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Podcasts. In our final program looking back for president george w. Bushs decision to increase troop levels in iraq, scholars offered their analysis of the surge. From Southern Methodist university this is almost two hours. So its my pleasure to introduce the chair of this panel who is the executive director of the center at the university of texas at austin. And he has, i think, not unique but certainly worth while perspective, duel perspective of being a person who has both studied Decision Making in the white house and been part of Decision Making in the white house. He was a valuable membe...

And hes written a terrific book on the end of the cold war the bri principal author of the 9 11 Commission Report and hes writing a book on decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilson going to war, reassessing these decisions so were looking forward to phillips next book. At the same time hes doing about a dozen other things none of us can keep track of and sometimes we dont know about. So phillip. Thank you. Thank you. Im sorry to say we need to wait for james wilson to show up and so hes probably out there somewhere having a good...

Philip zelleco will chair the panel. I think Everybody Knows philip and hes written a terrific book on the end of the cold war. The principal author of the 9 11 Commission Report and many other books and hes right now in the midst of writing a terrific book on sort of decisions for war and in ways that eliminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilsons divisions for war in world war i. He sort of brilliantly reassessing these decisions. So were all looking forward to philips next book. At the same time hes doing a dozen other things that none of us can keep track of an...

Bri principal author of the 9 11 Commission Report and hes writing a book on decisions for war in ways that illuminate old crises and old decisions like going to war in 1898 or wilson going to war, reassessing these decisions so were looking forward to phillips next book. At the same time hes doing about a dozen other things none of us can keep track of and sometimes we dont know about. So phillip. Thank you. Thank you. Im sorry to say we need to wait for james wilson to show up and so hes probably out there somewhere having a good conversation. If we can send the search party out. The state d...

Solve yes union that was the lifeline for some of these governments, so there was a lot to Pay Attention to, and the president was predisposed to want to pay a lot of attention to it, but he had to exercise great discipline and set priority. Because a jim bakker couldnt be preoccupied with some of these distractions that were not distractions for the people who were hungry, and he would have to send people over to help and make things happen. But there was an awful lot going on. President bush, because he had been as, probably the best trained president ever, he would bring with him, gosh, i w...