Time magazines political columnist, awardwinning journalist and the author of seven books including payback, five marines after vietnam. His weekly time column in the arena covers national and International Affairs and he has won two National Headliner awards for best magazine column. He is also a member on the council of foreign relations. Please help me welcome your panel and your moderator joe kleine. Welcome. [ applause ] good afternoon, everybody. This is the second time that i have been privileged and honored to sit on this stage. Both times the topic was veterans. The last time i was accompanied by three spectacular young veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars. And my most recent book is charlie mike which means continue the mission, was about the veterans of those wars. To me it is very interesting to spend time with them as i have. I embedded in iraq and afghanistan with them. And to spend time with veterans of my era of the vietnam war. They have had, hard to say this sinc
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