Dr David Kilcullin, the John Bonthon lecture, threat to the West by Islamic groups

[bob10]

One of the best lectures on the situation in the middle east I have read/ listened to. Bob


http://youtu.be/Uy8QsQzEs3s

[bob10]

Another interesting lecture, by one who was there, Bob


http://youtu.be/tVUI9U4WQ6E

[KarlB]

Learn a bit more about him here: David Kilcullen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kilcullen)

Cheers
KarlB
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[bob10]

A straight talker, the Americans actually pay attention to. Bob


"my views have been on the public record for years, since well before I came to work for the government and since before I served in the field in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. They hired me anyway. And secondly, surprising as it may be, the last administration ? just like the present administration ? was big enough, open enough and intellectually honest enough to tolerate and, indeed, welcome constructive criticism and genuine attempts to fix policy problems. I never found that it needed much moral courage to be honest about my opinions ? non-partisan honesty was exactly what Secretary Rice wanted from me, and she told me that more than once. The ability to tolerate and integrate different opinions, and thus to self-correct, is one of the foremost strengths of our form of government, and I suspect this is true of all administrations, though perhaps it is true of some more than others.[31] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kilcullen#cite_note-31)"




http://youtu.be/MyfRQRC59jk