in cold war europe, haiti, the balkans, and above all, iraq and afghanistan, as well as various other places in the middle east, i am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words this evening. but before continuing i should note that a southern california native briefed me before coming out here on the usc-ucla rivalry. i used to do intelligence. this is asthat emotional relationship as that between army and navy its football season. theact, discussion of u.s.a.-ucla rival reminds me of a story i heard this afternoon. apparently there was very nearly trouble at a party downtown attended by some usd students a few weeks ago. the way i heard it, one of the leaned over

we saw disaster in the balkans compared to what we saw in syria today.during that time, we thought a thousand men and boys killed in a matter of days. we saw genocides, we saw 100,000 people killed. millions of pushed across borders, 2 million wars. instead of reaching for a gun to resolve a dispute today, nations are reaching for the telephone. they are under the auspices of the european union. we see kosovo, serbia, prime ministers at the table. their president at the table. the european union's head of foreign affairs, if you will. i think we are very close to a real settlement between kosovo and serbia. that will allow us to drawdown of forces. today we have about 6000 there. when i came into the job four years ago, we had 15,000. in and of itself, that is something that will bear fruit. it could drive things down as early as late this year. stay tuned, i think there is more progress ahead in the balkans. >> that is very encouraging. it is also encouraging to think that hopefully if we are 15 years out from the current crisis in syria, that we might

we saw disaster in the balkans compared to what we saw in syria today.during that time, we thought a thousand men and boys killed in a matter of days. we saw genocides, we saw 100,000 people killed. millions of pushed across borders, 2 million wars. instead of reaching for a gun to resolve a dispute today, nations are reaching for the telephone. they are under the auspices of the european union. we see kosovo, serbia, prime ministers at the table. their president at the table. the european union's head of foreign affairs, if you will. i think we are very close to a real settlement between kosovo and serbia. that will allow us to drawdown of forces. today we have about 6000 there. when i came into the job four years ago, we had 15,000. in and of itself, that is something that will bear fruit. it could drive things down as early as late this year. stay tuned, i think there is more progress ahead in the balkans. >> that is very encouraging. it is also encouraging to think that hopefully if we are 15 years out from the current crisis in syria, that we might

know showers for the alpine region and the north parts of the balkan peninsula. 1 degrees for berlin and 2 degrees in moscow. towards e

snowshowers for the alpine region and the northern parts of the balkan peninsula will return. chilly once again. 1 degree for berlin and 2 degrees in moscow. out towards the west, only 5 in london. we should be at 13 degrees this time of year. but towards the south looking mild, 15 degrees in ma grade and 18 in athens. here is your extended forecast around the globe. chblts and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm kathryn kobyashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.

know showers for the alpine region and the north parts of the balkan peninsula. 1 degrees for berlin and 2 degrees in moscow. towards the south looking quite mild. 15 degrees. 18 in athens. that's it for now. here is your extended forecast around the globe.

i could not balkan war and the officer you know carried me. and these two people with them i was crying because my friends are still there and would only going to do ok said that the cameraman of the law. is with us. and i was like you know i was like take me here just let me go. let. they send me one thing they want to say. to me. the military our family. are mean the people have always been one folk. how else can we were guard them except as brothers and sons as you know. being in the army is what they do for a living. this is never prevented us from being one family. we shall restore that life you'll see. the main thing the helicopter is in there and people climb their roofs with flags and scream with joy. often when i look at our soldiers i see an inexhaustible source of strength to fight the enemy and protect our country and it makes me feel so happy. to follow suit when you look at soldiers in combat it seems as if they were merciless and cruel but they actually have to focus on the combat they're ready to sacrifice their lives. for one

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. >> a former bosnian serb command has been jailed for atrocities during the balkan conflict.was known as a monster. sarajevo the area of that he terrorized during the war. he stalked hise prey. this is a neighborhood of sarajevo occupied by the bosnian serbs during the siege of the city. was part of a paramilitary unit called the white angels that inflicted a reign of terror on the non-ser populationb . he is accused of torture, rape and the murder of 31 civilians. his father and three of his neighbors were taken and never seen again. it was here that they took him. -- he took them. he was indifferent. this man was lifted off the streets. later, his body was found in a local creek and his parents treasure the few possessions found with them. dead but my child was when i saw the people around like other mothers and brothers and sisters, i wondered is it worse for them or for us. thehe words are written on death certificate -- think ican i do when i am not the only one and every day is the same as the day they took him away from me? my soul is aching. is 43 and showed no a moti

instead of shutting their kids or monitoring them as the balkan, why don't you offer them a job? -- model train them as they walked in, why don't you offer them eight -- monitoring and the them as they walked in, why don't you offer them a job? [applause] >> i will ask the professor to ask some specific questions. and then we will get to your questions in about eight or nine minutes. i will ask you to keep your response is brief. >> ok, you will have to bear with me. i am going to go off script for 30 seconds. there is a person in the audience, and i meant to mention her during my keynote. it is someone that you all should try to talk to during a break or during lunch because someone like her should be on this panel. one person missing. it is a public defender. this is someone who worked as a public defender for 19 years in los angeles. she is now director of legal services. now i'm going to embarrass her. her name is ellie miller. there she is. [applause] public defenders are legal ministers. you are. you are part of this picture. ok. i will go back to what i was supposed to be

in the balkans we're seeing some thunderstorms, even some hail out of this. due to the instability of the cold air coming in, that moisture being drawn out of the mediterranean, some of these storms could very well start to rotate. there is a chance of some tornadoes in this system as it does push across the region. definitely a storm to watch throughout the next several days. meanwhile though, that's what's fueling it. warm air -- athens at 18, vienna just minus 1 on your thursday. towards the americas, we've actually been watching this system all week. now it's finally starting to get a move on. behind it cold air is starting to pill in, actually some lake effect across portions of lake superior, downwind of it you could very well see 8 to 10 krer centimeters, into portions of west virginia and pennsylvania you could have winter weather advisories as this moves in. definitely a big chill in place. but on the other side of the u.s. and even western canada, a moisture onflow is pushing into british columbia bringing some flooding in the low lying areas. highe

the southeast, balkan peninsula, the next few days the rain will be exceptionally heavy. we expect localized flooding continuing in the area. toward the northeast, another storm bearing cold air from moscow and some snow in the area. from moscow, temperature only getting 2-6 degrees. there is another storm coming from the atlantic. ireland, northern ireland and making its way toward england. it for london on thursday, especially in the morning it will be partly cloudy and then it will turn mostly cloudy by the time we get to the afternoon. making our way toward the northern part of africa, you can see the clouds making its way toward the mediterranean. it will start to clear thursday so it will get a little better but we expect the temperature to come down and libya. tripoli, tragedy right ahead of this system, in benghazi, 23 degrees through here. . lagos, the rain will continue. heavy thunderstorms just off the coast and we expect a temperature of about 31. >> welcome back. the headlines on al jazeera -- barack obama has arrived in tel levied on as first visit to israel

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without a response, we might have balkanized countries on this continent. he preserved the union for a better day. fundamentally, he would say the union was perpetual and deserved to be fought for. host: the caller said he was not well versed in this era. if he wants to become were well versed, the caller would do well to try and find one of the many books authored by harold holzer, author and scholar. his most recent "help abraham lincoln ended slavery in america." next up is alex on the line for independents. alex? caller: i am 26. i do not know much about lincoln. i called because i wanted to thank him for having some kind of freedom of speech, on the freedom of slavery. he changed the times of all caucasian americans being in charge at that time. host: regarding the issue of slavery, we have a tweet. harold holzer. guest: history tells the story. abraham lincoln's election in 1860, what he said and was set for him in the campaign is all that the republican party opposed was the spread of slavery. keeping slavery where it was protected by constitution an

reporter: from the balkans and libya, and in iraq and elsewhere.se forces are still serious but there's a strong foreign element that will continue to influence what is going on with this movement going forward. >> shepard: this is just from a dumb guy looking at things. the syrian government runs the syrian media. >> that's right. >> shepard: it's the syrian media is saying somebody used chemical weapons, with the knowledge that our president said that's a line in the san, which would suggest to me that the syrian government would like to get all of us involve. wonder why? reporter: the syrian government has been incredibly shrewd at reading the pain thresh hold of its allies, like russia and iran and it's enemies, the united states and nato, et cetera. it knows how to walk up to that line and it's been very good at it. so if it did in fact use the weapons and you're reporting earlier suggested it depend and i agree -- but it knows it jumps out there with state media first, putting the world out saying it was the rebels. you saw the russians very

we've had them before-- the balkans, panama, somalia, haiti and we will have them again. >> woodruff: i guess my-- with all due respect-- that sounds like common sense-- plan ahead, look at all the contingencies. i mean, why wouldn't that be part of a reconstruction? >> excellent point, judy. and you're right many of these lessons do appear to be commonned sense realities, but-- but-- the activities on the ground in iraq drive these lessons. the 45 interviews that i conducted with the iraqi leaders, u.s. leaders, and congressional members framed these lessons, and they are straightforward. they are simple, and they must be learned. >> woodruff: and direct lessons for afghanistan. there will be reconstruction there. >> absolutely right. there is. >> woodruff: there is. there will be more. >> $90 billion in u.s. fund going into afghanistan. and the special inspector general for afghan reconstruction has his hands full in accounting for all of that. >> woodruff: is he looking at what you discovered? >> yes, he is. quite a number of the auditors and investigators who serve with me have mo

we had over 6000 people in the u.s., the balkan wichita. ironically the recession was a good thing from that standpoint because we have been to watch a lot of programs before the recession, which a lot of people think is drunk and disorderly or crazy, but happen to be a way of the cycle and because of the recession happening, there is a lot of people available globally. we are higher in 100 industries a month. so we recruited from all over. everywhere in the world because there was a recession going on and we take as many people as he could in the company. the other thing was done because the two were not of people, particularly canada, a smaller company and so on globalize surf of prayer. so now we have a significant footprint in india appeared were developing one with mexico, one in china. we obviously have one in europe and canada, but were also decentralizing wormer technical footprint over time. you can't just be on montrÉal. there's two ways to skin the cat. during the town times we went out and pulled a lot of people. we are concerne

as one who was truly privileged to serve with many in this room in cold war europe, haiti, the balkans, and above all, iraq and afghanistan, as well as various other places in the middle east, i am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words this evening. but before continuing i should note that a southern california native briefed me before coming out here on the usc-ucla rivalry. i used to do intelligence. it appears that this is as emotional relationship as that between army and navy its football season. in fact, discussion of the u.s.a.-ucla rival reminds me of a story i heard this afternoon. apparently there was very nearly trouble at a party downtown attended by some usd students a few weeks ago. the way i heard it, one of the usc students leaned over to the eye and said do you want to hear a joke? >> before you tell a joke you should know something. i am 6 foot 5 inches tall and i weigh 230 pounds and i go to ucla. the guy next to me is a bruin too and the next guy is 6 foot 3 and he goes to ucla. do you want to tell that joke? >> i guess not, the usc student said. not

wade in on the side of causes you believed in and have impacted for-- afghanistan one example, the balkansbeing another example. it worked in libya. where do you put the libyan experience in all that you have done with your life? >> first of all, what i-- what i did with others and my movie is testimony of that, proves what a bunch of men can do if they want, if they have energy, if they have good will, they can do a lot. the first thing. number two, since i am teenager, i dream for the democrat countries really being generous, really spreading democracy in an intelligent way. this is what in my country we call the right to-- for the first time, thanks to sarkozy. thanks to sarkozy, and thanks to obama and clinton, it worked. it failed in bosnia. 200,000 dead. it failed in afghanistan. masoud who anears my movie died two days before september 11. >> rose: at the beginning of your movie. >> yes. in libya it worked. for me what happened in libya is a lifetime achievement, a personal achievement. so the mayor of tripoli may believe that this put a mess in his vision of the world. his vision.

men in uniforms, very famous men, about their unwillingness to take on what was happening in the balkans think we have to face issues and use the tools we have, and remember that america's engagement in the world does make a difference. when we stand up and realize we have to help those who can't help themselves, i think that's an important part. >>> war weary after iraq and afghanistan, and certainly deficit strapped. what do we do about 70,000 people now who have died in syria in a civil war where we are, frankly behind our allies. >> but we're doing an awful lot. the amount of humanitarian assistance, nonlethal assistance, that second tear clinton did to bring the opposition together, and now secretary kerry is working in terms of how we work with them, what we do. i think it would be very useful if the russians stepped up and realized they were on the wrong side of history. >>> what about a no-fly zone? >> i think there are real questions to whether it would work it always seems to be a thing that people pull out. there are other ways we can continue to help the opposition and the re

of venezuelan oil by canadian oil and oil from north dakota and montana, which is never mentioned, balkanpipeline from the united states, canadian oil, and this oil has less greenhouse gases presently than the venezuelan crude it's going to displace. and it has less ghgs -- >> greenhouse gases. >> -- than some of the californian oils. >> this is the oil sands in here. >> yes. >> this here is the -- what is it called? dil bit, diluted bitumen. that's the stuff that goes through the pipelines, the stuff van jones called pipe-eating goo that tore through the pipe in kalamazoo, michigan. i spoke to the pipeline company. he said this is no more corrosive than regular oil. >> well, the bottom line is the state department again last week came out and evaluated all these allegations. and i guess the old saying -- i guess you're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. and in the state department report written by scientists, not by a ceo of a company, not by an ambassador, it basically said it will have no difference because the oil is going to be harvested in canada. it will make no

. >> rose: and is it relevant that people who used to say this about the balkans, if you do not do something, hiory will judge you badly? >> well i think we learned from iraq that maybe that's not the case. i think-- i think-- you know, if we're talking about lessons i here, that the lesson of iraq may have been how badly an intervention could go iraq taught us one lesson. but i think bosnia taught us another one. that's been a pretty successful intervention. we stopped what was coming clos. to being a genocide there.ng that worked. bosnia worked. if we think about iraq, let'snk think about snia, too. >>ose: thank you, great to see you. thank you, john tbhark. cambridge. thank you, michael. michael's book "the end game" it is the inside story of the i struggle for iraq from bush to obama. thank you for joining us.st see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

my question is do you see the development in iraq similar to the balkans tragedy, and especially the ethnic cleansing and so on? if so, what are the preventive measures that should be taken in advance in order to prevent a serious tragedy with a civil war? thank you. >> let me begin. one can certainly make the that the most vicious conceivable ethnic cleansing has already occurred in the 2006, 2007 period. as samir has pointed out, iraq does not have a history of sectarian strife. you go back to the beginning of the 19th century when the -- >> and the sunnis helped to drive them off. >> that was the exception, not the norm. >> at that point, the iraqi sunnis helped -- >> some did. thes the exception, not norm. iraqis were horrified by the excesses of that time. the helped to break recurrence of such violence, but we have clearly seen in the year or two an increase in both sectarian and ethnic shia and sunni ethnic strife between arabs and in some cases sunni and shia, vis a vi, the kurds. again, this has not led to large-scale violence. i keep beating this particular drum that you te

the closest analogue i can give you is think back to the balkans in the 1990's. we had competing ethnic turned thes that balkans into a nightmare for the better part of 10 years. we saw 100,000 killed, 2 million people pushed across borders, to significant awards, one in bosnia heard segovia and one in serbia and kosovo. everyk there is possibility for revenge killing, religious conflict between the various segments of the religious population and it's difficult to see the pieces of syria going back together very easily. little bit of an overall general question. what do you see other than the cyber discussions, what is the greatest threat to our nation? my mind, it's the trafficking network that drug is right on and people ride on and potentially weapons of mass destruction. of manyern on the part of our latin american friends that we are withdrawing and there's a lack of interest and are part to continue doing what we're doing. they want this in their lives for the most part. even the ones who don't like us so much, in the drug trade and in trade in general. th

as one who was truly privileged to serve with many in this room in cold war europe, haiti, the balkansand above all, iraq and afghanistan, as well as various other places in the middle east, i am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words this evening. but before continuing i should note that a southern california native briefed me before coming out here on the usc-ucla rivalry. [laughter] i used to do intelligence. it appears that this is as emotional relationship as that between army and navy its football season. in fact, discussion of the usc-ucla rival reminds me of a story i heard this afternoon. apparently there was very nearly trouble at a party downtown attended by some usc students a few weeks ago. the way i heard it, one of the usc students leaned over to the guy and said do you want to hear a joke? ,he guy next to him reply before you tell that joke, you should know something, i am 6 foot 5 inches tall and i weigh 230 pounds and i go to ucla. [laughter] the guy next to me is a bruin too and the next guy is 6 foot 3 and he goes to ucla. do you still want to tell tha

. >> now you have a balkanized media which is sort of minoritaran in itself trying to get the story ofhe majority is being screwed. >> be careful just a little bit as the reminder, that, of course, the real turning point was not the violence for example, against john lewis, it was the murder of white allies, the incredibly brave, courageous young white students who came south and were murdered, and -- and also of some white southerners who were there and doing that work who were murdered that -- that helped to bridge this, as you point out. >> that's true, but also the -- the young girls who were murdered in birmingham. >> the innocents. >> and also the fire hoses, yes. >> and the snarling dogs. >> the provocative counterfactual i want to ask you is in this environment, and i might be curious what you think about this. in this environment where you don't have this as an impeering al fact of how many people watch the evening newscast and how much people watch the "new york times." is it possible to find an arc median point of leverage for the kind of social change that we need in the ab

without a response, we might have balkanized countries on this continent.e preserved the union for a better day. fundamentally, he would say the union was perpetual and deserved to be fought for. host: the caller said he was not well versed in this era. if he wants to become were well versed, the caller would do well to try and find one of the many books authored by harold holzer, author and scholar. his most recent "help abraham lincoln ended slavery in america." next up is alex on the line for independents. caller: i am 26. i do not know much about lincoln. a call because i wanted to thank him -- i called because i wanted to thank him for having some kind of freedom of speech, on the freedom of slavery. he changed the times of all caucasian americans being in charge at that time. host: regarding the issue of slavery, we have a tweet. harold holzer. guest: history tells the story. inaham lincoln's election 1860, what he said and was set for him in the campaign is all that the republican party opposed was the spread of slavery. keeping slavery where it was

languages on subjects ranging from political economy in the system to human rights, nationalism in the balkans and the political age of war on terrorism. as a scholar she has provided an eloquent defense of human rights framed in a way that acknowledges their origin in a particular time and a particular place. his work is not naive about modern tyrannies that deny their rights by violence or ideology. his work is not blind to the destabilizing elements of western campaigns of liberation. in human rights as politics and idolatry a book from 2001 he writes of what he calls humble humanism that these is the universal rights on shared human capacities and capacities of empathy, conscience and free will and things that define the individual with autonomy and choice. as a novelist, michael ignatieff writes with the economy and penetrating human insight into gripping immediacy. his most recent novel is called chiarelli johnson and it's about a journalist without illusion swept up in the violence of the war motivated by a sense of justice that only she can bring yet he is destroying. ..

by concrete -- my question is do you see the development in iraq, similar to the balkans tragedy, and especially the ethnic cleansing and so on? if so, what are the preventive measures that should be taken in advance in order to prevent a serious tragedy with a civil war? thank you. >> that we began. begin.me one can certainly make the point that the most vicious conceivable ethnic cleansing has 2006,y occurred in the 2007 perio.d has pointed out, iraq does not have a history of sectarian strife. you go back to the beginning of the 19th century when the -- helped toe sunnis drive them off. >> that was the exception, not the norm. the iraqi point, sunnis helped -- >> some did. it is the exception, not the norm. iraqis were horrified by the excess of of that time. to break a break on the recurrence of such violence, but we have clearly seen in the last year or two an increase in both sectarian and ethnic tensions, terry and errors,sshia and sunni and ethnic between arabs and in some cases sunni and shia, vis a vis, the kurds. notn, this is -- this has led to what scale violence. particu

sergeant clemens and his unit, the 827th bomb squadron, 484th bomb group flew missions in italy, the balkansstria, germany and southern france. the recipient of the distinguished flying cross and a number of other declarations, tech sergeant clemens, like many other americans, answered his nation's call. as tom brokaw wrote in his book, they won the war, they saved the world. mr. speaker, we're losing this eneration of patriots. two are living from his unit. in advance of his special day next week, march 27, and on behalf of the people's house, i to appy 90th birthday james o. clemens of oklahoma. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the entlelady from florida rise? without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mr. speaker, i head back to my district tomorrow to face the thousands of people who sent me here to help them find jobs 800 days ago. mr. speaker, what do i say to them? they know the real deficit is jobs. do i say that the republicans in congress don't get it, they don't understand that people are suffering and str

as one who was truly privileged to serve with many in this room in cold war europe, haiti, the balkans, and above all, iraq and afghanistan, as well as various other places in the middle east, i am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words this evening. but before continuing i should note that a southern california native briefed me before coming out here on the usc-ucla rivalry. i used to do intelligence. this is asthat emotional relationship as that between army and navy its football season. theact, discussion of u.s.a.-ucla rival reminds me of a story i heard this afternoon. apparently there was very nearly trouble at a party downtown attended by some usd students a few weeks ago. the way i heard it, one of the leaned over to the eye and said do you want to hear a joke? >> before you tell a joke you should know something. i am 6 foot 5 inches tall and i weigh 230 pounds and i go to ucla. next to me is a bruin 6 foot 3the next guy is and he goes to ucla. do you want to tell that joke? >> i guess not, the usc student said. not if i am going to have to explain it three times

as one who was truly privileged to serve with many in this room, in cold war europe, haiti, the balkanse on -- above all, iraq and the afghanistan of those berries other places in the middle east, i am very grateful for the opportunity to say a few words this evening. but before continuing i should note that a southern california native briefed me before coming out here on the usc-ucla rivalry. hey, i used to do intelligence. [laughter] and it appears, it appears that this is as emotional relationship as that between army and navy each football season. [laughter] in fact discussion of the usc-ucla rivalry might of the sort i heard this afternoon. apparently there was nearly call at a party downtown attended by some usc students a few weeks ago. the way i heard it, one of the usc students leaned over to a guy next to him at the party and asked, want to a ucla joke? given the usc student hard look, the guy next to him replied, before you tell that joke you should know something. i am 6'5", and i weigh 230 pounds, and i go to ucla. the guy right here next to me is six to and he is a bruin,

my question is do you see the development in iraq similar to the balkans tragedy, and especially the ethnic cleansing and so on? if so, what are the preventive measures that should be taken in advance in order to prevent a serious tragedy with a civil war? thank you. >> let me begin. one can certainly make the point that the most vicious conceivable ethnic cleansing has already occurred in the 2006, 2007 period. as samir has pointed out, iraq does not have a history of sectarian strife. you go back to the beginning of the 19th century when the -- toand the sunnis helped drive them off. >> that was the exception, not the norm. >> at that point, the iraqi sunnis helped -- >> some did. it is the exception, not the norm. iraqis were horrified by the excesses of that time. that helped to break the recurrence of such violence, but we have clearly seen in the last year or two an increase in both sectarian and ethnic shia and sunni tensions, and ethnic strife between arabs and in some cases sunni and shia, vis a vi, the kurds. again, this has not led to large-scale violence. i keep beating t

was also the got to bear in mind if we look at the western balkans in the 1990s, the sense of abandonment and the radicalization of muslims in many parts of the world, from a policy which for too long denied people any civility in the stream situation to protect themselves. sucking our policy, a policy that i have announced they're doing we can to protect civilian life is a necessary and proportionate response. >> geoffrey robinson. >> mr. speaker, the foreign secretary is well aware that there is no shortage of lethal weapons in syria at all. is very little case for our supplying any. indeed, putting it to them friendly, supplying armored four-wheel drive vehicles as well as personal protection equipment, including body armor, to the opposition and people are trying to support isn't necessary. they are driving around in total personal immunity. where you would carry the whole house, they'll country i mean is a massive increase in our humanitarian assistance. and if he can find value, european partners, that's what his efforts ought to be directed. >> the right honorable friend can you pl