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along comes another saying something about god's will and we have to incarcerate a woman who doesn't want to have a child that's the result of a rape. well, yes, we're back in the clown car with lots more guys wearing the crazy hats and shaking their noisemakers. thought you had seen the last of rick santorum and the rest of those characters from the primaries? not so. we have paul ryan and his personhood amendment aboard. a republican platform giving 14th amendment rights, including the right to property, to a fertilized human egg. who cares about the woman. nine days to go and none...

>> now on booktv, paula broadwell and vernon loeb talk about david petraeus his military career and his impact on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. general petraeus gave the authors full access to him and his team for the book. this is about an hour. >> good evening. i'm co-owner of politics and prose, along with my wife. on the health on behalf of the entire staff, i'd like to welcome you here. before turning to our guest authors, i'd just like to say a word about an important event coming up this april. it's being called world both night, and it's an ambitious attempt to hand out 1...

today. this program is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> well, welcome to johns hopkins school of advanced international study. i am charles door ran, i'm the andrew w. melon professor of international relations here at sais. we are absolutely delighted to have you participate in this lively discussion of a very important book, "conquered into liberty: two centuries of battles along the great warpath that made the american way of war." we're going to start off with a little explanation of what's in the book by its author, eliot cohen, and then we're going to have some d...

Bring. we have the iran question, afghanistan out there. i think president obama, secretary clinton, they've been good stewards of american foreign policy, in a very unheroic time. this is not the time of big s.t.a.r.t. agreements and cold war superpower kind of events, but i think obama's been quite effective and i think national security, as we sit here today, christmas, is going to be a plus for him. >> but beyond just the politics, tom brokaw, the iraq war may be over, but the threat is not. i keep thinking to the tom ricks book "the gamble" in which he talks to ambassador crocker, then-am...

Foreign policy, in a very unheroic time. this is not the time of big s.t.a.r.t. agreements and cold war superpower kind of events, but i think obama's been quite effective and i think national security, as we sit here today, christmas, is going to be a plus for him. >> but beyond just the politics, tom brokaw, the iraq war may be over, but the threat is not. i keep thinking to the tom ricks book "the gamble" in which he talks to ambassador crocker, then-ambassador in iraq and he said the most notable thing for which iraq will be remembered has not yet accepted. and sectarian violence, the pros...