i did find lots of mosul quality images taken by them themselves who had very little facility with a camera they were using so lots of blurry shots and darken the interior. the professional journalists were charged with getting a story that would help to sell papers and the war they tended to focus on was the killing and the dalia and war and the images they produce are powerful and beautiful one. there's a photo in the book that's also very famous but there was another photographer i talked a lot about, mark jury who was a soldier journalist. they took photographs that captured this other side of the war and underlined the impression that the war was of great urgency for most americans fighting it. >> when did you get interested in the vietnam war? >> very early in my life. i did my first research and seventh grade on vietnam because i'm the daughter of a vietnam veteran and a officer and soviet mom war he spent two tours in vietnam and i think it hk mark on my family and my parents' marriage and their relationship with their children sires fascinated by that and i growth in the 198

so you progress in mosul from the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan just a few hours ago it should reach the i guess about three days delivering food and fuel and other supplies for the three astronauts who are currently there there's a russian and american and of japanese there's only half the normal crew there right now after a similar supply module crash after blast off in aug sept rarely suspending flights since the end of non-so shuttle program in july so use is the only transportation in the space station. to get the back story of the so used missions as the space station's only lifeline and our t.v. dot com there's more there for you to discover as well on this day fifty years ago the soviet side of the most powerful explosion in human history flexing its thermonuclear muscles with a device that was never going to put to real use. just dorothy got called. and also the pyramids return russia's most notorious for national ponzi scheme that robbed millions of their life savings in the ninety's is this time in ukraine and it's getting surprising a number of investors all the details a

not consider the victory complete until he captured the persian emperor darius and chased him from mosul in northern iraq all the way to the eastern border of the persian empire. similarly the romans spent 20 years after the second pns for a chasing hannibal because they feared hannibal so much, so even in the 1640s, the virginia colonial militia chased, and i can pronounce -- his name is about 20 letters. i can pronounce his name or the tribe, but a tribal chieftain in southern virginia that they feared. they spent two years chasing him. .. >> adding a strategic perspective to all the stories coming to you think i really grounded your? in other words come you might've been criticized for running a super coffee novel based on to stress? >> that's an interesting question. i mean, my doctorate is in political science. you can take the boy out of the academia. you can't entirely take the academia out of the boy. same thing my career has been in policy for the last 15 years that it might be difficult to think of things. it might be difficult for me to think of things in pure entertainment pa

i understand the iraqis were up into august were saying could you build an embassy in mosul because we'dur presence there. there were as many fractions in iraq that need us there and know they need us there. >> what's fascinating is the sunnis want us, the kurds want us and many of the moderate shiites want us, the group that doesn't want us is the radical anti-american shiites led by people like assadr who has been living in iran for the last few years so we're abandoning those allies and those other groups that want us there in favor of giving the radical shiites what they want. >> i remember this conversation before the surge. have all our blood and money been wasted if we don't find a way to leave iraq in peace? that was one of the reasons why you owe it to those who have lost their lives and wounded in battle to try to win this thing and we did and it happened. 4,549 americans have been killed in iraq. could, if this goes afoul, could their lives be wasted? >> absolutely. i left with four marines who left everything they had over there and they did so thinking they were going to pro