more about this i was joined by retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies. no not at all and let's be very clear here john brennan recently stated in a little rules and center public forum he said that we would carry on the style of holding laws and our values holding our values and i mean very be very clear on why this is not first off the ministration has become almost addicted to this form of warfare it's hands off it's clean you don't see the results and frankly it's giving this false premises a false perception of progress we're not killing the right people and by the fact we can't get the right people by the fact you're shooting through a soda straw at a target hundreds of miles away you're creating the next generation of enemies because i tell you right now i don't know this for a fact but of those eighteen folks killed probably two thirds of more innocent civilians just happen to be in the wrong place the wrong time now this is the new obama doctrine which a lot of us just don't get those who advocated don't really seem to understand the secondary a

talk about this i was joined by retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies we first discussed how the about the dramatic jump and u.s. sales and how it happened. well obviously we're in the press or old and i hate to say that we have a huge military industrial complex which requires all sorts of care and feeding but that's part of the deal frankly as we start to look at managed military operations in iraq and afghanistan the brutal truth is this we have an industry which is looking for new markets there's a hint and i think that's one of the things that you're seeing now is these individuals these groups large corporations which really are trying to grow bottoms seven percent per year is looking for new markets and i think they're finding new markets and a lot of the areas are just not saying this is all about business. and that speedily on a chair. call or russia to also begin expanding its own arms market back into the third a lot so this is not just the united states this is a large large global market that the for. frankly the russians and chinese both w

the show appreciate it that was retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer from the center for advanced defense study is. still out on our t. ron paul supporters are descending on tampa and other bad weather nor the g.o.p. can slow in this revolution down coming up an inside look at this shadow convention and ron paul swan song. ily. ily ily. it's part of american power continues. on things that are. might actually be time revolution. and it turns out that a programmer drink a starbucks has a surprising him really you. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is you know in view with the global machinery to see where we had a state controlled capitalism its core fascism when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. all the republican national convention was scheduled to kick off in full force today in tampa florida instead the chairman of the

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army lieutenant colonel who's now a senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies. what do you make of this do you. well i think everybody involved wants it to go away very quietly. recognizing the fact that blackwater change its name to z. and then tried to press on is indicative of the fact that these folks i think both sides wanted to kind of subside and go away quietly but the bottom was a real the real issue obviously is that these are essentially a group of mercenaries who are hired to do things which is actually in a high risk environment things can go wrong. i and others who were uniform have been very critical of the entire concept of bringing in essentially mercenaries to do the work that you know foreign military soldiers should do and to be very clear here if you're wearing the uniform of your country you take an oath of responsibility and to that to that country and to the concepts and precepts of that governance blackwater and other mercenaries do not have any such oath they take and i think by the fact that they are unrestrained by these. the oath of

the show appreciate it that was retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies because the republican national convention was scheduled to kick off in full force today in tampa florida instead the chairman of the republican party pounded down the gavel to begin the r. and c. and then quickly recess until tomorrow afternoon due to the threat of isaac but that weather did not keep thousands of loyal ron paul supporters away from tampa where two events were taking place the three day paul festival and the rally ron paul sponsored himself it was made possible with the leftover cash he had from his presidential run our white house correspondent christine was in tampa to give us a look at both the vents hi christine i'll go over there. hey they're going just fine we are here in the media center at the convention center as you mentioned that convention delayed by a day of course there are fifteen thousand journalists that are here to cover the convention a lot of them in this room right now doing work taking a break but i want to talk about those other thousands of peo

pleasure to have you here that was retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer from the center for advanced defense studies we turned out for the latest on wiki leaks whistleblower julian a songe right now the organization of american states is discussing his case here and washington d.c. this is the u.k. an epidural remain in a diplomatic battle ecuadorian president rafael correa has granted us and asylum but the u.k. long allow him safe passage to the airport they even threatened to raid the embassy to get a hold of assad has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since july nineteenth are take out a chance to speak to president correa here is a look at that exclusive interview we just wanted to address the request in a very thorough and responsible way will look to the motivations from this the sons of the son and it has looked into the charges brought against him in sweden reviewed u.k. law as well as international laws and of course we've been to a room legislation then we made a responsible decision just as we promised originally after the olympics specifically because they were taking pla