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C-SPAN 2 COVERING ENTIRE "AL QAEDA 2.0" CONFERENCE LIVE, 8:30 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.
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But we are way oversubscribed! Always a good problem. I just sent the note below to the email list for the New America Foundation and wanted readers of TWN to see this as well.
We want you to attend -- but just expect the place to be crowded, and bring a couple of cookies or a sandwich in case we run out of lunches.
If you missed the outline of the conference, click here.
But the rest of you who cannot attend, or want to be comfortable, watch the session live on C-Span 2, which can also be watched over the web at C-Span's site.
Here is what New America's email list received:
Dear Friends & Colleagues:
We have just heard from C-Span that our conference, "Al Qaeda 2.0: Transnational Terrorism After 9/11" will be shown live tomorrow -- through the entire conference -- from 8:15 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. EST on C-Span 2.
We have also had a huge surge in RSVPs today and yesterday and have more reservations than we have seats. These things tend to sort themselves out as some people come for part of the conference and leave; and others come later. There is a lot of standing room available along the walls as well. If you are patient with us -- we will do our very best to try and accomodate all who show.
We will be meeting in the Caucus Room of the Russell Senate Office Building, SR-325, with the program (pasted below) starting sharply at 8:25 a.m. I have learned over the years that those who show early have no problem getting seats -- but our staff and I will work diligently to make all of those who come later as comfortable as possible.
We would just like to prepare everyone who has been invited that we are over capacity and cannot promise seats to those who come late nor can we promise lunches to everyone who attends.
We have two hundred lunches ordered (boxed), and we'll give out what we can -- and will set aside even more sodas. But if you need to be sure, absolutely sure of calorie intake -- or have a sugar fix, bring a cookie or sandwich with you.
We are going to have a great day. The line-up is extraordinary -- and we are going to have active Q&A after each session -- with moderators and speakers staying within pre-agreed time limits.
Whether you choose to attend tomorrow in person or watch live on C-Span 2, I hope you will find the collection of expertise on Al Qaeda and transnational terrorism interesting and thought-provoking.
We hope that this warning note does not deter your attendance (well, maybe just some of you....).
Sincerely,
Steve Clemons
Sr. Fellow, New America Foundation
and
Publisher, The Washington Note
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Congratulations! I will be watching.
Cspan is great, isn't it? And they will show it again this weekend. This is just great.
Break a leg!
Steven Clemons, you are awesome. You say things and they happen. It's been amazing getting to know your blog and to get some sense of how you work. Thank you for inspiring me and many others. We know you work very hard to connect important ideas to those of us out here. I look forward to seeing your work on C-Span 2. Gratefully,
d.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/warwithoutborders/index.html is the website for a program I watched last night on CBC. Excellent program and very well done website.
There is a perspective on Islamist terrorism that I had not previously encountered known as the Salafist movement.
Very interesting stuff indeed.
The only point that wasn't made is that any dominant power that imposes it's interests on others without adequate legitimacy will suscitate resistances and insurgencies of various types.
The Cold War has ended.
Instead of drifting into permanent recreation of pretexts to appear legitimate as dominant when it is not, the US should work at easing the natural and very welcome ushering of the age of the Civilisation-Nations. Aka multipolarity.
A bon entendeur.
I've admired tne New America Foundation from a distance for a long time. I always wondered what event they hosted would put them on the map. I believe this was that event.
I notice no other media even mentioned this forum (unless I missed it)--which is incredible considering the backgrounds of those who spoke. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Mainstream media has been dumbed down beyond anything I could ever have imagined possible.
I listened to the forum all day long off and on at work. It's rerunning now. By the time cspan reruns this show; I'll be able to give a closer listen to it all.
Steve thanks for much for all you and everyone at the New America Foundation do. You guys and the Atlantic Monthly are one of the few remaining places where thinking outside the box is going on.
The attendence was amazing. The attendence was an acknowledgement of what we who come here already know: that our political leadership isn't really talking to us about anything thing . They are just giving us jingo's to repeat.
Steve,
You did a good job in organizing the event. That must have been difficult to pull off and you should be commended.
The one thing that came to my mind when watching Bergen and Hoffman speak was that they seemed impatient with our fighting the "war of ideas." Considering that we fought the Cold War over a 50-year timespan, went through numerous Democratic and Republican administrations, and made any number of mistakes, it seems really unrealistic of Bergen to expect the Bush administration to have already figured out exactly how to fight the war of ideas against al-Qaeda, let alone to expect us to be already winning it. After all, it's only been three years since 9/11.
Dave C.,
So I bet you're gleefully looking forward to another 50 year war much hotter than the Cold War, and we're only into three and a half years of the total brainwashing bullshit being fed to the People by your bloody heros, the neo-cons. Those 50 years of Cold War were shitty fear warped years, and now the evil Straussian neo-cons have to saddle the People with another 50 years of psychological misery to keep people's individuality from getting out of conservative control. And now you're going to tell me about 9/11, and the 3,000 deaths, and everything changed after 9/11 bullshit, but we didn't have to go start another 50 year war about it! Another 50 year war neo-con dream where they control the People with fear, myths and outright lies, all for the peon's own good, and we're only into three and one half years of the brainwashing and mind control.
Instead of 50 years of war because we are intransigent about our foreign policy in the Middle East that has the Muslims either submitting to our will or suffer for 50 years, why don't we change our policy such as not being in Israel's pocket and approving of any harm they do to our national interest in pursuit of their precious Judea and Samaria. We could also get on the fast track to not being slaves to Arab oil which limits our choices with regard to dealing with Arab governments that keep their populations in misery. Our actions due to weakness seem to be the heart of the problem the cure for which shouldn't take 50 years. More like five if we took a good look in the mirror immediately and fessed up to our guilt in the whole bloody mess.
Another 50 years war is a McCarthyite dream, a John Bircher's dream, a religious right dream, a conservative dream, an extreme right wing dream, and the dream of the sorcerers of this dream, the neo-cons. But for those with any sense its another America Fuck Yeah nightmare that we've already been through in the last 50 years.
The president says they hate us for our freedoms and that they hate us because of who we are. I don't think the President is in a battle over ideas. The president already knows what the enemy is thinking and why they fight.
The USA's establishment needs the radical islamist menace to try to legitimate it's continued (and today sole) dominance in the World.
No power voluntarily accepts to relinquish influence and prerogative just because what has motivated other's allegiance to it is gone (the USSR)..
The war on Irak was the proof of that.
Invade an oil rich secular national-socialist dictatorship that was switching from dollars to euros to fight Al Qaeda?
Yeah right.
Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia loves lobbying the US and loves the green currency..
I believe the mainstream establishment "wanted" (needed) something like 911 to happen, without some people being willing to admit it (maybe even to themselves).
Wolfowitz has stated openly that such a thing would suit his goals (the new Pearl-Harbor quote in the PNAC statement).
The result of that was probably a great degree of leniency towards the islamist threat (pursuing the chinese policy and such and "god forbid muslim radicals would attack us").
If you keep on going down that route of de facto attempted world poutsh you will create many new threats for yourself.
And most people in the World will consider that to be a welcome devellopment.
Then again, if I was american I would probably support Empire as a policy.
But I'm a cynical machiavellian strangely not kantish european, so..
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