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The search engine is following Google in removing links to web pages after the EU's landmark ruling in May that established people have a right to 'being forgotten' on the internet.
Google, with a 69% stake in the search engine market, according to Net Market Share, has received more than 70,000 requests so far, while Bing has now introduced an online form for those who wish for links to be expunged from its search results.
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All, In this age of budget cuts one of the first casualties is training. So in order to avoid re-writing coding horrors and re-engineering database disasters, I'm going to be pro-active and provide some training to lessen the severity of these issues. I want to do a few hours in: Some introductory SQL Some introductory PL/SQL Some introductory DDL(Design) If you have slides you've developed for your own use and are willing to share or know of a site that has something that will reduce the tedium of creating elementary slides, please share! TIA, Mark >>> This e-mail and any attachments are confidential, may contain legal, >>> professional or other privileged information, and are intended solely for >>> the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, do not use the >>> information in this e-mail in any way, delete this e-mail and notify the >>> sender. CEG-IP1 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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Finally, our well pump is pulled into view, slim and shining, still looking new after all those years. I'm adding up replacement costs in my head — ca-ching, ca-ching — when I realize all water is free — every bit of it, an incredibly generous gift from our blue planet. It's getting it from place to place that costs.
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Afghanistan's President will make his first visit to Pakistan in more than a year to mend strained relations and in the hopes that he can enlist the support of the new Pakistani government to help end the nearly 12-year Afghan war, said an official on Sunday.
The two nations have had tense ties for years, and Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of supporting the Taliban in the movement's fight against the Afghan government.
But the election two months ago of a Prime Minister in Pakistan has raised hopes in Kabul that Islamabad will be more open to helping start peace talks with the Taliban than the previous government, which it perceived to be more hostile to Afghanistan and its President, Hamid Karzai.
Pakistan is seen as a key player in the Afghan peace process, and the U.S. has been trying to enlist its support to help coax the Taliban into peace talks.
Islamabad has ties to the Taliban that date back to the 1990s, and many of the group's leaders are believed to be detained or living on Pakistani territory.
Afghanistan's government recently charged that Pakistan had floated the idea of a power-sharing deal with the Taliban, while Mr. Karzai's chief of staff went so far as to suggest that a recently opened Taliban office in the Gulf state of Qatar was a plot by Pakistan or the U.S. to break up the country. — AP


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I am going to attempt to ignore the comment above me about the hippies ruining everything and post here.
I have been listening to you many years, once in CA now in rural MO and appreciate your take on "things."
Today, I greatly appreciated your ruminations on our times, the shootings, life. Most of all, I resonated with a deep sense of fatigue with the human race that I sensed. And the despair.
Keep on Jennifer. You are an authentic person so wonderful and rare.
I agree that her voice sounded fatigue. I also was going to turn her off because of her initial elitist tone. But then I gave it a chance and it was like I was with my Grandma again.
Today I often feel fatigued as well. Especially in today's media driven culture. 24 hour TV and radio, 24 hour internet, 24 hour sports, it never stops, when can I not have to have media on. I have to consciously turn off media to unplug. Western civilization is dying and her description of humans throughout her life was refreshing. I like it when older folks share how "it used to be". Just like the "All in the Family" theme. People knew who to trust and they knew when people were to be excluded. Now, people don't trust anyone. People had a sense of hope back when she was young. They thought that if they worked hard they could do well in life. Now we want to take what other people make because they stole it from other people, just to prove a point. We defeated the Nazi's during her life. We knew what tyranny was back then and now we wouldn't know tyranny if it hit us between the eyes. Back when she was young people would have a sense that someone was acting strangely or oddly, and they would have the courage and where-with-all to confront the oddball. Now we think it is wrong to descriminate against things that we don't like, like people, types of cars to drive, types of food to eat, types of ways to photocopy. We are so scared to share what we really think today because someone will sue us, or take us off their facebook page. I rarely visit the Bay Area and listening to her voice gave me hope that there are some Bay Area folks that remember when times were simpler. Bay Area folks are still crazy and odd but I appreciated her message.
I was very impressed with this broadcast. I appreciated her rich grandmotherly voice and her opinions of how life was during her childhood and when her children were young. Hearing of simpler times from year ago was so nice to listen to before the hippies ruined everything. The tragedy in Connecticut through her eyes is sad but insightful on how she viewed other tragedies like JFK and MLK assassinations and how they related to her students and children.


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I'm John -- dis to John about social. The murder of the journalists often -- make gangsters who calls himself. A touch Jerry jihadist member of the Islamic state. Russia and -- Current invasion incursion. Domination of eastern Ukraine by elements supported certainly by the Russian military. An emergency meeting and Cardiff note this was long planned but. Remarks by the general secretary of NATO mr. Rasmussen -- to Saber rattling and -- gathering of the plans to deal with the aggression in Eastern Europe. By Russian. And then we have the president's remarks in these last days unfortunate choice of words when asked about Islamic state in particular. No strategy yet. I put these three things down and I turned as Cory Shockey who's writing most recently in foreign policy cars at the Hoover institution. Because she calls attention in new piece that she wrote before the president's unfortunate remarks. About the the president's West Point speech of this same year it's hard to believe that it was that close at hand. In which the president looks to have outlined a strategy now under way. -- a very good evening to thank you for this I'm going to read from the president's remarks that you quoted your foreign policy speech. And ask you to extricate said the president are most costly mistakes came not from our restraint. But from our willingness to Russian to military adventures without thinking through the consequences. Without building international support and legitimacy for our action without leveling with the American people. About the sacrifices required and quote is that under way now where we can see it in. The Black Sea basin or the Mesopotamia basin or perhaps this gangster on -- on video good evening here. I do think that the president's fundamental perspective on the world. Is that there aren't so hot in the action. But there are enormous cost actions. And therefore. 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One of the main complaints that American I'm happy that they have no idea what our strategy and with no idea what to do to help. I think the short version is our friends don't trust us and our enemies don't fear -- let's look at right now the confrontation with Russia. The United States is not clear. But then again it's part of NATO. Does the United States exercise. Unusual. Power and NATO are we just 128 nations and we are equal to France or to Spain and what sits down in Cardiff Wales is going to be balanced by the president's reluctance I'd I'd like to imagine the immediate future. The United States contribute. 70%. Of the difference and and it is true that the lieutenant colonel economy and Luxembourg Italian. It's as many votes as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the United States. That there is -- landing in -- there are equal and decision making. And there is now let me as early December -- I'd be. I was leading that charge where the most frightening and consequential challenges that. People expect -- -- expecting for good reason they just -- and we have for the last seventy years. Days slaughter of rule and the protector. Share our values that have not been able by itself. To create experience stability. But in the end it together. We can all do it and we cannot do that more cost effectively. As they try to challenges. That -- make it. The reluctance let's look at Libya within these last days -- your run of the foreign policy. It's apparently a surprise to the Obama administration to learn that Egypt general CC now presidencies he supported airstrikes but the UAE. Against Tripoli is gangsters some of these -- taking over our embassy. Is that the end of American power it was -- -- but that time that everybody said hey we don't have to call Washington. No I don't get it but I didn't think for some time. And accurate. Particularly. Those. If feel themselves most threatened countries and at least for the pain and and anxiously watching. To see if we are gonna try any red lines that they're -- enforce the ones that we draw. But it was they are afraid of is that is that the president ad -- -- grandiose terms. Without both. In the world but all I think out the importance. The United States. But it chooses policy -- Add in no way matchup with the objective and make it -- -- most egregious -- to. West and the president and upon deciding that we can't help lift -- -- and chart in Iraq. The president said. Some fat cats that come out. He didn't mean Americans can't help Iraq he didn't mean it can't Syrians he didn't mean -- America can help me. -- -- -- Italy who are victims and it on the -- -- we reckoning how he's very strong religious minority. Side rocked at the edge as. It is. Decree -- -- city and that state and and -- have to cart -- -- no -- actually have with a very stingy in management system racked with them again. And that creates resentment understandably. The number of times that the president has said that I thought -- pick out. -- three years into the spirit of the strategy. Cory Shockey is a fellow at the Hoover institution writing most recently and -- a -- a foreign policy about the president's West Point speech and the reluctance. Of the superpower and I'm John that's this is the -- message. And John. This is John best -- show. The turmoil in the Middle East a surprisingly positive these last months it's -- Pakistan Omar Sharif the prime minister. Going through the Afghanistan. Conflict the ice after invasion and then policing of Afghanistan and now it's funny fourteen. These look towards the exit of the new government there still doubt as to who the president is in Kabul but. In Islamabad -- -- -- in charge of a vibrant. Democracy I mean to be diplomatic here because in comparison to some other. Democracies in the Middle East Pakistan is doing very well except for these last days and weeks. Protests sometimes. Resulting in conflict and what you'd have to say is rioting in the streets. Now come to an emergency session of the of the parliament and the question of whether or no -- -- will continue in office paraphrased feet. It's an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute is here. I've depended on RF to interpret the Pakistan government for many years and because of photograph accompanies an article in the New York Times. Of what looks to be young men and women throwing. -- throwing a boxy container box all over offer offer another company -- box it looks violent but the reporting shows. That there is a new com and Islamabad. Arafat very good evening to you what is the presenting issue of this long standing. A dispute in the streets of Pakistan and good evening. -- -- -- on the dispute stems from last May's general elections. They've brought an illustrious who's the two time prime minister and it brought back into power. And at a party that came in third place in terms of national simply eat and -- complacent electoral -- Has accused. The ruling party. Bringing the elections. And denying it when it -- as its rightful victory. And so it has been about. Been over a year since the general elections. And and the party apart from that we can party led by cricket star -- its start out on. Ten. Has said that it's taken to the streets because of its frustration with. And -- -- government. In refusal to deal has its accusations of electoral fraud. The potential to process. -- you know a member of Enron Khan's party. And actually. Defected from it ranks yesterday. Accused. He. Is very contradictory and instantly -- a bitter accusations -- -- accused a couple. Within the military intelligence that was meant a collaborating on two to unseat. Prime minister of luxury it was spinning historic role of the military. And so it seems as it says that you know there's been this two week long. Sit in his own not led by Ron -- party in the clutch of other parties and what it seems that says. On who you know could have won. And the elections and -- that the next round it and and half years or four years. It's into the teens you know like the athlete like Alex Rodriguez of up to politics he's taken steroids needing assistance from elements of the military. To achieve political greatness. And trying to pummel it comes to power and the result has been any nominee. He is and rather than being you know part that's most popular politician that he was about -- -- ago. He's increasingly reviled in in the public and media and made -- have been mocked. And the end result also that of -- democracy. Is a lot more secure than it once was but a few months ago. The Imran Khan party or -- personality has linked himself with the cleric Mohamad talk here all cadre what does that what does he represented. Well our country is India somebody who has tried to frame himself. Op pro peace Muslim cleric who is an opponent opponent of terrorism inside out on in the world is giving up -- Religious edict against suicide bombings for example. -- live in Canada these days but for the past two years he's come to pocket on try to dislodge the current government. And you know there's been some speculation that he's been backed by the military to destabilize. The civilian Democrat. And you know my belief is that he's actually supported by news. Is that the substantial base of its followers to or merely art and expatriates or that a large number of -- the expatriates were -- And you know you -- devotional following. And that stems from a religious basis and is trying to convert that into. Political force. Some elements of the military have allied with him because he comes from the very obese sect of Sunni Islam upset. And there are essentially salukis and so it seems to me that there are some element in the military. Feel that. You know after years decades of supporting. Militants from. The other Sunnis subsite called the deal Bundy who. You know with the public on another that they have to kind of balance that out -- this is very proud and and -- -- Brody or so people wait. So is his background he comes from you know it is religious background and their might become in the military or working to support him. Also he had a very strong. Religious support base. In -- Don and also on the opt for community. You mentioned the military more than once now what is the motive for the military to oppose -- -- Shareef. Well you know I would say you know the military or army itself is. A it's a mistake to look at it as a unitary actor. I think you know a bit in terms of the intelligence services there are a lot of retired officers -- contractors. Who. You know have a longstanding relationship with the intelligence services. And -- a freelance and in their own way and I think -- there is there's divide within the military itself -- in the old guard which wants to it by the old rules meaning that the civilians are. Secondary in terms of the decision making process and the two. Know their role and and there are others who are key to embrace democracy and it seems to me that there are elements inside the military. Who want to keep electric down because he had a history. Supporting of them being quite assertive with the military these -- four previous army chiefs. And now this time around he's decided to prosecute. The former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. It was disinclined to go into the North Waziristan tribal areas to engage in military operations there and -- -- on. On the military had to basically put him in there. So and then they're also was some university -- some of the members of this party. Though they're from the center right background. There had made some very assertive anti military statements. And so you know all these imaginations. Occur within the -- of deterioration of civil military relations I pockets on. But you know today inside pocket on the parliament convened and he joint assembly. A joint session. And most political most of the leading politicians from the leading political parties. And it told. And expressed with you know there is -- single voice that the prime minister should not resign and you know solidly acted. X systems so this has a new moment in -- and history where it's historic historically powerful military. Has been subdued. For this round. This kind of -- pack of epic battle between civilian and military -- Pakistan at this point riding through a storm brought by an extremely popular rock star kind of politician Imran Khan. Right now no -- Shareef is sustained as prime minister our front feet. 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Did he described the scale of threat here. To Great Britain to these 500 moved traveled there. And two presumably to the thousands or tens of thousands -- influenced by the radicalization good evening to you. -- you having John. It this scale of the threat these possibly larger than even from our estimate. -- estimated 5600. As British foreign fighters fighters there are folks estimate cost 15100. And mr. Morris think that a 18250. Already come back to Britain. And I to have been detained her earners. Our defense they are within British society now. At various levels of reintegration. And it's a very real threat in and -- that -- yesterday. There was a rumor going about that -- -- London Underground bombing planned for the terrorist activities. And obviously it's a bit ridiculous because you know actually if -- act this type groups don't announce their client at a time. But the sense of panic and fear period then you know but. We have friends and colleagues who were saying. I'm not gonna -- Right underground today because. And has happened especially in this city and the memory of the July 7 -- doesn't fire bomb. So does that threaten Israel and offensive fear there you. Mr. -- her comes from having been a radical when he was younger man. And I take it from their conversation with him. That he does not regard these young men as. A -- continuous with his own education. What's changed them says that they. Reach for this level of violence in Iraq to -- -- inside his staff how key is in London and -- Mosul. And it will leave its part has to do with the it would dot org they're radical organization that that that sure joint. When he was in college that was right after -- and you've been. Raised by well the product imports of -- secular Pakistan British. Stanley and -- in Saudi Arabia worries that he invited a lot of documents and a ideas. Can come back to two Britain when he you know. If he came. Fourteen. And then -- few years later in -- the university. Perfectly effective their drinking partying and then 9/11 happens and it triggers their activate. So at -- and the American idea that anything yet yet absorbed in Saudi Arabia. And he joined an organization called his -- Still around founded in 1963 in Jerusalem and it's an organization is different from you know -- this type of groups in the sense that it doesn't. You know active participate in sort of physical operational. They don't. They don't you know plant and suicide bombings. Because they believe he leaned into the cabbage and other global Islamic -- for around the whole world. But they believe in the past to do that is through broad based political the political solutions. I it is through taking over an army -- -- You know that would he infiltrating an army -- that it it conducts a -- it takes over a country or. You know brought -- politics of course. Haven't they haven't had much success for painfully. But that's exactly that the differences between groups like habitat here and its next generation is going from much more extreme. Radical Islam which the -- hit and did they didn't do it -- and who are. Radically. And assimilated in British society in their options first second generation of the repeat their born in Britain they're born in Europe across China. But they have no sensitive political identification. -- -- society they live -- Even though it -- provide them it's a liberal democracy that provide them the with much more than their parents every team from from Britain or from France when windows folks moved -- immigrants. You know they think they have a great deal of opportunities they're often you know or even -- -- in some cases. They've attended university. And yet undiagnosed until I get attached an identification and with Britain. The reason that primarily is that Britain -- beginning in the eighty's and ninety's. Became. 888. Hope for is -- all over the world. The common and radicalize. Young British parliament of them you know you you know your identity is primarily as a Muslim. You should you shouldn't think of -- You thought of possessing a typical British identity. And that means that problem really hasn't gone away you know nine elevenths kind of highlighted it. The 77 months sort of you really put a spotlight on it. But this threat has. Continued. Despite various efforts by the British government at -- pushing back and rolling back radicalization. And it culminated now in that did the very extreme car. Of I fifth and expect it headings and and you know attempted genocide of minority groups in the Middle East. In your conversation with mr. -- he identifies three groups of -- young men in Britain who would travel to crisis the first he says our summer camp jihadist. The second are really nasty guys in the third our humanitarian jihadist idealistic. Who look at the suffering and elect does he believe he can speak to any one of these three types. Yeah I heard these are himself is is you know primarily when he what did you Heidi it was. It was political. What he you do where elements. Offense. -- -- -- Human rights violations and oppression. In the in the Middle East. In the Muslim world the animated him but each panel led down that this sort of malignant past. Of political radical Islam. And the analogue to that they are are keep our people who go to Kate secure line. The fighters against the -- fat version. There again primarily. Motivated by -- sense of injustice. As you know that the 200000 people that have been. Killed in the and -- millions displaced by the offenders teams. Crackdown on the uprising that began 2011. But they end up. Joining because if that these groups to giant. As the Islamic state and then -- needed to -- 88 changed humidity is at at Shiraz but it can mean. They stopped talking about the women and children that into rescue and the first thing we're -- -- -- -- law become. You know totalitarian foot soldiers of the Islamic state. The British government right now the plans are unclear. But there will be a penalty to pay that's clear from them and the prime minister's remarks it whether they've they sacrifice their citizenship or jailed. Or persecuted or put on watch list. Does mr. -- are believed that'll be enough to discourage the volunteers the young man. -- actually see it is as far as a certain type of these. Folks are -- over. There there's 88 large segment. That cannot be radicalized. The my corporate panic -- agreement felt that there there is a large chunk out. These folks that have to be contracted on the battleground they went to the martyrdom and the only way to you will be rid of the trouble is to grant him that wish. But for but there is you know in my heart controversially that. You do in this certain group. And minority of these of these ID card idealistic types. Or already know maybe disaffected with the with the life experience and want to come back. And they should be allowed to come back. And as long as they're closely monitor. And he agreed to the you know deep Greece by all the intelligence agencies. And -- live -- you know that they may mean maybe some sort of administrative detention. As far as going forward. I think that they prime minister's proposal in terms of some sort of restriction on travel and back is really. It might be good deterrent I am using. Easier your British citizenship -- and the -- and I. You know they -- Not a complete solution have to fight them on the battleground to. Yet to do every team and 22. Try to discourage. People from going over and to encourage their parents and family members and and you moms. To to send the counter message. You know -- this second -- kidnapped. And media should be a wake up call all of Britain that did unfortunately 9/11. And some have -- it and didn't bring about that there's a huge problem. In the Muslim community that still haven't its extreme problem and it took it about tackling the ideology. Of Islamic and it's not enough to. In a prevent someone from going over at the point of wonder about to depart wonder about they're gonna. To -- mission. And start way back. And have kids -- in the mosque in the community. And we mean including offense civic identity in the communities that Europe Britain's third. Your -- your solidarity and physicians as to the NC the British stage and senior fellow Briton. Not to the Islamic faith in -- not to decal. Sorrow about Mars is a journal editorial page writer he's based in London I'm John bachelor this is John that session. I'm John that this is the John that's a show. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. Potomac fever clearly on the campaign trail for the Republican nomination. And when asked within these last days. Ices the threat of the Islamic state. Senator Paul quoted by the AP said if I were president. I would call a joint session of congress that would lay out the reasoning of why -- is a threat to our national security. And seek congressional authorization. To destroy crisis militarily. And club. Christian lighten. Who is here to speak to appease that he has a bright part dot com about senator Paul's previous remarks about his intention validate. As president of the United States. Two intervene overseas to take the American more fighting machine over -- Is here to comment first of all on the on the senator's unusual remark given the recent history. Of what what you have to say is the senators reluctance to engage. And overseas adventures could aiming to Christian. The senator has marched to a different tune today is this consistent tear reading of his recent remarks on foreign policy. Now open to other flip flopped that this is something that libertarians have a great -- a deal of trouble with whether it's foreign policy or domestic policy and others. You know they can't really say what they think whether it's getting rid of Social Security Medicare which goes over with you know virtually no one in the public or an isolationist foreign policy so he's -- it. Modification he's gone from last week putting out an op Ed -- -- Hillary. A bit of a war mongers saying that the people who are calling for crisis is defeat in Iraq wanted to win. In Syria that of course is the nation's bots you know we're seeing a evolution here. In light of public opinion that is shifting but you know. Saying these things and also. Constantly reflexively saying we should go to congress that was the policy in Libya not I want these people to live in these people to lose a -- he should go to congress and the that's really just a process they have not really a strategy thing. Christian whiteness the president of Hamilton foundation and the author of Smart power between diplomacy and war he worked in the State Department senior advisor during the George W Bush Administration. Last January in your bright part piece -- quote senator Paul. I really am a believer that foreign policy must be viewed by events as they present themselves not as we wish them to be. He then gives examples the Syrian chemical weapons solution could be exactly what we need to resolve the standoff in Iran and North Korea. By -- leveraging our relationship with China we should be able to influence the behavior North Korea. Likewise we should be engaging the Russians to assist us with the Syrians and the Iranians. It looks very much like senator Paul resembles someone say Bill Clinton when I was younger person. Who would call -- friends come over to watch him play solitaire it's a man who once a partner when he engages in tough foreign policy. Is this consistent with senator Paul's recent remarks about ice is going to war I don't remember him and listing and -- assistant to go to war -- nicest. That's right now and it's switch from you know sort of an excuse to do nothing because really what people say. You know we should look at China clean -- North Korea we should get Russia -- -- -- -- believe it or not with the thousands and thousands of people were you know national security millions actually in Washington. And elsewhere in the US people have thought of this before. It's been tried before by two administrations at least sometimes multiple administrations of both parties and all this stuff doesn't work. But it is an excuse to do nothing -- China will lean on North Korea ultimately doesn't mind the human rights violations of the nuclear arsenal and it doesn't mind the idea of an unstable North Korea. And really the thing with Russia and here it's not going to want to get rid of its sole ally in the war on perhaps in the Middle East. In order to what looked good at the United Nations -- -- we -- no it doesn't really care. And so that you just have obviously have a shift from that I think increasingly. Policy. Not intervention -- -- much I think still has a lot like isolation isn't just isn't tenable for someone who wants to run for president when the world following a part. In you're seeing an evolution but the risk is that looks hypocritical. Christian. The president is much criticized over these last days because of an unfortunate choice of words about strategy and nicest. However they hesitation of the Obama administration does not just start with is this Iraq crisis. It did not just start with the Syrian crisis it actually started in the beginning there hesitation. To use force or -- use military force. For an end for perceived and stated the American people. Have been five and six years. The question for you -- studying senator Paul. Does he differ very much from the way that the president's approach this I understand that there are always talking points about process. However does senator Paul come doing decidedly profoundly different position than the president this reluctant foreign policy. Right if you look at at every single problem around the world a recent event the outcome under a president Paul. Would be the same as under President Obama essentially self -- in Syria basically we've had three and a half going on for years of -- there -- some minor arms that after. Many years made it to the Free Syrian Army. Really miniscule commitment and that's probably what what happened under a Rand Paul we do see changes his mind so. Originally what he would do and they're like Obama has just stay out -- makes some ridiculous statement like we don't want to militarized the situation even though it's pretty darn well militarized. I think in Egypt you know he had Obama really sitting on hand as Mubarak came and went and even middle of what it was clear Mubarak would not be put back together again. -- Humpty Dumpty -- and I'm still no real strategy no real intervention no desire to move Egypt and direction and you know it's not just the military to look at Iran look at when people went to the streets there and 29 that should have been seen as a godsend -- people of Iran trying to depose their theocratic tyranny. Obamas sat on hand -- polity the same thing you know. The libertarian and -- -- they love to blame America I mean they still blame what we did in 1953. Deposing a Communist trending government in Iran preventing -- from going behind the iron curtain is extremely dangerous time of the Cold War they blame that. For what's going on in Iran in the Middle -- today among other. Suppose the American sense. The libertarian wing faction clique of the Republican Party is hot right now senator Paul is speaking to a fervent following. He has credibility as a presidential candidate even though we haven't gone through fourteen yet. Is he giving the pop of the Republican Party -- wants to hear Kristen instead. Is he not leading -- he just following for leading from behind her following the Republican lurched away from foreign policy entirely. I think there is a strong isolationist current and I I was surprised by this first hand out here in California. You know after leaving the Bush Administration when it ended seeing how many people just want it out completely from Afghanistan or unwilling to to try different strategy -- like the one. That's suppress the violence in Iraq. And I think that's still persist but you know America's always non interventionist right after the point that it is not. And it takes a leader just simply point out the threats abroad and Americans consistently -- the challenge they realize our oceans don't protect us like they did in the nineteenth century nor is there. Sort of a Great Britain keeping the international order and we can just. -- -- behind our oceans. I I think you bring in Paul will be a player I was speaking to a former senator is an astute political observers thought. That you know it may come down in the GOP race between Rand Paul and someone else but I think someone else eventually -- Especially if if we as Republicans want to win more than say you know six or seven states. Christian -- is president of the Hamilton foundation he's the author most recently of Smart power. Between diplomacy and war is -- on senator policy and Bryant Park. He is though he was a State Department senior advisor during the George W Bush Administration I'm John that's. This is John passage.


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Why Can't Traumatic Events Bring Politicians Together?
From the Newtown shootings to the explosions at the Boston Marathon, Americans have faced a number of traumatic events in recent months. But CNN contributor David Frum says that won't change the country's political discourse. He recently wrote about the stalemate in Washington and talks with guest host, Celeste Headlee.
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This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. Coming up, an unexpected death can be a test of faith for just about anyone, but what happens when that death is a suicide? We'll talk about that in just a few minutes, but first when it comes to politics it's become something of a cliché to say 9/11 changed everything. And in the immediate days following those terrorist attacks, Republicans and Democrats came together.
They found new ground to forge compromises and work together. But that spirit of cooperation was pretty short-lived. David Frum blogs for The Daily Beast. He's also a CNN contributor. He recently wrote about the stalemate in Washington and he joins us now. Welcome.
DAVID FRUM: Thank you very much.
HEADLEE: So in your column, it's pretty bleak.
FRUM: Yes.
HEADLEE: You basically say nothing changes anything.
FRUM: Anything.
HEADLEE: And if that's true, and we're going to get further into that in just a moment, but if that's true, what's changed? How is that different from, say, 50 years ago?
FRUM: I think it is deeply true. And it's not just a glib comment about Washington; it's about the way our minds work. The column you're referring to started as a reaction to a piece written by a CNN colleague of mine, Ruben Navarrette who expressed - he's a big advocate of the immigration bill and he said he was afraid that the events in Boston would change that public response or the congressional response to the immigration bill.
And I said no, it won't. Nothing changes anything. Newtown doesn't change the status quo on guns. The debunking of the most important paper advocating economic austerity, balancing budgets, and recessions has not changed the fact that we've got a sequester going on or that Europe is emphasizing balanced budgets as its way out of the Euro currency crisis.
And with immigration, Boston won't change anything. And what is going on here - well, first something about Congress which is about the rigidity of our congressional system. And second, something about human nature. Which is it really isn't true that we gather the evidence and on the basis of that we form our political conclusions. It's the other way around.
First we form our political conclusions and then we go hunt for evidence to prove that we're right.
HEADLEE: But is that recent? I mean, did Pearl Harbor change nothing? Did the Depression change nothing?
FRUM: OK. Well, I can - let me put it this way. One can overstate. I mean the Civil War? Yes. There are gigantic events but even in the wake of gigantic events like Pearl Harbor and the Civil War, what you're struck by is the conservatism of mind that persists until entire generations have disappeared from the scene.
And so through the Depression there were people who believed that the way to get out of the Depression was to stick to the gold standard and balance the budget. And it wasn't just conservative-minded people who thought those things. Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed in the gold standard for a year into his presidency. In fact, he took the United States off the gold standard without ever really understanding that he'd done it.
He had - he thought he was doing something else but it had the inadvertent effect of taking the United States off gold. And he continued to believe to the end that it was important to balance the budget during a depression and that's one of the reasons we got the double - the second Depression in 1937. Our minds are very conservative things.
And I suppose if you're looking for a takeaway from the column, I think as individuals each of us need to take our own temperature and to say are we as individuals responsive enough to evidence or do we hunt and peck, look for evidence to prove it? One last thought on this. It's kind of depressing. Social scientists, when they study this, find that the better educated and the better informed you are, the more resistant you are to new information.
HEADLEE: Oh, that's really depressing.
FRUM: And the reason is, a well informed person is good at explaining away contrary information. Whereas a less well informed person is not so good at it. So you can actually change their minds more than you can change the mind of the person who was better informed, or at least possesses more facts that he or she thinks are relevant.
HEADLEE: So when you say nothing changes anything, let me push back on you a little bit. Because obviously the public's mind has changed. The American public's mind has changed on gay marriage, for example, civil rights for gay Americans. Why hasn't that translated into a change from a lot of politicians?
FRUM: Well, that - as I say, the phrase nothing changes anything, like a lot of things, is exaggerated for effect. Obviously, I wouldn't want to deny that change ever occurs. It does occur. Change is the great fact of political life. But, you know, when you sort of look under at the mechanism of change, same sex marriage is a good example. People aren't changing their minds on same sex marriage.
People with one view are dying and people with a different view are coming into the political world to replace them. Now, what you're seeing is an effect of change happening through generational transition.
HEADLEE: Attrition.
FRUM: Through attrition. Yes. Thank you. And that - when change does come, that's the way it does tend to come.
HEADLEE: What is it about - is there a different atmosphere in politics, though? Why are politics so seemingly - and perhaps I'm wrong - more entrenched? Why is it so much more difficult to get even the slightest nudge out of political parties?
FRUM: Well, let's look at the gun debate, for example, to see how this is working in public opinion. If you look back at the year 1970 and compare it to now, you see many more Americans own guns in 1970. Back them about half of American households owned a gun. Today only about a third of households do. That's because of the decline of hunting. The people just own fewer long guns.
Those households that do own guns, own guns more. In 1970 we were in a period of rapidly rising crime. Today we're in a period of rapidly decline - or still declining crime. We probably have less crime today than at any time of the history of the American Republic. And yet back then people were sympathetic to gun control measures and now public opinion is hostile, sharply hostile, to gun control measures.
HEADLEE: Not background checks.
FRUM: If you describe it as a gun control measure, they - this is one of those things where if you phrase it right - that if you say should we keep guns out of the hands of undesirable people they will say yes. But if you then ask them about the general concept of gun control, you get - the public is opposed. What's going on here? What is driving - why have we had these changes?
And the answer is that the people who are the core of the political country, people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s are carrying around opinions that were formed 20, 30, 40 years ago. When you ask people about guns today they are responding to the fears of crime they absorbed in the 1970s. And it will not be until those people pass from the scene and you have new generations come to the front, who had their experiences formed at a different time, that you'll get new answers.
Of course, they will be just of out of date then...
HEADLEE: That's right.
FRUM: ...as we are now. And so I think this is like the perpetual tragedy we're all carrying around in our minds. Our politics are guided by opinions that were relevant a generation ago.
HEADLEE: If you're just joining us I'm speaking with columnist David Frum about whether or not we can forge meaningful reform in the week of national tragedies. Basically, is it true that nothing changes anything? You know, you mentioned how you can phrase certain things and if you use the words gun control it changes people's opinion.
I find it's true that our politicians on both sides, all sides, are so good at putting negative connotations to certain phrases like gun control, like welfare mother, like liberal has become a negative thing in many circles; that as soon - that they become emotional triggers for people. So to a certain extent, political rhetoric, perhaps, is part of the problem.
Our politicians have gotten so good, and I'm including you because you were a speech writer for President George W. Bush and you were quite good at that in your time - is it part of the problem?
FRUM: What happens when you do political speech is you are connecting to deep beliefs that people had. So when you try to drive change through a process of persuasion, you don't - you know, Dr. Spock said that when you introduce a new toy to a baby the ideal toy is one that is the same but slightly different. So that's - when you introduce new ideas, that you are introducing always things that are the same but slightly different.
I mean, you mentioned a range of things. When you think why did the word liberal - why is that such a negative word? In the America of the 1960s it was very positive.
And the answer to that question is because between 1965 and 1980, people who were liberals did things that didn't work out very well and that were associated with rises in crime and civil disorder and inflation and the defeat in Vietnam.
And those Americans who were at an impressionable moment in those 15 years, who are all - most of whom are still alive today - formed new habits and changed their political vocabulary.
But I think, for those people who lived through the period from 2000 to 2010, something similar has happened to the word conservative. Now, we haven't noticed this yet, because it is only people under 30 who have a negative reaction to the word conservative. Those over 40 still have an overwhelmingly positive reaction to it, but as they march through life, carrying with them the impressions formed in the first decade of the 21st century.
You know, one of the things we know about the way people vote is that one of the strongest predictors of how you're going to vote is how you voted in the first two elections of your lifetime. And when you look at different cohorts in the electorate, that people who were between 20 and 25 during a successful Democratic presidency are much more likely to be Democrats forever. And people who are between 20 and 25 during a successful Republican presidency are much more likely to be Republican forever. And the opposite is true if you were between 20 and 25 during an unsuccessful Democratic presidency.
The most conservative group in the country are people who were in their 20s in the middle 1980s. They were young conservatives back in the 1980s, and now they're middle-aged conservatives on their way to being old conservatives. And the most liberal group in the country used to be people who were in their early 20s during the five years after World War II.
HEADLEE: During Clinton. Oh, I see.
FRUM: And...
HEADLEE: Well, is this set in stone? I mean, what you're arguing is that it has been this way, and e'er shall it be. Right? I mean, is there no way? What can we do to solve it? Term limits? Is that part of the problem? Do we ban lobbyists from D.C.? How do we get to the point where something like Sandy Hook or Aurora, Colorado could change the debate on gun control?
FRUM: Well, first, I think as in - a lot of this is about us as individuals. Remember, this is not just a statement about the political system. It's about how we react, that we - as Alexander Hamilton said of human beings, it would be less true to say that they are reasonable than that they are reasoning creatures. That is, we use reason as a tool. We are not really interested, oftentimes, in learning about the world around us. We're looking for proof.
So, first, cut that out. I mean, each of us as individuals make a more - and that's certainly one of the things that has shaped - I've gone through in my - in the past five years, I've been someone who's gone through a lot of political change. And one of the things that I have striven to do in my own life is to be more open to being persuaded by information that contradicts prejudices that I carry.
HEADLEE: But that may be why some conservatives who don't like you, and some do. I'm going to - we have to, unfortunately, close out this interesting conversation now. I'm speaking with David Frum. He blogs for The Daily Beast, and he's also a CNN contributor. He's a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. You can find his column on whether or not anything changes anything at both CNN and The Daily Beast.
Thank you so much.
FRUM: Thank you, Celeste.
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