it reminds me of the early '60s when the president of france charles de gaulle told the american kennedy administration don't go to war in vietnam we know the terrain there were french colony before this will end badly you'll be seen as a western arm evacuation you will sink step by step into a quagmire and predicted it would last 10 years as will be bad for the west so relaunched of boycott of french goods and french flags and a member of congress gave a speech to say we should begin for boys from normandy because it is no longer a fit place and we said he is the anti-american with the war against in vietnam and in each case we ignored for an opinion and the problem is we marched off to the tune foreign policy debacles there is a problem there. the secretary of defense to orchestrated the escalation of the 30 years later spoke of his regret we could count listen that it was a failure of the imagination to realize if french were the best informed westerners and we deny take them seriously because we assumed they had in for us. as the book recounts i went to their records and the french archives and wha

the kennedy administration's kind of fixation with toppling the castro regime and what they found was that the cia under operations northwoods was planning to not only hijack planes blow up an american ship blow up a military barracks in a number of other false flag activities that. didn't happen and blame it on cuba and kills the remember your main kind of situation the pretext for going to war with with the spanish similarly you could see that about the gulf of tonkin i know knows how many other of these proposals have been really initiated even may be acted upon and presidential administrations i mean we won't ever know until these de caza vacations happen like we said over a century later strictures keep saying it's a matter of national security we're going to classify these released some fifty seventy five years later and just a matter of national security there are the people to revolt staging area and it's a matter of national interest public interest for people to actually be able to see this even if it is fifty years later the fact that the obama administration is saying now that it's been fifty years and skinny but we're going to wait a little bit longer to we have to give