Thanks for joining us audience chanting Stephen Stephen welcome welcome, everybody thank you so much cheers and applause stephen folks. Folks. Im sure you know, but americas relationship with russia continues to degrade. Finally, a true strong leader stepped up to punish russia and, no surprise, its vladimir putin. laughter jim . Vladimir putin is striking back against the wests economic sanctions. Today banning food imports to russia for one year. For the next year they are banning all imports of beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, poultry, seafood, cheese and milk in all forms fresh, frozen, processed, whatever and this applies to european union, australia, canada and norway. Stephen yeah, putin is impose ago ban on food imports from all major countries and norway. laughter i mean, face it. No one wants lutefisk. Sanctions cafe wide, banning everything from australian beef to latin and lithuanian pork and moldovan fruit, a relief to all the moldovan people who all really had their eye ton
About the book at the International Spy museum for about an hour and a half. I will be brief, but as you know, as we follow the media even in these days, the rising concern about the young men going to the middle east in search of jihad or adventure and finding themselves caught up in extremism and violence and in many cases converting either to extremist causes or becoming disillusi disillusioned and resulting in them becoming a problem when they return to the west. There was a 1949 book called the god that failed that was about people that embraced c embraced commune ism and tonights story is a story of conversion and empany and conversion again and then loss of faith. I think you will find it fascinatin fascinating. The story is one that was developed initially by our then historian dr. Mark stout and i will introduce them and he will introduce our speakers. Mark developed this story having encountered the individual of interest in of all things, now pay attention, particularly you
Taking over the city of fallujah and my other question is how did you end up winning the trust of the city in order to change it and make it more prosperous even though isis is taking over the city . I think for a lot of a lot of americans they sea ice is taking over iraq and hear about the growth of al qaeda affiliates and theres a sense of what can we do about it . Is this something we just have to live with is a permanent condition of our lives . One reason i wanted to write the book is to show that success is possible. Its not by accident. Its a process that takes place. Theres learning that has to take place as well. This is not an intractable problem. You can do it but it requires local partnerships. The problem is so much of how we remember war or misremember wars purely about combat. Its not how wars are fundamentally finished in this type of work very. I thats the big take away i would say. I would like to add on that thats one of the reasons we wrote this. To get people to un
cheers and applause stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen welcome to the report, everybody good to have you with us nation, i got to tell you, folks, i got to tell you, it is wonderful to hear that from this audience. Thank you, thank you, heroes thank you, nation, thank you folks, you know, if you are checking the papers and looking at the tvs theres just so much sad news out there these days that tonight i would like to kick things off with a hot shot, a pick me up from what i like to call Stephen Colberts smile file. Tonight on the smile file tyrannical north korean dictator kim jungun. Folks, this mad man lives a constant state of stern disapproval. But even before he came to power young un made no time for frivolity. Just listen to this actual cnn interview with his old border schoolroom mate from switzerland. Did you go out in the night, you never go out, on disco or make party, ne
Suggestion that from the from outside as a tool to i am interested because sunni and shia, but one thing is in common, these are the points in punjab, or whether these are shabaab i start my book there. They had some common ideas which were which was complete nonviolence, which was always honoring the poor and giving them hope and was also nonenforcement. Youd be surprised go to sharif, a shrine, and you would be amazed at times more hindus than muslims there. Why . Becausecpa they never forced ane to convert. And those who i dont want more investment, more Political Support for them bump their tradition provide a bridge to different muslim sects and not only tolerate each other if you tolerate others that a success. I think it respect for the other, which is and all the sufi teachings, about human being as a human being. Thats why in terms of ideals, i support that sufi cause. But if anyone try to choreograph it, negative reaction. Totally unprecedented in the history of south asia, n