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

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


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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]"




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