host: forward this to your question on afghanistan for john newman, go ahead. xt up is forestville, md., democrats line. caller: i'm a democrat and i believe that this war is similar to vietnam. i agree with mr. newman to a point. i think that they should really take these soldiers out because they're only killing our soldiers pointlessly. and there is a -- just make sure they cannot come to the united states, simple as that. guest: 2 the previous caller, the significant events -- the significance of 9/11 is actually important, in a sense. unlike vietnam, we are fighting a war against someone who attacked us. that is the difference between vietnam and what is going on. it is true that the al qaeda folks are not there, or very few of them and they are crossed the border. if you look very closely at the campaign speeches for obama and the address at west point a few weeks ago, he has made it clear from the beginning of this is not just about afghanistan. this is also about pakistan. he could not have said it any better than during the campaign. he said, look, if m

james traub on joe biden, and john newman speaking about afghanistan. "washington journal" live on c-span. >> federal reserve chair, ben bernanke, spoke to economists about the need for financial administration for price bubble in the housing market and other industries. he spoke at atlanta in the meeting of american economic association. this is just under an hour. >> welcome to this event. it's an honor and pleasure to introduce this morning's speaker, ben bernanke. he will speak for about 40 minutes and take four or five questions and then try catch his plane. ben and i have similar academic pedigrees, we both have the same undergraduate thesis advisor, dale mortingson, and our thesis on the same subject. we both learned academes at m.i.t., and then ben became one of the most powerful people in the world and my only claim to fame is having been briefly ben's landlord. a decade ago ben and martin published a definitive paper claiming how decreasing values affect the society. and that claim is an outpouring to events, and take a look at that paper when

host: forward this to your question on afghanistan for john newman, go ahead. xt up is forestville, md., democrats line. caller: i'm a democrat and i believe that this war is similar to vietnam. i agree with mr. newman to a point. i think that they should really take these soldiers out because they're only killing our soldiers pointlessly. and there is a -- just make sure they cannot come to the united states, simple as that. guest: 2 the previous caller, the significant events -- the significance of 9/11 is actually important, in a sense. unlike vietnam, we are fighting a war against someone who attacked us. that is the difference between vietnam and what is going on. it is true that the al qaeda folks are not there, or very few of them and they are crossed the border. if you look very closely at the campaign speeches for obama and the address at west point a few weeks ago, he has made it clear from the beginning of this is not just about afghanistan. this is also about pakistan. he could not have said it any better than during the campaign. he said, look, if m

and the author john newman discussing jfk's family of vietnam and comparing it to obama's handling of afghanistan. >> now a discussion on the climate change agenda of the obama administration from thursday's "washington journal." host: juliet upper and joins us from "in washington post, the national environment reporter. welcome to the program. caller: good to be -- guest: good to be here. host: how far as president obama gotten into that agenda? guest: one thing he made clear from the beginning is he wanted to impose a nationwide limit on greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change. this is something president bush opposed during his eight years in office, and he was also committed to forging an international treaty which would produce global limits on greenhouse gas emissions. in terms of doing that, he has made some steps through regulation, but he has failed to achieve the overall goal, whether it is on the domestic front or international front, and one of the key things will be looking ahead to 2010, whether he can get congress to enact legislation to put a nationwide carbo

host: we're going to let it go there and let john newman reply. guest: i know we are short on time. it is crucial and my son talked to me about all the time how important it is, and the soldiers know that, to treat the local population while group a lot of their medics were training kids from the -- were treating kids from the village who were being hurt by the mortars from the taliban who could not shoot them very well. and we are expanding considerably the civilian effort t. host: how does that compare with vietnam? guest: we suffered in the early years of the war for not having paid attention to that. host: jon newman teaches courses in soviet, chinese, and east asian history. this is his book. you can try to track and online. thanks for being with us this morning. that will about do it for washed -- for "washington journal" this morning. we will be back at 7:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. have a great day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . . >> she received nearly 54% of the vote in a runoff last month.

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accountable especially has been so inspiring to me i can't predict or articulate, and john woodward and paul newman so much to me with what they have done with their access to audiences and what they have done with their i guess fame, how much they've given back and so anyway, i'm very honored to be here after them and very happy to be listed on people's barney rosset i think it is ludicrous for me to be included or have my name spoken in the same sentence of theirs and i don't feel like i've earned it but i will take this on our as a challenge to someday earn it and try to run it every day. but i'm so happy to be introduced by samantha hunt, who i think i discovered through the mail through mcsweeney as we found this incredible voice and that is what we try to do is find these strange forest of voices and i love that expression so much because we were thinking that we were outsiders and feeling like what we needed to do more than anything was find a place to home a safe spot for people that wouldn't find publishers and find audiences otherwise and we love to rescue those folks with their they were