the countries that once were freed from the oppression of the soviet union. and in those countries and central asia, like uzbekistan, where radical islam is coming into more effective -- in many cases, oppression. >> wendy: how is the church responding? >> as we're talking today, wendy, churches are responding tremendously. under persecution. pastors are thrown to prisons, bibles are confiscated, and bibles are destroyed in uzbekistan, but we see the house churches are growing by every day. so the church is growing tremendously underground. >> wendy: is the increase in religious persecution coming from the russian government? >> you know, there is a constitution that is telling us there is separation between church and government. so based on all of this political development, or religious political developments, the evangelical church is very much in the minority, and very much is kind of an outcast from the main society. >> wendy: so how has this effected the evangelical church in a broader way? >> in a broader way, in this country, the evangelical church c

i went to the soviet union the first time in 1979 to study language. was there for an extended period of time and i was a student of the soviet military. i remember thinking i had this image of the soviet military as 10 feet tall. and i remember going into a store to buy some little thing for my family, and they were doing the computation of the crisis on an abacus. i haven't seen an abacus since the second grade in birmingham. i thought this isn't a very difficult place. you start to get a sense that something really wrong is there. so i think the soviet specialists knew that the infrastructure was weak. it took, however, a true believer in the kind of marxist ideology that it could triumph over the fact people were estonian or ukrainian as it took somebody that believed you could reform the soviet union, gorbachev, tried to reform it and then it collapsed. but i can tell you that still in 1990 the soviet union collapsed last december 25th, 1991. in 1990 when we unified in the fall of 1990i don't think anybody thought that the collapse in the soviet u

so what do with the quintessential anti-soviet alliance without a soviet union? it's really turned into this kind of fight wars elsewhere outside of our area or out of area activities. i think that raises very real questions of why we have that, if that useful for the countries, or are we getting member states involved in conflicts they never would have gotten involved in because they're being dragged in by nato? (instrumental music) >> we are bound by shared values and shared history and the enduring promise of our alliance. nato's article v states it clearly: "an attack on one is an attack on all." that is a promise for our time and for all time. >> much has changed since the end of the cold war and as nato has expanded its borders, it's been met with new challenges. >> the world has changed. the problems that the nato nations change, individually and collectively, are problems that are really outside of the nato treaty area, whether it's piracy or drug trafficking, or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. >> in 2001 the u.s. faced a brand-new threat in

it is the 20th anniversary of the soviet union, the end of the soviet union. many people in russia blame him for the economic conditions in which they live. they blame him for the end of the country that many felt was the cradle to grave welfare state instead of a totalitarian system. i have great respect for him. you can also see people's weaknesses. you talked about all salvador. what about the priests and nuns? to me, that is the people power in that situation. flm was a revolutionary force seeking power. the people power were trying to alleviate poverty, trying to find balance. >> liberation theology had a stronger effect on the underlying society. i have to read this. you are listening to the commonwealth of california radio program. our guest is katrina vander huegen editor and publisher of "the nation." i watched you on colbert. he asked you to repudiate the obama three times before the cock crows. [laughter] >> he said at the end that i filibustered him. >> he went after you. >> one of the bright lights in the bush era was when he spoke of the white ho

a couple of us wrote about the problems of the soviet union but no one expected it to collapse like a house of cards but someone said it was a house of cards how else could collapse? but it was totally not taken by the bush and administration. you that things like the invasion of panama to arrest noriega could ban on the cia payroll for most of the time i was there for nearly two decades. that is the hell of a precedent to set in terms of the use of the military. there is no vision and the bush administration he had a very secure national security adviser as a lot portray as a moderate, scowcroft isn't a moderate he's extremely conservative but he speaks like a moderate and that is a very favorable press but no one had any real ideas about how to deal with this great strategic opportunity. fortunately we had two senators, democrat from georgia and the republican from indiana who just defeated the primary that is a loss in trying to create a bipartisan foreign policy in washington and the reduction was probably one of the most important congressional initiatives that we have ever seen.

the cold war if we put in too many million many troops we were afraid that some of you know the soviet union would so. in a sense that constrained us and foresee united states to really rely more on soft power more on having a narrative after the class of the soviet union the end of the cold war we i think left the left that out we put the you know under the table we focused entirely on trying to force political outcomes and what we've done in iraq and afghanistan has underscored the very important limits of that and i would add libya we were able to take out saddam and take out moammar gadhafi but what we're able to put in its stead what if everything fails what is your worst case scenario mr liberal and when i think my worst case scenario is that the united states. starts another war in the middle east to disarm another middle eastern country weapons of mass destruction that it does not. and that the damage that the backlash to this does to the american position. makes. how much damage was done in position by the invasion of iraq makes that will quite trivial by comparison that's my worst

germany this military disaster was the moment hitler's hubris really caught up with him for the soviet union it was at last a decisive victory over the invaders the ravitch so much of the country this basement of stalingrad the largest department store had become palaces last headquarters soviet officers entered to find it packed with wounded starving and freezing german soldiers this is what had become of what had started out as the largest army the world had ever seen. the velma six army had surged up to the city in the summer of one nine hundred forty two hitler wanted to clear the way to the oil of the caucasus but stalin grad but first a sideshow became an object of obsession for both him and stalin fyodor fort for his very life battling house to house as the germans and their allies took ninety percent of the city took the quest and don't bother with our anger it was how the ball there was a re were firing and when we went to get water from a it was water and blood mixed with us. in november soviet commander of sprung a huge trap cutting german forces off from their supply lines surrou

policy of wanting to die i mean the world i mean first we had this confrontation with the soviet union as we. don't know that was necessary but now with russia it is certainly no excuse and yet we're still in the past you still in this situation thank you so much that was alice slater new york director of the nuclear age peace foundation. well what looked like a distant olympics dream for russians has now become a very close reality a countdown as kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games at celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch while hand in hand with harsh criticism for over a spending not to mention missed deadlines r t as andrew farmar reports from starchy. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting it in the dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilitie

policy of wanting to die i mean the world i mean first we had this confrontation with the soviet union as we. don't know that was necessary but now with russia it is certainly no excuse and yet we're still in the past you still in this situation thank you so much that was alice slater new york director of the nuclear age peace foundation. well what looked like a distant olympics dream for russians has now become a very close reality a countdown as kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games in celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch while hand in hand with harsh criticism for over a spending not to mention missed deadlines r t as andrew farmar reports from starchy. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting italy in a dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training faciliti

instead of taking together a strategic opportunity the collapse of the soviet union in 1991, all of thosehings we didn't expect to see in a lifetime. i certainly didn't expect to see this a couple of us wrote about the problems and no one expected it to collapse like a house of cards. this opportunity you was totally not taken. it was not taken by the bush administration. there were things like the invasion of panama and one individual had been on the cia payroll for most of the time and that is a heck of a precedence to set the terms of the military. it speaks as a moderate, i think that is a favorable press. the democrat from georgia and the republican from indiana, the cooperative reduction was probably one of the most important congressional initiatives that we have ever seen. the idea you could take that money from the defense budget, which didn't make the military a very happy and quiet to demilitarizing the strategic arsenal of the former soviet union. it is extremely important. like so many presidents, clinton had no background in politics. he went to the georgetown school, but th

the soviet union is gone. we downsize force structure, took a lot of money out of research, decimated our intelligence capabilities. that is the median answer. >> i am very sorry -- [talking over each other] >> i will do both of you really quick. >> take you first and -- >> as a fellow vietnam veteran we met before. but how do you see general david petraeus -- performance to the fourth in iraq, sort of making the war in iraq better or worse? >> you have a couple question there. i will give you a very brief answer. i don't have enough time to get you out of iraq tonight. we are going to come out of iraq. we have to come out responsibly and honorably, we will do that. the next president will get that done. i told john mccain about this last week. he is a very dear friend. if you are elected president and he could be, you will not be able to govern this country until you deal with iraq, start unwinding this and getting us out. it is so bitter and so deep and so dividing our country won't be able to govern. won't

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a few months before this the soviet union went up in smoke. the cold war is over and he is thinking what am i going to be doing for the rest of my life? what is the army going to be doing the rest of my life? he came with the idea that nobody is ever going to challenge the united states again in a head-on contest of strength. it's going to be other kinds of complex. maybe insurgencies terrorist attacks, that sort of thing. he didn't know anything about this because he never learned it at west point. they didn't teach it at west point. they didn't teach it and staff college so he went off to oxford and got a graduate degree and wrote a book called learning to be soup with a knife which came from lawrence of arabia's description of fighting a guerrilla war and he compared the british experience in malaya which succeeded and the american experience in vietnam which didn't. he tried to figure out what was the difference? the difference was that the americans fought in vietnam as if it were a conventional battle in the british fought as if it was a

germany this military disaster was the moment hitler's hubris really caught up with him for the soviet union it was at last a decisive victory over the invaders the ravage so much of the country this basement of stalingrad largest department store had become palaces last headquarters soviet officers entered to find it packed with wounded starving and freezing german soldiers this is what had become of what had started out as the largest army the world had ever seen. the vermont six army had surged up to the city in the summer of one nine hundred forty two hitler wanted to clear the way to the oil of the caucasus but stalin grad but first a sideshow became an object of obsession for both him and stalin fyodor fought for his very life battling house to house as the germans and their allies took ninety percent of the city to the quest and what i've. read it was how the ball there was a re were firing and when we went to get water from it it was water and blood mixed . in november soviet commander of sprung a huge trap cutting german forces off from the supply lines surrounding them inside the f

germany this military disaster was the moment hitler's hubris really caught up with him for the soviet union it was at last a decisive victory over the invaders the ravage so much of the country this basement of stalingrad the largest department store had become palaces last headquarters soviet officers entered to find it packed with wounded starving and freezing german soldiers this is what had become of what had started out as the largest army the world had ever seen. the sixth army had surged up to the city in the summer of one nine hundred forty two hitler wanted to clear the way to the oil of the caucasus but stalin grad but first a sideshow became an object of obsession for both him and stalin fyodor fort for his very life battling house to house as the germans and their allies took ninety percent of the city to the question but i. read it was how the ball there was a re were firing and when we went to get water from it it was water and blood mixed . in november soviet commander of sprung a huge trap cutting german forces off from their supply lines surrounding them inside the frozen c

in jasper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year will soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four or will meet in a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan you don't look like downtown miami just who are you training to kill anyways knock off the terror training but that's just my opinion. chloe and welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem for japan china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics and natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross stuff is heated i. when dispute i'm joine

there is no 1021 was all about the soviet union.ou know, the thought of a ground war in that region at this time, even to a colonel was unbelievably remote. >> my question is to ambassador sets six in general house. and that is, are you buying the kool-aid this man is dishing out? at the very beginning of his talk, about george herbert walker bush being a prudent, careful, cautious. and then he tells us that he had a vision for a new world order. he was ready to risk an enormous amount because he saw the stakes so much bigger than saddam has made. general house, did we expect to use chemical weapons? but for your estimates about casualties? can you really believe we were ready to throw the dice? izvestia renders the ending of the man for whom this library is constructed? >> go ahead, sir. [laughter] >> can i interject? let me just say -- [inaudible] >> i just want to point out that if only one of the three of us agrees on the panel, i get into the hall of fame. [laughter] >> well, i guess i'm at least partly persuaded by the argumen

highest military decoration in russia its importance as such but it has been retained from the soviet union era because of the madly two defeats it was awarded for so they're refusing to let a foreign government honor their service in the greatest war of modern history makes veterans wonder what's behind the reason if it had been america to offer this medal which are not served on the american idol when i was in shanghai and china say. but. how many sorry they were to offer me a medal what would be to their written the government's response to that. for their parts many british veterans such as john seemed open and receptive to the idea of a medal coming from russia while the owner did yes just to have possession. so i have a few years ago left if a few years. and it down to meet children we grant you i mean surprise possession to me just not only bad it was but it's coming from russia this will be extra special but unfortunately in their decision making process it appears the u.k. government did not consider the feelings of its country's veterans. as members of a radical feminist group get

highest military decoration in russia its importance as such but it has been retained from the soviet union era because of the magnitude of feeds it was awarded for so there are shoes a will to let a foreign government honor their service in the greatest war of modern history makes veterans wonder what's behind the reason if it had been america to offer this medal which are all may not served on the american i mean when i was in shanghai and china cities but. i mean sorry they were to offer me a medal what would be to their written the government's response to that. for their parts many british veterans such as john seemed open and receptive to the idea of a medal coming from russia while the owner did yes just to have possession and so i have a few years ago left if a few years. and it down to meet children we grant you a mean surprise possession to me just not only bad to us but this coming from russia had been this will be extra special but unfortunately in their decision making process it appears the u.k. government did not consider the feelings of its country's veterans. as members of

union the soviet union would so in a sense that constrained us and foresee united states really rely more on soft power more on having the narrative after the class of the soviet union the end of the cold war we i think left that left that out we put that under the table.

happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how the evil soviet union would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one thousand nine hundred four or will be to the point to describe our military helic. would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training the kill anyways knock off the terror training but that's just my opinion. chloe and welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem for japan china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics and natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross talk this heated island dispute i'm