war and thousand of civilian and military deaths, it is time for the afghan people to determine their own future. joining us now are the washington post correspondent ann guerin, and the supreme allied commander at nato and retired admiral james stravidis, and now you are saying that the biden administration has met the objectives. the threat is no longer on the homeland, and so now is the withdrawal now within the strategic interests? i would argue that you can make a very strong case to remain at least in a limited form in order to ensure that there is not a reflash. having said that, this is a tough call. the president has made a decision. what is important, geoff, what happens now, and what should we be doing. so i ll say what happens now, potentially could be a meltdown. the wheels could come off of this thing, and 1 in 3 chance that it holds together, and the key is if the u.s. is going to be willing to support the afghani forces in the over the horizon missions and i
what we re going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is we re going to do robert e. lee in the post-war years. and my co-worker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. lee. what i m hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. lee did in the post-war years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. the other main theme of this lecture, i m going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldn t say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. lee tries to reconcile the nation. and what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in
so leaving the broken system the way it is, that s not a solution. in fact, that s the real amnesty, pretending we can deport 11 million people or build a wall without spending tens of billions of tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer money isn t betting that is really just factually incorrect. it s not going to work. it s not good for this country. it s a feant that offers nothing to help the middle class and demeans our tradition of being both a nation of laws nd a nation of immigrants. in the end, it is my firm belief that immigration is not something to fear. we don t have to wall ourselves off from those who may not look like us right now or pray like we do or have a different last name, because being an american is about somet l.a. makes us americans are our shared commitment to an ideal, all of us are created ideal, all of us have a chance to make of our lives what we will. and every study shows that whether it was the irish, the ls or the germans or the italians or
our next call comes from oakland, maryland. good evening. how are you doing? good. i remember in 1972 as a college student at allegheny college in cumberland, md., he came to the campus one day. the following day he was shot at the world mall. what i can remember of that is i read about something that does not seem to be talked about much. he went through a major transition after this. i think i read that he did talk openly about it and had some sort of religious conversion so predict conversion somewhat. also, i can remember seeing him received an award from alabama s naacp. that was in his last term as governor, i think. am i wrong on that or not? i can remember actually watching that and i was amazed to see the transformation from segregationist to basically receiving that type of recognition. thank you very much. we are going to be discussing all of that throughout the evening on the contenders. give us a snapshot of what harry was speaking about. if you want to
increases in education, the establishment of community colleges around the state that would be accessible to individuals who cannot afford to go to the university of alabama, but they could attend the community college for a couple of years, maybe get a tech degree or whatever. education was a big part of it. the underlying force of this passion for governor wallace was, at least in the 1960 s, was the race issue. our first call on george wallace comes from michigan. you are on the contenders. we are live from montgomery alabama. thank you very much. what appeal did governor wallace have to white ethnic, and religious groups like jews, catholics, etc., outside of the south and the urban areas? also, what did he take of senator goldwater? senator goldwater was also against the civil rights stuff. thank you very much. he did have a remarkable appeal to ethnic, particularly first generation, eastern europeans. he did not have the baggage of being anti-semitic and of being