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this was interesting as is the Charlie Rose series on the brain. Thank you PBS!

well Joe, your post saddens me, and somewhat puzzles me. Learning alot of accurate world and American history can give great perspective. In some ways we have learned lessons and have opportunity in our framework, i.e. our freedoms, to make humanity better. In other ways other countries and cultures have succeeded through time where we are yet young. There are many we can learn from. I recommend the *Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin* for a great examination of all the influences that created the possibilities of our country's forming. Franklin sought to get society learning, reading, conversing (and yes he was terribly narrow and abit arrogant in his thoughts~but that was due in part as much to the times as anything), he sought to get people gainfully employed and free to speak and worship and write/author as they believed true.

There were not a few who advised strongly that they (Iraq/Afghan) would NOT simply understand~that it would be complicated and not look like a mirror of us. They were not listened to at best, at worst they were ignored and dismissed~the admin knew its purposes and was so full of arrogance and determination in course it could not listen analytically.

The Taliban as I understand it are not at all a cohesive group but rather local in nature and may as well fight each other as anyone else. I do not believe anywhere on earth has an endless supply of people who thrive on war. There is certainly, so very sadly, a seemingly endless supply of the impoverished and uneducated and unurtured and unloved. The society needs time and some safety to develop, it needs economic stability and the people need basic needs met. Only those who have the luxury of a full belly and clean body, water and home have the time to concern themselves with philosphies and governments and progress. It does seem like our options are the route of the least terrible, but the region is a crucial crucial cog in the future of all of us. Not only for their sake now, but for all of us it will be good to encourage and support a chance for them to govern themselves democratically framed. "Thus I corrected that great Erratum as well as I could."~Ben Franklin... See More

Our soldiers are not risking their lives for the imaginary; the struggle for progress is very real. And those who show up are typically the ones who run things. We just need to show up more often, not less, with better plans, more friends, and better equipment~and show up not just in a police sense.

"The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Albert Einstein

I do apologize for the length~don't know what caused me to write so much:)

let's say it once together...tribalism, thank you Oliver Stone. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12042009/profile.html "They don't understand" is alternative cultural reality.

exactly...Edwin. i agree. I am inspired and learn something new about someone, something, or myself each time I watch Bill Moyers show.

and to Bill... Oliver is against the war, doesn't agree w/ much of the policy, he likely would agree w/ you. did u actually watch it?

Great interview. Many good points made. I especially liked Moyers closing comments about our founding fathers...thought provoking.

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Soooo...Cute!!!:):)

I like it! Remind me, here, often. Thanks PBS and facebook!

Looks good, but PLEASE keep the real announcers and don't put Barbie and Ken in the limelight.

Marcie, what a great idea!

yeah Macie, now that's what the holidays are all about!

And they seemed to cook them on little Hibatci grills all over Panama City, Panama. After a long night boozing and barhopping, and no resturants to be found at 4am, inhibitions seem to leave you, plus most of us couldn't remember the next day.

I watch PBS here in New Jersey. I'm not a TV person but I must admit PBS has me glued to my big, flat screen Plasma for hours on end, there is nothing like it and I have 160 channels but none can compare with PBS.

Uh, buy old crap do you mean repeats of Rick Steves?

"Thomas" was one of my son's first real words.

barney was the first show i watched on pbs and then it was teletubies
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