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lots of this book. you taught to people who fight for the united states and you use the word imperial. that is not the rhetoric we hear from the hillary clinton s of this world. and the liberal interventionists at all. it s trying to actually net countries govern themselves is the whole idea, right? i mean, the polite liberals and the polite inferior lists are white, call them, or the light intervention is they. they always come up with rhetoric to justify these interventions. but 11 looks at the practical end of it and for better or worse my life really my adult life was spent at the practical point. the end of the sphere. it looked a lot. ready like invasion, occupation, and sort of, you know, a brand of imperialism. no one likes the word empire in the united states. in fact, we re really proud we just celebrated the fact were, we were ostensibly founded in opposition to the greatest empire in the world. now was king george, we don t like empire, but one of the things ....
u. s. army? well, i think it s, it s a tragedy for the young people, but it s been an ongoing tragedy in general that there s been 4 years of war. i think the american troops leaving the dead of night is a fitting way for the imperial us sort of forces to go. this was the ower for 10 years or longer when you know, when i fought there in 201-1128 was the height of the u. s. troop presence and we barely controlled anything but the ground we stood on. i m for the withdrawal. i don t think that america can meaningfully influence the outcomes in afghanistan and the whole thing is a tragedy. but more so for the people of afghan us, then i support the withdrawal. but we re, we re going out with our tail between our legs, which is surprising to people who weren t paying attention. i think so, the fact that the united states really has really is not achieved anything in afghanistan. and things are worse essentially than and we found it or, or then we found that in february 2002 ....
traveling preachers and an emphasis on evangelism. hisal class is about 70 minutes. we ve been talking about the founding of the american colonies and we re getting into the 1700 s. today and this week i want to focus on religion in the late colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the e 1730s and 40s. and i know this has been on your mind since you have a paper coming up about that. we ll give some of the background to religion in the colonial period and then the lead-up to the great awakening. some of the overview of what happens in the great awakening. and then hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen, we have an a image of george whitfieldn who is the most fam7 preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london there in the 1730s, 1740s. he is the sensation of the age. we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background r to what is happening in 18th century am ....
founding of the american colonies and we re getting now into the 1700s. today, in this week, i m going to focus mostly on religion and the late control colonial period, and the coming of the great awakening in the 17 thirties and forties. and i know this has been on you all s mind since you have a paper on that coming up. so we are going to give some of the background to religion in the colonial period, and then the lead up to the great awakening, some overview of what s happening in the great awakening. and hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an image of george whitfield, who is the most famous preacher of the great awakening, preaching in london. they re in their 17 thirties, 17 forties, he is the sensation of the age. but we ll talk more about him when we get there. first, i want to take a look at the background to what s happening in 18th century america with regard to religion. and we ve talked about some of ....
police announce a new lead. and delayed by a year but athletes are hoping to shine the 2020 paralympics gets under way in tokyo. good evening and welcome to the programme. with the united states today refusing to budge from its deadline of august 31 for withdrawing troops from afghanistan a g7 virtual summit shared by boris johnson appealed to the taliban to allow safe passage and beyond that date for anyone wants to leave. but in an hardening of tone the taliban today indicated they would not allow afghans to be evacuated in the us should stop encouraging afghans to go to the airport to be airlifted out. they also said that all international evacuations need to be completed by the end of the month. lease to set reporting from kabul in the situation at the airport. her report contained some distressing images. stay calm, orders this taliban guard. there is no calm here. not in a crowd too big to count, too big to control. but the days are numbered now before the us ....