vietnam during the lunar new year holiday called tet the enemy of the north vietnamese a national liberation front our means launched an offensive that overran the entire country before being pushed back the tet offensive revealed that the enemy had widespread support from the vietnamese people and america was mired in a war it couldn't win and the soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive thousands began going a wall or absent without leave many found their way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. antiwar movement onto the national stage. we joined together. in my two sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church and change ourselves for ministers. we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to get on we were refusing orders and in fact we were resigning from the military to come and get it . the fact that it took them three days to decide how to deal with this to play great. had nothing to lose. and they had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place it's a really free place you know you're you know what's go

of, two insurgencies, or two, what they would, the group themselves would call themselves national liberation front, the ethiopian government might call them terrorists. part of how these things get framed. part of the conflict in somalia is a proxy war between ethiopia and eritrea, and therefe, again, part of this larger, regionalized, interlinked, multi-level conflict across the horn of africa. >> and dan, do these conflicts rise to the level of engaging u.s. national security interests? >> according to me, no. i think that we probably would all agree that the basic, necessary element to deal with the humanitarian problems of the horn of africa is the presence of stable governmes in the different countries, and ideally, stable governments that don't fight each other. an example of that was that one of the things that ethiopia was caught doing was selling donated food to buy arms. food donated by international community, it was selling it... >> including the united states. >> yeah, to buy arms. so, you know, i don't think we play a constructive role there. if one looks at it in terms, in humanitar

your ability to control -- [inaudible] also the second brigade was in kenwa was where the national liberation front came from. that is the heart of the vietnamese navy's movement. in june of that year the navy arrived. this is their assault craft, we call -- they're married up with the navy, and they had fantastic results. why? the viet cong had always made their defenses of expect an attack by land. they used the water to escape. they didn't know what to do. for six months they cleaned up down on the delta. about that time the north vietnamese said we're going to have a change in tactics. we're going to go on the offensive. they thought when they went on the offensive that people would rise up. the first phase of that was on 30th of yawn, 1968, where they attacked all the cities in vietnam. many of the major cities were in the delta, so the only unit south of saigon had their work cut autofor them. the military installations, get the enemy out of there. the second -- went far south, and so at the end of a month they had driven them all out. it sorely defeated the north vietnamese and seat coming.

fronts. again both liberals and conservatives, that the president didn't use more moral language, spiritual and moral terms, even when he was talking about some of the problems facing the nation, he didn't say it's the right thing to do to balance the budget or to be accountable or responsible for your money. he didn't talk about that when he was talking about clean energy. he didn't say caring for the environment, which is language a lot of faith groups like to hear. some people say, well, this is is a state the union addre, it's a gislative package and hat'not the ple fotha kind of los angeles. certainly the president used a lot of theological language in his tucson speech, but for many faith people they like to hear that kind of language in every speech, and they did find that missing. >> and beyond language, important as that is, is a kind of point of view. yes, we need a lot more attention to math and science, but no less attention to poetry and preaching and art. all of the arts, and all of the hugh humanities part of it. >> well, a lot of faith communities do talk about some of those intangible things, what makes america great, is it just economy or military? is there