight to have a conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The i
Conversation with doug stanton. He was a Brilliant Writer and author and a fellow midwesterner to request lake michigan. Which if any of you that do not know, was the premier for the event in america. When they bring in people like atwood and people like me once in a while. [laughter] he has written several wonderful books, in harms way. About the indianapolis four soldiers, about the first batch of american troops in afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. And soon to be a motion picture, we might talk about a little bit later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company. Which is not a subject that is part of my life as well, the vietnam war. Im delighted to have a conversation about that. Doug, when we start with how this idea sort of wash over you for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you to everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan. Which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in t
Maybe she would have stood by them, but well never know. So, mr. President , it is for these reasons i regrettably cannot support her nomination. Ms. Saldana, as i said, is somebody who i admire and respect, but if she is determined to help the president implement this deeply flawed executive action and refuse to enforce the law that congress has written and has been signed by previous president s, i cant support her nomination. I will not aid and abet a president dead set on unilaterally defying our nations immigration laws. Mr. President , i yield the floor. The presiding officer the senator from illinois. Mr. Durbin mr. President , i ask the chair report the saldana nomination calendar number 1084. The presiding officer is there an objection . Without objection. The clerk will report the nomination. The Clerk Department of Homeland Security, sarah r. Saldana of texas ton an assistant secretary. Mr. Durbin mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from illinois. Mr. Durbin mr
The programs you are watching. Call us or email us. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Here on cspan we take you live to the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. For an assessment of president obamas strategy in iraq. Among those participating former National Security advisor for george w. Bush. Well hear from other Foreign Security policy experts this. Is the president saying today that the humanitarian crisis is over eliminating the need for a risky u. S. Rescue mission. But the dire threat from an advancing islamic army. The president speaking to reporters. He said that the u. S. Will work with other governments to provide humanitarian relief wherever we have capabilities. On that issue the New York Times reports that worried out the spread of islamist militant extremism saudi arabia donated to a Counter Terrorism they hope wednesday it will strengthen its ability and set the example for other don nar countries. Thats from the New York Times.
Monolithic. They are divided. We need to be called innocent of in making deals with them we need to be cognizant of that. There are nasty currents coming out of the golf and the sunni powers in the gulf. I would say the best way the u. S. Can counter those is by having a vision of regional order taking the lead in establishing it so that the saudis and everybody else are not pushed back on their own resources. They dont have an expeditionary military that they can send. It is often not in our interest either. I want to refer you to the works of my colleague. His most recent book is about the long relationship between the u. S. And pakistan. I think you would find it very helpful in answering your questions. Thank you very much. Ideasdea about marshaling. Im going to ask you to go very quickly because we are running out of time. The first issue has been um. Ked about ad nausea hi one of the differences between the decisionmaking again, please. How do we define what our priorities are .