Our guests focus on the back-office strategy that led to our entering the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and how 9/11 contributed to those decisions. We discuss the costs, blunders, and what should have been done to expedite the best decisions.
Dear friends, Thank you once again for joining us to say au revoir to Dennis. 900 TV programs plus – time flies when you're having fun. He was touched and grateful for your being there [...]
China continues to cause consternation to the U.S. Our relations with China appear to be at long time low. In his recent confirmation hearings for Director of the CIA, William Burns said, “The adversarial Chinese leadership poses our biggest political threat.” They are also the third-largest trading partner the U.S. has and the second-largest economy in the world and the most formidable competition that the U.S. has. Bringing some new perspectives on this growing concern is David J. Firestein, the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation).
There seems little doubt that war breeds corruption. Dollars that should go to building a strong military force are often sidelined into individual pockets. Afghanistan is a ”glaring” example of this with government employees and even the military benefiting from aid dollars.
Eric Weiner, award-winning journalist, former foreign correspondent for NPR, and best-selling author of The Geography of Bliss, among others, joined hosts Dennis McCuistion and Jim Falk for a rollicking discussion on his newest work, The Socrates Express, and shared insights from some of our favorite philosophers.
The record-breaking temperatures this last winter caused havoc with the Texas power grid. The grid could not deliver the power needed to cope with the temperatures and household needs. As a result, more than 4.8 million homes were left without power, and heat. At least two hundred people died.
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North Texas Giving DayEarly Giving is Underway!We’re honored to participate in the Communities Foundation of Texas’ 13thannual North Texas Giving Day. North Texas Giving Day is live on September 23, less than two weeks away, [...]
Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, US Ambassador to Afghanistan in 2011 -2012, joins co-host Jim Falk to discuss the present situation in Afghanistan.
Niki McCuistion, Producer Where were you on September 11,2001, when at 8:45 AM ET, a plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan? Less than 20 minutes after the first [...]
