it's fantastic to be here in dearborn. this is one of the stops in my personal journey to completing this book. and it's true, the book in many ways did start after 9/11. i was a civil rights attorney at the justice when 9/11 happened, and most of the things people were talking about and prosecuting of the war on terror, how to keep the homeland safe, one of my colleagues from the criminal division was having a conversation with me and said you are never going to believe what you're talking to the eckert talking about upstairs' and brainstorming session. i braced myself and set let me know what are they say? he said somebody threw out the idea of denaturalizing naturalized arab-american citizens. i said that is crazy. once upon a time basically when i was a teenager that was my fantasy to ship my parents back off to syria and i would have been the first person to have turned them in, but by the time i was a civil rights lawyer in the department of justice that didn't really seem particularly kosher and of course it was and

fantastic to be here in dearborn. this is one of the stops in my personal journey to completing this book. and it's true, the book in many ways did start after 9/11. i had been an attorney, was an attorney in the civil rights division at the united states department of justice when 9/11 happened. and among the things people are talking about, prosecuting the war on terror or how to keep the homeland safe, one of my colleagues from the criminal division was having conversation to me, and he said you're never going to believe what they're talking about upstairs in a brainstorming session. i said okay, i brace myself and said let me know. he said somebody throughout the idea of the naturalizing naturalized arab-american citizens. i said, that is crazy. once upon a time, when i was a teenager that was a fantasy to send my parents back to syria and i would've been the first to turn the men. but that didn't really seem particular kosher. of course it wasn't without historical precedent that in world war ii we had turned our

he lives in dearborn. he says american muslims were just recovering from negative perceptio perceptions. >> now we get this other terrorist that attempts to blow an airliner right over our heads, right over the heads of the largest muslim population outside the middle east, right over our heads. and we're going to sit and watch? we said no. >> reporter: he is taking his anger to the streets and organizing online. >> our goal right now between now and then is to literally spread the word out. >> reporter: the message? >> if they've got something against americans, we're americans. if they have something against america, we're muslims, we're not afraid of death like you're not. we're standing on the right side, the side of peace and you're not. >> reporter: mary snow, cnn, detroit. >>> you may let a bad word slich every now and then. but one san francisco politician is taking it to another level. >> just updated my facebook status update vowing in 2009 that i'll use the word [ bleep ] in every board of super

but there is no evidence that there was during pontiac's rebellion that there was no for dearborn no evidence whatsoever that there was actually any blankets that were given to people or that there was any kind of epidemic or any kind of infection or any kind of disease that would spread at that point. now going back to what kids are being taught about business, whether being taught about business is that business got too big and made people poor and integral to the came cayman the trust and business got big again and then people got poor again and then franklin roosevelt had to come in and save them. i think that a great deal of this. look, i am all about spending more time in learning american history. the one of the terrible, terrible things is that people in high school but i know you're asking about elementary schools are written in howard's end people history of the united states, which is a tissue of lies about the country. and among those lies are the notions of the growth of business makes people poor. no recognition of what henry ford did -- i'm not a huge fan of henry ford

. >> host: dearborn heights michigan joe of the independent plan. >> caller: good morning. hell are you? >> guest: doing well. >> caller: three good. thank you for your service. i have a question may be so much as a comedy and would like your opinion. i've been looking at a map of the questions in iraq, saudi arabia, afghanistan, and pakistan. with the strategic intervention of iraq and with saudi arabia being i'm assuming an ally to speak with our strategy and intervention in afghanistan and pakistan be setting up for lack of a better word hour chessboard for overall objective being iran could we comment that? >> guest: you're absolutely right to look at a map americans are truly great people but we have our challenges and limitations one of them is on geography so good time for all of us to take a look at the map of the broad middle east and see who's next to whom and what geography tells about politics and options. in that region of course we are engaged in pakistan and afghanistan and we have a number of close friends and allies as you note saudi arabia and the other gc

host: dearborn heights, mich., on the independent line. joe? caller: hi.ou for your service, sir. i have been looking at a map of the areas and the question in iraq, saudi arabia, afghanistan, and pakistan. with the strategic and the region of iraq and saudi arabia being an assumed ally, would our strategy and intervention in afghanistan and pakistan be setting up our chessboard as being like iran? guest: you are right first to look at a map. americans are truly great people but we have our challenges and limitations. one of those is on geography. so, good time for all of us to take a look at that map of the broader middle east and just see who is next to whom, and what geography tells us about politics and options. in the region we are engaged in pakistan and afghanistan, have a number of close friends and allies, as you noted saudi arabia, and the other gcc states as well as the government of yemen. we need to listen carefully to our allies, not only tell them what we want to do, but get their perspectives. they lived in the neighborhood, are directly af