And securing the blefg of liberty blessings of liberty for all americans has taken a long and bumpy road and we still have a lot further to go. It starts with that one step. But at this moment the country and the world are demanding we pick up the stride. Lets follow iowas lead. Lets come together and take meaningful action. And to be clear, the passage of a single bill is not going to suddenly reverse centuries of injustice. Passing laws are a simple part. If we really want to change behavior, we need to commit ourselves to changing our hear hearts. The best way that we can personally commemorate the life of george floyd and the many others before him who lost their lives or suffered injustice is to open our own hearts. Chaplain black summed up the solution best when he quoted to me mark 12 31. Love your neighbor as yourself. Its both that simple and that challenging. So im asking all of us in this body to be more like iowa. Lets find a solution. Lets take that first step and begin ou
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions
In terms of policy, you know, the fundamental issues were political and economic and they failed to deliver on their promises, on what people were expecting, you know, and this is this is what precipitated the rising i think significance of these religious groups, later on fundamentalist groups and later on extremist groups throughout the region, and the key problem here their rise was not just in terms of their own popularity, you know, within their borders, muslim brotherhood, 11, 12, 30 of the vote but more importantly i think they were able to dictate the parameters of the discussion in terms of the policy issues that were ongoing. You know, rise influence secular groups, nonpolitical groups so much so that they felt the need to bring religion to their own discussion, to their own sort of policies, proposed so to speak. One good example is what is happening in turkey today. Erdogan and akp have come to power in 2002 and hes been i mean, hes a politician and so successful in terms o
The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Will get to the subject eventually, but the point of the book entitled transeven and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply of the drivers entitled seven pillars. From yemen to syria iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been absolute failure. The basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the re
Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region, and if so, how . In this regard the editors of aid money, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis, and their cocontributors, have given given us a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify our legitimacy, islam, arab ideology, the militaries, education, economy, and gove