is great to be with anatol in washington.e usually run a to each other in strange parts of south asia at very odd times and so it is good to be with him in the setting. he quotes in his book a pakistani general who is now i think the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff committee, who says you need to be a little bit of a rascal to understand this part of the world. and two that i say, exactly. and that is what makes this book so interesting and so thoughtful and so colorful. i would recommend it to all of you. there are just a couple of things and i will keep my comments very brief but a couple of comments i wanted to mention regarding things that i really appreciate about this book. i think in terms of the big picture, as anatol mentioned, this book is about how pakistan works and how it doesn't work, but mostly how the state is more resilient than we make it out to be. and i think both the stories and the analysis go to highlight just how pakistan has a particular and workable kind of dysfunctionality that we need to come

as anatol said, climate change does not account for. the 2010 floods were a stark example of what climate change can do. the immediate impact on the population is truly staggering, the calculations that were made. yes, it's true, loss of life, 1500 people, 1500 too many, but that wasn't a big loss. 20 million people were affected by the floods in the country. 8 million in need of water, food, and shelter, 4 million homeless, 15 million people displaced. the devastation hit every sector of the economy, but the main thing is they hit the agriculture obviously. the pakistan government estimates at that time done with the help of the world bank, were approximately $15 billion, 10% of pakistan's gdp, damage to infrastructure, roads, power plants, telecommunications, dams, irrigation systems, school, health clinics, and so on, was around $10 billion. now, at least at that time, this was viewed as because of the agriculture loss as a complete disaster, and yet, as anatol points out, the country came through the disaster with minimal assistance

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thank you very much, anatol, josh, mohsin. it was really fascinating and quite illuminating. not that we have too many solutions, but i think we had a very rich discussion. thanks to all of you also. [applause] >> you're watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2's booktv. >> author sally pipes attended the 2011 los angeles times 'festival of books where she discussed her book, "the truth about obamacare," and took viewer tv phone calls. thisto is about 30 minutes. >> host: and our impromptu set here on the campus. this is sally pipes, and she has written her third book about health care in this country. this one is called "the trutht about obamacare." ho hw long have you been interen inside health care as aprof professional interest? >> guest: um, probably, susan, for about 25 years. i grew up in canada. i worked at the frazier institute, and in the late ph '80s we started looking at the growing waiting lists in canada. then in '91 i came to the u.s. to head up pacific research and got the opportunity to get involved in hillarycare and then, of course, foll