he'll be running in the establishment bracket and he'll be competing with whoever emerges from the populace bracket. you said a lot of the right things, chris. he's raised a ton of money, given out a ton of money, he's been out there for two years quietly talking to local officials and business people building support in the republican establishment leading up to this. he's also got a very good team of people and a lot of continuity. the people with him in 2008, almost all of them will be back with him in 2012 and you can't underestimate the strength that gives him. chris: here's a business candidate, what is his unique selling point? >> that he is the competency candidate. this is a guy who made a bunch of money, he is sort of a mr. fix-it and if that's what the election is going to be about, who will go into washington and fix washington. but i have to say, what's fascinating about watching mitt romney and this entire field is why it's taking so long for the actual race to start. the only person happy that it's taking a long time to start is romney because he's been through this before. c

when they came into the local populace, when interacted they were not seen as iraqis. they were seen as outside. that kind precipitated this when we entered the city of ramadi. we would a population that was at odds with al qaeda. granted, they were not helping america but they were not helping al qaeda either. so we kind of went into this opportunity, if you will that a lot of people didn't recognize at the time. this is the very early fall of 2006. the first half of the book, rage company a rise in ramadi in november. we conducted a cemetery in level operations, numerous small patrols and whatnot besides that. on our seventh large-scale battalion size operation you could describe them all as conventional style operation. we were taking what we've learned in fighting in the military like a soviet style army and we're trying to apply to a guerrilla movement. the fx were pretty unsuccessful. our planning for these operations would literally take about 36 hours so for 36 hours we were on the base talking about what we're going to do. then we went to the execution phase.

so without that kind of link to the populace that would give us the information we needed, we weren't putting anybody -- it was a catch and release program. we would grab guys out of their houses, bring them back, then we would watch 95% of them go back to the street. another problem was if you actually did try and prosecute one of these guys and they didn't actually get convicted, we would pay them $14 a day. so a lot of these guys, insurgents -- this was the interesting fact -- was almost every single high-level terrorist that was one of our targets, we had his picture in an orange jump suit. so he'd been captured and released. it was actually kind of a requirement within al-qaeda and iraq that in order to be promoted, you had to be caught by the americans and released at some point because almost every single one of them had that happen. the detainee process in and of itself was not success. , and it drew the actual civilians to not want to work with us as well because they just watched these guys go back out onto the street. all right, so that's kind of the first half. conventiona

that asked for this apology have this consideration whatsoever to the -- to adversely impact the populace, in our case the bay view hunter's point and check out our children and our women. it is then i think some have -- some apology is required to the public at large. again, mr. sugaya is a decent man. man of character. he's done the right thing because in society, we call it, you have to do it because it is politically correct. i stand up and i -- i call on the mafia that had been involved in our community directly and indirectly. i kay say that because i work for the military and i have access. i know what is happening in our community, and i know who is -- is behind the developers. i know that three good commissioners in this planning department who have always stood by the community. thank you so much. >> sue hester. i don't think you had a report from land use. waint to talk about what happened at land use. the is sequ amendments are going through the board. they were continued to next monday, with the exception of commissioner fong who i need to add to my list. i sent all of the co

the tory stronghold of new york and philadelphia, the civil war that took place among the american populace, and the migration of 80,000 tories, most of them left for canada. thomas allen presents his book at the library of congress in washington, d.c.. it's 40 minutes. >> i'm not supposed to have to plug the light of congress, but it's inevitable. a few years ago i got a call from a story at the cia whom i admit when i've been working on george washington book about intelligence in the revolutionary war. and he says the library of congress is something you might be interested in. call this number. i thought wow, maybe the cia really does -- just like in the '70s of the condor, people reading books all time. weld county wasn't quite that. what had happened was the library had got a manuscript that had been written by a tory in connecticut during the revolution, who is under house arrest for his tory thoughts. and he decided he would write his own history of america, particularly the revolution. and his name was constant tiffani. and in a manuscript, he gives a look at why he was a tory, he

government sells the war to the populace and examines the ways that involving in foreign conflicts are proposed to the nation. he discusses his book of the cambridge public library in cambridge, massachusetts. it's just under an hour and a half. [applause] >> thanks very much. it's wonderful to be back in cambridge, and i appreciate that fine introduction from brian of the cambridge peace commission. very interesting organization. i'm beginning to think maybe we need a peace commission in washington, d.c., or two. anyway, i want to thank rye and for that intro and also thank the cambridge library, this wonderful building, and thank maryland in particular for inviting me to be here. i also want to say a special thank you to my classmates, to fritz donovan and the harvard class of 1959, several of whose members are here today and make me feel very much at home. as i was listening to brian speak about this book, i found myself questioning, wondering what they're really it is an antiwar book. it's called "reasons to kill: why americans choose war." and i don't think i would have written it

but it is so hard to get the populace to connect the dots.you know, you have got to cut out this militarism in order to give you domestic a chance. >> yeah, it is true. it is true. as a look at history one of the things i have seen myself as a parallel to what you talked about in terms of the moral nature of war, which is the racial invasion of war, and as i look back at different wars that you talk about in your book there is almost always a racial element whether weather does japan in world war ii, the seminal war, various wars and there is also the element of the wars that go back from king philip's war 200 years later to the closing of the frontier. and the example i always tell people is is present mckinley at the beginning of the philippine war saying we have to go to the philippines to christianize her little brown brothers who had been christianize for a couple hundred years. so i failed and just to ask, could you reflect on the nature of that racial ossetian of four and these dialogues around rl at the end thinking especially about t

do you think the populace should know more about the court and its major decisions. if so, what do you think might improve the public knowledge? >> they should know more. i do not know who they are talking to. most americans know about the court closest -- the core's decision in brown versus the board of education -- the court's decision in brown versus the board of education. the decision that says it was okay to intern japanese- americans. that was a bad decision. i cannot say i have achieve my goal in writing an opinion for an intelligent lay person in every case. it is interesting to me that when you go back in history and read the important cases, there is a point in the law where people started writing decisions which legal language. the most important

your local populace of these to the north of santa rosa. 69 in santa rosa 64 in napa. moreover. 660 in the periods have to get into out 70 days. here is a look at the seven day of around the bay. snowstorms, dry weather remains. fob in the morning could be heavy. patches of dense fog mostly sunny and a few degrees warmer for tuesday, 70's and the four castrate some places in the bay area. listen mild. list the theme for the rest of the week. fog with sunshine. -the 60s. all the way through next weekend. >> the key brian. i've worked this out with body language written notice that i intensely looking at you. i'm trying to include the it and our next guest who love having on. she is the nonverbal advantage expert. you see, body language. watch this. she is the expert on body language and she has some fascinating insights. which is excluded people and how much that can hurt. and how you can avoid doing this. >> it is really a fun. they said it here is the screen and your record to play catch with two other people. on the screen he would see a little avatar which would be

the army cracks down or the populace turns elsewhere. fundamentalism radicalism.erpetuates itself and an explosion comes later and more violently. >> it's a decades-long problem. how to have democracy without fundamentalism filling the void. do you think that is still, as you watch what happened in tunisia, it's mostly secular, young. we don't see the islamic forces right now. do you think that still is a fear? >> it still is a fear. there are examples that are a warning to us. and some examples that are a possible source of enjournlgment. the warning is of course what happened in iran. the takeover by theological fundamentalist regime. hostile to the outside world and to us. the other area is turkey. the army plays a role of a guarantor of democracy. guarantor of democracy. even sometimes in an authoritarian transition. the army has made that possible. if you look at the region in which you are now present. there are three great nations. egypt. iran. similar. and turkey with an imperial past. of enormous impression. now, turkey certainly, think provides the most

i understood your response to be that although the iraqi populace endured severe political repression, that millions lived better lives which i took to mean that it would have been better not to depose him. >> guest: i think the answer is it would have been better, i think, for most iraqis if they had deposed him themselves. that could have started if, for example, the u.s. had stopped its military and economic support of saddam hussein. one of those other things that we don't like to talk about very much, throughout the years, for example, of the 1980s when the iraqis were at war with iran, the u.s. was providing, among other things, money, seed stock for biological weapons that came from a little firm called the america type culture collection right outside of washington here in rockville targeting information to go after, to use chemical weapons. so the u.s. has a lot of obligations that kept saddam hussein in power. if we had stopped that, i think it's quite likely that the government that remained in power in be iraq would have been a very different kind of government. that would

they have the managerial group and then the populace such as sarah palin if she decides to run.aul was asking people for their predictions in 2011. mine is we cannot predict what is going to happen, especially for the race for the republican nomination. if the economy improves, it will be hard to defeat obama. the unemployment rate in particular. i do not think it will get too much walworth than 8% before the next election. without a strong republican that can take him on and make that case, the tea party is the moderate. host: explain the dynamic. democrats still run the senate, not the house. how does that affect the president's decision making and s?w he negotiates the the ta guest: people want to be listened to and heard. the democrats were unhappy because they were not consulted. they just wanted him to talk to them. they did not feel included. by not bringing them in until the latest moment in staging a debate on c-span and health care reform, that was too little too late. i think the challenge for obama is the community organizer, getting everybody talking about what need

military conflict but it was a serious diplomatic -- it still continues to reverberate among the populace in both countries. these things can escalate and could escalate if there are other incidents. we have a treaty obligation with japan. it is a very important ally and without question if japan got into a conflict, the the cirque conflict with china we would be at their side. the pacific commander and secretary of state have taken strong and principled positions and not recognizing the sovereignty of the island but at the same time insuring that the chinese understand that the united states is fully supportive of its treaty ally and the japanese understand that. we need to be very close to them and work very closely with them and even under the democratic party of japan and i know the foreign minister, they have strong leadership that understands the threats from china. >> i could say something about this. is part of a pattern we have seen in the last two years of china being very assertive about the area around their periphery. the net effect of this has damaged china's position. china

about this strategically how can we undermine the fear that is constantly being fed to the american populacethat is allowing for the continued think study, very explicit statement and targetting population based on not what i as an individual and doing or what rashad is doing but based on this notion that islam and muslims is equated to a certain group of people overseas that frankly i have never met a and i don't think i will ever need and so for me as somebody that is still relatively young that is something i want to see growing up continuing in this country and working on from a civil rights and civil liberties perspective how can we undermine the sense of fear and using the rules lot to do that and i think that is absolutely fundamental and not taking pearl harbor as a standing but the fact that i am an american and i have constitutional rights and the right to the due process equal protection etc., that is my standard, that is what i look at. i don't the theater experience of minorities. i look at what i have the right to and will aspire to. >> also, just we are going to be taking ques

about this strategically how can we undermine the fear that is constantly being fed to the american populacethat is allowing for the continued think study, very explicit statement and targetting population based on not what i as an individual and doing or what rashad is doing but based on this notion that islam and muslims is equated to a certain group of people overseas that frankly i have never met a and i don't think i will ever need and so for me as somebody that is still relatively young that is something i want to see growing up continuing in this country and working on from a civil rights and civil liberties perspective how can we undermine the sense of fear and using the rules lot to do that and i think that is absolutely fundamental and not taking pearl harbor as a standing but the fact that i am an american and i have constitutional rights and the right to the due process equal protection etc., that is my standard, that is what i look at. i don't the theater experience of minorities. i look at what i have the right to and will aspire to. >> also, just we are going to be taking ques

for the livelihood of so many americans, and they are arguing so much that they're exciting the populace were people in their own families cannot get along. host: excellent point about language. the media needs to stop using this language and fanning the left and the right, the divisiveness and day in and day out. the chairwoman of the tea party expressed stated -- host: ray is joining us from maryland on our republican line. good morning. caller: i am sad about this but i am not surprised at all. i told my wife yesterday morning, i said, i do not know who will be shot, but somewhere, one of these congressmen or senators in the united states is going to be shot somewhere. host: how did you know that yesterday morning? what on this network prompted you to say that? caller: it is all the things on c-span. it is not only c-span, it is the news media. this lame duck session they have and the votes that occurred. i have been looking for this way before this last november. i hate it, yes, but this is just the beginning. i am afraid this will happen over and over the senators are going to have

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about and strategically how can we undermine the fear that is constantly being fed to the american populace that is allowing for continued, very very explicit figurative statements and targeting of populations based on not what i is an individual am doing or where it were doing that raised on this notion that islam and muslim is equated to a certain group of people across overseas that frankly i have never ever ever -- i have never met and i don't think i will ever meet. and so, for me as somebody who is so relatively young, that is something that i really want to see continuing in this country and working on from a civil rights to civil liberties perspective. how can we really undermined the sense of fear and using the rule of law to do that? i think that is absolutely fundamental and not taking pearl harbor out of the standard for taking the fact that i am american and i have constitutional rights and i have the right of due process, equal protection etc., that is my standard. that is what i look at. i don't look at the other experiences as a minority. i look at what i have a right to and

we are now turning our attention to china, and 2010 was a big year for the world's most populace nationina showed more than ever why the east is gaining power and be influence on the global stage. it dusted off the past of the global recession -- impact of the global recession and became the world's second largest economy. as its emerging influence is expected to quicken, the power shift from developed nations to emerging economies as some believe. but domestically china faced more problems than it would have liked. soaring inflation, for example, and a widening gap between rich and poor just to name a few. my colleague has this look at some of the issues that defined china in 2010. >> reporter: the year 2010 saw china leading the global power shift from developed nations to emerging economies. at november's g20 summit in seoul, 6% of voting righted were transferred to underrepresented emerging economies. the agreement put china only behind the u.s. and japan in voting power on the international monetary fund. the decision came after the g20 replaced the g8 at the world's dominant econo