and north vietnam oil reserves badly depleted. it is estimated 10% went up in flames after direct hits. >> during the second of august attacks, there was a time of electronic intelligence and signals intelligence in between the boats directing them all the way through the period of the attack and withdrawal and damage to the ships. during the 4th of august, at the very moment you have the destroyers reporting torpedos in the water, there is no electronic signaling. there is no communications being picked up. coordinating these attacks. it's -- i think the historian for the national security agency hanyak said it's like a sherlock holmes story, the dog that didn't work. when the dog on the inside does not bark, it means it is an inside job. if there is no electronic intelligence, are the boats talking to each other? means there's probably not an attack. to me, maybe the most telling of all the, we now have thousands of pages of primary sources. we have the internal sources. we have the tape recordings. we have the photographs of th

government to listen to the north vietnamese as they're ordering their boats around in the -- down there off the coast of vietnam. we can look through the historians' work, the inside historians' work. the actual texts of the intercepts of the north vietnamese conversations. and then listen to president johnson's phone calls as he's talking with secretary of defense mcnamara. and begin to understand two huge realities that were not known to the public at the time. one, that the north vietnamese attacks on the 2nd of august, 1964, were actually provoked by us. they weren't the unprovoked aggression that was presented to the american public as the basis for our bombing back. that, in fact, we were running all these secret patrols, the so-called desoto patrols, top secret, to test coastal defenses, to figure out how the north vietnamese radar worked. to see how they would respond. and to intercept their communications among their haiphong naval headquarters and their actual torpedo boats on the coast. as part of an ongoing pressure on the north vietnamese. and so their attacks on our boats on the 2nd of august were

vietnam. the threat there was north vietnamese army regiments. ultimately less than 2% of the united states marine corps in vietnam was actually implementing the combined action program. so i would argue that this was a bit of a false alternative. even the marines who thought they had a better way, they didn't. because less than 2% of their operations were focused on these combined action programs in large part because krulak and others quite simply could not ignore those bully boys. and there were lots and lots of bully boys in the northern-most provinces. and alternatively, when you look at the back message traffic between westmoreland and the marines, there's not as much difference in their -- in the language that they're using in terms of securing the population of trying to balance military operations with pacification efforts. i don't think the gap was as large as some historians might have led us to believe. >> most of us are older than you are. did you ever get a chance to meet westmoreland? >> just very briefly at the end of his life, he

for one, overpowering reason, we tend to look upon the vietnam war, and i been talking about it nonstop as an american exercise, , but it was a north vietnamese exercise, too. they were driven by a powerful sense of nationalism. they wanted all of vietnam to be united. i do not think -- they wanted united as vietnam. it happened to be run by shrewd, unscrupulous communist leaders who were determined not matter what the cost, and the north vietnamese paid a tremendous cost -- price rather. they were going to get their way. they did not care how many got killed. they knew that if they killed a limited number of americans, it would have an extraordinary impact inside of the u.s., but it didn't. so my answer to your hypothetical question, i think it would've been pretty much the same. >> marvin, some of us in the room are old enough to remember the draft during vietnam and was incredibly unpopular and the last time the draft was used. you might say that in the draft was one of the casualties of the vietnam war. we have an all volunteer and much more professional military. how does that affect the way presidents make decisions on the us

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he was shot down over north vietnam in 1967 and as a p.o.w., he was tortured more than five years. >>ave long believed some of these practices amounted to torture as a reasonable person would define it, especially but not only the practice of waterboarding, which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. i know from personal experience, that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. i know that victimes of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. i know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. >> pelley: the c.i.a. director who authorized enhanced interrogation techniques was george tenet. here's what tenet had to say on "60 minutes" in 2007 about whether the u.s. was engaged in torture. >> well, we don't torture people. let me say that again to you. we don't torture people. okay. >> pelley: come on, george. >> we don't torture people. >> khalid sheikh mohammed. >> we don't torture people. >> pelley: waterboarding. i

for north vietnam to answers for the bay side in the spec from the quarter and answers these totals may be conservative and santa cruz mountain were looking for to 5 in. as well this is why tomorrow that a lot of line for a trigger all possible because the river thick and a letter to the assault were bought for cash will turn a few hour by hour >> james: kron 4 as if jackie is the and i'll conditions there >> jackie sissel: this is what attacks it looks like out in is not a war bloch's loss of land in iran has been falling consistently for the fast several hours to see some of the palming going on we are in desperate need of a loss of rain that is exactly we're going to get over the next several days and see the light coming in driving on the freeway loss of finding going on philosophize of planning and you're driving today be careful we really need the rain hit the was a welcome sight. we definitely need the rain the couple days of rain is well-deserved for sure for a long way to go on a to california saundra's learning that we definitely needed i is the one of the concessions for the

, that in north vietnam, hanoi's leaders ho chi minh and ultimately lezuan are having to make decisions about supporting an insurgency in the south to reunify this country in the aftermath of a long and bloody colonial conflict or anti-colonial conflict and also build their own stable nation in the north. and that is a debate -- again, hang brings this up in "hanoi's war." that others are constantly having to make choices between building a political, a stable political community in the north and feeding and reinforcing the southern insurgency in the south. so in the aftermath of the american war in 1975, that takes on a regional aspect as they now not only have to balance the problems of reintegrating southerners into vietnam, some of the southerners who obviously fought against the communists, but also now have to deal with a very unstable cambodia and have to deal with a china that is increasingly aggressive. so it's not as easy, i think, for the hanoi politburo coming out of the american phase of the vietnam war to simply call it success and move on. >> lezuan died in 1986, and that

. >> turning to vietnam where you flew combat missions over north vietnam until you were shot down in october 1967, captured by the north vietnamese and held as a prisoner of war until 1973. i know many persons and i have spoken with them, who say if someone else was the author of "13 soldiers" you would be the serviceman selected to be profiled as a the soldier representing vietnam. for your book you chose the pilot known as wild weasels leo thorsness. a recipient of the medal of honor. at times you shared a big cell with him and dozens of other p.o.w.'s. give us a perspective the valor which you write throughout your book why was leo th-orsness so special? >> he was a special friend, but what he received the congressional medal of honor before of what happened on a combat mission weeks before he shot down and became a prisoner. my friend, i try to make this as short as possible but still the most heavily defended airspace in history was the airspace over north vietnam. there were literally tens of thousands of anti-aircraft guns. there were thousands of surface-to-air missile emplac

the united states had to draw a line against communist expansion but the soviets supported the north vietnamorted the south. >> it's what becomes known as the domino theory. if south vietnam falls, then all the rest of southeast asia laos, cambodia, the philippines, they might be defeated. >> as i believe i reported upon my return from previous visits, i'm very much encouraged by the progress the south vietnamese have been making and the services our forces rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micro managed the cuban missile crisis that they can do the same in the southeast asian nation 10,000 miles away. the north vietnamese were very different from the soviets and khrushchev. and the attempt to resolve the vietnamese crisis through controlled escalation simply didn't work. >> the government of south vietnam has been overthrown by a military coup. >> i hope we don't have another bay of pigs on our hands. >> are we winning the war in south vietnam? >> winning? no, we're losing it. >> kennedy says to one of his principal aides that after he is re-e

senator john mccain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in north vietnam said that the report is necessary. >> will the report's release cause outrage that leads to violence in some parts of the muslim world? yes, i suppose that's possible. perhaps likely. sadly, violence needs little incentive in some quarters of the world today. but that doesn't mean we will be telling the world something it will be shocked to learn. >> one of the high value detainees discussed in the c.i.a. report is abu zabata. roxana saberi with more on how the c.i.a. treated him. >> they said that he was a top al-qaeda member withholding information about planned terrorist attacks on the u.s. he endured some of the agency's harsh treatment, including waterboarding, but it failed to bring any information. >> he was captured in pakistan. he was carrying personal diaries obtained by al jazeera with first-hand account of events leading up to the september 11th attacks. u.s. officials used them as a case to holding him. he was sent to a secret c.i.a. camp in thailand. reports tart with august of that y

but today -- today -- i want to talk and focus on america's vietnam veterans, north dakota's vietnam veterans. we are in the midst -- and i'm not sure a lot of people know this. we are in the midst of a remembrance of the 50-year anniversary of the vietnam war. on may 25, 2012, president obama issued this proclamation, a proclamation that i have right here, issued this proclamation to honor our vietnam vets, those brave servicemen who gave their lives and their families, to honor all the veteran service but particularly to recognize those who lost their life. i want to quote from this proclamation. "as a grateful nation, we honor more than 58,000 patriots. their names etched in black granite not too far from this symbol of american democracy, our nation's capital, who sacrificed -- these patriots who sacrificed all they had and all they would ever know. we draw inspiration from heroes who suffered unspeakably as prisoners of war, yet who returned home with their heads held high. we pledge to keep faith with those who were wounded and still carry the scars of war seen and unseen. this

there were numerous times in north vietnam where our captors inflicted pain on people. we did not tell them the truth when it came time. we told them whatever we thought was necessary to make the pain stop. that is certainly what you might expect. got if younot only inflicted enough pain that they said something, but was it good information or bad information? we do not know. general betray us is talking petraus iseneral betra talking about developing an .relationship that is the good job in backup routine, when they interrogate people it is not an unusual technique. former bestow, friend john stuart has taken your speech on the senate floor and set it to music and you cheering crowds and he is saying john is back. .> john mccain forever >> my favorite was his line moneys says, don't ever leave me again. -- where he says, don't ever leave me again. [applause] >> -- [laughter] .> thank you, senator >> diane is here. friend, a former princes, and a grandmother. designser most iconic is the wrap dress which salutes its 40th anniversary this year. she has written them walk

million people, has been a neutral nation since the agreement of geneva, signed by the government of north vietnam. american policy since then has been to respect the cambodian people's neutrality. we did not, repeat, did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages. >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true. the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. >> i want you to listen to me. i did not have sexual relations with that woman. miss lewinsky. indeed, i did have a relationship with miss lewinsky that was not appropriate. in fact, it was wrong. >> intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the mostly lethal weapons ever devised. >> when we first got in there and started looking around, we did not find anything. there was a sinking feeling -- i felt terrible about it. >> americans like their doctors. they will keep their doctors. if you like your insurance, you will keep it. no one will be allergic that -- n

morally not legally and when john mccain, a person that i admire and a patriot who tortured in north vietnammmoral i have to take that into account. my judgment is in protection of american lives, in the fog of war, i think only the president should have the authority to order it, but i want the president to be able to order extraordinary interrogation when lives are on the line. do you agree with that. >> i do because you have got to be thinking about these guys that are in line. they are doing interrogations. what else are they going to look at? >> one individual, the highest elected official of the land. >> should be on the line for it. >> makes the call. >> absolutely, that's why he is the president and commander and chief. >> for the first time in factor history, we all three of us agree. >> we concur can. >> this crazy sony thing has now gotten even bigger, guilfoyle. >> sure, right. of there is a movie out called the interrogation. >> the interview. >> and it's supposedly about the north korean leader, right? >> kim jong un and make him look like an idiot which is he. so it's it's an

he was actually tortured for five and a half years while a prisoner in north vietnam.licans almost to a person with the exception of mccain think that this report should not have been made public, that it actually puts the lives of americans oversees ease in danger. democrats say it is a report that had to come out that we need to get out what what actually happened in these days nerd to see that it doesn't happen again. so we will see this, from the perspective of all sides, this morning, and as we delve if to this aftermath of the senate intelligent committee report. >>> all right, certainly a very important story, all of them, thanks, bob. >>> you bet. >>> lieutenant joyce craig received full honors from the city that she died serving. "eyewitness news" reporter steve paterson was at somber service in west oak lane where hundreds gathered to pay their final respects to the first philadelphia feast mail fire fighter killed in the line of duty. >> reporter: full honors for a fallen hero, on this december saturday morning, hundreds of people, family and friends, offici

there were numerous times in north vietnam where our captors didn't tell them the truth when it cametime. we told them whatever we felt was necessary to make the pain stop, and that is certainly what you might expect. so you not only got -- finally, if you inflicted enough pain on these individuals, they said something, but, honestly, was it good or bad information? we don't know. generallgeneral petraeus is talg about developing a relationship and thereby getting information voluntarily. that's what police do and others. they have the good cop/bad cop routine when they interrogate people suspected of crimes. it's not an unusual kind of technique. >> charlie: on a more humorous note, your former friend now best friend joh friend jon stews taken your speech on the senate floor and set it to music and cheering crowds and he is saying john is back. >> john mccain forever! my favorite was the line where he says "don't ever leave me again." (laughter) >> charlie: thank you, senator. great to have you. >> charlie: diane von furstenberg is here. she is more than anything else my friend. i h

indirectly combat activities by the united states military forces in or over or from off the shores of north vietnam, south vietnam, laos, and cambodia. boom. that stopped vietnam. we can do the same thing with thatresident's illegal law he pronounced into being. then in 1984, democratic controlled house and senate, they just decided, they didn't want anybody providing funds to the contras fighting communists just south of the united states in nicaragua. o here's the language, and i'm quoting, this was in the bill that was signed october 12, 1984, quote, during fiscal year 1985, no funds available to the c.i.a., department of defense, or any other agency or entity of the united states involved in intelligence activities may be only gated or expended for the purpose which would have the effect of supporting directly or indirectly military or paramilitary operations in nicaragua by any nation, group, organization, movement or individual, unquote. so we just take our language directly from what the democratic house and senate did in 1974, what they did in 1985, and do that to address what the president

when usually there was a sensation of hostilities, more than 100 cities all over south vietnam were attacked by the northkly fell. you have seen these images. it was footage like this that turned finally a great part of the american public against the war. the u.s. marines fought house to house to retake the city. a vicious three and a half week long battle. eventually, artillery and air support were called in. the city was saved. and of course, largely destroyed in the saving. the civilian population caught in the cross fire were equally devastated. the north vietnamese to their enduring shame had while controlling the city, round up anyone seen as a potential enemy and either disappeared them away to unknown prisons or killed them outright. most notoriously when they massacred almost 3,000 people, rolling them, many of them still alive in a mass graves in and around hue. he knows full well the horrors and heartbreak of that time. in his memoir, where the ashes are, the odyssey of an american family, he captures the terror of a nine-year-old boy, the son of a high ranking civil servant caught up in the

. ♪ [ foreign singing ] >> located on the north and south banks of the perfume river in central vietnam an arrangement determined by criteria both military and spiritual. for 143 years, hue was the seat of power for the dynasty which ruled the entire country until the late 1800s when the french started taking power and land under their control. the french allowed the imperial throne to rule nominally the center of the country until the end of world war ii in 1945. hue has been celebrated for its dynastic architectures since the early 1800s, vast palaces, pagodas, and tombs. the center is wealth of the intellectual, artistic, culinary and religious life of the country. ♪ oh, yeah, that's tempting. around here somewhere. this is dong ba market, and deep inside, somewhere in there is what i want. in my way of thinking, in the hierarchy of delicious, slurpee stuff in a bowl, this is at the very top. he is an author and journalist that spent much of his childhood in hue. >> if i'm going to die, if i'm going to go to prison and they're going to give me a last meal, this would be it. >> this w

north korea at odds. >> good morning, vietnam. >> reporter: and 2014 broke our heart with the loss of robin williams. he lived and died in tic rope. the loss of a man who spent his life making all of us laugh is too hard to put into words. >> and that is too hard to come behind. robin williams. our time is 6:15. >>> an estimated 200,000 people are expected to celebrate new years eve in san francisco and businesses in the city couldn't be happier. restaurants and hotels are busy getting ready for tomorrow's big night. at this restaurant in russian hill normally they close on mondays but yesterday they were open preparing for new years eve. many restaurants and hotels are completely booked. >> new years eve is just over the top. >> new years eve everybody comes in. everybody in san francisco always waits until the last minute. >> that's what they say. they stocked up on new years eve supplies right after halloween. 1200 items were ordered and they have helium tanks all set up to blow up 10,000 balloons. >> that is a lot of balloons. i will be spending new years eve tucked away in my house. i think we c

allies in latin america, the middle east, north africa, iran, and particularly south vietnam. >> weregoing to take a break and then come back to this discussion. in our last segment, we're going to be talking with former senator mike gravel, calling on colorado outgoing senator mark udall to read into the congressional record the full senate intelligence committee report on cia's involvement with torture. before we do that, we have lots to cover with professor alfred mccoy at the university of wisconsin, madison and dr. steven reisner. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. our guests are professor alfred , who and steven reisner formerly ran for president of the mac and psychological association. he is the founding member of the coalition for ethical psychology. i want to turn to a part of 2008 democracy now broadcast from san francisco. on a vote by the american psychological association's council of representatives to reject a proposal to ban psychologists from participating in interrogat

north korea, before retiring last year. carter is 60. if confirmed he'll be the first defense secretary to come of age after the vietnam war. not since apollo has nasa had a mission like this. orion puts us on the path to mars. and planet of the baboons? the intruder that almost gave a golfer a stroke when the cbs evening news continues. you've tried to forget your hepatitis c. it's slow moving, you tell yourself. i have time. after all there may be no symptoms for years. no wonder you try to push it to the back of your mind and forget it. but here's something you shouldn't forget. hepatitis c is a serious disease. if left untreated, it could lead to liver damage and potentially even liver cancer. if you are one of the millions of people with hepatitis c, you haven't been forgotten. there's never been a better time to rethink your hep c. because people like you may benefit from scientific advances. advances that could help you move on from hep c. now is the time to rethink hep c and talk to your doctor. visit hepchope.com to find out about treatment options. and register for a personalized guide to help you prepare for a co

north eastern china. that same frigid air is headed towards japan. during the weekend it's going to get chilly. down toward the south, the tropical storm moving west. expected in vietnam friday. high of 1 in seoul friday. 3 in beijing. 13 with more sunshine in tokyo. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended outlook. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene o tan in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. until next time, good-bye. tan i. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. until next time, good-bye. >> thousands of mourners fill the west day for the funeral of an official killed in clashes with israeli troops. the french senate passes a resolution urging the government to recognize palestine as a state. there was a highly symbolic vote in the national assembly. police begin clearing the streets of hong kong as part of a push to end the pro-democracy protests. do you like your bugs boiled or fried? to the you people regul

during vietnam war who was tortured by the north vietnamese.aid today on the senate floor after dianne feinstein released this report. >> i have long believed some of these practices amounted to torture as a reasonable person would define it, especially, but not only the practice of waterboarding which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. >> are you ready to concede that these techniques amounted to torture? >> no. no. tort sura legally defined term in statute. i did not believe at the time they were approved they were torture. certainly the justice department didn't conclude that. and i do not believe it today. they were harsh, they were brutal, but they did not in my view cross the legal line. senator mccain of all people has the right and experience to say what he is convinced is torture and that this was torture. we and everyone at the cia totally respect that and have always respected him. so i have absolutely no quarrel with senator mccain. and obviously, it is not my place to start debating a hero like that. >> you heard

vietnam, and then went back to hanoi. i was t known until researching the book since she north vietnamese by northern heritage because the regime, the regime.etnamese but the religion -- she converted at her marriage which 1943. and madam hnu's mother was a buddhist and department buddhist. a devout a lot of tension between mother and daughter. madam hink the fact that hnu married a catholic, her her about ed down on that. madam hnu said oh, well, i can and not worry about that parental judgment all the time. hnu always teased his wife, her his and called little heathen because she was new to catholicism. bap tietzed on the day before -- the night before her wedding was her baptism. tease her. to but later in life, i think for madam hnu, that was really the defining characteristic. that's how she made sense of her putting it in this religious framework. involved in so writing law during her reign, i suppose. that has to do with her own insecurity. the s what you discuss in book. and it's interesting because she her own sister incarcerated because of part of has to do with her sister wanting a divorce. >> yes. sort of the

down to the southern -- very tip of southern vietnam, and then went back to hanoi, and i hadn't known until i was researching the book, she was actually north vietnamese by birth and heritage, because the regime that was the south vietnamese regime, but the religion -- she condition verted at her marriage, which was in 1943, and madame nhu's mother was a devout buddhist, and didn't -- there was a lot of tension between mother and daughter, and the fact that madame nhu married a catholic ex-her mother looked a little bit down at her for that, and i think that madame nhu was, now i can start fresh and not have to worry about that parental judgment all the time. nhu always teased his wife and called her his little heathen because she was knew to catholicism. baptized on the day before her -- the night before her wedding was her baptism show, liked to tease her, but later in life, i think for madame nhu, that was her defining characteristic, how she really made sense of her life, was by putting it into this religious framework. >> but she was also involved in writing law during the -- part of that has to do with her own insecurity. you discuss

around the world, including diplomats and world leaders from vietnam, kazak stack, uzbekistan, malaysia, cambodia, laos, taiwan, both north and south korea, china, india, hong kong and elsewhere for their friendship and support. i also want to thank my staff in washington, d.c., and in american samoa for their loyalty and dedication to me, to our nation and to the people of american samoa. above all, i thank my heavenly father for his guidance and protection. i go forward, mr. speaker, knowing that the best is yet to come and knowing -- and hoping that i will be remembered for trying my best. for the times i fell short and i ask for forgiveness. and to each of my colleagues and to you, mr. speaker, i extend my kindness and highest regards. may god be with you, always. thank you and may peace be with you always. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen, for five minutes. mr. speaker, n: stability in the western hemisphere is in jeopardy due to the political and economic pressures occurring in venezuela. misguided financial decision

north korea, and 5% goes to the worker. so the reason we've opened up with vietnam and with beijing is they agreed in tough negotiations to openworkforce. that's not been done in cuba. what you're going to hear is a humanitarian concern about the fact that we've given a lot for very little in terms of human rights. >> when president nixon opened the door to china in the '70s, the chinese government had not agreed to any of those steps. nixon wanted to have that breakthrough between the united states and china and we've seen how this relationship has developed since then. the question, did president obama do the right thing today to say it hasn't worked for 50 years, there's still a repressive regime in cuba, let's try something else. >> the reality is, cuba is -- the government right now is on the ropes. it's on the ropes. they're very anxious to do this, because with all of the problems that follow them, their own economy, because venezuela, communist venezuela, is now with the price of oil collapsing, is unable to support cuba. in the past we have gotten something on the other side of the ledger. in beijing, step by step we

is why is it that you can travel freely to china, vietnam, you don't need to go to the treasury department to get a license to be able to travel to north korea and yet cuba, 90 miles away from u.s. soil, you have this restriction and it's something that's always been a very difficult thing for everyone to explain, really. and the clinton administration had tried to do some of this back in the 1990s, tried to ease some of these travel restrictions and then, of course t-cas trow government shot down these brothers to the rescue planes and everything changed again. and so what's going to be key here is how raul castro's government behaves in the next year or so, whether they do anything that sets this effort back again. it's really all on them whether or not they can make sure that this relationship doesn't get set back after what president obama is really going on a limb for in this announcement today, carol. >> evan perez, thanks so much, i appreciate it. >>> i want to bring our viewers back to havana cuba, patrick oppman is standing by. he has new information about the negotiations to release alan gross. tell us more. >> these negotiat

vietnam. he could answer that but you would probably have to go to a mic so everyone would. . -- would hear you. the closest i came to that was in 1968 when the north vietnamese and the viet cong broke the truce declared for that particular year. that is it. [laughter] >> but it was not a christmas truce. >> it was sort of a christmas truce. it was the vietnamese new year, which is sort of christmas, easter am a fourth of july, all in one.up >> like the christmas truce garth brooks sang about in july. [laughter] >> i did have one question for you. very proudcorps is of the chosen reservoir campaign. that is really true. they teach this campaign to their officers in their basic school. also, they teach gallipoli as well. but did you find in your the quality of the junior officers and the senior enlisted are what the marine corps says they were? the marine corps is very proud of j.o.'s and keeping it all together. did you find this in your research as well? think they have been lucky that senior noncommissioned officers have been willing to stay as a career because they provide the bulwark of how one learns what to do in the armed services. i can't s

vietnam. you could answer that but you'd probably have to go to a mic so everybody would hear you. >> the closest thing that came to that was 10 of '6when the north vietnamese and the street kong broke the truce that had been declared for that particular year and so that's it. that's it. >> but it was not a christmas truce? >> it was sort of a christmas truce, yes. but it was the street na meese new year which is sort of christmas, be easter, fourth of july, 30th of may, you name it all wrapped up in one. >> like the christmas trees garth brooks sang about in july. >> yes, probably. >> i did have one question for you, stan. and that is, the marine corps is very proud of the chosen reservoir campaign. that's really true lug and they teach this campaign to their officers in the -- in their basic school. and also they teach ga lipolee, as well. but did you find in your research the quality of the junior officers and the senior enlisted are what the marine corps says they were? you know, the marine corps have very proud of jos and keeping it all together. did you find this in your research, as well? >> i think the armed services have been very lucky

vietnam. you could answer that, but you would probably have to go to a mic so everybody would hear you. >> the closest thing that came to that was in '68 when the north vietnamese had broken the truce declare fo-- declared for that particular year. but that is it. >> but it was not a christmas truce? >> it was sort of a christmas truce. but it was the vietnamese new year which is christmas eastern, fourth of july, 30th of may, all wrapped up in one. >> like the christmas garth brooks sang about in july. >> i did have one question for you, stan, and that is the marine corp is very proud of the chosen reservoir campaign. that is true. and they teach this campaign to their officers in the -- in their basic school. and also they teach gal ip olie, as well. but, did you find in your research the quality of the junior officers and senior enlisted are what the marine corp says they were. the marine corp is very proud of j.o. and keeping it altogether. did you find this in your research as well? >> i think the armed services have been very lucky that senior noncommissioned officers have been will to stay as a career because they provide the bull work of how

vietnam. we are in a position to have over the course of events when we have an active ambassador there, people to people exchanges. >> hello, north korea. we are preparing for this interview. i particularly enjoyed the miley cyrus episode. very deep. >> a clip from the movie "the interview." that might be as much as you see because sony has told the christmas day release. caroline high-end is here with sony's very own hacking drama. this is a fascinating story that continues to unfold. madee day, a film will be about the making of this film. you could not make this up. sony pictures entertainment saying it will not be unveiling what was meant to be a comedy. a plot tod to involve didssinate kim jong-un who not find this remotely funny. having to pull the showing of the seth rogen comedy, what has happened is it escalated. it's part cyberattacks bringing down computers but since then, terror attacks have become even .ore vehement they're calling themselves guardians of peace and they you should remember the 11th of september. we recommend you keep your thoughts separate unsurprisingly. there are still cinema owners with absolute f

vietnam and the philippines? this is from michael marshal, global peace foundation. the second question is -- if this isn't censored i am not going to do it. if the north korea's nuclear program served chia's strategic interest by instructing u.s. and enableling beijing to play role of responsible state holder -- okay. this is for everybody. the third question is china's population has peaked and it is now declining. has there been a case of rising power with a declining population? that is a question to be pondered. okay. let's just go around with the questions and maybe two of you answer the last one. >> for america the will is probably more important than its capacity. about number two question, i think china's nuclear strategy is reactive, modest, gradual and still evolving and given the reactive nature of it it is relative. in other words, whatever the u.s. is planning to do, china will respond. therefore it will change for china. and i think it will be unwise to think china's nuclear strategy will be fixed even into near to long-te long-term. and then north korea's nuclear: i think what we should do now is to prevent them from having more bombs a