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[inaudible conversations] book tv is on twitter and facebook. And we want hear from you. Military force is one of the things think the American Public very often gets impatient about because they really believe they have this trump card, this great military that can defeat anyone. But its not true. It is an extraordinary military, very powerful, but can only win in certain situations and can only real request destroy things. Cant build a new order in its place. Sunday night, journalist and professor mark danner talks about his career and the challenges facing the u. S. War on terrorism in his latest book spiral we dont want to produce more militant organizations. They want us to overreact. They want us to occupy muslim countries so they can build their recutement. They want us to torture people. The want us to do things that is going to allow them to make their case against us. Sunday night at 8 eastern on cspans q a. Next week, ....
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I like to thank our sponsors and the mississippi folk festival for inviting us all here today. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next on booktv can train to raise together stories of Benedict Arnold and the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] we are going to have fun tonight. One, weve got kids in the front row and that means chaos, people. Weve got cspan here. Lets hear it for cspan. No better than the washington d. C. Metro area. The viewers of cspan are in this room right now. That means the regular viewers of course. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple other things we do nowhere else and we are going to do here. First i will tell you about the difference between history and destiny. History is what happened, but destiny is what must happen. This is true. I cant believe this is happening, but my father, may he rest in peace, was struck by lightning. His f ....
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Information on the contest, the three branches and now. Today the Defense Department honored michigan senator carl levin and buck mckeon with a military parade. Theyre the chairman of the senate and House Armed Services committees, and both are retiring from congress this year. Defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chief chairman Martin Dempsey spoke about the legislative careers of the two chairman. This is just under an hour. Please be seated. Block [inaudible conversations] the department of defense medal for distinguished Public Service is awarded to the honorable carl levin for distinguished Public Service as plane of the United States sena ....