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An irrational selfish passion. Afterwards or saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sundays at 9 00 p. M. Eastern from book tv on cspan2. All previous afterwards are available as podcasts and to watch online at booktv. Org. A good evening everyone. Welcome to borders books and thank you for so porting our bookstore. Before we begin cspan is filming so make sure all films phones on silent. I want to let you know about a couple of other events. On tuesday, Stephen Kinzer is going to present the history of cia. We also have events last week and tickets are available from mondays conversation between celeste and and for the talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai which argues that a computer being a human in jeopardy does not signal we were on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars. Taking inspiration from the human the book explains if we need to advance to the next level and suggest if we are wise along the way we will not need to worry about a future machine overlo
Here in gw theater, we will. Thank you very much for coming. We do a number of events each year here at gw, and this great auditorium and then a couple of other menus, we really value a partnership with gw, here is terrific and then make events like this possible. I just want to express our gratitude for the efforts that they put into it tonight his if it. Our featured authors this evening of course is josh campbell, spent more than a decade as an fbi, and various roles involving terrorism and kidnapping investigations in multiple oversees of assignments as well as assent as a special assistant to then fbi director james comey. Josh resigned from the bureau about a year and half ago in february 2018, walking out of the doors of the Fbi Field Office in los angeles for the last time. Away from service in Law Enforcement that he had really enjoyed. He says played an Important Role in his own career development. He says he left because he no longer could stand silently by in the face of a
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 thank you for coming. We a
Last halfcentury 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, there were suppo