but the wisdom of hindsight allows me to say that. to mention that the 9/11 commission discussed the kandahar situation and found that in fact osama bin laden had already left. he forgot to mention the 9/11 commission finding. and finally, president clinton certainly did attack and try to kill osama bin laden and sent in i believe a cruise missile and just missed. he forgot to mention that. so when somebody who has his honorable service attacks people's motives and with the wisdom of hindsight gets personal about who presidents, i would suggest to him that he's dishonoring the great service that i do say that he gave to our country. great admiration for the cia. >> gary has a right to his opinion. >> no, i'm stating facts. >> but his credentials are -- >> but attacking people's motives. >> he's saying -- he's challenging the assertion by bill clinton that that was the time he had to get him and that the reason he didn't go in there was because he didn't want to hurt civilians. gary doesn't believe that. he said he believes there were

>> again like vietnam in 20/20 hindsight as mr. d'souza has stated would have -- we didn't have weapons of mass destruction as people thought he didn't saddam thought he did and probably wouldn't have intervened if he had 20/20 hindsight. unfortunately we don't have that ability to just under the decisions we have made. >> are you aware of libertarians and others -- and nobody had us for side would the ron? >> there were a lot of people that had foresight including those in the military who debated this significantly. my boss, my mission commander general shinseki in congress. >> thank you general. >> thank you very much general general. you may step down. [applause] would you like to call one more witness to the stand mr. d'souza? >> i call mr. steve forbes. [applause] >> mr. forbes i have here a copy of the soon-to-be best-selling book money out the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy and what we can do about it. would you please place your right hand on a? do you swear to tell the truth the whole truth and not

again, like vietnam, the 20/20 hindsight as mr.de sousa stated, we did not have as much destruction there as we thought we did, as saddam thought we did if we had 20/20 hindsight. unfortunately, we can't undo the decisions that we made. >> are you saying that nobody had a foresight of what would go wrong? >> there were a lot of people who had a foresight, including those in the military who debated this significantly. my boss, my division commander, general shinsecki, testified to congress. >> thank you, general. >> thank you very much, general. you may step down. [applause] >> would you like to call one more witness to the stand, mr. de sousa? >> i call mr. steve forbes. >> mr. forbes, i have here a copy of a soon-to-be best-selling book, "money, how the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy and what we can do about it." . would you put your right hand on it. do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> it's on the money. >> okay. >> steve, i don't think we need t

because they did not have that hindsight at the time. you have to criticize them based on the information available to them than. in retrospect i do not think we should have gone in. in retrospect i think the vietnam war was stupid. but when i look at the overall picture of american foreign policy, you have to remember that power in the world is either going to be used by us or somebody else. if you took america's power right now and we gave it out it would go to russia, china, somebody else would have it. and they would use it far more heavy handedly and brutally. to take a single example, the reason why we have the commerce of the world falling freely right now across the oceans is because of the united states navy. there is no other reason. [applause] and if you would strew the united states navy somali pirates, pirates from other countries, powerful nations would be fighting for control. this would not be good. even from the point of view of global capitalism america's power is at the very best a kind of silent custodian of keeping t

a futility is judgment of hindsight.unfair to use hindsight when you judge people in the past. they didn't know the outcome of the war. they knew they were going to try to make it. yes, the ways in which ideals hoped for were not reeached. does that devalue the service and sacrifice of the people that we should be commemorating? >> we're seeing the king in liege standing in front of one great wreath. why one wreath? >> i think they've chosen symbolically to use one wreath as a sign of europe's togetherness at this point of commemoration instead of separateness which was the story before and during the war. >> now many thanks. you'll be with us throughout the day. >>> we turn to gaza where of course it's been a very, very difficult few days and weeks. today there's a seven hour pause in israel's military operation. only in parts of the territory. there are reports that a child died in an israeli air strike in gaza city minutes after the lull in hostilities came in effect. the pause doesn't apply to rafah where israeli tro

again, like vietnam the 20 / 20 hindsight would have been -- we did not have weapons of mass destruction there as people thought we did. and probably would not have intervened. unfortunately foreign-policy leaders did not have that ability to undo decisions that can make. >> are you are aware of the libertarians, conservatives, and others who critique the war before it began? you sang no one had foresight? >> there were a lot of people who have foresight, including those in the military who debated this significantly. my boss in fact testified to congress. >> he did a good job. [laughter] >> thank you. >> okay. >> thank you very much, general. you may step down. [applause] would you like to call one more witness to the stand? >> i called mr. steve forbes. >> yes. [applause] i have here a copy of a soon-to-be best-selling book money how the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy and what we can do about it. would you please place your right hand on it. .. that on the balance that's a very good thing. >> what the world needs, we have had an explosion of capitalism arms by t

in hindsight it looks better. >> i'm talking about the regular folks. >> oh, no, no, no, i'm not talking they see the iraq not worth it. every poll shows it? >> i disagree. i think they see it as in america's strategic interest to remove the taliban and saddam hussein. what they look back and say was why are we now tossing away the hard won gains of america's military by doing what we are doing. >> you think they see that? >> absolutely. the world is a safer place -- is the world a safer place today? no. it is not a safer place because what we did in succeeding and removing the taliban in afghanistan and removing saddam hussein has been frittered away by the policies of this administration. >> every poll i have seen, mr. rove, with all due respect to you. every single poll i've seen says americans regretted going into iraq. no, look, look, look, absolutely. >> we won it and obama gave it away. that's the crux of the matter. that's why people regret it look back now. >> why is it not stable? i'm sorry? >> i don't think the g.o.p. can exploit it to the max because americans say look, iraq,

but andes did tell us something back in 2010, something in hindsight that could tell us a lot. >> wed to think we have to have concrete evidence, and now we can put a case together with circumstantial evidence and make it stick, time and time again. >> reporter: his boss declined an interview as well, citing internal investigation. when we caught up with him? good morning, fire marshal, byron pits from abc news, can we talk to you about the investigation? i take it the answer is no. >> reporter: just last month, the results of the investigation were finally released. the department of public safety recommended charging richardson with six counts of false swearing and andes with one, all felony counts in arizona, no charges against ballantine were recommended. although all were placed on assignment. >>> up next for us, show me the mo'ne, the littlest thing to has been in baseball throws down at the little league series tonight. >>> abc news "nightline." brought to you by nexium 24 hours. s now available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. because th

. >> in hindsight a military base in kurdistan currently would be a huge asset, wouldn't it?>> certainly if your goal is military operations. these airstrikes came from an aircraft carrier. it would probably be handier to have a base there, but president obama made the decision, so even if there was a base from previous times president obama made the decision to withdraw from iraq in 2010. >> thank you very much for joining us here on "france 24." the world health organization has declared ebola to be a public health emergency of international concern. the latest outbreak of the deadly disease has claimed over 930 and drives -- 930 lives in west africa. the who says weak health care systems and poor public knowledge about ebola were helping it to spread. >> ebola is now an official international public health emergency, and the world health organization has called for an international response to the deadly disease. >> i am declaring the current outbreak of ebola virus disease and international concern. countries affected today simply do not have the capacity to manage an out

again remember with hindsight it's very easy to say you should have done this when this happened, becausei didn't know i would be released. my special teams coach mike prefer made homophobic remarks, it was like, was he trying to get a rise out of me? something i pointed out in the desmond article. but it was with malice in his voice, he meant them. okay, maybe he was just having a rough year, maybe the season is getting long, whatever, let's put the season behind us. once they drafted a punter and let me go i looked back and said you know what? there is something else here. based on what i know of the nfl those action he aren't consistent with everything i've alleged with the nfl. >> the vikings said he was an inconsistent performer. scouts in 2012 said he didn't have a very good year in 2012. was it possible that chris wasn't released because he wasn't performing up to par? >> it's hard to say. chris can answer that better what environment he was in not just with mike prefer. chris punted for the vikings for eight years. the average punter's career was five. he was doing something right

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in hindsight i think it's pretty clear the police overreacted in the days after the police shooting that looked like tanks and sort of military style weapons and equipment. i think the images we saw on tv are things we're used to seeing maybe in other countries and we're not used to seeing it in our own communities here in the united states. >> professor it is obvious there is a lot of underlying anger over life in ferguson, and that has exploded into the violence we have seen on the streets. how did it come to this? >> well, as you mentioned previously, the -- i think part of it is that some of the protesters who are african-americans i think feel like their voices aren't being heard in local go. that the town is now -- the population is now approximately two-thirds african american, but the institutions of political power, the city council, the school board, the mayor's office, the police force are almost entirely white. so that is a factor. >> explain to us, then, how -- how did that come about? >> right. well the -- so -- the population has shifted in ferguson over the last two decad

it's hard to say in hindsight. but we certainly created the conditions by our inaction that allowed this to take place. and it was even before the formation of the free syrian army, way back at the beginning point, we had an opportunity to intervene. and we did nothing. >> i'm particularly doubtful that that would have made any difference. i think the assad regime from the start made it very clear that they were not interested. they received substantial outside backing, primarily from the iranians and the russians at the security council. there was no opening in those early days for diplomacy. now i think we were right to try at the time through the first geneva process that ultimately failed, but that, you know, the calculations of the assad regime have been unwaivering from the start of the uprising in syria in 2011 until today. and that hasn't changed. >> rose: which is we're going to fight to the end, and try to defeat these people and we're not going to negotiate as long as we're losing. >> they've changed-- t

. >> reporter: in hindsight, should the city have been doing more to recruit and keep black police officers? >> that's just something we're going to have to try to figure out a way to struggle with and continue to improve ways not just to recruit but then to retain african american officers. >> you can take it or leave it. >> reporter: state senator jamilah nasheed has tried to calm crowds here. she's ray critic of local political accomplice. >> i don't think that they are trying hard to recruit any african americans. they don't want african americ americans in their good old boy network. >> reporter: it's as simple as that. >> plain and simple. >> reporter: ferguson police have pledged to increase their recruiting of minorities who want to become police officers here, and, scott, they also want to encourage officers who work here to live here. >> pelley: the officer involved in the shooting lived in another town. mark strassman, thank you very much. there was another fatal police shooting today a few miles from ferguson in st. louis. police say a 23-year-old man with a knife robbed a store

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and then remember one time, this is so true and it's so embarrassing now in hindsight, she told someoneaid he doesn't want everyone to know. i'm not kidding you. the next day, i'm like why the [bleeped] did you do, that andrea? i told you not to say that. >> jon: well, i'm very happy for you, and the nice thing is you're the same guy as you were back then, and hilarious and have always had the respect and admiration of all your peers. >> cool. >> jon: what the hell. todd glass, man. "the todd glass situation" on the books now. watching the d.c. improv. he wasn't kidding around. wait, are you running full adobe photoshop on a tablet? yep. but it's not just a tablet, it's really a laptop. it's a surface pro 3, with a touchscreen. well it can't be as fast as my mac. sure, it can. and it is. but you probably can't plug anything into it. i have a usb mini display port. plug away. and this is my favorite -- it's the kickstand. so you're saying it does more than my mac? well technically, you said it. ♪ >> jon: that's our show, before you go, quick thing, as you know, for the last few years i h

a logically cooperating with the indonesian military and presents a heartfelt i wonder if in hindsight you ever came to regret that policy and i regret greatly what happened in east timor. i believe a straight edge to your lead and would not have been able to do very much about it you mention american support for what indonesia was then doing. actions of a different astray and prime minister and east timor is no independent is now free . so great was very often too often interpret international law as what is in their particular interest at the time. we need to try to make rules that everyone will support if the united nations is ever to work great pals and listen or gender have to abide by the rules of the organization. but it's the great. that tend to push the rules aside when it suits their national interest and therefore when the united states says that what russia has done is in the fun's of international law well that trying to be taken as gospel to. the government in the change of power. in ukraine itself was surely in defiance of democratic principles now if i can draw one more

or an interpretation of what follows after wards and and of course we do this with the benefit of hindsight of course but we need to be a little bit careful and there are a few things that like to to to to to respond to if if i may i think there's a danger to forget that first of all back in one thousand nine hundred eighteen war is seen as a legitimate tool of foreign policy in the way that it is large enough to case today's lesson first thing to bear in mind second there is this vision that this war could have been avoided and of course we will agree that such a tragedy should always be avoided that we would leave you know happily ever after . that's a very subjective argument but that's also a very misleading one and that i think is largely overlooking the nature and not only of the international system back then but also the nature of the political regimes opposed during during this war the reason why the the the british and indeed the american got involved into this war was largely in response to what they perceived in the digits in italy i would say as a strategy. frets by the central

and they would reject him iraq and afghanistan war was absolutely necessary hindsight it probably should have been more of a punitive raid and then leave not stay for you know twelve years. iraq again you have a state sponsor who is willing to use chemical weapons on its own people. but there were no chemical weapons that's not going to matter as of the right but there were no chemical weapons found there well there were some and i still believe they're out there what about now blackwater as it was formerly called is staying behind in afghanistan after the u.s. troops leave are they just the army's trojan horse i know you know they have anymore but i'm sure you have an answer to that well look any time you know there's going to be a diplomat be an embassy there will be some kind of a training or support function i'm sure left behind for the afghans because the you know they're they need support combat service support aviation support for the afghan army to try to continue to defend the country so there certainly be a role for private sector companies to do that i mean private sector comp

. >> sometimes it is hindsight. >> i'm talking about us mortals can only look in the rearview mirror.s something like that. neil: what happens now? if anything we learn more about repeating it. so there's going to be another bubble. >> that is the question. >> for all of the viewers, are we going to make a screeching you turn in the market? it's a really ugly month for earnings revision. neil: scott, i forgot about you, my friend. what does it mean enact. >> no one forgot about me and no one puts me in the corner. as joe said earlier, it's just a cash out, if you are in involved in candy crush, on this revenue where you can cash out and they do poorly on the exchange and it's creating a lot of well in america because people are making it happen. >> if it sounds too good to be true, we never learn. and we never learn about celebrities, we hold them up and then when they die they are all shocked another reaction and anger. robin williams is the next story. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps

in hindsight i remember thinking things were not right.ped at the edge of this big, open field and all of a sudden, we saw some people running through this wood line 50 yards to our left. felt like we were getting set up for an ambush. and i just heard like -- pwww. [ gunshots ]. >> garret combs lives with his fiancee and their one-year-old son freeman. >> i was a pretty good kid. i really had a positive view of the world. >> the attacks of september 11th moved him to enlist. he was 18 and had a passion for photography. >> i felt a very deep sense of patriotism and i felt like the situation called every guy my age to go and enlist in the service. i walked into the recruiter's office wanting to be a combat photographer and they showed me cool ranger videos and some cool infantry videos and they were like, hey, man you can leave in two weeks or however, a month if you enlist in the infantry so i was like all right, cool, sign me up. that looks fun. >> garrett would end up serving his country for almost five years, the second battilion. >> we

of course, with the hindsight, historical hindsight, which is always 20/20, we know it's not a happynding, because three of the four countries by the mid-1940 were invaded by the germans. so to be a jew in any one of those countries was the same intents and purposes being a jew in germany. the same thing, facing discrimination, eventual deportation. so the st. louis passengers you could say were double crossed, literally having to double cross the ocean, and figuratively double crossed because they thought they were going to freedom, and they were then rejected by two other nations. so fast forward to the late 1980s. i believe it was 1989, which was the 50th anniversary of the st. louis, we hear about a st. louis passenger named herbert karliner in miami beach, who is trying to find other passengers for a reunion. so based on herb's work, all before the internet, and anything -- any modern search engines we have now, i believe there were around 40 or 50 st. louis passengers. so when we began our search in the mid-1990s, still before the internet, this was all we knew, was this list t

hindsight is always 20/20. >> but we spoke to someone happy to defend it. >> the narrow networks problem is an insurance problem not an aca problem. >> that's correct. >> ron pollack director of families usa and a man who is helping to sell the affordable care act says the law's opponents have the wrong culprit. >> the aca is encouraging more insurers to come into the marketplace to provide their plans in their marketplace. now anthem is no longer going to be alone and more insurance companies are coming in. that's going to create the competition that's going to improve. this. >> that's not going to resolve the narrow network problem. those new four carriers could always be offering narrow network plans instead of competing with each other on developing a more robust plan so the new entrants to the market is not going to solve the narrow network problem. >> reporter: while new hampshire waits, margaret mccarthy worries. >> i have to have blood work done every six months or so. i have to draw down my retirement funds before i thought i'd have to so i can pay these premiums until i qualify

hindsight is always 20/20. >> but we spoke to someone happy to defend it. >> the narrow networks problem is an insurance problem not an aca problem. >> that's correct. >> ron pollack director of families usa and a man who is helping to sell the affordable care act says the law's opponents have the wrong culprit. >> the aca is encouraging more insurers to come into the marketplace to provide their plans in their marketplace. now anthem is no longer going to be alone and more insurance companies are coming in. that's going to create the competition that's going to improve. this. >> that's not going to resolve the narrow network problem. those new four carriers could always be offering narrow network plans instead of competing with each other on developing a more robust plan so the new entrants to the market is not going to solve the narrow network problem. >> reporter: while new hampshire waits, margaret mccarthy worries. >> i have to have blood work done every six months or so. i have to draw down my retirement funds before i thought i'd have to so i can pay these premiums until i qualify

the way in which the majority report is written is 2020 hindsight. you can't know how you would have get an information in real time and we will try to lead this question unanswered were senator feinstein has a emphatic answer. >> this came between the bush administration. it was entirely during the bush administration. >> one of the things he did was to formally end the policy of cia interrogation that had been banned. in a sense, these issues were dealt with more than five years ago in terms of policy. senator feinstein felt that an honest history, a real accounting was essential to make sure the u.s. government never again did anything like what was done in the years after 9/11. >> were leaders among our friends and enemies be surprised by anything? or are people, including people like you, be surprised by what is in here? >> obviously, i haven't read the report. i've talked people who have read every one of those pages. they say there are details that will surface, as much as about the horrors of these interrogations, the use of waterboarding, as

it is kind of 20/20 hindsight. will try to leave this question -- at least in his horrible terms -- unanswered where dennis -- senator feinstein was emphatic that it was immoral and useless. >> this came during the bush administration, i assume? >> it was entirely during the bush administration. the issues that president obama -- it should be noted that one of the first things he did in 2009 when he took office was to ciaally in the policy of interrogation, the use of harsh interrogation methods that had already been banned, but that emotion -- obama administration took an entirely different approach. in a sense, these issues were dealt with more than five years ago. that anfeinstein felt honest history, a real accounting was essential to make sure that the u.s. government never again did anything like what was done in the years after 9/11. >> among our friends and enemies around the world, would they be surprised about anything in this report. that includes people like you. would they be surprised about what's in