iraq afghanistan war injury is our generation's agent orange. if you look at the historical precedents with agent orange for decades it was knowledge and then after decades it was studied and then finally soldiers were treated. so to go with the iraq afghanistan war long and we can't wait that long poor the pits to get recognized and not the phase that the guys are in the females are dying from the burn pits it's a lot faster the illnesses are showing up in the symptoms a lot sooner he put in his time he sacrificed he gave everything that it was possible to get and. a little proud of that and we don't regret that and he does now. and we would serve again our sons have enlisted so it's not a service that's a problem and then things happen in war and we understand that there's a cost and and we will carry with that because there are some things that are worth the cost but the other side of that is that at the end of it they take care of you and every single time there's a war we do this some good do you know with the government where they say no n

military used in iraq and afghanistan to torture everything from batteries to body parts experts say the pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be poised. in september two thousand and four. i know it is. the v.a. clinic instead of seeing old caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who are in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed. of young women and men of all ethnicities and they're all in their twenty's back from their first year long deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time most of them had already had a traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans primary function testing all of these studies returned normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle because these service members complained of shortness of breath with exertion but their x. rays and pull me function tests indicated that they shouldn't have any disability itll that doctors are throwing up their hands and say

why do we continue to call vietnam iraq and afghanistan wars. they are not wars. iraq and afghanistan have been political. nobody declared war on us. >> guest: well i mean i think there's a contradiction between saying they are wars and their civil wars because pretty much all insurgencies and counterinsurgencies are civil wars because they are fought by different for -- factions of people for that country is quite common in the civil war for the various sides to call another factors. in the case of vietnam north vietnam was supported bye bye the soviet union and communist china and we supported south vietnam. that's not at all unusual. that's actually. common in iran where we supported the government and iran supported some of the insurgents and various islamist groups like al qaeda supported other insurgents. that's par for the course. civil wars are just one kind of war work. >> host: the next golfer max boot is from hedgesville west west virginia. you are on you are booktv. >> caller: hello, thank you. i have a simple question. i think you are comparing contemp

very time consuming because they are almost always alleged foreign acts for example in syria iraq afghanistan or somalia if we look at countries like afghanistan which germany and all the e.u. nations have already referred to as a safe country to return to then you can see why people would come forward and say that they have information and would rather face a trial than deportation that you have an authority zone suggesting this is the easy way out anyone who makes a false confession must understand that he is going to face criminal consequences all of which has its roots way back in the summer of twenty fifteen when angela merkel opened germany up to refugees peter all of r.t. . on me while in greece refugees are also choosing arrest over deportation hundreds of migrants recently gathered outside a police station in the city of thessaloniki asking to be detained many view arrest as a way of speeding up their asylum claims greece has seen a recent surge in illegal crossings from turkey since anchorage launched a military offensive against the kurds in northern syria here political analyst ro

through my experiences in places like iraq, afghanistan and the poorest places of new york city, i have come to realize how much are lives are prescribed by where we land in birth on this planet. i believe most of us are incrediblincredibly fortunate tn minnesota. despite our challenges, there is nowhere else that compares. previous generations worked hard to build and leave us what we have here. now it's our responsibility to make it better for generations to come. just a few short years ago it was in dangerous disrepair. we came together, work together and even kicked ourselves out of this building until its restoration was completed. look at what we accomplish by working together. just imagine what more we can do if we continue. thank you very much. .mac. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> tonight on c-span2, book tv in prime time on business and economics starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern with the vice president of the innovation of the rand corporation. susan mark west on efforts by florida farmworkers to improve their working condition in the book i am not a tra

afghanistan and iraq don't show lesson hasietnam been learned. the notion that we can intervene in a place and politically or socially engineer a transformation, it doesn't work. all you would have to do is tilt backward in time to think about the british believed they could do that. the british believed that, the french believed that they could do that as an imperial power. this whole notion that these kind of interventions can achieve a policy goals that we isgine as possible fundamentally flawed. and yes, we seem to do it over and over and over again. when i first started teaching, i did believe this could never happen again. people have seen this and learned this lesson. the last 10 or 15 years would suggest the other way around. , as atory gives us society, an opportunity to revisit these questions. what are some of the significant ways you are observing these next couple years of anniversaries are being observed? >> i think the anniversaries are good in putting people's attentions and focus back on vietnam. in some ways, i think that has eb

us would not dwell on forever in a sense of not wanting to get bogged down as they have in iraq and afghanistaneen a message to moscow and others that the united states is not looking to start a wider war here. the united states has 2000 troops on the ground in syria. there have been hundreds of air strikes against targets such as al-qaeda and other sorts of fighters in syria. so this is meant, as the president said, to stop assad from using chemical weapons. there are some a nalysts chemical weapons. there are some analysts who are sceptical of that, who do not believe that damascus, that moscow, and tehran will change their behaviour because of this. i think it is perhaps, in his opening moments, a little difficult to get a very good analysis of what exactly we are talking about as concerning the scope of the strike and just how much damage it is going to inflict on the government and the forces of bashar al—assad. on the government and the forces of bashar al-assad. addressing potential conflict with russia and iran. president trump appeared not to be bellicose or belligerent, almost saying

let's not underestimate the dope and shocking experience of iraq and afghanistan. all of us need to learn the lessons. the danger is that we become imprisoned by the iraq and afghanistan experience. the second thing is of course i'm the sfirs to say bombing on its own is not a strategy. the gaping hole has been the lack of a coherent strategy, the development of diplomacy or military effort without that political goal of a political settlement or the clarity about what a political settlement means isn't going to work. it's really important that military force is always a last resort. can't be a first resort. secondly it's allied to a political strategy. >> third do you think the left in britain -- do you think the labor party has moved left from the koofs days. >> they saw the impact in coast a voe. iraq and afghanistan have cast a long shadow and given pause to all of us who think in some circumstances military power is used. and for those who believe it's always wrong, it's obviously given them an easy stick to take forward. i run a humanitarian organization. i'm

be very time consuming because they almost always alleged foreign acts for example in syria iraq afghanistan or somalia if we look at countries like afghanistan which germany and all the e.u. nations have already referred to as a safe country to return to then you can see why people would come forward and say that they have information and would rather face a trial than deportation that you have an authority zone suggesting this is the easy way out anyone who makes a false confession must understand that he is going to face criminal consequences all of which has its roots way back in the summer of twenty fifteen when angela merkel opened germany up to refugees peter all of r.t. belin. well germany is not the only country that is witnessing such a trend in greece hundreds of asylum seekers gathered outside a police station in the city officials for the same reason many reportedly view arrest as an opportunity to stay in the european union and the fastest way to get the necessary paperwork started a large queue form for days after a surge in legal border crossings from turkey geopolitical expe

soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan. hat site, which you can see from highway 24 is filled with crosses, one for every soldier killed in the iraq and afghanistan wars. a family that owns the land says it has two potential buyers, but it's unknown whether the new owner will keep the crosses. the advisory board wants to replace the crosses with a permanent memorial. >>> a san francisco woman is accused of hitting a police officer and driving away. records show she is not a licensed driver. jean elle is live in san francisco with more. jean? >> reporter: 18-year-old marisa androvich is booked here on a felony charge of hit-and-run. police say she hit a plainclothes police officer in the tenderloin and drove off, and it appears she was driving home. police officers arrested 18-year-old marisa androvich in san francisco's richmond district, several miles away from where investigators say she hit a plainclothes officer as he crossed eddy at larkin and drove off. >> i said, oh, my god. >> reporter: workers say the detective had

i spend every christmas with the troops in iraq and afghanistan. in 2015, '16, '17, i was briefed on the map that showed isis's territory. i was blown away. december of 2017, a few months ago, seeing how much amazing progress was done in 2017. almost completely destroying isis. not just in iraq but in syria as well. the path forward, as it relates to isis, needs to be to get over the goal line. we can't pull out. we can't declare mission accomplished right now because they are almost completely destroyed. they are not actually completely destroyed. we learn a lesson from president bush when he was in office. he said mission accomplished. it was premature. president obama declared failure. that was obviously premature. this president supporting to finish the job to defeat isis once and for all. then to be able to bring more troops home. that's a whole other conversation with regards to the long-term plan in syria unrelated to isis. that's a whole other conversation. >> shannon: i want to redo a little bit from "the washington post." "u.s. departure

institutions the state from from collapse and as usual as usual moscow puts in example the story of iraq afghanistan libya where the collapse of state institutions basically ended up in a in a chaotic situation so this is the first thing russia i mean it claims to support the regime but the state sovereignty institutions secondly about how far russia would go it's where a complicated situation in terms of that many experts see it as russia having a huge leverage over us so if to look at this from other angle russia is kind of trapped itself in this situation because it cannot pick up again and withdraw because if it decides to do so to seize its support to the syrian government then it will kind of undermine all this three four five years of its policy of support to the regime and it will lose its image its its power and they will be like a long term consequences for russia's presence in the middle east but so this is why it's very complicated in terms of like how how far russia will go but this is why it's important to underline that it's in russia's genuine interest to. finish the conflict to find

very time consuming because they are almost always alleged foreign acts for example in syria iraq afghanistan or somalia if we look at countries like afghanistan which germany and all the e.u. nations have already referred to as a safe country to return to then you can see why people would come forward and say that they have information and would rather face a trial than deportation the german authorities aren't suggesting this is the easy way out anyone who makes a false confession must understand that he is going to face criminal consequences all of which has its roots way back in the summer of twenty fifteen when angela merkel opened germany up to refugees peter all of r.t. belin. why and grace refugees are also choosing arrest over deportation hundreds of migrants recently gathered outside a police station in the city of thessaloniki asking to be detained many of you arrest as a way of speeding up their asylum claims greece has seen a recent surge in illegal crossings from turkey says angrily launched a military offensive against the kurds in northern syria here political analysts ron ara

iraq and afghanistan, wore torn iraq and afghanistan, they lead, absolutely, by all counts in the century, as the two countries most affected, heavily affected by terrorists, followed by conflicts in syria, nigeria and pakistan. so, together just five countries in the world account for two-thirds of all people killed in terrorist attacks. step aside immediately, what this high concentration of so much terrorist activity globally and just a few areas and in the hands of just not as many handfuls of groups, what does it imply for national cooperation with international terrorists. the implication is obvious. if we want to reduce terrorism by just six, seven groups, let's concentrate on the groups first and let's pull ourselves together and concentrate on it first. and this is what happened and so even if you intercreased regionally, best of all, national, regional and international level. even gets one or two such groups, you immediately see a very substantial reduction in global terrorism, you know, indicators. this is what happened in the past two years in syria, due to increased internat

marines on the move, freeing them from the road convoys that were such exposed targets in iraq and afghanistane're trying to bypass that with a lower cost and a higher payload. >> reporter: right now the marines are testing small commercial drones carrying light loads like this canteen. but if the concept works, the drones will get larger and the s ads will get heavier. thorbaben calls for resupply on his tablet. in this test the canteens are loaded by humans, but the drones are autonomous and will eventually return to the hive to reload themselves and fly again. >> you scale this up to a larger platform and now one delivery is aking care of an entire fire team. 50 deliveries is taking care of first and second platoon. 150 deliveries is taking care of your entire company. >> reporter: not just marines in combat, but humanitarian operations. when hurricane maria devastated puerto rico it took weeks to get relief supplies from the port out to the people who needed them. thobaben says autonomous drones could eliminate that bottleneck. >> you get it to us in two or three days and then we can get u

very time consuming because they are almost always alleged foreign acts for example in syria iraq afghanistan or somalia if we look at countries like afghanistan which germany and all the e.u. nations have already referred to as a safe country to return to then you can see why people would come forward and say that they have information and would rather face a trial than deportation the german authorities are suggesting this is the easy way out anyone who makes a false confession must understand that he is going to face criminal consequences all of which has its roots way back in the summer of twenty fifteen when angela merkel opened germany up to refugees peter all of r.t. believe. a developing story now from the former soviet republic armenia over two hundred people including opposition leaders have been arrested this sunday during mass protests seven people have been injured it's part of ongoing action demanding the newly appointed. minister resign the country has been shaken by rallies for over a week tens of thousands of opposition supporters blocked roads calling for a new government el