if you look at the map here, this whole area is vietnam. this, of course, is north vietnam. saigon is way down here. but way up in here, the red line here is the dmz and khe sanh, of course, is right here. so we were the whole time in the very northernmost portion of south vietnam, which was called eye corps by the marine. of all the stories that you'll hear about vietnam, and there are many, many different versions of it, so much is related to where you were. just a brief aside, when i came back from vietnam, i returned to the department of surgery at the university of pennsylvania. a fellow there, a friend of mine had been in vietnam. the two of us were invited to the women's club of the university of pennsylvania to describe our experiences in vietnam. and, of course, i told stories of casualty care in eye corps and ira was a medical officer with an army unit in the south that had not much combat experience but a lot of sick call and so forth. but the key point was one of the ladies in the audience said, could you tell me about drug use amongst the troops. the only thing

this whole area is a vietnam this is north vietnam's and saigon is down here but up here is the dmz. in case on it is a right here. so whole time we were in the northernmost portion of south vietnam's which was called by quarter by the marine corps. i mention that because of all the stories you'll hear so much is related to where you were. just a brief aside when i came back from vietnam i returned to the department of surgery at pennsylvania at a friend of mine had been in the united states army just outside of saigon. he was way down here and the two of us were invited to the women's club of university of pennsylvania to describe our experiences in vietnam. of course, i took dazzle the care in i-corps and he was with a medical army unit with not much combat experience but sick call but where the lady said can you tell me about drug use amongst the troops? i said the only thing i can tell you with the entire year i was up in that i-corps area there was one occasion when a marine came in. i will digress. when they came in everyone was stripped naked because you want to miss a minor s

o'brien himself served in vietnam and has written a memoir

and vietnam has always been a spiritual country. this is how they fought against the french, the chinese. it's a kind of sacrifice for the greater good, and that has completely disappeared. >> reporter: on vietnam's streets, the communist era slogans continue to praise workers and peasants, signature of the party elders still in charge, the last generation with ties to the war. but the most prominent-- unseen- -sign says, "open for business." >> ifill: finally tonight, a financial crisis far from wall street that's reverberating around the world. after months of financial turmoil, greece's credit rating was downgraded to junk status today. that, in turn, sent markets tumbling throughout europe and in the u.s. just days ago, greece asked european governments and the international monetary fund for $60 billion in rescue aid. but germany has resisted. to help us understand why the debt crisis in greece is having such far reaching effects, we turn to eswar prasad, a professor of trade policy at cornell university and senior fellow at th

we hit military power and we never lost a battle in vietnam. we, if we committed ground forces in the north we could have driven them out of the cities but all that would have done was delayed the inevitable which was that they would keep eating away and eating away. and drawing the war out for as long as it took for us to get out. >> suarez: james zumwalt, thanks a lot. >> thank you so much for having me. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: high winds and waves drove the gulf of mexico oil spill toward land, and oily ooze pushed into the coastal wetlands of louisiana. and the justice department started a criminal investigation into goldman sachs over its mortgage securities dealings. >> brown: the newshour is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari. >> sreenivasan: there's more on the vietnam anniversary. photographer david hume kennerly reflects on his pulitzer prize- winning images of the conflict, and we talk to andrew lam of new america media. his family fled vietnam when he was a ch

i was a soldier in vietnam. the storys in the book are for the most part launched out of a world i once knew. >> brown: you wrote awe memoir of your experience. >> i did. >> brown: "going after cacciato," another beautiful prize-winning novel. that one i think was eight, or nine years after you left vietnam. this one is some 20 years after the experience. >> yes. >> brown: so is it that these things stayed with you? did it take a long time to percolate? how does that work? >> i think a certain objective and distance was necessary, at least in my case, to twrit's book that would last in some way. when you're so close to the material, it would be if you'd come out of a bad marriage, you'd be so close to it, that you'd be paying attention to detail that may not mean a whole lot for the reader. for me, at least, i needed to distance myself to allow my imagination to reorganize and to reininterpret the material that had been so close to me that it was thoord separate what would be important for the story and what wou

the other thing that came out of vietnam was what was called a vascular registry. you can imagine with all the jashz that -- injuries we saw there were a number of blood vessels boys that had brachial vessels that were blown with shrapnel. as a result of the experience in vietnam, an army colonel named norman rich began a registry of vascular injuries which was the basis for many of the modern advances in the treatment of vascular injuries. so if there's a good side to any of this, it is that we learned lessons from these casualties and the way they were treated. and make new advances to offer to the civilian population. okay? all right. i think i'm -- they start blinking the lights it means i'm time for me to go. i have to do one thing at the end that i've been holding this to the very end and i know he's going to be extremely mad at me. but i have to tell you about eddie feldman. eddie, fast eddie, lieutenant eddie feldman, my lifelong dear buddy from vietnam -- it's not that he just stood by my side in khe sanh. as did joe and don. in a totally separate incident

the vietnam veterans memorial is a place of reflection honoring those who served in that war.sult of the board cannot meet the guidelines for inclusion on the wall. 97 of those veterans were recognized today. >> many of their deaths were the result to exposure to agent orange. >> he suffered long and hard. he lost both of his legs. they felt let down when they came home. i think they deserve more. >> she says her husband died of cancer trickle -- triggered by a southeast asian parasite. >> it is good to honor people who have done this. freedom is not really free. >> some question whether names are not included on the wall. >> maybe the memorial should be opened up to serve everybody and not forget anybody. that would be important for a lot of people. >> 5 for most, today was a step in the right direction. >> i miss my father very much. it is exciting he was a part of this memorial. he would be very proud. >> this is the 12th annual ceremony acknowledging 2000 of these veterans. >> it is amazing when you go and see the wall and all of the names and realized that there are more

[laughter] the theme of of vietnam and everybody was there. >> that is correct. yes. >> thank you dr.. that was not a question? [laughter] >> >> i'm sorry i had eighth been killed in 1971 and he won a silver "star trek" would have stayed with me and it was a head injury. the two came up on the north division vietnamese headquarters. or he had a brain injury and died the next day and what was the treatment. >> four head injuries? >> did he suffer? >> i doubt that we had an interesting situation in i-corps again this is dictated by the circumstances with heavy combat action three rapidly. we do not have a it on the ground and ophthalmologist or neurosurgeon favor optima hospitals progress we have a head injury or a serious eye injury they were immediately chopper out. the one problem we all have we have so little follow-up. we would stabilize them and transport them and not find out much afterwards. joe? >> [inaudible] >> that is true. >> we have time for one more question. >> >> i have a question when you first began talking about the drug's one of the myth having

her family was on a boat, having escaped from north vietnam in 1954 and then from south vietnam 1975, facing unknown futures. the soviet union gained a strong foothold, which did not really expire until the soviet union expired. they were putting into place a command economy and basically a stalinist system. when i first started going back to vietnam in 1991, the system was extremely rigid and could only be called a stalinist system. but the other piece of this, which a number of people in this country -- and i count myself among them -- have worked assiduously for decades to bring about is the healing of that war here, in vietnam between the 2 million people of vietnamese descent here in this country and the existing forces in vietnam. this has been a very arduous and successful for the most part process. when i look at the vietnam of today -- and i've spent a great deal of time there not only during the war but afterwards, - i'm very optimistic. i've always believed, in in my younger days as a marine, that vietnam was one of the four or five most important countries to the united st

we quit in vietnam, having paid an enormous cost, to try to maintain the viability of south vietnam. so there are times actually when it makes sense to quit. >> moyers: should we quit in afghanistan? >> i think so. i mean again, i believe that ultimately, a sound foreign policy should be informed by an enlightened understanding of one's own interests. that's what we pay people like president obama big money to do, to advance our collective interests, what's good for this country, this people. and the perpetuation of the war in afghanistan is not good for this country and for our people. >> moyers: why? >> because we are squandering our treasure. we are losing lives for no purpose. and ultimately, the perpetuation of this unnecessary war does, i think, serve to exacerbate the problems within the islamic world, rather than reducing those problems. >> moyers: andrew bacevich, thank you for joining me on "the journal". and we'll continue this conversation on our web site at pbs.org. i recently had one of those experiences that i'll wager is familiar to you: the book i was reading so poss

policy in vietnam.you know, strategic county were you make them come and live on the roadside of that you can control them. and something like 50,000 villagers moved into police camps, but 300,000 just went off the government radar. they were hiding in the forest or they migrated to other places. and you know, there was something like 600 villages were emptied, you know, many of them were burnt. many hundreds of people were killed. and you know, the maoist army became stronger and stronger because people started to join them. but then the government started calling anybody who spoke up a maoist. so even the people's union for civil liberties, the peaceful union for democratic rights, all of them have been named a front organization. laws have been passed which makes even in games and antigovernment tort on a shovel by seven years in jail. the public security act, special public security act. they actually announced that those who don't move into these camps are a terrorist. it's a bush doctrine. if you'

[applause] >> general zinni, a vietnam veteran. i am a catastrophic priority one total permanent disabled vietnam veteran former marine, personal bodyguard for lyndon johnson. the issue i have that i wish to bring forward in this moment to you that i find to be the greatest challenge at the moral issue in our country is that for over two years the average of 20 veterans from this war commit suicide because they cannot take the degradation of what happens to them when they go there and come home and see that this connect -- disconnect so the question i posed to you is what level of leadership would you oppose in this country that could assist these people because suicide in my understanding is just about one of the greatest things that a person can ever commit. >> thank you. this has become an alarming problem and it's growing and frankly the service is in the military that have invested a lot in trying to understand and prevent are not as successful as they would like to be. the numbers have not gone down in the way we would like.

your son mike. >> the vietnam war is the yardstick.is compared to every other military engagement this country has been involved in since then. as such, we need to make sure that there are students and the teachers know what the vietnam war is about. >> this is an exprocess. not to force feed anybody a conclusion about the war but to educate them on the war. >> as you continue through the center there will be a place where you will see a timeline of military events and it is not about the politics of the war, refighting that battle. it is for another place, not for this place. this will just show the events that occurred. >> the legacy that we pass on to our children and hopefully our grandchildren, is that we're not different than any other patriot that serves their country. >> as you leave the center, you will see on a wall, drawings of those who gave their lives in the revolutionary war photographs, americans who have given their lives at gettiesburg. photographs of o those who gave their lives at iwo jima and creecra and iraq. this

baltimore city police have made arrests in the murder of a vietnam veteran killed during a robbery attempt at a carryout in waverly. christina schaffer is live at the northern police district with the latest. christian. >> reporter: police commanders wrapped up a news conference here where they announced the two arrests. the victim, 72-year-old charles bowman was a security guard for the afro-american newspaper. he was on his way to work late one night, april 8th and he stopped in the yale brothers carry out to stop for dinner. at that time two armed men went into that store and as bowman turned around, police say he was shot in the chest. the men got away with $13 from another patron. today police have announced they have arrested michael hunter, who is 19 years old and troy taylor who is 18 years. both of these young men, police say are from the neighborhood, that general area, green mount and 33rd street. hunter was arrested yesterday afternoon by the warrant apprehension task force and then troy trailer turned -- trailer turned himself here at the northern police district. also a secon

it's for them the vietnam veterans memorial foundation created in memory day. >>> finally tonight, a family of ducks was spotted on the grounds of the white house today. the family appears to be a mother and at least six ducklings. they were seen outside the white house briefing room today. they appeared to be trying to navigate a set of steps which apparently is not so easy when you're young and duckling sized. don't you know what? they made it. each one of them. mom did not help out. it was like, you've got tot grow up one of these days. it night as well be now. d

the way we got into vietnam, said that the lack of an objective was really an advantage. because that would give the president more flexibility in the domestic political realm. so if things went bad in vietnam, the administration could just say well, it wasn't really our objective to win this war anyway. and it was that ambiguity that prehaven't the development of an effective strategy. the problem with the joint chiefs in this period of time is the joint chiefs of staff failed to provide their best military advice and told their civilian bosses what they wanted to hear and they compromised their principles for expend si. -- expediency. so i think sometimes you can cast a false dilemma like we are here like total war. we're not total war. i mean, that's a false dilemma also. a false dilemma between resignation and then -- and passivity, complete passivity. there's a lot of examples of very effective civil military relations in the course of our history. i would say it depends less on law. it depends less on bureaucratic structure. and it depends on the character of the in

. >> i am from vietnam. >> i grew up in port-au-prince. i came here in 1981. i had a happy childhood. there were stories of -- we were proud of the fact that we were the first island to get our independence in 1904. that was a great achievement to become the first black country that became a free from france. >> with countries like vietnam, haiti, and yugoslavia, the question raiseis is america stie land of opportunity? we asked the representatives of war-torn countries. >> i have been here one year, i think. in vietnam, my family will work every day. we do not have the family time together. but, in america, any day, we make dinner. in vietnam, many people are more porous than he appeared >> my name is bronco and i am from croatia. i came here in april 1997. it was a struggle for them. they did not know any english. all they had to do was basically work. we had this one lady help us get on our feet. she got us an apartment. she got my parents a job. but it was definitely hard for them. they were so used to the way things were done in croatia. they could not tr

it is sponsored by the vietnam veterans memorial fund. located close to the wall itself on the national mall. this moving underground facility pays tribute and will educate the public about these honorable man and woman who gave their lives for their country. -- men and women who gave their lives to their country. more than 500,000 artifacts that have been left at the wall over the years. >> people began to bring offerings of poems and letters and medals. even though this was a public monument, it was a very private space for these individuals. >> dad, although we met briefly what before you left, i feel like i have known you all my life. >> perhaps your soul must leave on wings of steel into a burning blue where your father saw to free world of hate and oppression. >> you will always be my hero. nothing can take that away from us. thank you for making an open sacrifice and showing me how to stay strong. even during the most difficult times and until we meet again, i love you. your son, mike. >> the vietnam war is compared to every other

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he wrote me a letter saying the vietnam war ended with my election. for some people, it did.d case i had on the wall in the white house of the battle models of vietnam veterans who gave them to me at various stops on the 1992 campaign to say they supported the fact i opposed the war and they would support me. but the war did not end with my election. it entered a new phase. a lot of this current operating was overlaid by the unresolved issues of the '60s and '70s. and aggravated by the new ways people had of communicating both through radio talk shows and the incipient internet networks. in the two years after the world trade center bombing and after oklahoma city, we have worked hard and largely on a bipartisan basis to begin america's effort to protect ourselves against terrorism better. there were a number of things that were done, and one thing i thought we had done that we learned of 9/11 which was not done, which was requiring senior executives to cooperate more closely and share information. i did not know since, believe it or not, before 9/11, the president was not su

taken another city back from insurgents in the most intense urban combat marines had faced since vietnam, the second battle of fallujah. >> fallujah was like the o.k. corral, the wild, wild west. >> when i first joined the marine corps, that's what i thought i'd do as a marine. here's the enemy-- they're right there, go get ¡em, just going house to house. >> narrator: the marines took control of fallujah after four weeks of heavy, close-quarter combat, and kilo company had been in the thick of it all. >> kilo company in fallujah performed magnificently. they took heavy casualties, but they just kept going and going and going. >> narrator: now many of the same men were primed to face a similar situation in haditha. >> all our intel reports and everything had initially said that this was going to be, you know, a full-on, like, fallujah- type style clearing the city and whatnot. and so we were all amped up. >> narrator: but they were surprised by what they found. >> the night that the battalion set up to go push through haditha and start clearing it, all i heard was crickets. >> no one atta

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over here. >> my name is albert daniels and i'm a vietnam veteran. do you think because of who obama is -- he has not gotten any help with different things from the republicans, because of who he is, his background, so forth, his race -- does that have anything to do with it? they not seem like they want to even have a discussion with him or come to some kind of compromise about health care. >> it might be that he is a democrat. >> politics play, but i think it is more than that. he was trying to get some kind of thing going with the republicans. >> it goes to the conversation about if it is ray's or not. you said sometimes it is, sometimes it ain't. >> look, maybe he is having it harder than -- he will not be the first african-american who has had it harder than. i am just so proud he is the president having a harder than. [applause] of public confidence that he is capable enough to overcome -- i have a lot of confidence that he is capable enough to overcome and demonstrate that he met the standard, not that he had the sense to move lower, but that

so what situation in vietnam during the johnson administration, what is the responsibility of military leadership when a president is either getting into or getting out of war in ways that the military judges wrong? >> there's one responsibility, and it's to provide your best military advice, and to not cross the line between advice and advocacy. nobody elects generals generalse policy. to do that would be dangerous to our democratic value and processes. but it's important for the military to provide the best military advice, and the quality of the advice departments -- depends on who the military leaders are, the degree to which they can provide advice in a way that connects to the policy goals and objectives. it has to be unequal dialogue between civilian leaders and military leaders. it's very important for military leaders to help many crystallize the policy by helping civilian leadership understand the potential costs and consequences, sharpen the objectives. george marshall said, if you get the object advertise right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. a lot of the debate has t

some countries didn't even slip into recession and vietnam and indonesia in particular continued to post very solid economic growth in 2009. >>reporter: growth across asean averaged an enviable one and a half per cent last year, and is expected to come close to 5 and a half per cent in 2010. >>: general electric's southeast asia division -- with diverse interests including in the infrastructure, aircraft engine and power businesses -- says it had a surprisingly solid 2009 with plenty of reason to be optimistic about the year ahead. >>dean: the oil and gas business has remained very strong for us. health care was also very strong for us last year and particularly strong going into this year driven somewhat by some of the stimulus spending some of the governments in asean implemented in order to keep their economies going despite theirdownturn exports from their countries. and then we've got an industrial business selling into the construction industry. that's also very short term and again that's come back very strongly so far this year. >>reporter: under the asean free trade area or afta

he was a vietnam veteran who served two tours of duty in vietnam. he worked for the irs for almost 28 years. while he was not the target of the attack, he died at his desk doing his job. he was also a manager of revenue officers. to tell you what a revenue officer is, they are the people who when we have said you lots of letters and said -- at made lots of phone calls, they go collect that in person. these are the people who can be guaranteed as the prototypical irs agencies -- prototypical irs agents. even though they actually spend their time trying to help people work their difficult situations. his son said something incredibly profound which captures the spirit of how people all over the country who work at the irs view their job. rather than showing anger when interviewed by the press toward the man who killed his father, his son simply said -- "if he would have talked to my dad, my dad would have helped him." the people of the irs serve this country every day. they are not a faceless bureaucracy. they are the face of public service, the face

>> vietnam, propping up dictatorships, did not like us, they steal from us. it is very demoralizing for the troops. i know from talking to them that we do have a military strategy, they are reasonably confident about that, but who are they doing it for? they are very down at about that. >> the parliament in afghanistan really unanimously it just socked it to karzai, who wanted to change the entire election structures so that he would be totally in command. they said no, we are not doing that. >> karzai is saying that the west was behind election fraud in elections. >> oh, right. >> and the u.n. and the west won a puppet government. >> the u.n. and the west want to see democracy, and he wants to keep a kleptocracy. but that is not why we are there, for karzai. we are there because of al qaeda and the taliban. those pose a direct threat to our own security, and that is why we are there, and because -- that does not mean we ignore the situation in afghanistan. we do have to build a government. but, as i is playing this thing against -- what karzai is playing thi

retired army four star general jack keene served in the vietnam war as a paratrooper. he was later deployed in the u.s. engagements in somalia, haiti, bosnia and kosovo. he commanded both 101s 101st airborne division and the 18th air corps and was army chief of staff. bruce ackerman is the sterling professor at yale law school. he is the author of "before the next attack beings preserving civil liberties in an age of terrorism," his op-ed piece criticizing general stanley mcchrystal for publicly challenging president obama last fall was widely circulated. bruce is now at work on the expansion of the presidency in the 21st presidency. they are joined tonight by terry moran, co-anchor of abc news's "nightline." terry is uniquely call need to frame the questions for tonight's program. in addition to his work at ""nightline"" he is also answer news' supreme court correspond correspondent. he has reported extensively on the wars in iraq and afghanistan and white house correspondent during the presidencies of bill clinton and george w. bush. so let's welcome our guests and g

of his hearing in vietnam, and governor ridge wasn't ready to be considered at that point. but it was interesting to me when he said i have a preference for somebody in that service and we started looking thinking the candidates that there just wasn't that common bond that you are referring to. but not only did he not have the common bond of a lot of this people who had been in service but there were three members that he served with remarkably who had been in the same hospital, fell apart -- >> daniel inouye -- >> daniel and himself had been in the same veterans hospital, and what are the odds they will become united states senators. >> and played bridge together and take care of one another which is remarkable. and in fact daniel inouye and bob dole still have the special relationship that came out of the common experience, which was really quite remarkable. >> one thing i always found remarkable in the course of his national political campaign particularly the public defense and town meetings is one of the standards that he did is ask every person who in the audience was

they hear things about the vietnam war and they hear the vietnam war compared to the war on terror.d yet they have a sense that they're not getting the real story. and so this book is designed to say you didn't get the real story on the vietnam war and you're probably not getting the real story on the war on terror from the current administration because of their political agenda. >> last year you had the ultimate man's survival guide. was that a big seller for you? was that the beginning of another series possibly? >> thank you for asking. we are actually talking about starting a series of ultimate man's survival guides. it was a very successful book for us. it's a lot of fun. and it's also the kind of book that covers a wide range of topics from a conservative family values -- sort of rugged independence kind of point of view. and again, this is another book that has appealed greatly to a younger audience. and i don't have people i know bought the book and gave it to their son when they graduated from college, when they just got married. it's a very fun and interesting book. and i

a vietnam vet i represented, who was back from vietnam, three marijuana possession convictions. the fourth conviction, life without parole. these cases do not reflect the debate about law and order. i don't think it's about that. i think it's more about control and this kind of use of the politics of fear and anger as a way of empowering some and disempowering others. >> moyers: are most of those people who get the life imprisonment african americans? >> yes. about two thirds of the people in our state prison system are people of color. you know, there are other... there are complexities to this. and i don't want to understate the complexities. we have a criminal justice system that's very wealth sensitive. our system treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. and so, poor people brought into that criminal justice system, who don't have the means for good legal representation, who don't have the resources to protect themselves, who can't afford to pay the fees for getting into drug court and avoiding jails and prisons, are going to fare worse t

required army four star general jack keane served in the vietnam war as a paratrooper. he was later deployed in somalia and kosovo. he commanded the 18th air borne division and was army chief of staff. bruce is the author of the "before the next attack: preserving civil lints in an age of terrorism" he criticized stanley mcchrystal for challenging obama last fall was widely circulated. bruce is now at work on the expansion of the presidency in the 21st century. they are all joined tonight by terry moran, coan author of abc news "nightline." the questions for tonight's work is coframed, in addition, he's also the supreme court correspondent. he has reported extensively on the wars in iraq, afghanistan, and he was white house correspondent during the presidency of bill clinton and george w. bush. let's welcome our guest and get excited for a great evening. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, todd. thank you. it's an honor to be here with all of us and with this remarkable panel. it's a great topic too. a topic of abiding interest really to generations of americ

he was a vietnam veteran who served two tours of duty in vietnam. and he had worked for the irs from 28 years. and while he wasn't the target of the attack, he died at his desk doing his job. he was also a manager of revenue officers. now, to tell you what a revenue officer is. revenue officers are the people -- when we've sent you lots of letters and made lots of phone calls and years have passed go out to collect people's debt in person. these are the very people that can be paritied as the prototypical irs agent even though they try to help people out and work through difficult situations. vernon hunter's son, ken, said something incredibly profound. which captures the spirit of how people all over the country who work at the irs view their job. rather than showing anger when interviewed by the press towards the man who killed his father, ken, vernon's son, simply said, and i quote, if he would have talked to my dad, my dad would have helped him. the people of the irs serve this country every day. they are not a faceless bureaucracy. but they're

this war in iraq is every bit as unpopular as the war in vietnam yet, those returning should be treated there is a good outpouring now of warmth and respect for the military people who served and make whatever sacrifices and in many cases made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. >> on his headstone and also on his statute, he said to be first as a personal honor. we should all do that. -- as a person of honor. >> to see all the winning entries, visit students cam.org. >> coming up, we'll take your questions and comments on "washington journal." later a funeral and service for former head of the naacp, benjamin hooks. this morning,

for the united states, vietnam, it's kind of like greeks and romans; right? it's so far in our past. world war ii, that's mytholigiz mytholigized now. let me stand back and do what we need to do. certainly in washington, the capital of arguably the greatest power in history. it has not produced a world class strategist in over 50 years. we produce in the military brilliant tactical generals. those who know how to fight. but now how it fits in the flow of history. in washington and so much of the west, i see people clinging to the toth century. because it was pretty good for us. we won. and they know the theories. and now we live in a changed world. a world so different that the 20th century theories and answers do not work. the answers do not answer. but we resist the reality before our eyes. because it was so painful and dangerous to say nothing of politically incorrect. where are we now in 2010? you must look at the grand sweep of history to have any hope of understanding where we are now and thus some faint notion of where we maybe going. history is not a

war were honored at the vietnam veterans memorial. family members and friends were on hand for the ceremony and helped read off of the names of the fallen service members. >>> maryland lawmakers unveiled a plan to resore the ann costa river. restoration of the blighted waterway that runs through some of washington's most distressed neighborhoods will provide economic, social and environmental benefits. the army corp of engineers and local officials have been working on a plan to very store it for two years. >>> virginia marked the start of the week with a number of events across the state. governor bob mcdonald said he is moving forward with efforts to conserve 400,000 of open space helping to protect the chesapeake pay and stake virginia as a green job zone. the republican leader is urging state residents to join him in conserving. >> what a change this past weekend. we were freezing at a baseball game yesterday the wind doesn't help. that's what made it uncomfortable. in the sun out of the wind would have been okay. milder tomorrow.

the remedy in the shape of a coup from south vietnam seemed like a thing of the past. >> when they have tried to removeday top or force, the truth comes out. -- by a coup or force, the truth comes out. a puppet leader is a recipe for disaster. >> go back 25 years, you can see the most successful incidence of local leadership. the soviets moved one man out of power and put another in his place. this set the conditions for the soviet withdrawal. from there, they were working through a local power structure when they carried out their constitutional coup. they were able to use the afghan party to help them. >> president karzai is sweeping through the fraudulent election last summer and as a result, he is the president of afghanistan. the americans have accepted that result. therefore, they are stuck with him. they could try to drop him but how would they do that without making it worse? they could try to persuade him or try to work around him. what they're trying to do is bring enough pressure to bear to indicate that tolerance is not unlimited. >> the leader presents his american counterp

this happened in vietnam. i heard a vietnam vet a couple days ago saying our morale was very badly hurt when we felt like we were fighting for a loser. if the united states is not supporting karzai, then how do we expect our troops to feel enthusiastic about their mission. >> clear articulation probably is needed. i would expect the white house to get closer to that. let's be clear, the engagement issue is not a bad thing. if you look at where we are with china, it's likely in the coming weeks, if not coming months, we'll get closer to market forces determining the true value of their currency which will have a direct and immediate impact on our economic stability and growth in our country. we can make the point that on the iranian front, we may not have everything we want, but president sarkozy was here declaring support and the chinese leaders made clear he's more open. steinberg articulated our support for china in a one china policy, our support of them versus -- but taiwan and tibet not having stability i

china and vietnam have long since pushed through market reforms while maintaining political control. this could be the first small step towards the return of small-scale business cooperatives. >> couple from israel has won the biggest prize in the country's history. they arrived to collect the $20 million. that explained that the ticket had just been lying around in a pile of paper. they found out that they had one once the check. you can find the story and all of the international news on bbc.com/news. you can get ahold of me and most of the team on twitter. you can also see what we are working on on our facebook page. president obama has told world leaders meeting in washington they must change their mind set about where a nuclear attack might come from. thank you for being with us on bbc world news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. the newman's own foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can w