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Long term . I can remember arriving in rio to see the saudi text with the entire text of the Framework Convention in brackets. And i know that theres still a concern that russia has been difficult to deal with on this issue for many years. But i dont want to answer the question. What is the where are the big challenges, do you think . Yeah, well so, theres two different ways to anxious that question. If you mean in the context of the Ongoing International negotiations thats kind of the i guess i mean both, the negotiations and the real world on the ground. Okay. So, with respect to negotiations, the short answer is i dont think we know yet. I think that there i mean, going into these negotiations there were various groupings of countries who were at least from our point of view and from the point of view of any number of countries who were seeking a certain kind ....
Are there other questions . [applause] please line up along the back wall. And we will definitely go ahead and answer some questions. For more information, visit david kertzer. Com. Heres the primetime lineup for tonight. His book is my country, tisza beat. And his book is mother of invention, robert field. How the government created freemarket health care. Battle happens tonight on booktv. This is about an hour and a half its a great pleasure to welcome you here and to welcome the author with his stunning new books. Weve done deep research and that is a key event and has a real history and there is an element of a memoir and its also known that he is a professor of the United States. And we will have the senator with us who will be producing responses to a we have talked about. And i am told that he is studying for his phd. The british experience in iraq is worth the americans variance in iraq. And we are really pleased to have bo ....
Deep research and general was there for much of the events he is describing so it is history and memoir. He is a professor, and worked alongside general petraeus. We are pleased to have you here. And after he gives the presentation, we will have general who produces questions to what he says. Rayburn is leading a study for the iraq war and study for his phd and it is concerning the british experience in the iraq which is probably worst than the american experience. We are pleased to have both of you. Thank you for that introduction. I wasnt going to write this book. I retired from the military in 2008 and i knew there was a story to be told, i was going to take time to digest and develop and i was thinking 1020 years down the road i would like a history of the iraq war. But a couple years later in the summer of 2010, i was at a conference with a who is who of experts in the United States and we were talking about what to do in afgh ....
All this and much more on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. The full schedule is available at booktv. Org. Next on booktv, peter mansoor, joe David Petraeus executive officer from 20072008 talked about the short and longterm impact of the surge in iraq. 20,000 additional troops were sent to the country in 2007 to stabilize it. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome to the new America Foundation. Its with great pleasure that i get to welcome peter mansoor, the author of a stunning new book, content which will be one of the key books about the iraq war. The deep research and, of course, colonel mansoor was there for so much of the key defense as he describes in the book combo the real history but also an element of memoir. Gentlemen star is also professor at ohio state. He was executive officer to general petraeus. He has a ph. D, we are pleased to have you here. And after ....
Dont speak pashtun or farsi or what they need to do. Can they give that . Ill give an answer, but ill tell you i did not bring you up to be a prop for the last answer, but it was how i wanted to end. Okay . This book is 70 about what our troops are doing every day. Its not about strategy. I bring that in. I try to show whats happening on battlefield after battlefield, and the grit of the young men that gets to the military ethic, theres going to be another point if i can figure out how to calibrate it. There is an america, a military ethos, and you cannot be a strong superpower if you cant have it, and no one in western europe has it, and its now gone from the united kingdom, which breaks my heart, but its in the United States. I dont know where it comes from. The grunts that i know are onehalf of onehalf of 1 of the eligible population. 75 of all males the ages of 1820 are not physically or mentally capable of being recruited into ....