john yoo with us for another 10 minutes. virginia, republican line. caller: if war did break out on the peninsula, do you see china actually coming to the north korean defense? guest: that is a great question. outside the scope of "striking power" but something i have thought about and a lot of people are thinking about. china does not want to see a collapse of north korea and the united states taking over the entire peninsula with u.s. troops on the chinese border. if you look at the map from the chinese perspective, south korea looks like a gigantic airbase and military base on its territory. they have always wanted to push the united states out of south korea. they will love to push the united states defense from there back to japan or even back to the philippines or hawaii. they do not want us to have control of a friendly government , with lots of u.s. troops in the peninsula. if there were to be a war and china were to intervene, that would risk a global war and i do not think china would want that. the obvious diplomatic solution ward be -- if

i've watched since professor john yoo was on and i think the last guest concerned medical care through insurance was excellent. i have two of the most difficult questions i've heard of but not heard very much. the first is, were hiroshima and legal precedence for cause and the one on hand from the next guest i heard, and veteran affairs, which were renamed veterans affairs for administration which sounded too governmental for individual veterans by our senior senator in minnesota. is the veterans administration medical care a perfect model for socialized medicine? and, is it true that most other countries in the world do have functioning social medicine, which forms the question, what would it take to put socialized medicine nationally on trial in our country to eliminate all these finagling insurance problem? thank you for listening. host: chuck, i'm sorry you didn't get in. it is a topic professor yoo takes up in "striking power," he gets into the history of the use of nuclear weapons in that book. i was able to read through it, i know he addresses those issues, if you want to pick i

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my name is john yoo, i am a visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute and co-author with jeremy rabkin who is already at the other end of this book after 20, by yours now before supplies run out. that is a joke, supplies will never run out. "striking power". we are proud to have our commentators. bios in front of you, mister lewis is a fellow at the center for strategic and international studies which is almost next door to us. a long background on these issues and governmental agencies, just complaining, the united nations. and professor andres at the national college, deep background in cyber security issues, really grateful to have them with us. what we are going to do today, i am going to drive the themes of the book. we will hear from rich and jim and jeremy rabkin will respond and we will have 25 minutes for your questions and our answers and discussion. with that said, let me welcome all of you to our new building. i couldn't think of a better place to talk about future technology than our prototype bridge of the starship enterprise. this is an amazing facility, lo