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ofh economically in terms the money that they are spending, the debt they are incurring that is bankrupting the country, but also in terms of the destruction of our liberty. i haver the years, mulled over the thought of having a conference. many of these it many of you know we have written a lot on .he kennedy assassination staff about three years ago, i started mulling over a conference like this and i thought, if i could bring together the speakers that have had a big impact on me and my intellectual development, it would be so exciting. finally, we decided we are going to do it. so we put this thing together, and this because i invited that you will be hearing today, everybody said yes. and i was so pleasantly surprised and excited because everyone of these people that are speaking today has been heroes to me. inir work is been heroic terms of what we are going to be examining today. and so, it is exciting to be putting this program together, and i want to than ....
it but russia is not eager for iran to develop a nuclear weapons capability. russia is concerned about islamic-based political activity, primarily in chechnya but also along the southern border through central asia. they will tolerate certain iranian behavior, but probably not too much. iranians i don t think have great expectations of russia, nor should they. i would add to that and also ask you to comment as far as iran is concerned, in a sense russia is a rival on the oil and gas export front. far more critical to the iranians is the budding relationship with china. china is becoming very aggressive in its purchase of natural resources and in establishing channels for the future. india also derives a lot of its oil imports from iran. that has been seriously affected by the sanctions. it is tired of them and finding ways of getting around the sanctions. in a sense, we should not think iran is isolated in a box that comes to the sanctions. there is a rising number of ....
we achieve the mission when we go to war. all my life we have been in one military intervention or another. in business, when you look at a project, you look to see whether you have achieved your objectives, and at what cost. i want to see through this last last half-century of military interventions, partisan politics aside, for our the aside, what happens after the party is over? what are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides? when did this idea first start? mr. gruber: my birthday is august 4. two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. as sort ofo me bookends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin know,nt which as you president johnson went on national television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. it was a claim that north vietnamese ....
military intervention or the other. in business, when you look at a project, you look to see whether you have achieved your objectives, and at what cost. i want to see through this last half-century of military interventions, partisan politics aside, for our the aside, what morality aside what happens , after the party is over? what are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides? when did this idea first start? mr. gruber: my birthday is august 4. two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. maraudingme, isis was across northern iraq. it seemed to me as sort of bookends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident which as you know, president johnson went on national television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. it ....
last half-century of military interventions, partisan politics aside, morality aside what , happens after the party is over? what are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides? brian: when did this idea start? mr. gruber: my birthday is august 4. two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. at that time isis was marauding across northern iraq. it seemed to me as look ends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident, which as you know, president johnson went on national television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. it was a claim that north vietnamese patrol boats attacked the uss maddox. based on that, we escalated the war in vietnam. years later, secretary mcnamara and many others admitted the attack never happened. similarly in going to iraq, ....