he was an american machiavelli. and he is the man who created the national security system we have today, really. and the surveillance state we have today. every camera on every street corner, every fingerprint, every bit of biometric data that is on file is a monument to him. >> rose: ahmed rashid, peter beinart and tim weiner when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. ahmed rashid is here, a best selling author and journalist. for three decades he'ses reported on afghanistan, pakistan and the rise of the taliban, the late christopher hitchens called him pakistan's best and bravest reporter. his latest book is called pakistan on the bring, the future of america, pakistan and afghanistanment i'm pleased to have him back at this table. welcome, my friend. >> thank you very much. >> rose: good to see you. tell me where we are, give me a snapshot of where we are in this moment in terms of

harvey mansfield, keenan professor of government at harvard and honors of book on burke, machiavelli and the executive roles of power while considering the role of the american policy in the american polidy. and also scholar leeward who is the autobiographer of winston church hill, and no problems in his research from the last several presidents. we hope to have time for the panelists and questions from the floor. the questions for the panelists should be provided on the sheets provided by outside as well as online at www what so proudly we hailed.com. so, too, is the next of washington's farewell address to which we now turn. thank you. >>> i am going to read a few selections from the farewell address. these are my personal favorites and touch on the themes. first remarks from the beginning that tell you something about the man. in looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which i owe to my beloved country for the many honors that it has conferre

author of books on burke, machiavelli and the theory of executive power will consider the role of the presidency in the american polity. finally aei scholar steven hayward, author of biographies of ronald reagan and winston churchill and his new politically incorrect guide to the presidents wilson to obama will discuss the modern presidency in the light of its earlier history. we hope to have time at the end for discussion among the panelists and for questions from the floor. biographical stechs of our panelists should be available on the sheets that were provided outside as well as online at whatsoproudlywehail.org. so, too, is the text of washington's farewell address to which we now turn. thank you. >> i'm going to read a few selections from the farewell address. these are my personal favorites and they touch on some of the themes. first, some remarks from the beginning that tell you something about the man. in looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of the debt of gra

that was an invention of modern political science traceable to machiavelli. execution as carrying something else, following it out to its end. in that sense executive is doing the will of someone else besides you. so it's a subordinate function. the second sense of execution is still the same in english as well as italian is killing. capital punishment. an independent exercise of will by the executive. to execute a law is not enough to say please. you may meet resistance. you have to overcome this resistance, possibly even execute a resistor. the number one meaning of executive means a weak executive and the number two one means a strong one. this is the ambivalence of executive power. it can represent a strong and independent action but as in number two, it can merely execute with the will of somebody else, the will of congress, the will of the courts, the will of people, the statement of the law. sometimes government can be stronger if it pretends to be weak, if it pretends to be carrying out the will of someone else beside itself and not the initiator or t

investigation the massacre of patty caused a strain in russia poland relations with longtime niccolo machiavelli from the european courts moscow office says polish concerns are understandable but that russia has served its part of the full. i can see that this is and is balanced with the court took into account the arguments put forward by the russian government russian federation strike is the instigation in one thousand nine hundred sixty that it was. there's unfold in kenya and the british citizens can see the investigation was not fair. given the. information about was afraid of their relatives. he said be it in one hundred fourteenth it's completely or this then to go from their point of view but from a legal point of view the russian figure isn't given him an obligation to nice to get the case from the very beginning it was that it actually was that basically grounds and this is important. he's used to expose the world's darkest secrets so it's no surprise top whistleblower julian stars once reveal even more the beginning dissidence and opinion makers in his interview show that debuts here