major support for frontline is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the wyncote foundation. and by tfrontline journalism fund with grants from millicent bell through the millicent and eugene bell foundation. and scott nathan and laura debonis. >> sennott: two and a half years ago, i came to egypt and witnessed what we thought was a revolution. i watched as young activists marched to tahrir or liberation square. (protestors chanting) >> sennott: i watched as they were joined by egyptians of all ages and all classes, men and women. (protestors chanting) >> sennott: i was there day and night for two weeks. one evening, a young songwriter named ramy essam performed an anthem of what the people were calling the january 25 revolution. >> sennott: it was a time of incredible hope and high expectations. (praying) >> sennott: but i had

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and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. for each of us, there are days that are turning points. a day that changes our personal life, or a day that changes the nation. sometimes, very rarely, it's one and the same day. just such a day happened to me on wednesday, august 28th, 1963. i was 29 years old, the deputy director of the peace corps, with offices one block from the white house and a short walk from the lincoln memorial. that morning, largely on impulse, inspired by a friend, i joined the quarter of a million americans, people of every age and color, who had come for the march on washington. the event is now most famous for martin luther king, jr.'s

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and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. i'm phil donahue. bill moyers is away this week and i am pleased to be sitting in for him. our subject is syria. what began there two and a half years ago as part of the arab spring has turned into an all-out civil war. now has come the shocking evidence of poison gas attacks. a fatal escalation that has led president obama to ask congress to authorize the limited use of military force. and if we take action, where and when does it stop? historian and analyst andrew bacevich is here asking those questions.[ a graduate of west point and vietnam veteran, he served in the military for 23 years before becoming a profess

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and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. let us now praise common sense. once again a president was about to plunge us into the darkest waters of foreign policy where the ruling principle becomes, "when in doubt, bomb someone." strategists in the white house, militarists in the think tanks, the powerful pro-israel lobby aipac, and arm-chair warriors of all stripes, neo-conservatives and liberal humanitarians alike, were all telling barack obama to strike syria, no matter the absence of any law or treaty to justify it, no matter the chaos to follow. do it, they said, to show you can, or what's a super power for? but they hadn't reckoned on public opinion. t

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