used in the vietnam war was aerial bombardment that is how the most people were killed both north and south the us to use nuclear. they used white phosphorus they used chemical agents but most of all they used fashioned high explosives. and by the time it was all over the u.s. government had dropped three times the amount of bombs dropped by all parties in world war two more than eight million tons the equivalent of six hundred forty hiroshima sized atomic bomb. thank you. very much together. making. the transportation system rolling stock yards. and beginning with the biggest. way must be why a bomb in job. is what it takes to win the war. on this. and all this nineteen sixty four. that. the system is the limit. we use special interests and access requests meant. they are ready for free flight. to turn off one of their became their gravity. has issued and those feed from a virgin the previous life. and much to so many in a free flight. this is not a theatrical set. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind us. could transform a criminal into an orbiting

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used in the vietnam war was aerial bombardment that is how the most people were killed both north and south the us to use nuclear. they used white phosphorus they used chemical agents but most of all they used fashioned high explosives. and by the time it was all over the u.s. government had dropped three times the amount of bombs dropped by all parties in world war two more than eight million tons or the equivalent of six hundred forty hiroshima sized atomic bomb. together. making. the transportation system rolling stock yards. to get the biggest. nation on which. way must be why a bomb in. work. thanks to when the war. thomas mississauga. and all this nineteen searched for the film. before reaching the first guy as the lemon. culture is that so much of a given to each musician a person finding a good mark left game changer in his offense continue to unfold in egypt what kind of middle east is coming to me and give democracy is indeed on. wealthy british style. that's not on the. markets finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no

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used in the vietnam war was aerial bombardment that is how the most people were killed both north and south the us to use napalm. they used white phosphorus they used chemical agents but most of all they used to fashion high explosives. and by the time it was all over the u.s. government had dropped three times the amount of bombs dropped by all parties in world war two more than eight million tons or the equivalent of six hundred forty hiroshima sized atomic bombs it's. very much together. the transportation system rolling stock yards. and beginning with the biggest. margin. way must be why. when the war. congress this already. and all this nineteen sixty four. that. the sky is the limit. wealthy british style. market finance scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. download the official t. application on the phone all i pod touch from the i.q. saps to. watch on t.v. life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s minefield costs and already says feeds now in the p

used in the vietnam war was aerial bombardment that is how the most people were killed both north and south the us to use nuclear. they used white phosphorus they used chemical agents but most of all they used fashioned high explosives. and by the time it was all moved the u.s. government had dropped three times the amount of bombs dropped by all parties in world war two more than eight million tons the equivalent of six hundred forty hiroshima sized atomic bomb. together. making. the transportation system rolling stock car. beginning with the biggest. way must be why it. is what it takes to win the war. be a. thunder specific party. in all this nineteen sixty four. the whatever may be necessary that's forty four reaching. that's the sky is the limit. well when one deals with war for us to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that have done not just human damage but damage the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy coming from the city whether it's a sonic boom city factory murmuring mammals o

curtis lemay's scenario was once we start bombing north vietnam, north vietnam would try to retaliate by bombing, they did not have sufficient aircraft to do that well so they would call upon there chinese allies and the chinese would supply them pilots and aircraft to be used to bomb saigon. this would enable curtis lemay to retaliate against china and take out its developing nuclear capacity. the war game was a disaster. red team retaliated in a very astute way. did not retaliate militarily. it retaliated psychologically and the impact of bombing not only works minimally in terms of military context the worked very badly in terms of world opinion of what we were doing. and curtis lemay grew furious at the final session of the war game and leaned forward and yelled at general bose wheeler who was head of the red team and said you know if firebomb your country you're going to bomb mind. and wheeler said i know that is what you want me to do and that is the last thing in the world i will do. than what they said as he said many times we can bomb those people back into the stone age in 1

. -- start bombing north vietnam. i felt it would be useless and argued against the bombing from the beginning. i was supported only by the state department representative. everybody else was all for bombing. and so we were outvoted, and the general in charge of this it all right, mr. gray, will you please sit down and write an intelligence assessment of the effectiveness of the bombing and he didn't tell me to follow the dictates of the vote. he just said right what you think is going to happen. so i did. and then superiors, a top level group which included maxwell taylor, director john mcgowan of the cia, and other luminaries came in, and brigadier general said we had heating -- a heated discussion but we decide to go ahead with the bombing. and mr. gregg will tell you how we think that will work out. and so i got up on my hind legs and was about 15 seconds into my presentation when i was skewered by maxwell taylor. and he said, young man, just hush up. and he turned to the general and said what do i hear hear? he s

curtis lemay's scenario was that once we started on the north vietnam, north vietnam would try to retaliate by bombing saigon, that they did not have sufficient aircraft to do that well, so they would call on the chinese allies and that the chinese with applied them, pilots and aircraft to bomb saigon. this would enable lemay to retaliate against china and take out its developing nuclear capacity. well, the wargame was a disaster. the red team retaliated in a very astute way. it did not retaliate militarily. a retaliated psychologically. and the impact of bombing not only were minimally in terms of the military context, but it worked very badly in terms of the world opinion of what we were doing. and curtis lemay was furious at the final session and he leaned forward and yelled at general bob wheeler who had been head of the red team. he said you know cardillo mollified upon your country, you are going to bomb mine. and wheeler says i know that's what she wanted to do and that is the last thing in the world i'll do. and then lemay said and i'm sure he said it many times, we can bomb those p

curtis lemay's scenario was once we started bombing north vietnam and, north vietnam would try to retaliatesite of. that they did not have sufficient aircraft to do that well and they would call on their chinese our lives and the chinese would supply them pilots and aircraft to be used to bomb saigon. this would enable them to retaliate against china and take out the developing nuclear capacity. the war game was a disaster. the red team retaliated in a very astute way. it did not retaliate militarily. it retaliated psychologically. the impact of bombing not only worked mentally in terms of the military context but it worked badly and terms of world opinion about what we were doing. curtis lemay grew furious at the final session of the war game. he leaned forward and yelled at the general who had been the head of the red team and said you know god damn well a five bomb your country, you're going to bomb tied. wheeler said i know that's what you want me to do, and that's the last thing in the world i will do. that he said, and that sure he said it many times, we come of those people back into

haynesworth, and north vietnam. the national review concluded, surprisingly, where the new standards of "the times" were bd ly emanated, the nation would be far better informed and more honorly served. this was clearly a tribute to the journalism practiced by abe rosenthal. he was executive editor, and journalism based on professional detachment as much as possible, impish -- impartiality. it was important to keep the right hand, because the newsroom would naturally drift to the left. he believe there should be no editor needles in which reporters used their personal or political opinions to go after anybody. he believes there should be no quotes that were either unattributed or made somebody look bad that weren't fair. rosenthal was raid -- was paid -- patriotic, and weary of conflicts amongst the reporter. when he found out a woman he hired had an affair with the politician in philadelphia, maybe the mayor, he fired her and said, i'll pay deference to the fact this is a catholic institution. i don't care if my rep

vietcong attacked an american base and johnson called a cabinet meeting to sanction the bombing of north vietnam. >> johnson was not looking for advice but validation and it was actually johnson looking for ratification of what he'd already decided. he goes around the room asking all these people, his advisors to tell them what they think about this decision to launch these attacks and humphrey announces he thinks it's a mistake. >> johnson was furious with him. and the bombing of the north began. >> congress gave us this authority, and all this, 1964 to do whatever may be necessary. that's pretty far-reaching. the sky's the limit. >> while there may have been no limits on johnson's expansion of the vietnam war, there would now be limits on his vice president. >> i knew him intentionally of those years of the 1960's and that was the most tortured period of his life, trying to be vice president, serving the president who was taking us to war in vietnam, even if he had misgivings as an independent thinker. >> after their public disagreement, humphrey was frozen out of all discussion of vietnam. jo

tourists were among twelve people killed when a boat sank in north eastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most recently from their cabins it's believed there were twenty foreigners on board and those who survived nine people and six crew members jumped into the water where they were rescued by other vessels is the deadliest tour boat accident since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. to belgium now and it's going two hundred forty nine days without a government which some are saying equals the world record held by iraq the eight month stalemate is divided on language lines between the leaders of the six million dollar speaking flemish and four and a half million french speakers hundreds of people from both sides organize a flash mob in french speaking. calling for the creation of a unity government that was one of many being held across the country. were known former russian agent and a chapman will add a dash of glamour to the country space program the red head now wants to try a hand in designing new uniforms for the space industry what is it has

tourists were among twelve people killed when a boat sank in north eastern vietnam the vessel went down before dawn when most will sleep in the cabins it's believed there were twenty foreigners on board those who survived nine people and six crew members jumped into the water where they were rescued by other vessels it's the deadliest accident since the country opened up to foreigners twenty five years ago. belgium has now gone two hundred forty nine days without a government which some are saying equals the world record held by iran the month stalemate is divided on language lines between the leaders of the six million speaking flourish and four hundred million french speakers and the people from both sides organize a flash mob in the french speaking student town a louver calling for the creation of a unity government the event was one of many and held across the country. it's been a second day of violence in southeastern turkey off to riots marked the twelfth anniversary of the capture of a prominent kurdish rebel leader protesters holed stones and put two bombs at what police in the

this act may be expended to support directly or indirectly combat activities over cambodia, laos, north vietnam and south vietnam. no other funds heretofore appropriated under any other act may be extended for such purpose. so, mr. speaker, this supplemental appropriations bill that's dated -- enactment of august 15, 1973 and signed by the president says that none of these funds and no funds in the pipeline can be used to support combat directly -- support directly or indirectly combat activities in vietnam. if there are were bullets on the way to be unloaded on the dock, they put the brakes on them and went back. those funds were on the way. they shut them down. doesn't mean they stopped everything. none of those funds that were unobligated, were allowed to be use by this act of congress in a supplemental appropriations bill. yes, the precedent can do this. yes, it is a common practice. those who think this is a rare exception, i would go down the line to another piece of legislation which actually was a c.r., a continuing resolution. and this is dated 1974, july 1 of 1974 and this language in

been quite a bit of time in regard operations in the northern half of cambodia, laos, burma, and north vietnam. i am very much aware of the cia, air america, deals made with some of the lords. guest: alex, it's -- it is interesting that you spent time in vietnam during that time and got a sense of it on the ground. what happened in afghanistan is a function of their other

been quite a bit of time in regard operations in the northern half of cambodia, laos, burma, and north vietnam. i am very much aware of the cia, air america, deals made with some of the lords. guest: alex, it's -- it is interesting that you spent time in vietnam during that time and got a sense of it on the ground. what happened in afghanistan is a function of their other agrarian markets shutting down. they had grown cotton, pomegranates, other things. these were real coveted ojects -- products. the soviet invasion cost infrastructu to be destroyed, factories that process cotton, for example. by the time the soviets had left, afghanistan had discovered a few things. first, that all this infrastructure had been destroyed. infrastructure had been destroyed. secondly, they had destroyed products like orland and pistachios and etc.. there were drug suppliers who were looking for a place where poppies could be grown. predictably one where the government was unstable, center to a lot of debris and wear a black market could flourish. afghanistan qualified on all three of these points. in that sense,

when i was a prisoner of war in north vietnam, the vietnamese went to great lengths to restrict the news from home to the statements and activities of prominent opponents of the war in vietnam. they wanted us to believe that america had forgotten us. they never mentioned ronald reagan to us or played his speeches over the camp loud speakers. no matter. we knew about him. new additions to our ranks told us how the governor and mrs. reagan were committed to our liberation and our cause. when we came home, all of us were eager to meet the reagans, to thank them for their concern. but more than gratitude drew us to them. we were drawn to them because they were among the few prominent americans who didn't subscribe to the then-fashionable notion that america had entered her inevitable decline. we prisoners of war came home to a country that had lost a war and the best sense of itself, a county beset by social and economic problems. assassinations, riots, scandals, contempt for political, religious and educational institutions gave the appearance that we had become a dysfunctional society. pat

when i was a prisor of war in north vietnam, the vietnamese went to great lengths to restricthe news from home to the statements and activities of prominent opponents of the war in vietnam. they wanted us to believe that america had forgotten us. they never mentioned ronald reagan to us or played his speeches over the camp loud speakers. no matter. we knew about him. new additions to our ranks told us how the governor and mrs. reagan were committed to our liberation and our cause. when we came home, all of us we eager to meet the reagans, to thank them for their concern. but more than gratituderew us to them. we were drawn to them because they were among the few prominent americans who didn't subscribe to the then-fashionable notion that america had entered her inevitable decline. we prisoners of war came home to a country that had lost a war and the best sense of itself, a county beset by social and economic problems. assassinations, riots, scandals, contempt for political, religious and educational institutions gave the appearance that we had become a dysfunctional society. patriot

when i was a prisoner of war in north vietnam, the vietnamese went to great lengths to restrict the news from home to the statements and activities of prominent opponents of the war in vietnam. they wanted us to believe that america had forgotten us. they never mentioned ronald reagan to us or played his speeches over the camp loud speakers. no matter. we knew about him. new additions to our ranks told us how the governor and mrs. reagan were committed to our liberation and our cause. when we came home, all of us were eager to meet the reagans, to thank them for their concern. but more than gratitude drew us to them. we were drawn to them because they were among the few prominent americans who didn't subscribe to the then-fashionable notion that america had entered her inevitable decline. we prisoners of war came home to a country that had lost a war and the best sense of itself, a county beset by social and economic problems. assassinations, riots, scandals, contempt for political, religious and educational institutions gave the appearance that we had become a dysfunctional society. pat

wh i was a prisoner of war in north vietnam, the vietnamese went to great lengths to restrict the news from home to the statements and activities of prominent opponents of the war vietnam. they wanted us to believe that america had forgotten us. they never mentioned ronald reagan to us or played his speeches over the camp loud speakers. no matter. we knew about him. new additions to our ranks told us how the governor and mrs. reagan were committed to our liberation and our cause. when we came home, all of u were eager to meet the reagans, to thank them for their concern. but more than gratitude drew us to them. we were drawn to them because they were among the few prominent americans who didn't subscribe to the then-fashionable notion that america had entered her inevitable decline. we prisoners of w came home to a country that had lost a war and the best sense of itself, a county beset by social and economic problems. assassinations, riots, scandals, contempt for political, relious and educational institutions gave the appearance that we had become a dysfunctional society. patriotism

the war in vietnam was always about lands and people. the north vietnamese and all other papers that we want to have land and people. the government of vietnam, south vietnam water land and people to maintain their sovereignty. and so if that's the case, it was, been the focus of the north vietnamese its primary focus is always on the delta. the delta is a flat bit of land where we were covered with rice, water everywhere. you could walk 400 yards without crossing a stream. inundated completely. in 1965 the government of south did not do things are going bad in the delta. the north are taking our rice crop. we want an american unit there. that was approved by the government. they said with two simulations. one, you have to locate these unit deep into the territory and has to be on the water. on the water because they had heard the french a great results and they want of river operations. so in 1966, the first of february, the ninth division was formed. one year later they came to vietnam. at the same time it was formed the u.s. navy was told to co

the war in vietnam was always about land and people. the north vietnamese and all of their papers say we want to have land. the government of if and south vietnam wanted people to maintain sovereignty. if that was the case, there was the focus of the north vietnamese the primary focus was on the delta up. that is a flat bit of land where we were covered with rice and water everywhere you could not walk 400 yards and inundated completely. 1965 the government said things are going bad in the delta up. we one to an american unit there. that was approved by the government and said we have to stipulations. you have to locate the unit deepen vietcong territory and it has to be on the water because they heard the french had a great results with the river operations. some 1966 the ninth division was formed under general george eckhardt and one year later came to vietnam at the same time the u.s. navy came up the river. the ninth division closes vietnam's february 1st 1967 they are located at barakat which was 15 miles east of saigon they were located her

[laughter] to summarize, liberals did not want democracy in north korea, vietnam, china, russia, the soviet satellites, east germany, nick roughing way, minnesota -- [laughter] but now, a loyal american ally comes under attack, and they are burning for democracy. time and again democrats recklessness terrified allies and boldened the enemies. in fact, i think that was the official slogan under jimmy carter. [laughter] the u.s. department of state boldening the enemies and hurting american allies since 1976. [laughter] [applause] the lesson of history is do not allow democrats anywhere near foreign policy. [applause] i know what you're thinking, but, nope, not even to keep them away from domestic policy. [laughter] it's a problem when people who don't like america are out to defend us. [laughter] for 50 years, democrats have harbored traders, hob knobbed with american enemies who are past american allies, they lost wars and continue innocents to communism. if liberals were stupid, the laws of probability would dictate us, but at least some of their interests serve the united states. [

to pour in weapons and highly sophisticated ones into the north and at a certain point the congress voted to not send another nickel to vietnam. at the time, incidentally, the south vietnamese were doing a very good job and of not only holding their job, but even gaining some ground. but once they couldn't have the fuel to run the tanks and planes, couldn't buy more ammunition, so they collapsed. as a result, the soviet union was so emboldened that it had a dramatic expansion of the areas where it assumed not physical control, but brought people within the communist circuit. namely, the horn of africa, ethiopia, yemen. they went into, jumped into the southern part of africa in the angola and, ultimately, the western hemisphere and nick nicaragua. if -- i believe we should be very careful of what commitments we make. but if we are perceived to withdraw from afghanistan under domestic pressures before meeting our minimum requirements that we believe are required for our own security, then we can trigger that same kind of more aggressive expansion of the jihadists on the one hand and a shying away of others who had been relying

somebody said the country security is threatened, we need to react to the north korean attack on south korea, we need to go into vietnam, whatever. a cost benefit analysis never in any serious way receiving any of those wars. why? because the country was rich. the united states could afford to go to war. we could have guns and butter, both. why did i say up until 2008? because i am of the strong opinion, i'm just a history. i look backward rather than forward, but i'm of the strong opinion that the united states has outrun at least for the foreseeable future its era of elective wars. i cannot believe that the united states would choose to go to war, welcome as the united states did with spain in 1894. without a lot of people saying wait a minute, we can't afford it. do you know what that's going to do to the deficit? so the united states may have reverted now, recently sent a financial meltdown of 2008, to the way the country was before the very that i talk about. it wasn't that rich, and war like any other kind of national activity, something that cost money. and when the money gets tight, some people think strong sec

vietnam. there would be a bombing pause. he would hope that would be a positive reaction from the north vietnamese or the viet cong. it didn't. he, in explaining what he was doing why it wasn't working. his answer was, in effect, that it wouldn't work. of course, the fact wise if you do something for a time and some completely it is confusing. i did ask a question. i tried to get some response are red as to how that combination of off and on was going to work the way it's going to work is more of the same. he added test job as president. >> in what respect what you think with the big mistakes. >> and the last analysis that country was going to have to find its way south bill after the north vietnamese are viet cong a after the north vietnamese are viet cong alone because all they had to do was to sapir. it didn't have to fight a single battle. they could just disappear and a weekly show back up. they could go harvest the rice and come right back. you could have walked u.s. forces from one end of the country to the other and they just disappeared. and then when you passed it would come right back. in my view in retr

out what to do in the war in vietnam and he would go to a heavy bombing period and then there be a bombing pause and he would hope of cause a positive reaction from the north vietnamese or vietcong and it didn't. and in explaining what he was doing, he was asked a question by a democratic congressman from texas about why it wasn't working. and his answer was in effect that it would work, and of course the fact was if you do something for a period and then stop completely it's confusing. it's confusing to the enemy, and i did ask a question and tried to get some response as to how that combination of off and on was going to work. he said the way it's going to work is more the same. at that point he was in a bombing plot which suggested that it might not work, and of course it didn't. he had a tough job as president and he did his best. >> in retrospect what you think the mistakes were on vietnam and making the decision the way that the was fought? >> well, i wasn't in his shoes and it's hard to say for sure. in the last analysis that country was going to have to find its way itself. the task we had was not to try to go after the north vietnamese for the vie

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north vietnamese took over. i hope the fate was not good but i worry about them. they were there from 73 to 75. the awful time we pulled people out of vietnam we pull people out of saigon and some of the troops that we had the had tattooed on their arms kill communists, and i wonder what happened to those people. but i knew could you know some of my friends are put in the camp for 18 years. what happened is the tiger scouts is a good question. i wish i knew. but i'm sure they treated them harshly because they were people who surrendered and then fought back. any other questions? >> thank you very much for your time. [applause] this event was part of the annual association of the u.s. army meeting. for more information, visit ausa.org. >>> coming up next, book tv presents "after words," an hourlong program where we invite a guest hosts to interview authors. this week, a global intelligence expert george friedman discusses his latest book, "the next decade." and at the former political science professor recalls the u.s. an imperialist power the will be forced to reduce the dominance. the author of the next hundred years predicts china and tur

north carolina. democratic line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am a vietnameran. , we cannoto realize work our way out of this budget crunch. there has to be some revenue. there has to be some money coming in. when we give away all the money we give away to the so-called rich in this country, and all these great tax cuts, ronald reagan did a tax cut. we're going to tax cut out of what we did? it is not born to work. we left bush with a great surplus. with his tax cuts, we are back into the same situation again. it seem like democrats get as affable we get into. republicans have a great way of promising the country in the world, upgrade everything in the sky. we just cuts cat -- we cut taxes but we give the rich a great deal and they will spend their way out of all the financial problems that we have. and it does not work. remember, we as a country -- winner we as a country going to wake up and get down to the nitty gritty and do something? we have got to cut and the get everything. i am eligible for social security and i realize there are. to be some social s

vietnam because of the communists. south korea is a much wealthier country than north korea. they have a much bigger economy , a greater population than north korea. why do we have all these bases all around the world that we cannot afford? guest: your final thought. the caller is actually correct. one wonders why we still have on forces in germany to protect against the russians moving across the river. the soviet union does not exist anymore. yet we still have cold war military bases. we're defending south korea and from north korea when south korea is perfectly capable of its own defense. in many cases, the americans impose our way of doing things on them. we need to rethink our strategic position around the world. we cannot afford to maintain an empire or be the world's policeman any more. host: cato.org is michael tanner's website. he is a senior fellow at the cato institute if you would like to read his article. you can go to national review.com. coming up, we will talk about the unrest in the middle is. we will have a 45 minute segment with ellen laipson, president of