travis patriquin said we must learn from the mistakes of those who preceded us. from those who paid for their mistakes in blood. there is a big lesson. let's learn from patriquin, he was a lousy staff officer. he hated doing reports. he hated power point presentations. on the internet under travis patriquin power point you will see a funny goofball been very shrewd power point with moving figures and so forth and analysis of the war. he said i will stick it to power point. there won't be any numbers or pie charts. it will just be stick figures and tell the story of the iraq war in this point in time. yvette general can understand that. that is the kind of guy he was. he was an iconoclast. very offbeat. one army officer thought he was being too friendly to get to know the iraqis and get into their world and these contacts were chaotic and overeager and more counterproductive and he said keep this guy out of my area. don't have travis patriquin come in. that is a minority opinion. he set off shouting matches, don't talk to katar. he is all we have got. he will be th

what could we learn from travis patriquin? >> to lessons occur.her, perhaps the most importantt lesson is one of theey a greatest forms of patriotism is the ability to be humble to inspire eased 1/3 to do great things of the world stage. to do them not just through ou tr words the character and example. maybe comment just maybe americans should embrace islam on our own terms. what if america and steadied the face it carefully to understand a good as well as the evil? what if americans got to know muslims intimately to study the q'uaran?sw maybe in the original arabic to understand the full truth authentic message there was an amazing american who didenti this his name negative travesty 102 volunteered to strike back after 9/11 been 2006 but only using his experience as aan warrior private his language skills and the intense love for arabic culture helped shapec the course of the iraq war to pressure al qaeda of the surgeon's fee and when he died and just before he died patriquin wrote to god's plan is the node u.s. but there i

scenery we've ever seen that is where lawrence actually camped out and fought and it's where travis patriquin journey and in 1999 to sleep under the stars and coming in with the spirit of lawrence of arabia, the greatest night of his life. thus far to the co-stars are shining and patriquin thinks, and i got this from people who were with him on the roof at night and at the spot he was made your 90 years before. this is unbelievable and that is one of the many points were ejected with a bustle of bedouin culture and of arabic culture. spread was three years or two years before 9/11. how do these men, satar and patriquin now and on senior officer and a tribal plays a big role how they do in the geopolitics? >> great question. you read about a quite rightly and the great things he accomplished. but other soldiers to be remembered from iraq and afghanistan maybe pat tallman and a handful of others there's too many names and the fact is patriquin and satar were -- because of the other sheiks had been slaughtered by al qaeda or they ran away. but like i would have done because the was such a hell h