NEWT GINGRICH on The Charlie Rose Show 1/20

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The Charlie Rose Show
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 11:00 p.m. ET. (Topics subject to
change.)
Please go to http://www.charlierose.com/ for an updated show schedule

- Tonight's Show

NEWT GINGRICH
Former Speaker of the House
Author, "Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America"

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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Newt_Gingrich

Newt Gingrich is a former Speaker of the House of Representatives. He is reputed to be a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and to have ties to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

Gingrich is a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission.

He is one of a very few futurists connected to the Republican Party, and is a close friend of Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler, having authored some works with them on politics. Some of these amount to pro-technology propaganda, but not all. Newt has also debated Ralph Nader publicly and agreed with some of the latter's Concord Principles for promoting grassroots democracy. Whether they agree on what that means is open for debate.

War in Iraq
" basic point: where are the Iraqi faces in the New Iraq? 'Americans can't win in Iraq,' he says. 'Only Iraqis can win in Iraq.'
"Gingrich argues that the Bush administration has been putting far too much emphasis on a military solution and slighting the political element. 'The real key here is not how many enemy do I kill. The real key is how many allies do I grow,' he says. 'And that is a very important metric that they just don't get.' He contends that the civilian-run CPA is fairly isolated and powerless, hunkered down inside its bunker in Baghdad. The military has the money and the daily contact with the locals. But it's using the same tactics in a guerrilla struggle that led to defeat in Vietnam."
"Gingrich faults the Americans for not quickly establishing some sort of Iraqi government, however imperfect. 'The idea that we are going to have a corruption-free, pristine, League of Women Voters government in Iraq on Tuesday is beyond naivete,' he scoffs. 'It is a self-destructive fantasy.'" December 15, 2003 (Issue), Newsweek (http://www.myantiwar.org/view/9775.html)
See Operation Iraqi Freedom: Military and Political Dissent.