jim farwell -- james farwell. [applause] >> well, juliana and joe, thank you for that kind of introduction. we can all go home now. it's -- you have heard all of the great things. joe duffey was gracious enough to write a really wonderful introduction to this book which was a lot of fun to write. one of the people who is here today must be acknowledged. in the back of the room, he's hiding from me, but that's dr. marvin weinbaum with the middle east institute. books like this work when people like me are lucky enough to meet people like dr. wine balm and other people. this book was peer reviewed very extensively by great people. nobody more so than dr. weinbaum who became, really, the chief reader of the book. he and general scott and general daley have all been wonderful and great critics. you know, you send it off to people like dr. weinbaum, general daley and sir richard, and you say can you look at the book and maybe say some kind words and what do you think about it, and they all write you back and say this i

but what james farwell has done here with the objective history certainly about certain parts of the world the main theme to stresses that history matters. and what jim has done here his present a history of pakistan very, very much needed in this day and time because it will become more and more of a controversial question. i have military officers who serve on the ground to see the consequences that are warning us asking us to take a look at history. those who are more chauvinistic not trying to make any case that that is why i was attracted to this. it is for what is ahead of us in terms of discussion and debate in that part of the world. he looks at it that way but now james farwell is the unusual character week med did that taxicab waterway to a hearing on a way to this and that we worked for president nixon. and i was on dead j. edgar hoover and the list and we had different backgrounds and i discovered he has a play sometime next year in london but also he has worked a strategic communications our strategic understanding. that is why this book is so important part of it does not argue one way or the other but just as the american public to lis