without nonpacifist, pacifists would be bones under a dictator's boot.t's easy to be a holy man on a mountain or on capitol hill but in the real world, things are more dangerous. diplomat is nice but a realist is better. we need pompeo, not deepak chopra. we need to flow from a grown-up. that is pompeo. no wonder the left can't stand him. all right, let's go around the table and ask what caught your eye. we will probably skip brian kilmeade because he was sleeping all day. dana, he touched on the morale problem. >> dana: he's not a diplomat. when he was first in the military, he talked about being at the berlin wall when it came down and that his great respect was from the diplomats from the state department working with everyone dissolvable was a difficult political situation. then he said he recognizes, he spent time at the state department, that morale there is abysmal and that would be his first priority to try to fix. if you cared about that or that was one of the complaints that left out about rex tillerson, the left is going to end up with the sec

we aren't a pacifist party.ed action in relation to east timor. we aren't a pacifist party. if you want to look at libya, there was un approval for intervention there and it still wasn't supported byjeremy corbyn. it might be the prime minister is thinking i'm not going to persuade him because i understand and appreciate where he comes from. if the prime minister is afraid of having votes because she think she can't guarantee she will win them, that sets us off on a dangerous path towards what loyal to hailsham called an elective dictatorship. on the subject of libya i think most people, or many people recognise that british intervention in libya was a mistake and that four people in libya the situation is much worse and even worse than it was before our intervention. there is a carelessness with this kind of treatment of an established parliament like ours. there's nothing careless about the manner in which the strikes were delivered. they were precise, proportionate... it's about trusting what the british peop

research service analyst jane armstrong hudiburg talks about the life and legacy of suffragette, pacifist, and politician jeannette rankin. the first woman elected to congress. the u.s. capitol historical society posted this event. it is about 55 minutes. >> today, we are here to listen ,o jane armstrong hudiburg who is an old friend of the society. as i understand it only your first -- your first involvement falling in love with the capital was as a tour guide with the capital guide service. she was a writer and researcher for the senate history office.

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security council and yet we see quotes this morning from the foreign minister saying look i'm no pacifist but we made a clear decision that this is not the place for us to use force and to be honest prime germans germany's military resources at the moment are strange they are only to breaking point they would scarcely have additional capacity they have taken part in other ways in the fight against i.a.s. for example against islamic state with reconnaissance aircraft with training kurdish forces in the north of syria so they certainly have been a part of all of that but they're saying for this particular one count us out but we are absolutely with you in saying there has to be retaliation for a chemical weapons attack so a practical logistical side to to do this stand by germany as well well to try and find the missing mission into last week's suspected poison gas attack that of course in the syrian town of duma left dozens of civilians dead now syria and its allies deny carrying out an attack this is the western strikes are aimed that hindering the investigation by the organization for th

research service analyst jane armstrong hudiburg talks about the life and legacy of suffragette, pacifist, and politician jeannette rankin. the first woman elected to congress. the u.s. capitol historical society hosted this event. it is about 55 minutes. chuck: today, we are here to listen to jane hudiburg, who is an old friend of the society. as i understand it, your first involvement falling in love with the capital was as a tour guide with the capital guide service.

britain was a pacifist and his composition is a sensitive and haunting commemoration of the victims of both world wars. the media outlets that when he when we were all here together there were no borders there are no wars and that kind of we're just creating something together and that and the music is our common language of that us but i guess the movie. coventry is one of the british cities that suffered most dramatically during the second world war today coventry cathedral is a symbol of post-war reconciliation. the cathedrals girls choir is visiting germany to participate in the war requiem project this sets a clear signal particularly regarding brics. that it. regardless of what people vote here and there that the message behind this is far greater than any. political agenda or all be far greater than any. social. whish of a region that it's a big. unifying principle i think yeah they always it's a highly topical principle in a europe that's threatening to break apart. and that's what i miss most unfortunately nationalism is currently on the rise in europe we're setting a clear si

this time when the president called for war, even confirmed pacifists joined the cause. the war vote occurred on december 8, 1941, one day after the japanese attacked pearl harbor. under such circumstances, no legislator dared to vote against the war declaration. that is, no legislator except jeannette rankin. on this issue, one newspaper reported, "she raised her voice alone." so, when the name jeannette rankin is recalled, she is likely to be linked to these two facts. she was the first woman in congress and the only member to vote against both world wars. it is right to do so. these two facts formed a core part of her identity. but she was more than the two votes and more than the first female in congress. she was an activist her entire life, and until her death at the age of 92, she returned again and again to the capital to testify, to protest. she continued to fight the rights of others, whether they were women, children, copper miners in montana. she took the fullest role possible in the democratic process and fought for others to do so as well. and for that, she

of benjamin britten friends were killed in the second world war and it but he became a lifelong pacifist after that really. affected him and indeed the piece is dedicated to four of his friends who fell in battle britain was one of the great classical composers of the twentieth century and there's a pacifist he was thrilled to be commissioned to write for the consecration of the new cold tree cathedral in nineteen sixty two the cathedral is almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid in the second world war and the new ones built right next to it sort of all wars on it and it's very modernist designed by the renowned dr spence incidentally the great russian composer dmitri shostakovich said that the war requiem was the greatest piece of music composed in the twentieth century so praise indeed and it was at the top of the heart of the cold war as well you know the cuban missile crisis was also nine hundred sixty two so. we're all getting frosty relations reduce the west's answer is court personnel raise highest praise this performance right that's that's go home as we speak is the first

think britain was one of the great composers transco composers of the twentieth century and as a pacifists thrilled to be commissioned to write this piece for the consecration of the new coventry cathedral the cathedral was almost completely destroyed by a bombing raid was the new one was built right next to the ruins you can see here this is a very modernist building designed by the renowned sabbaticals tents incidentally the great russian composer dmitri shah shostakovich he actually said that the war requiem was the greatest piece of music composed in the twentieth century so praise indeed and just to put it in a historical context it was done written this is all about nine hundred sixty two and his first film was the height of the cold war when both sides were piling up nuclear weapons when relations were very frosty so i think israel. has relations are a little frosty again makes a lot of sense and this performance going to have is the first of three right yeah this one the first for four months is tonight in cologne then they're going to rots wafa in poland on sunday and then on tue

the reason why germany hasn't participated, germany since world war ii has a much more pacifist strategic mindset. obviously in reaction to the nazi regime. currently -- it's been much less one to engage militarily on issues, particularly out of area, outside of its own country, outside the immediate nato zones. secondly, it also has a coalition government now where the -- where chancellor merkel who did not fair particularly well in the recent german elections as a coalition government, she's not the person who makes all of the policy decisions. the social democrats have the foreign ministry and they are deeply skeptical of military action and deeply skeptical, also, of reaching the 2% goal for the -- set at the summit for military spending. the germans, at this stage, they started something out of reaction. they were helping the french in mali where the french are leading an anti-terrorism action. they are generally skeptical and they'll remain this way until the end of chancellor merkel's term, particularly given the coalition government they're in. >> ken weinstein of the mudson insti

the warfor a you bear in mind he was chairman of stop the war for a long time and he is seen as a pacifisted directly if he would never say never on military action. if you were prime minister you would never. . . if you were prime minister you would never... there has to be an objective where we want to bring about peace, bring about the political solution. there is going to be no military winner in syria. the war could go on and get worse and the killing will get worse. he continued to air his opinion. he was asked where he thought the legal basis for a strike would come from and this is what he had to say. basis for a strike would come from and this is what he had to saylj was so and this is what he had to saylj was so to the foreign secretary and the prime minister, where is the legal basis for this? humanitarian, they say. it would have to be self defence of the authority of the un security council. the humanitarian aspect is legally debatable and i would have thought from the point of recalling parliament awaiting two days, things could have been different, but it looked awfully to m

but his participation was that of a pacifist. his works are a testimony to his humanist nature. he refused to drop bombs on his country on civilians and that's what not what he did do was a highly dangerous mission aerial reconnaissance. before you know it that's the truth so. i never said he died all i said was that he disappeared and. just disappeared sleep like a little prince. the weather forecast for southern france on july thirty first nine hundred forty four was clear skies ideal conditions as centex apparently embarked on what would be his final flight. the first clue as to his fate came by sheer accident more than fifty years later in one thousand nine hundred eight a fisherman working off the coast of parsing found something entangled in his net. and on eight feet for it sat on the bracelet. suntech super heavy and parentheses consuello share of hitchcock three hundred eighty six fourth avenue in new york city usa. this bracelet has the address of his new york publisher and great. but it was unclear why exactly it would be his own name that of his wife consuelo and his

you bear in mind that he was chairman of stop the war for a long time, is seen by many people as a pacifistcing the prospect of possibly being prime minister, he was asked directly whether he would never say never on military action. let's take a listen. if you were prime minister, you would never, ever authorise the use of force against countries? no, nobody would never say never. what i would say... almost never, though? no, what i would say is there has to be a process where the objective is to bring about peace, to bring about a resolution to conflict, to bring about a political solution. listen, there's going to be no military winner in syria. the war could go on and get worse. the killing could get worse. he continued to air his objections with what the government have done in syria. the government have come forward, saying that international law allows them to do what they have done based on humanitarian reasons. he said that was legally debatable. so, then he was asked where he thought the legal basis for a strike would come from. this is what he had to say. i say to the foreign sec

it is a pacifistic culture. they were not engaged with us two weeks ago during the attacks on syria. they were not engaged in the omission of libya. france has a respected military and trump sees that. germany attacked them yesterday in the press conference for not ending enough on military. host: and the u.s. relationship with russia. james: we can go back and litigate the 1990's in the end of the cold war but i think there is enough blame to go around. we might have been able to handle russia better. the 1990's were a difficult period in russia in terms of putin has made decisions on his own but nothing can justify invading georgia and occupying 20% of that country. nothing justifies annexing the theean peninsula which is first violent seizure of territory since world war ii on the european continent. and it was taken under the same pretext as hitler's taking over sudaudeten wh -- tenland. that is something that was supposed to end in the last century. and vladimir putin has brought that back. i don't see why

defending disputed islands in the east china sea it fits in with the government's plan to revise japan's pacifist constitution the livelihoods of thousands of workers on the philippines holiday island of baraka could be in jeopardy after was closed for six months present we're going to take this as tourists have turned the popular destination into a cesspool that's also the view of many locals have long complained of being squeezed out of the tourism industry. is in. the air to people are the original inhabitants of broccoli island their yahoo store says she grew up in a peaceful setting with us the tilde their own land sea food was abundant and they were free to go beyond the call the home but not anymore the feel they're being squeezed out around two hundred of them live in this tiny village provided by the government a few years ago. some of us work construction others go fishing though not many of us get to do it life is hard here because there are different people who live the. life in the village is in stark contrast to the rest of the island settlers have moved in the sea and the attitudes

there were a number of pacifists anarchists and religious anarchists. even some catholic anarchists' groups that refused to use iolence. so there is not a one to one connection between anarchism and violence. the real common denominator is hostility to the state. hat is to governments of the sort we primarily think of. they believed that governments are the source of oppression. and that humans will be free and only free when there are no human governments. that doesn't mean that anybody can do anything, a state of anarchy. what the anarchists are conjuring is an ideal society, a very localized one in which men and women make decisions communally, share property communally, and that that will be when humans achieve their full potential, when there is real justice in the world, so it is a very decentralized view of what human society should be ike. excuse me. now another thing i want to dispel in terms of these stereotypes about anarchism really have to do with -- again, i will go back to eligion. anarchism is not defined by atheism. i am going to do now

doing more than we do and we should be doing constructive things not dropping bombs and i'm not a pacifist but on the objective you would get syria and libya and it doesn't work so we should help the other members of the human family. >> i have a chapter in here on why democracy usually defeats dictatorship and i got into some of those issues in the chapter. >> under the reasons to believe, i wonder if you can look at something that said misery doesn't cause resolutions but rising expectations does and i didn't know if you hav had the chance to look at that. >> there are a number of the work in that field and the one i like was that the university of maryland and provided a great deal of documentation on exactly that point. people base their feelings of happiness and a society and whether they think their lives will improve in the future not how their lives are today said it had so much improvement in the united states and the european union. houses are twice as big as they used to be if you look at the square footage it's not realistic to think the next generation will be twice as big aga

i always felt when abe was elected he was elected to get rid of that pacifist constitution and bring the shog un era. that's a country that needs some form of ignition. >> but the alliance is very important. this allows us to have american forces forward deployed. you point out a lot of important matters there. it's critical to protecting and advancing american 90s the world. but you are right about burden sharing. the japanese are modernizing their military. they have a capable military. they are bound by their constitution which we wrote in has been some progress and we would like to see more progress on collective self-defense. they should be in a situation where they can defend us. but they have done things. going back to 9/11, deploying forces to the arabian sea to support our ships. abe convinced the japanese people in 2012 that he was the right person for these critical, difficult times recording north korea, regarding china, regarding a relationship with the united states. he wants to show solidarity and reassurance when he faces the japanese public. charles: his popularity h

the newest technology at the moment and when the aclu complains in 1936 about the surveillance of pacifist groups and groups that don't want to go to work in europe and trying to ensure that the united states is not trying to become involved in anything that's about to happen over there, fdr responds in writing that he sees nothing wrong with groups that engage in, get, false teaching and worth noting his house had been bombed in 1919, and that certainly may have colored his views of political distance. moreover, fdr has hoover looking into political opponents, as well. in particular, he has the fbi investigate several senators and several public fields including charles lindberg, all wo oppose any intervention in europe. hoover learns from this experience that he can gain leverage by digging into any of the president's enemies or perceived enemies. for example, he never black mails the kennedy brothers, but he does give robert kennedy, right, attorney general under his brother's presidency, monthly updates on the people that he know, the accusations against him and family members and on t

an active dissent, and that's norman morrison, a 31-year-old pacifist, this comes home. yes? >> what's his name? >> his name is norman morrison. >> when he set himself on fire? >> he actually did. people said give us the baby and so somebody took the baby and the baby lived. >> but right. >> so it's a bizarre act of protest. a very extreme act of protest. so this is what's happening. meanwhile, on broadway, we have a teenager, liza minnelli making her broadway debut. but the show plummets following a brief run. the biggest flop of the season, however, is this one, "kelly," inspired by news boy steve brodie. sorry for the news boy reference. but in 1886, he's said to have jumped off the new brooklyn bridge and he becomes a showman and he launches acts in new york, and it was probably a big ruse, that he faked the jump but anyway, this show closes after one night so the word brodie sort of enters the vocabulary as a flop, when a show flops. in 1966, the number of u.s. troops in vietnam numbers, 400,000. the broadway hits of 1966 were "cabaret," "sweet charity" and angela lansbu

>> right -- a pacifist. >> i hear what you are saying, jessica. the idea that let's at least talk about the risks, kwhaefer. but when i say it's gotten political, it's not a discussion about risk and better ideas. it's just the determination that this might not be the president to get it done. i'm curious why do democrats think that? >> that this isn't the president to get it done? >> yes. >> they don't trust him on foreign policy. >> obama didn't get it done in eight years. >> but george bush didn't get it done. not a new thing that north korea is a threat to us. >> it seems like a shift in tone. first he was too hard on the brink of making some type of war with north korea. now he may be a little too soft. >> i don't think so. >> let me bring this up, we expect the joint news conference with the french president and our president. emmanuel macron, when you look at the iran deal, north korea deal, the syrian war, you look back at the way macron has described these two individuals. himself and the president. both businessmen, not status quo politi

don't have the backing of their population the germans are or understand themselves as a mostly pacifist nation ever since the second world war so they don't want to intervene in the even if they wanted to they probably would not have the means to do so and that's the case for many european union countries if you really get down to it there are only two countries who can do that in the e.u. that's the u.k. the united kingdom and france and those are the two that usually do what you could call the dirty work all right debbie's max has been reporting for us from strasburg thank you max. well here in germany the chairman of the german parliamentary foreign affairs committee and an ally of chancellor rakhal has reiterated the urgency for france and germany to work together on european unity. to underline that we are determined to achieve results on the range of issues that we see that there is a range of opportunity but this window is going to close the year because next year we will have european elections so we will have to come to results and that. in our times of how to globalisation. an

defending disputed islands in the east china sea it fits in with the government's plan to revise japan's pacifist constitution the world's largest cruise ship or set sail on its official maiden voyage royal caribbean symphony of the seas weighs two hundred twenty eight thousand tons a measures three hundred sixty two meters in length eighteen days vessel can carry almost nine thousand passengers and crew there from the port of barcelona on friday to spend the summer gliding through the mediterranean. the cable cars back in the serri of a skyline for the first time since it was destroyed during the bosnian war in one thousand nine hundred two the twelve million dollar reconstruction projects taken two years to complete poll today reports. the serial cable car climbs high above the bosnian capital up the slopes of mount tri babbage the venue for the bob sleigh vents in the one nine hundred eighty four winter olympics it was popular with families for walks and picnics but when serb forces beseeched the city in one thousand nine hundred ninety two month trip of each became a place of horror artillery

his wife, clara, an equally brilliant scientist but she was a committed pacifist.rself. he went on to develop other chemical warfare as well. it is quite the irony of the whole thing, he invented as icon be. that was used in the concentration camps and lots of his relatives were killed by that —— zyklon b. many people saw him as a genius. einstein said a kind of raving barbarian. but they think the best thing they could do would be to ta ke best thing they could do would be to take away his nobel peace prize. this journalist ben macintyre here, and actually give the nobel prize to his wife. interesting at a time this to get that historical longview. shall look at some different stories? well, we have mike on the gold coast covering the commonwealth games. he is not full and delete macro bawling into any more pools! but talking of pulls, a magnificent performance by tom daley and dan goodfellow. you have picked out the issues which come around sporting events. it is com pletely come around sporting events. it is completely up to the athletes and what they decide to

on the pacifist but i just think if you're going to be objective you look at syria, libya. dropping bombs does not work. it's not a solution to political problems so we should help the other members of the human family. >> what are we doing, doing with what's actually going on? >> i have a chapter on why democracy usually defeats dictatorship and i go into some of the species in that chapter. >> just under reasons to believe speedy please introduce yourself. >> george. under reasons to believe things are bad, i just wonder if you had a chance to look at something that i i can't member what i thought that said misery doesn't have revolution but rising expectations does. i don't know if you've had a chance to look at that or if it's useful at all. >> there are a number of social scientists who work in the field and the one i like is a woman named carol graham who's at brookings at the universe of maryland and should provide a great deal of documentation on exactly that point. people base their feelings of happiness or unhappiness about the society, based on whether they think

there was a discussion and i am catholic and there is strong catholic pacifist movement. >> we talked about this before. >> i said you do know swiss guards are more than ceremonial. they looked at me, they didn't know evidently that the swiss guards are trained with modern weapons, they have machine guns and other and use of force technology and very sophisticated to protect the pope as i want them to do. so we live in a world, unfortunately, the end of war, as long as that is the case, we have to be prepared to use force and this is the next range. >> you raised a lot of key points. when you think about the pope example their job is to be sending so defense offense is important in this discussion. are we going to restrain military from designing weapons using more autonomous weapons or go further and go on offense and where does that end? artificial intelligence has no limit at this point and it is happening so fast. i can imagine a world in which it is a i against ai, it is meaningless in terms of having a military advantage. i will give maryellen a chance to respond to these points

then returned to islam and in the book you describe yourself more generally as a believer and a pacifist but at the same time your public image is to go to guy for westerners who seek to understand islam. how would you describe your engagement with and your attitude towards islam today? >> that's a big question. it's true somehow i've kind of over the last decade and a half or so become a muslim which is not a position i want to be in at all like every religion in the world is a diverse and eclectic and by no means should anyone from a muslim or not, confuse me as the representative of islam but i do think it's important to understand and it doesn't matter what religion you are talking about or what part of the world were talking about, religion is far more often a matter of identity tha then it s the beliefs and practices. i think for a lot of people particularly nonreligious people they think it's just about the things you believe a and do, tht they pick up scripture, it tells them to do something so they goo out and do that but that is and how it works. the best example i can give is

the reason why germany has not participated is that germany since world war ii has had a much more pacifistategic mindset. that's obviously in reaction to the not the regime -- nazi regime. willing to much less engage militarily on issues particularly outside of its own country and the immediate nato's own. -- nato zone. it also has a coalition government now where chancellor merkel, who did not fare particularly well in recent german elections, as a coalition government, she is not the person who makes all the policy decisions. the social democrats have a number of key ministries and they are deeply skeptical of military action and deeply skeptical also of reaching the the nato summit for military spending. the germans at this stage started some action could they . they are helping the french in mali,, but they are generally skeptical and they will remain this way until the end of chancellor merkel's term, particular given the coalition government they are in. host: kenneth weinstein of the hudson institute joining us. he is the president and ceo. the german chancellor visiting later this

research service analyst jane armstrong hudiburg talks about the life and legacy of suffragette, pacifist, and politician jeannette rankin. the first woman elected to congress. the u.s. capitol historical society hosted this event. it is about 55 minutes. chuck: today, we are here to listen to jane hudiburg, who is an old friend of the society. as i understand it, your first involvement falling in love with the capital was as a tour guide with the capital guide service. then, jane was a writer and researcher for the senate history office. she was student programs coordinator of the maryland general assembly in annapolis. and i am still kicking mel

research service , analyst jane armstrong hudiburg talks about the life and legacy of suffragettist, pacifist, and politician jeannette rankin. the first woman elected to congress. the u.s. capitol historical society posted this event. it is about 55 minutes. chuck: today, we are here to listen to jane hudiburg, who is an old friend of the society. your first, as i understand it, your first involvement falling in love with the capital was as a tour guide with the capital guide service. then jane was a writer and researcher for the senate history office. she was student programs coordinator of the maryland general assembly in annapolis.