So welcome to the annual lecture. Featuring our special guest general david berger in the marine corps. He is a true american patriot, he is making very exciting changes to the recorder and he is here to share with you. We are honored to have him here to hear his insights and to see what the future holds for the marine corps. We would like to think the sponsor for this event James Mcginley who makes a series of lectures possible. The annual colonel lecture always features an distinguished speaker talking about the topics of national security. In the past we have welcomed david hansen senator jon kyl and james mattis, a distinguished list and were very happy to have another distinguished speaker here today. The Foundation Also partners with the Marine Corps University foundation to host this event. And Lieutenant General Richard Mills who is the president and ceo of the Marine Corps University foundation. General mills enjoyed a 40 year career at the marine corps and led marines all aro
We welcome those who join us on heritage. Org. For all the guests inhouse, we that yourtesy check cell phones and other noisemaking devices have been muted as a courtesy to our speaker. Is a graduate of west point and serves as an adjunct or foster an adjunct professor at georgetown university. He serves on the board of trustees at the Marine Corps University foundation and the Advisory Board for the west point center of oil history, the of oral history. Help me in welcoming jim c arafano. James thank you. Pete is not only a great friend, but the definition of a great american. He graduated from princeton and harvard. Stars. Nze having put his life on the line, im not sure what possessed him to write this, but i think in dangerous and politically incorrect in the world in which we live, he deemed to write a book about who are we in who we should be, that seems quite oldfashioned and distasteful to address anymore, but those of us who have walked around the island of the potomac and wal
And Foreign Policy. Tel he is a graduate of west point, army,ear veteran of the serves as a professor at Georgetown University and has visiting professor at the National Defense university. He serves on the board of marine corps the University Foundation and the Advisory Boards for the west for oral history and operation renewed hope. Me in welcoming jim. [applause] you for coming to what should be an extraordinary event. Pete is not only a great friend but he defines the definition of american. Graduate of princeton and harvard. We wont hold that against him. He served in the u. S. Army. Right . Yes. Is another mark in his favor. Three combat tours, right . Three tours. Yes. Three tours. Combatnze stars, infantry man badge. Extraordinary, including now working with fox news. Put his life on the line im not really sure what possessed him to write this, but i think in the arena is both, you know, courageous, dangerous politicallyy incorrect. In the world in which you live, something tha
Tell you in terms that make sense, one income, how can you raise a kid on one income . If you brought two incomes together i believe the reverse is true. I believe that stabilizing people economically promotes im not particularly interested in repromoting marriage as a norm but promotes more emotional and familial stability in whatever form those families and bond take. So, what youre asking is a question theres a real fight about. I happen to be on the side that says these kind of policies i was talking about, higher minimum wage, paid leave, expanded welfare programs, more protected way, and reproductive control, contributes to stabilizing populations financially, that then better enables them to form the kind of bonds and raise the kind of families that are going to be healthier and more economically stable. Conservatives will tell you that its about repromoting early marriage as the norm. So its a fundamental disagreement. I think we have to stop but thank you all for a great, grea
Continuing in our name. That means writing up ads in the newspaper. Writing letters to the editor. Those are not difficult to get published. He begged them to a particular new story or editorial. They count the number of letters from a particular perspective and will publish letters from that perspective. So it means demonstrating, First Amendment protected activity, going to the drone base and protesting in upstate new york, going i know it is not convenient, but if you have the opportunity going to the air force base where the drones take off, working in any way that you can organizing and pressuring the government. That is the only way. I think that is a wonderful question and comment to end our discussion because again, before i read this book i mean, i had gotten another book on drones. There are drones and things going on out there, someone else is doing it. It does not affect me. But then when you say,say, what is going on with these drones, what is happening . What is being don