CSPAN2 Book TV January 13, 2013
Issue trying to come up with a book proposal because we had absolutely no idea how this was going to end. But, i mean, the end as in the exit of gadhafi was reasonably clear to me, i thought. The beginning was, at least as far as the rapprochement between the u. S. , the west and libya was a period which i had lived as a junior diplomat from 2004 to 2006 when a small group of us was sent to tripoli to, basically, lay the foundations for what became the embassy. I, you know, ive spent a lot of time in the middle east. Sometimes i wonder whether i should have studied japanese back when i was if ...