If you gun large scale begin large scale special forces impact, you are going to have an impact on that country. So what are you doing about the political impact you are having on that country. So follow up. What global warming, that our whole focus is going to change too. Yeah. Were going to lose interest. Yeah. Thats going to come pound it, were going compound it, were not dependent on oil anymore finish. Right. And maybe that is the solution. Yeah. And i was concerned, you know, we need some sort of, somebody who understands the culture right. How do you handle that. Yeah. I mean, its something we, we have were not well versed into what works. Right. You know, whether its helping people with their, you know, their hospitals or right. Or dealing with water problems and right. I think we buy a lot of goodwill with that. Yeah. And we have more, that kind of instead of threatening and intimidating people yeah. You buy goodwill. But thats only one approach. We need somebody, a cultural a
Occupations or ad hoc invasions that dont seem to be part of any kind of broader strategy. I think because we as a country are not willing to embrace the idea of imperialism or that we are going to occupy these countries and tell them what to do, and that all fine. Im not in favor of imperialism or of going back to the british control of the world, but im saying what were doing also doesnt make much sense because we go into these countries, we start a war, we invade, and then we dont really follow up with much of a political governance piece of that. Most recently you saw that in libya and syria, where we have had air campaigns but and we helped overthrow gadhafi but then we didnt do anything to resolve the fundamental political structure, and in syria its so screwed up now its hard to tell what policy we have. And in iraq, we invaded and then allowed the shia to dominate the government. So, im not suggesting that we open a Colonial Office like the british did where they had they actua
Coverage go to the book tab on our website, booktv. Org. Good afternoon and welcome to the session on trailblazing women. This is going to be an exciting channel and im glad youre here. This is the seventh annual book festival, thank you cspan for covering it and thank you to all you all rated the cold rain and whether even though we are in june. Im cheryl kagan andis my honor to be the senator for pittsburgh and ross well in the maryland state senate. On social media today if you are following along at home you can to at our authors and the book festival we are also on histogram and facebook and everything so im delighted to have marlene pressman and john noris here. Our country is at the brink of possibly electing a first woman president and none of that would be possible without some trailblazing women the two who have been profiled in these wonderful books were going to talk about today. I had never heard of Betsy Margolin before reading this book by marlene kessler. Youre going to
Debates october 15, 1992. Talking about his favorite issue, the u. S. Debt. He won 19 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate since Theodore Roosevelt. He ran his second independent campaign in 1996 and tonight he is our focus on the contenders. Thanks for being with us. We are doing this series is a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who fail to rest for the white house but had an impact on American History. Final choice our of 14 people we are profiling in the series. Douglas brinkley joins us. A person was done a number of biographers on 20th century figures, what interest ross perot is to Mark Brinkley he had the pioneer spirit. He harks back to people like henry ford or Thomas Edison. He is not politics as usual. He really cares about the country. Patriotism has become kind of a cheap word to talk about. Ross perot was really a super patriot. He was less interested in money and politics that he was from doing wha
He won 19 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate since Theodore Roosevelt. He ran his second independent campaign in 1996 and tonight he is our focus on the contenders. Thanks for being with us. We are doing this series is a way to look at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who fail to reach the white house but had an impact on American History. Ross perot is our final choice of 14 people we are profiling in the series. Douglas brinkley joins us. As a person who has done a number of biographies on 20th century figures, what interested you about ross perot . Brinkley he had the pioneer spirit. He harks back to people like henry ford or thomas edison. He is not politics as usual. He really cares about the country. Patriotism has become kind of a cheap word to talk about. Ross perot was really a super patriot. He was less interested in money and politics than he was from doing what was right for the country. This comes out of his Nava