man, i don t know. [laughter] but i think we ll find out, right? you know, what i wanted when i wrote this book was not that somebody would kind of take away one thing that i even knew. i was hoping people would engage with it and figure out stuff that i don t know. and there s other veterans who are writing books. there s more literature coming out about the wars. and i think that, you know, it all kind of adds to this conversation that we re having about iraq, about what it meant, about the new veterans. what i want people to do is engage with them as humans, right? you know, there s a way in which we kind of tend to conflate our feelings about the war and the veterans who served in it. and i think that, you know, thinking about what that feels like on a human level is extremely important for understanding the wars. and also for not kind of falling into false myths about war. great. thanks, phil. thanks, everyone. thank you. [applause] all right, thank you guys so m
obviously a totalizing effect. when hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, that is clearly the language of total war. i talked to you about human rights. the way in which allied leaders promised that human rights would be secured everywhere in the world. also a total guarantee. other phrases that have a total izing quality are the terms unconditional surrender implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. but i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war and that is the trope of revenge. revenge, by its very nature, is a sort of ratchet. somebody commits a wrong against you. you seek revenge. they retaliate. they interpret that as a wrong. they come back. and so on and so forth. the momentum of the language of total war is fed onwards by the rhetoric and the ideas of revenge. when hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, he phrases it in the language of the revenge. he blames them, obviously wrongly, for the defeat of the german
synagogue council of america. you may be surprised about what says about the council about the situation in gaza. ask those saying this is necessary for israel to survive. that it is based on the slaughter of innocents on a scale that we are watching these days on television that is really a profound, profound crisis and should be a profound crisis in the thinking of all of us who were committed to the establishment of the state into it success. for the hour.an all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. today, a special with henry siegman, long described as one of the nation s big three jewish organizations along with the american jewish committee and the anti-defamation league. he was born in 1930 and frank for, germany. three years later, the nazis came to powerful stop after fleeing nazi troops in belgium, his family then eventually moved to the united states will stop his father was a leader
today, an hour with henry head of the former synagogue council of america. you may be surprised about what says about the council about the situation in gaza. ask those saying this is necessary for israel to survive. that it is based on the slaughter of innocents on a scale that we are watching these days on television that is really a profound, profound crisis and should be a profound crisis in the thinking of all of us who were committed to the establishment of the state into it success. for the hour.an all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. today, a special with henry siegman, long described as one of the nation s big three jewish organizations along with the american jewish committee and the anti-defamation league. he was born in 1930 and frank for, germany. three years later, the nazis came to powerful stop after fleeing nazi troops in belgium, his family then eventually moved to the
today, an hour with henry head of the former synagogue council of america. you may be surprised about what says about the council about the situation in gaza. ask those saying this is necessary for israel to survive. that it is based on the slaughter of innocents on a scale that we are watching these days on television that is really a profound, profound crisis and should be a profound crisis in the thinking of all of us who were committed to the establishment of the state into it success. for the hour.an all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. today, a special with henry siegman, long described as one of the nation s big three jewish organizations along with the american jewish committee and the anti-defamation league. he was born in 1930 and frank for, germany. three years later, the nazis came to powerful stop after fleeing nazi troops in belgium, his family then eventually moved to the
it seems to me if this trend really continues unfortunately 2015 will be recorded as the bloodiest year yet since 9/11. mike mentioned one of our recent obligations related to terrorism in north africa and the impact regionally and globally. we do have copies for those who might be interested. let me just mention that we re covering a broad area all the way from [inaudible] health security, for example, the ebola crisis, and in general i think we have to look at the record. and the record of last year 2014, for example, there is an increase of 30% in north africa over 2013. and, again if you look at 9/11 from 9/11 you look at that particular region which really underscores the nature of the threats, there is an increase of 800%, and so on. and so today we re going to discuss several of the countries in the region. again, there are many terrorist groups involved in this activity. some are regional and some are foreign fighters and so forth. so i think we re going to deal wit
jewish ghetto with her family their separation, her experiences in jewish transit camps and being forced in a death march in and 45. this oral history is almost two hours. klein: i was born on may 8, 1944 1924 in the most southern less part of poland. southwest part of poland. it was at the foothill of the mountain range. would you tell me about your parents and your family as a young girl? klein: in retrospect, my parents seemed to me saintly my memory is very limited. vivid. its perfection which are member. i had one older brother, his name was arthur. we lived religion old large home outside of town, with a huge garden with many fruit trees and flowers and wonderful things for children to rome in. i had 10 cats. i knew all their names and now my children and my grandchildren like me to recite the names of my cats and my brothers to dogs. i used to love swimming in summer and skiing in winter. by and large, i think i had a marvelous childhood. what about school? k
we lived in theman old large home outside of town, with a huge garden with many fruit trees and flowers and wonderful things for children to roam in. i had 10 cats. i knew all their names and now my children and my grandchildren like me to recite the names of my cats and my brothers two dogs. i used to love swimming in summer and skiing in winter. by and large, i think i had a marvelous childhood. interviewer: what about school? klein: i went to public school first but only until the war broke out and then to catholic school because it was a private girls school. we have a rabbi coming by giving us jewish instruction, about a quarter of the girls in my class were jewish. and that was a thing to do. i really liked school very much, even though i pretended i didn t. of course, when the war came that was the end of my formal education. interviewer: tell us what happened when the war broke out. klein: well, i guess the danger signals were flying very high in the summer of 1939. b
get fully briefed on. and i make sure that my team works. i mean part of the challenge of management is not to intervene in everything going on in the agency and to be very focused. and i am a focused person. so, when i see something that i come in on email that is not one of my high priorities. i give it to one of my staff. i trust them to do it and i will track it. but i m not doing my other folks jobs. i m letting them do theirs. i have, mike, i have a great team. my management team is fabulous. my career staff knows exactly what they re doing. it doesn t mean that we don t have challenges like everybody else. but i couldn t be more proud of the people that work for that agency. and i don t feel like i need to micromanage anybody. mike: you recently got back from the vatican. what role does faith play in your work? admin. mccarthy: i actually think it is a big deal. me personally, my faith gets translated in a couple of ways. one is, i actually love people. which is why, y
it should be a fascinating event first of all i would like to thank the city of charlottesville for providing this wonderful venue. every year they do so for the virginia festival of the book and it s really outstanding for both the authors and the audience. i will also thank charlottesville s on tv 10 for broadcasting today s session. just a reminder, this session is being recorded so when it comes time for the q&a session raise your hand. you will be recognized but a microphone will be passed to you so that you can pose your question. it s important that you speak into the microphone so the question can be recorded. please, please turn off any cell phones that you might have with you. the festival is free of charge and not free of cost though. please remember that the virginia festival of the book is sponsored by the virginia foundation for the humanities. there are ways to support this organization by direct support or otherwise. at the information desk at the omni are env