Books written by fellows of the cooper institution at Stanford University. You will hear from former secretaries of state schultz and rice, economist, soul, kissinger biographer and historian neil ferguson. Former George W Bush justice departmendepartment official, ad winning author Shelby Steele in the first, heres a portion of the 2013 interview with george schultz, secretary of state during the Reagan Administration he talked about his book issues on my mind. And the issues in my mind, you right when it comes to terrorism, lee in this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved. If we truly believe in our Democratic Values in a way of life, we must be willing to defend that. Passive measures are unlikely and active defense must be considered and given the necessary political support. Is a if you have the Law Enforcement approach, you say okay a terrorist attack happened, and you find out who did it. They might try them in the u. S. Court and make them guilty. And their e
Schultz, he talks about his book, issues on my mind. In the measures onio mind you talk when it comes to terrorism, we must think of moral involved if we must think of way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Means of more active defense and deterrence must be considered given the political support. If you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen, then we find out who did it and we try them in the u. S. Courts and end lease appeal they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrence but in the meantime terrorist act is taking place and terrorist act like 9 11 can kill a lot of people. If you know something is coming at you, stop it from happening. In other words, prevention. I think when i first said that in 1984 it was controversial but after 9 11 people said, of course, we should be trying to stop that from happening and so trying to prevent things is very important and we do it a great deal in the country. I think theres be
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