think about dave petraeus that the search was working. what to the military do? they thought was the metric swore her and the number of intelligence tips and a number of attacks on american troops. they collected data over one year and made it public so the scholars could second-guess of anyone had a better idea and on that basis they changed congressional attitudes. the power of ideas and proving your case is how to win policy debates and the state department doesn't have the bureaucratic machinery to build the budget as defense well as the defense department deep in my heart i am an insurance actuary and i think we need those who would make the budget as bulletproof as the defense department. >> host: working at the national security council and state department a research fellow at the hoover institute and talk that west point, a johns hopkins and, however did you get interested in this line of for? >> guest. [laughter] i was a student of condoleezza rise year at stanford. [laughter] i had a grand idea of writing my ph.d. on the renaissance of the latin americ

david petraeus and promoting dave betrayers and mythologizing david petraeus and we saw it here tonightgeneral kimmitt was a spokes person in baghdad who was a roommate of who was involved in one of the biggest the bottles and reason foreign policy history is on t.v. you know defending david petraeus without actually addressing the real problems with david petraeus his record and those are the fact that he manipulated the white house and to escalate in afghanistan he ran a campaign in iraq that was brutally savage included arming the worst of the worst shiite death squads sunni militia men and then you go back to the training of the iraqi army program that also had similar problems so for me all the while he's going around the country talking about honor and integrity well that's a nugget of truth you rarely see on the corporate press news to say piers morgan probably never invited him back on hastings was a refreshingly honest human being who hold no punches and i read it and may last year he offered some advice to aspiring journalists and which is said to dedicate your life to the fie

protecting david petraeus and promoting dave betrayers and mythologizing david petraeus and we saw ithere tonight general kimmitt was a spokes person in baghdad who was a roommate of who was involved in one of the biggest debacle in reasoned foreign policy history is on t.v. you know defending david petraeus without actually addressing the real problems with david petraeus his record and those are the fact that he manipulated the white house into escalation in afghanistan he ran a campaign in iraq that was brutally savage included arming the worst of the worst shiite death squads sunni militia men and then you go back to the training of the iraqi army program that also had similar problems so for me all the while he's going around the country talking about honor and integrity well that's a nugget of truth you rarely see on the corporate press news to say piers morgan probably never invited him back on hastings was a refreshingly honest human being who hold no punches and read it and may last year he offered some advice to aspiring journalists and which is said to dedicate your life to