army major maxwell pappas, a 2006 graduate of the u.s. military academy at west point he served a combat tour in iraq from late 2007 to early 2009 followed by three combat tours in afghanistan in 2010, 2011 and 2013. pappas completed army ranger training in 2007 and was assigned to the 25th infantry division during the iraq surge. he went to afghanistan as a member of a reconstruction team in 2010, returned to the states to complete additional training at ft. bening georgia and was assigned to the mountain division where he was over troops in afghanistan. major pappas earned a master's degree in security studies from georgetown university in 2016 and he graduated from the army's command and general staff college in kansas earlier this year. he is currently the executive officer of the fourth battalion, third infantry ledge men also known as the old guard at arlington cemetery. following major pappas' remarks we will hear from our three other distinguished panelists. michael hand long is a senior fellow at the brookings institution, also d

pappas: in terms of the opium economy. frankly, my first little expressed in afghanistan, they spent time having grapes. grapes used to be famous. pears? a fruit that drew on a tree. the important part of that is in you need topes, make sure nobody destroys your vineyard during the year you are growing grapes. thetrees, apricots, that is one. you can sell those as much as opium. however, it took five or six years before they would actually give fruit. if you are in afghanistan and making an investment with an expected churn in six years, you are a full because there was no reason for them to believe in six years they were able to do it. opium, two harvests year. a lot of money. they had a willing buyer. in 2011 in kandahar being there we had american bases in the middle of vast fields of marijuana, and we were eradicating drugs, but it did not solve the problem. there was no alternative to that. and so we spent time in 2010 tried to develop with usda how you make your yields of other crops more productive. until the u.s. -

among pappas other major postings was egypt he's being credited for making a significant contribution to the country's footballing evolution in the one nine hundred seventy s. today egypt is among the leading powers in the african game. book a popular figure not to go should be the one to know. and it's become so far off the charts in continent. in italy and you're used to diplomacy partly about feeding off both their good dish and that's a nominal fun for the nation but we've been always came up as if you're not looks like that she tweeted you're going to keep the tips in management. african football isn't a fearsome prospect yet. but watch out. i was absolutely sure i'd be coming back to germany. as you get older you make new friends to. playing cards where the sauna. there if you're living abroad you're on your own at first. people who benefit raud have a different attitude of. their way for a couple of months then lend you the car that would never happen in germany were here men are more likely to give you their wife than their car. if experience where the only criterion would be

seem to think that at all they want to get on with it and to be said to be absolutely clear that the pappas of this general strike the reason why people are saying away from their jobs is to protest against the violence that you've already referred to that we saw on sunday and carried out by the. injuring sort of almost nine hundred people. yeah that's right and. that there is more than one option of the general strike which is brian laws the union. side of the work force there's also a different section which switch from spanish towns like this country still and that as big a business groups and people involved as well do they all hate the police what happened on the goddess of il on sunday yes they do are they by and large very n.c. yes they are all they all in favor of independence no they own. and that is a problem the matter of. us and said that. you know that independence the moment the president gets lonia mediation they're very upset with the lack of a comment from the european union in terms of trying to get the two sides together what what what what what they don't want to see som

so she gets up, pappa mike, i'm going to be a witch. i said no you're supposed to wear a costume.t understands the joke. >> a lot of people put up their decorations in weekend. >> do you do the whole yard, yards, spiders? >> do you have do it based on my neighborhoods. they through down, they put everything down so i had to offered the giant spiders and cobwebs. >> when you do to beat them, live halloween display, like coy go over there and have blood all over the place. >> thank you for volume un fearing, i'll book you, the 31st, kids have a big party, half day dress in the black. >> you really going to do this? >> no. >> we love what manna does every evening, jen is there without a hairnet. oh, a mike. >> just know it is impact week. she is doing great thing. we'll explain when we come back. >> you know what i think we should do, after this horrible day yesterday? >> what? >> and sunday, end the show today with a prayer. >> oh, that's nice. >> because everywhere you see on social media, are thoughts and prayers. >> uh-huh. >> so we've never done this on the show. but i think tha

. >> reminds me of the temptations, pappa was a rolling stone. >> where ever the lady's hat was his home so does he keep in contact with all of his siblings? >> he knows them all. >> he knows -- >> and he lives on an island, so everywhere he goes he runs into a child. >> oh, his islands is small? >> fairly small, yes. >> twenty-six kids, with 24 different women. you know what i call that? my hero. no. >> 914, in the past, well, go ahead, karen? >> so what happened maybe unhappy with the feature on your body. go to the doctor, and they show you pictures every celebrities and stars, i want this famous person's nose, sometimes unrealistic expectation because it won't look like that on, you know, you as it does on them. so people don't always have the right idea what it will look like, now weaver something else to gave you a real representation whatever will happen to your face or body. >> what she is saying, instead every describing how you look, get to 33d image how you will look. >> see the changes actually happening on you, before you get the surgery. >> jen is in ardmore. show us. >> fi