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vigilance of the american public. host: when you say managed and contained what do you mean? guest: if we had this conversation after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks and i predicted 45 americans would be killed by jihadi terrorist that would have seemed like an optimistic projection. but that is what happened and each of the 45 deaths is a tragedy but they are not on the scale of 9/11 1 or even the pars attack. you will not hear politicians saying we managed and contained the threat. you will not hear them say by the law of averages someone is going to get one through because both of those statements are correct. host: you write americans suffer from historical amnesia and the golden age of terrorism was in the 70s. guest: yeah, there were more than a hundred hijackings and a slew of attacks by the weather underground, puerto rican nationalist, and black panthers. there was a lot of political violence in the 70s and that pretty much disappeared. host: this is ....
with each other. that was an important insight, and is one thing that we have to make sure we do not rely on english to out there to interpret what is going on because that is not where the action is. it is in the vernacular and it is important to be there. i wanted to talk about security, which i did in here. in afghanistan or around pakistan, and libya and yemen, security is a huge concern for us. in other places while we have these embassies that are much more secure, real public diplomacy takes place outside and disease. i argue people we want to reach do not come into our facilities. that is where the value is, going into their institutions and meeting them out there. i quoted thomas friedman who came to turkey after the bombings in turkey and he looks at our new consulate, and remarked how this was a bad message. it can be or it is a difficult message out become it can become, but as public diplomacy officers, you get out of that environment. that is vital. that i ....
millions as a bum for the president in 2012 and gave $3 million to the pro-obama superpac. we will have that live for you on c-span. , they recently announced nuclear deal with iran, hosted by the heritage foundation. canadan event on u.s.- cooperation, and that begins at 1:30 p.m. eastern. were the 60s were different. [laughter] there were a lot of things happening involving race, the breakdown in the structure of society. i was suddenly out of the seminary and in new england, and there were no rules. things were falling apart. very,t structure, it is very difficult to navigate. i was extremely fortunate to be at holy cross. i was extremely fortunate to still have had a residual him the way i was raised in the structure the nuns had given me and the structure the seminary had given me. i was also extremely fortunate because i had already been in predominantly white schools. i was the only black in my high school in savanna. so, the transition to a school with very f ....
in a country with 11-12 million eligible voters there is still long lines of men and women in kabul and other cities that want a voting card. we should not judge the afghan election by the same standards we judge our own election. we have had 200 years of democratic evolution. this democracy is in its infancy. it will be the first peaceful hand off of power in afghanistan history. we want to not rush to judgment ahead of the people. it is there judgment to make whether the outcome is creditable. we don t want to second guess their steps along the way. the drawdown in the number of international observers will have a sake psychological affect on the afghanistan and how the international community views it. so the reduction is unfortunate but it will not make a huge difference. there is enough observes there to do their job. the real story is this is an afghanistan election persuint to their observation. with the afghanistan presidential elections this weekend a l ....
she made front pages tv show possible. [applause] and my show wouldn t be so successful is robert wasn t running it on jihad watch every week. thank you robert. at. [applause] on september 21, 2013 the islamic terrorist group al-shabaab launched its four-day siege of kenya s westgate shopping mall turning it into a literal slaughterhouse. the jihadists raped tortured to headed dismembered gouged out eyes amputated fingers and held hostages from the roofs. i m sorry to bring this up during lunch. i don t mean to be running our lunch here today that the reason i bring it up ladies and gentlemen is that barbaric terror gave the islamic stamp to that slaughterhouse because in islamic theology ritual murders involving torture and mutilation are considered necessary sacred acts. muslims and curiouser impurities are cleansed and honors restored by the bloodshed from the mutilation of the infidel. they jihadists in kenya engaged in another intriguing selection process they be ....