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I think weve have you here every year since then. We are thrilled to have you. His newest book it was released late may in addition to authoring over 30 books. A columnist and media commentator. And a researcher in the developing world. To the childhood and during the wars centennial. He is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute on the publication or military history in the impact on world affairs. It is terrific, thank you for coming. Many of you would not want to be in this airconditioning you want to be out in the 95 degrees heat. I was also a very bad musician. I was talking about darkness in the new book. In the sense the talk today might have been titled chancellor bill although it has been and is as the latest operational triumph nonetheless that victory was a very expensive one. And i will just give you a couple of fine points right now and then we will do more of the background and the battle. We are at gettysburg after all. The
A another formal summit those negotiations were meant to taken place during july well july is fast running out and so it seems is north koreas patience kim jong un has set a deadline for the end of this year for negotiations to restart and for the u. S. To give some relief from sanctions in return for north korea giving up parts of its Nuclear Arsenal this does seem to be a reminder of just the size of its arsenal of weaponry that it has at its disposal. And says its to cut 9 percent of its Global Workforce by 2023 the rest of its former chairman carlos go on in the vendor has seen the automotive giant struggle to revive growth its management says its cutting costs by slashing 12500 jobs. Also its coming at aljazeera including often by civil war the syrian children struggling to survive after the rest of the family were killed by an extra. Couple on the high seas we dont patrol with gone as navy as they tracked down pirates in the most dangerous Maritime Territory in the world more of
Section. I said, im going to come back to this and this is a section of the neutrality proclamation. I wish i had paid closer attention to years ago. And this is the sentence wilson pleading with the nation, pleading neutrality in thought word and deeds said the spirit of the nation in this critical matter will be determined largely by what and society and those in Public Meetings do and upon what newspaper and magazines contain, upon what ministers utter in their pulpits and men proclaim as their opinions on the street. So that key phrase there, were going to zero in on what ministers utter in their pulpits pulpits. What striking about this original neutrality is that here, unlike whats going to happen after, us intervention in 1917 and on through the war itself on through the Peace Process at point wilson is appealing for caution restraint what not to say the passions not to stir up in the churches from the pulpit, not divide america ethnically religiously. Since americans have confl