this is a great piece of writing, and nicholas schmidle. the book is to live or parish forever, and i am just plain jealous, congratulations, nick. >> guest: thanks. >> pat robertson is the found are of the christian broadcasting network. here he provides advice on how to maintain economic stability in unstable times. the library in virginia beach host this event it's 45 minutes. [applause] ...

>> host: let me tell anyone that we are talking with nicholas schmidle the offer at author of an incredibly timely and well written new book on pakistan and his of ranchers or his misadventures comment "to live or to perish forever". the remarkable thing is the heat serious human relationships you're able to build with a wide range of radicals extremists, politicians, avera ge people, there were times i was reading the book and i thought i am a former soldier i would turn back. it is real bravery i guess you have to me young enough to accomplish. but in the book you also change a back -- change talk about with any type of radical and shocked about how that happened and the realization can you tell us about that? >> this is the first meeting i was going to be someone who qualify as an extremist in the organization and he belonged to the most powerful and influential anti-shia organization which has very close ties with the taliban which had been banned by the musharraf government for sectarian killing. i was trying to understand early 2006 to what extent sectarian violence in iraq was buildi

"after words" with nicholas schmidle and ralph peters continues. >> host: ayaan ralph peterson, and we are having a great time today, at least i am, talking with nicholas speed, the author of "to live or to perish forever" a superb and remarkably timely book on his two recent years and pakistan, a country very much in the headlines and is granted dominate headlines for some time to come. nick, one of the striking things about this series of tales is the time spent with taliban of fighting drugs with pakistanis but the other side of the taliban, the enforcers, people bringing sharia law to the northwest frontier and perhaps you could start us off by just telling us how you got there, introduce, something you could read from this book that will explain how you got in there. >> guest: the first thing is we were talking last time about abdul aziz ghazi. after he died he'd been my introduction to all of these and after ghazi died i wrote a piece titled farewell my jihadi friend, which was sort of a single off to this guy who helped at a complex time in my life. the article was published in

it's not an awful, it's non-fiction but it's a great piece of writing and nicholas schmidle, the book is "to live or to perish forever," and as a fellow writer im just plain jealous. congratulations. >> guest: thanks, ralph. ..  >> let me begin at the beginning. i am not bill buckley or writing for him. i europe around in new york close to rochester a midsize upstate city with my parents and my older brother bob. in the fall of 1969 that i was a freshman in the public high-school i did not know anybody who went to a private one. my brother was a junior at yale. every weekend since he had gone away to college i wrote him on a small black middle typewriter that belonged two mom, a letter rehearsing the events of the week. basketball games, school plays, a little tryouts and tidy disasters bullets of adolescence and dramatize. one week the news barged in the home theater. with the vietnam war called for a nationwide moratorium on october 15. the moratorium look to be on the big campuses with boycotting campuses and glasses were planned. some kids and my high school decided to join him.

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. >> host: let me remind or tell anyone who attended an late that we are talking with nicholas schmidle, the author of just an incredibly timely and well written new book on pakistan, his ad ventures of pakistan and misadventures, "to live or to perish forever." now, nick, as i mentioned earlier is that the web of relationships, serious human relationships you were able to build with a wide range of pakistani radicals extremists, politicians, average people. and there are times just when i was reading the book and fall on a former soldier and i just wouldn't have gone there. i would have turned back. it is real bravery i guess you have to be young enough to accomplish. but in the book, you also talked about your first meeting with any kind of radical and just sort of cold shock about how that happened and the realization that you are in now. can you tell a little about that? >> guest: short, this was the first meeting like you said i was going to meet someone who qualified as an extremist and as a member of a band organization and he belonged most awful influential antishia organize nat