is what was called the national defense strategy of the 1990s. 1993 written by dick cheney and paul wolfowitz and it sets up very clearly the preemptive strike and commits the united states to maintain the two major wars on the continent at any one time and to take out any country, any nation, any failed state that doesn't wish to accept the american guidance. he's talking about the end of history, that the american way is the only way that it's established and that the competition of ideas is over, the soviet union collapsed and the only thing left to do is maintenance of the perfection of the american idea. >> host: you also wrote that we lost our idea of revolutionary thinking which is contradictory to me. >> when i began putting these together starting in 91 and writing the forward to 2016 is how little the thinking has changed. we talk about the spectacular change, technology, silicon valley. but the thinking in the washington consensus hasn't changed at all. >> you also say that our history is a resource. you say that it's a great resource and a wa in the way the squandering it. >> that

was called the national defense strategy of the 1990s published in 1993 written by cheney and paul wolfowitz. it sets out very clearly the preemptive strike and forward deterrence. it commits the united states to maintain two major wars on two continents at any one time and to take out any country, any nation, and he failed state that doesn't wish to accept the american guidance. >> this is also the same year you've got to remember that, the guy that wrote the book the end of history, you know who i mean. yuki yama is talking about the end of history in 1989, 1990. the american way is the only way to establish the competition of ideas is over so the union has collapsed and the only thing left to do is maintenance of the perfection of the american idea. >> you also have a book on the american tradition of revolutionary thinking. it's contradictory to me. >> the thing that is startling is when i can -- began putting these essays together and bring it or were 22,016 is how little the thinking has changed. we talk about a spectacular change, technology, silicon valley, robots and so forth. the t

the former secretary of defense, paul wolfowitz on all of this happening at the same time.ambassador, good to have you. very confusing now because this is happening in the season were not people are getting increasingly restless, particularly in europe. would you think? >> we see here in the u.s. in our pursuit of people where we already know they have a lot of labels on them. a 12-year-old boy in germany a few weeks back who was caught for the second time trying to plant explosives. apparently both times he failed here because he's under 14 they are not prosecuting him. there's no words words they are surveilling his parents. i understand why the germans don't want to go back to nazi methods, but they need to be much harder on these modern-day nazis. neil: you really do so to your credit, but you were speaking to a german newspaper saying the only way you can be comfortable to think he does that mean anything he says source security has good relationships with allies and how he was for vladimir putin. it worried you so much sad that you might have to vote for hillary clint

soso much on the evening news when i was on kindergarten and elementary school and countless paul wolfowitz and the last torch w. bush administration and the education secretary who gave what i call, although she met while, no standardized test left behind the didn't leave nearly it wgh flexibility for the state. and one more problem that i see that i wish you would address. each president appears to have the secretary of the treasury board the choice for attorney general ordered the irs toto really inspect the books all ofl any charities, sometimes charities, but usually lobbying groups and think tanks that are the opposite from the way the party in power in the white house think that time. i thought i had some pretty choice example is of that wonderful veteran who had so many of those problems getting the va to do anything for him. my heart really goes out to him. >> well, the caller said a lot of interesting games and of course one of the things about our cabinet secretary is that they do not have the discretion that i think the caller thinks they have. they are in fact found by laws. th