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You said to me, this is the most fine ive had. What was it about the experience . Hat resonated with you bang bang bruce were talking a lot about character of a president because we are in our president ial campaign season. This is a man who demonstrated unusual character in the white house. He faced some of the hardest decisions any president in American History has faced. About the invasion of india which comes simultaneously with the cuban missile crisis. He handled to huge global crises simultaneously. In both, he showed unusual depth of thinking about the problem and thinking it through, not necessarily doing the easy thing or the thing his advisers told him to do, but in the end, coming up with two important victories. Charlie with people urging him to bomb cuba. Virtually his whole cabinet wanted him to go to war in cuba with the russians. And the president were the only two looked at this problem and said that is crazy. If we do that, we are initiating a nuclear apocalypse. 50
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We turn now to afghanistan. The efforts to complete the first democratic transition continues. A deal brokered by john kerry appears to be in peril. Both president ial candidates agreed to the audit of the vote and the formation of the unity government. Differences are emerging between both camps. As withdrawal of u. S. Troops draw closer, the taliban are making military gains in the south ended the capital. Bruce knows afghanistans history well. He has written a new book called what we won americas secret war in afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. I am pleased to have him back at this table. I should say anybody who wants to understand afghanistan turns to you, including the president of the United States because you becausele advisor you were principal advisor. The foremost intelligent expert has produced a concise history of americas first engagement and that pivotal part of the world. The book has a dramatic lessons. What is the f
They can make a guest they can make a recommendation. If an ambassador makes a recommendation like that i have never seen anybody resist that. Where you get more friction will be if you get people who are nervous in washington saying everybody should go home and the ambassador is saying we can handle this. It is too important to leave. That is one of the big dangers of in what has gone on in the discussion of benghazi. To my mind, that will make senior politicians in washington, not in the field, so afraid of having a casualty and their being attacked politically that they will force our diplomats deeper into bunkers where we will not be able to do our jobs and we will be functionally stupid and well will not we will not be given good advice. Host this is one of the issues you brought up at the benghazi hearing. Guest i think it is one of the biggest dangers, that we will treat security as an absolute. That this will happen whether future administration is republican or democrat the da
Hoping well keep the world at bay, hoping we will sustain ourselves with a reduced presence in the world and a radically reduced capacity for defending ourselves, defending our allies and projecting our power. So that would be sort of an an litic way to present why we are in decline. Its not a conscious choice. I dont want to play the amateur psychiatrist or even a professional one in this. I dont want to look in obamas soul but if you look at where modern liberalism is taking us, it is to recreate the choice the europeans made in the late 1940s after the second world war. The problem for us, and i think the problem for the west is if we decline and use our resources internally, who will protect us, who will protect the free world, who will keep open the sea lanes and who will prevent the rise of a hegamon like china or the chaos that will ensue if theres no leader or dominant power in the world. Its a very long answer to a short question. And the reason i did that is because on televi