the fact that canada was not involved in vietnam, did not send troops to vietnam. our prime minister declared that canada would be a haven for people who resisted the war. we have different values when it came to health care. it was a formative for me, the choices my parents made. >> how did you get dual citizenship? >> both of my parents are american. they did not lose their citizenship. if your parents are both american, you are american no matter where you were born. but i was born in canada. because i was born in canada, i automatically have canadian citizenship. >> go back to what you said about your grandfather being blacklisted. who blacklisted him? >> walt disney himself testified against the strike organizers. the blacklist was unofficial, but he could not get work as an artist. he painted signs and he worked in the shipyards, but he was not able to work in the profession that he loved. it was always interesting to me that despite the fact his career was ruined by walt disney, he still loved films and he used to delight us as kids drawing perfect caricatur

a traveling replica of the vietnam war in washington.llerton talked to a vietnam vet who said regardless of personal views u.s. troops in the war zone need and deserve our support. >> when our leadership makes the decision to go to work against an enemy, right now it's terrorists. whether we all believe that's right or not the men and women who are actually the ones going on there and doing that, they need to be supported. if our country makes our decision it is ridiculous for people in the country to run around screaming and yelling and having rallies. that's not right. she dedicated this report to all the veterans who fought for freedom and those who died doing so and the families who sacrificed so much. if you would like to share your thoughts, videos, pictures on veterans day, wherever you are, go to ireport.com. >>> several inches of rain fell overnight in the atlanta area, causing rivers and creeks to flood their banks. moderate flooding along the chattahoochee river. this community has a lot of homes surrounded by water. four and

i didn't agree with vietnam, but i went.s this indicative of what they're going to do to our health care? guest: no, it isn't. let me first of all, thank you for your service. you indicated that you had served in the armed forces and we really need people like you and the people that are in afghanistan now and iraq are heroic and every time we see them returning in airports, i just feel so good about the effort that they're putting out for our country. veterans health care is something we have to move aggressively on, and we have. if you look at the veterans health care budgets over the last couple years, they dramatically increased. the biggest problem we're running into is the mental health problems, the post traumatic stress syndrome as the soldiers return. we're not doing the screening when they get out. we're not working closely with their families. we're not working with them. we've had dramatic increases in the funding, and my understanding from talking to my veterans help people in mexico and others is that we're sta

what about our war crimes when we were in vietnam at the when captain cali killed 300 people.o so. host: you have any response to that? guest: i'm not familiar with what he's talking about with the vietnam situation but i'm with the new york city police department on this. they've been tested like no other police department in the world has been tested by terrorism. they're testing every day by terrorism and they have done under mayor july annie. giuliani. they have done a great job keeping us safe here and admire them r# people are afraid of them, i'm sorry. they need to defend us and that house they do it. host: have you talked about how much staffing this will require and where the folks will be held while they're in new york? guest: i've heard rumors of labs that they would be held at the metropolitan corrections institute. i'm not sure i'm saying it right. the prison downtown and that they would be taken underground to the courthouse. that's fine. and that's a great security plan but we would have snipers on the roofs and dogs in the streets and traffic would be shut down

as they try to honor those who served during the vietnam war. in half an hour, thousands more will gather for a sistceremony the vietnam veterans memorial, including active duty and retired service members there. >>> we just learned a short time ago that the husband of former supreme court justis sandra day o'connor has died. general o'connor was 79 years old, suffering from alzheimer's disease. his wife, sandra day o'connor, is the first woman to serve on the high court. she retired in early 2006, saying she needed to spend more time with her husband. >>> right now in little rock, arkansas, the case of a tv news anchor's death is about to go to a jury. curtis vance is charged with brutally beating ann pressly to death at her home last year. the case will likely be in the hands of a jury today. the judge told jurors this morning now is the time it gets tense, unquote. vance could be sentenced to death if convicted. >>> a 5-year-old girl is missing from north carolina and authorities suspect foul play in her disappearance. please take a look at h

myrrhirinae is now moving and will hit the vietnam tomorrow.eeling from the last typhoon. >> an iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she was too westernized is back in arizona after trying to leave the u.s. u.s. marshals arrested the man at the atlanta airport thursday. he flew to the yunlted wing.com but was denied entrance to that country and returned to the us. he is accused of hitting his daughter the with his car because he didn't think she was living her life according to iraqi values. she remains hospitalized in serious condition. >>> a robbery suspect is in critical condition after a group of people reportedly beat him up. phoenix police say justin par broke into an apartment late friday night and tried to rob a man at gunpoint. when he told the man not to move or he'd shoot the man took off. that's when neighbors stepped in. >> when i came outside i seen the gun, told my kids, get me my bat. i went out there, we cracked him with the bat. >> he deserved everything he got. he pointed a gun at all of us saying, giv

we have to help the people of vietnam. host: i'm going to stop you on that point. thank you for your call and for sharing your story with us and we'll get a response. guest: thank you, david, for your service, first of all. in regards to -- i guess, david, your point is going with learning lessons from the past. it's true. you hear this phrase all the time while you're growing up up about how we repeat the mistakes of history, and then you reach a certain point in your career and your age and you start realizing that we do that. i'm not sure why we do that. if it's human being riss. -- human being rouse. i'm not sure. but the idea that we can learn from history is true. host: true di rubin saying the need for a u.s.-pakistani military cooperation against militants has never been greater. guest: i said earlier that al qaeda should be our priority. we have to find a way to work with the pakistani government to ensure its viability and its stability. i think we need to demonstrate to the pakistanis some measure of trust that we are not going to cut and run from that r

and the vietnam war.lly, i am dismayed at the direction our political system is going right now. it seems to me that we have career politicians instead of servants, as the founding fathers decided it was better that have -- it seems to be filled with corruption, as illustrated by the $300 million buyoff of senator landrieu. i wonder if you think term limits would not be better, so that we do not get the clear politicians -- career politicians who appear to not represent their constituents, but fill their own pockets. thank you. i will take your answer of the area -- off the air. guest: thank you. politicians have historically never been very popular in this country of ours. scathing editorials and political cartoons, especially back about the turn-of-the- century, going from the 1800's to the 1900's -- all the politicians seem to be the subject of the wrath of the editorial cartoonists and editorial writers. the press, generally speaking, has kept the political establishment', you might say, t bay, and ce

action, over 300,000 wounded were the vietnam veterans, 3.5 million have reached out to the vietnam people. i mention that just to put in parallel a viewpoint that i find our current policy toward cuba both in terms of the tourism ban as well as the economic embargo to not make sense. it doesn't work and more importantly we have got mr. castro with 1 foot in the grave and the transition to power looming in front of us in the coming few years and i would argue we want to engage with these people and try and bring them back into the rule of law in the coalition of the democratic states. again i would understand the oppressive nature of the regime. i bumping tourism in and of itself is going to blow away this mansell of oppression but i do think it will allow the freedom of the american people to directly engage with the cubans. i think our interests are served by lifting this tourism van. i might add, and i say this as sort of a hard-nosed national

in addition to bangladesh and vietnam there are another 18 or 20 rice growing river deltas in asia all of which will be affected in varying degrees by the rising sea level. imaginist eyes melting in the far north atlantic. it will shrink their rice harvest of asia. but, this is not the most serious thing. that is coming from melting, not the glaciers. the world glacier monitoring institute in switzerland has now reported the 18th consecutive year of shrinking mountain glaciers around the world. the monitored glaciers in the andes and the rocky mountains, the alps and the tibetan plateau and what they are reporting is that glaciers are shrinking everywhere. it is the ice melt from the glaciers in the himalayas and on the tibetan plateau that sustains the major rivers of asia during the dry season. the changes, the gang sea and the yellow and it is that i.c.e. meld that sustains the rivers that also sustains the irrigation systems of the india and china for example. china is the world's leading wheat producer. the india is number two and we are number three. a lot of people think we are

in vietnam. keep in mind the figures i cited are for the pentagon. the pentagon is not the only government agency that is outsourcing. the state department and usaid make extensive use of contractors for construction in iraq and afghanistan as well. so both in iraq and afghanistan today contractors on the ground out number american men and women in uniform and this is an unprecedented situation. yet in washington we think of contacting as a tactical issue. in reality it's become a strategic one. consider this if i haven't convinced you already. if we take the department of defense and state department's budget in 2008, we can add up contracts and see what percentage of the budget that amounts to to read and what we do is we find that 82% of the pentagon budget went out the door and contracts and grants out the door and 2008. 83% of the state department's requested budget in 2008 did the same. sufis numbers really mean that the core business of both the state department and the pentagon have changed. so that's the landscape. there are both positive an

not to mention the thousands of troops in vietnam. an additional 40,000 troops is somehow unthinkably massive. i believe it is mistaken. finally, the 40,000 troops make a difference? none of us are experts, but what i believe is the goal of the 40,000 troops is to get to the point where richard wants to get to, creating enough space to create stability to beat back the taliban sufficiently as the train the forces. the strategy is to get -- the only way out as forward. we have to fight our way, and if we keep current levels, it will be a very unpleasant experience. >> this is a follow-on to rogers initial question about iran turning into a nuclear power. i heard the panel state a couple of options. one dealt with negotiations, and the other dealt with military action. i propose a third option, having spent a fair amount of time with leaders of the green party. they believe that their adoption is regime change. they feel that june 12 was a the -- basically, the great many iranians said that they were willing to not only go out and the s

and i know the president is just thinking about vietnam -- you know, might be thinking about vietname to stay there. it is something we have to take care of now and not put it off until later. host: thanks for the call. two other recordings, back in march president bush -- the president announcing 20,000 more troops. also, reaching a new number of u.s. soldiers killed in the last eight years. caller: i have a stepbrother in afghanistan and i'm wondering, why can't he do more of the rebuilding effort? as americorps alumni, i would love to go and help rebuild, but i am not a military tide. i understand it is not safe. i would like to see more of an effort towards rebuilding their. host: and you would go yourself? caller: oh, yeah. but i'm not good at being in the military. that is not me. but there are more people like me. by this and the military has to be there to be saved, but why can't we ask every day americans to actually help rebuild? host: ok, let's go to dixon in cleveland, ohio. caller: i have two points. first, this is on obama's watch even though he did not get us in this s

we had gone through all the vietnam and now we're in watergate. the assassination committee, the cia stuff. it was a dissolution every period in history, and many, like many other young people we're trying to to figure out how it all worked. clinton, bill clinton seemed to be on automatic pilot. i'm going to go run for congress. >> host: there was a network of those friends that did stay in touch though. strobe. >> guest: strobe kept in much better contact. >> host: this collaboration, the dinner must've been an early december, late november of 92, but then your actual collaboration, what ultimately became this book, took a while to get jumpstarted. >> guest: that's right that there were a lot of arguments. at times he wanted me to move in -- or he was looking for someone to move into the white house and be like his historians. >> host: tell me about that though because that is a job that some people would kill for, and you instantly suspicious of it and ultimately decided that it wasn't something you could do. gives me your -- do you ever think

action, over 300,000 wounded were the vietnam veterans, 3.5 million have reached out to the vietnam people. i mention that just to put in parallel a viewpoint that i find our current policy toward cuba both in terms of the tourism ban as well as the economic embargo to not make sense. it doesn't work and more importantly we have got mr. castro with 1 foot in the grave and the transition to power looming in front of us in the coming few years and i would argue we want to engage with these people and try and bring them back into the rule of law in the coalition of the democratic states. again i would understand the oppressive nature of the regime. i bumping tourism in and of itself is going to blow away this mansell of oppression but i do think it will allow the freedom of the american people to directly engage with the cubans. i think our interests are served by lifting this tourism van. i might add, and i say this as sort of a hard-nosed national security professional, i do not believe the cubans in any way are a significant threat to our national security interests. i think they are very

not to mention the thousands of troops in vietnam.an additional 40,000 troops is somehow unthinkably massive. i believe it is mistaken. finally, the 40,000 troops make a difference? none of us are experts, but what i believe is the goal of the 40,000 troops is to get to the point where richard wants to get to, creating enough space to create stability to beat back the taliban sufficiently as the train the forces. the strategy is to get -- the only way out as forward. we have to fight our way, and if we keep current levels, it will be a very unpleasant experience. >> this is a follow-on to rogers initial question about iran turning into a nuclear power. i heard the panel state a couple of options. one dealt with negotiations, and the other dealt with military action. i propose a third option, having spent a fair amount of time with leaders of the green party. they believe that their adoption is regime change. they feel that june 12 was a the -- basically, the great many iranians said that they were willing to not only go out and the st

according to they're kind of plan the soviet union expand i'd gathering into it's camp creating the north vietnam cambodia and ethiopia and south yeah men and afghanistan and all these countries, almost all, fell into economic disarray and economic and military collapse in many respects with civil wars exacerbated by ronald reagan. particularly in afghanistan and result was a massive increase in the difficulty of the soviet union in trying defend it's overseas dependencies. basically it would have been better off contained and some of that lesson came through when the soviet union's new thinking came through in the 80's and whole idea of what was called our ideological bondage they decided maybe that's not a good idea and once that was cut off the cold war came to an end and the wilful statement about democracy. i strongly, i wrote a book called democracy and basically argued it's been on a tear for 200 years and had setbacks and because it's simple to do. putting on a new suit of clothes. countries have been doing it repeatedly since 1965 in huntington's third way. where i disagree the idea lead

by the way, here are live pictures at the vietnam memorial.eran's day is to honor those who have served and some who have fallen, and so many people, even though the weather is really drizzly and dreary today, have come out very early to find loved ones' names on the wall. for our veterans no longer with us and those who are watching, thank you for your service. >>> two men are facing criminal charges after an apparent case of fraternity hazing. 19-year-old nathan ericson was hospitalized with a potentially deadly blood-alcohol level. he was a new member of a fraternity at drake. in text messages, he said he was being forced to drink. the fraternity has suspended three of its members. >>> new this morning, your gifts for this holiday season are likely to be meant for someone else. a report says that 36% of americans plan to regift. that is five percentage points more than last year. about a third say they're going to spend less money on the gifts than they did last year. please, that's only the amount of people willing to admit it, right? >>>

that produces half of the rice for vietnam. a country of eighty million people and the country that is the world's second rising rice exporter after thailand. others will be affected in varying degrees by rising sea level. imagine ice melting in the far north atlantic will shrink the rice harvest of asia. but this is not the most serious threat. that is coming from melting mountain glaciers. the glacier monitoring institute in switzerland has now reported the eighteenth consecutive year of shrinking mountain glaciers around the world. they monitor glaciers in the andes and the rocky mountains, the alps, the himalayas, the tibetan plateau and they're reporting glaciers are melting everywhere. it is the ice melts from the glaciers in the himalayas and on the tibetan plateau that sustains the major rivers of asia during the dry season. it is that i smelled that sustains the rivers that also sustains the irrigation systems of indiana and china for example. china is the world's leading wheat producer. india is number 2, we are numbe

from the vietnam protesters at the beginningto the watergate scandal at the end.te house became a place for president nixon. >> his intellectual privacy. he would hold up at his favorite room and a white house. the lincoln sitting room. he loved a fire in the fireplace, and was his habit, he would turn the air conditioning up as high as it would go and start a fire. it was important for every president to have a place in a time where he can think. for nixon, that is what the sitting room was all about. in the and it turned out to be a place of security as well as memories. sooner or later, every president bonds with lincoln. nixon famously compared himself to lincoln in the sense that he justified the abuse of power under watergate with the wartime setting in which his administration pointed out. just about every president do tend to get close to lincoln's ghost. >> ladies and gentleman, the president of the united states of america, mrs. nixon -- >> we leave with high hopes, good spirits, and with deep humility. always remember, others may hate you. those who hat

as in the cold war, the lead to massive establish and ended with vietnam. it may be that the mass of extrapolation of its non proliferators has ended with the wars in iraq and in afghanistan. finally, the last point is that there is a big difference between these two threats. the communist threat in the terrorism/proliferation threat. one is that communism could actually die, and it did. it does not exist. so it becomes an end. but terrorism could be carried out by anybody. someone could walk around and said it is not like the miller center because it is spelled wrong answer shooting everybody. you could have all kinds of local people doing that. they will not stop trying. it could basically happen again. obviously, proliferation could happen because the ability and knowledge about how to build nuclear weapons is already out there in many respects. what it means is that, although communism could stop, the war against terror in the organs proliferation of basically what some people call in washington self licking ice cream cones. they will go on forever and

in large part it was driven by a military history because during the vietnam war i had seen the fall of saigon and i thought this could be it. social upheaval and revolution. for me when i grew up to be an active participant in public affairs, my goal is to stop -- among the books i read, you never heard of this book, it hit me right in the face. the greatness of the romans and their decline. if you can't find that book, the machiavelli discourse on living. eternal lessons from them, rant you should also read and take large parts of it with a grain of salt edward gibbons's decline and fall of the roman empire. churchill read the whole thing when he was a soldier in india. you can read condensed perversions as well. he is very right about a lot of things and it is splendid. edmund burke, everyone likes to put this book on their list. the first time i came to washington and started interacting with my fellow conservatives i thought you might not have read this book. it was thrown by someone who is quite famous right now and he was a celebration of the french revolution party because fo

to do to these soldiers, airmen, guardsmen marines that did to my generation that came back from vietnam. the american people are not going to stanford in in large part that is because of the extraordinary experience of these young americans. that is not stop politicians from denigrating. we all know of certain politicians in washington, i'm trying not to be partisan here mr. president. i don't want to be partisan with boots we know oyster the lmi senator whose nickname is-- excuse me, i am just quoting him like in the arzt reserve and our armed forces to those who served pol pot. was immediately jumped on and these townhalls so we stopped doing it. the "new york times" and the washington, posed-- [laughter] describing, and this again is how they started out, nothing but for kids from mississippi texas and alabama. god that's why they picked the states to goody ginna decent shover of insurance of a joined the military because that is all we offer them. i am not bragging or complaining. this is my 16th trip to cover this war. i spent months in the field with these youngsters. that is not

to do to these soldiers, sailors, sailors, guardsmen and marines in my generation came back from vietnam the american people are not going to stand for. and in large part that's because the extraordinary experience of these young americans. that hasn't stopped politicians from denigrating them. we all know of certain politicians in washington. i'm trying not to be partisan here. mr. president. i don't want to be partisan, but we know a certain illinois senator whose nickname is a dick. [laughter] >> excusing. i am just quoting him. and the like and those two serving in our armed forces. and was a medially jumped on in some of these town halls to look like picnics. he stop doing it. the new york crimes and the washington compost -- [laughter] -- described, this again, this is how they started out. nothing but poor kids from mississippi, texas and alabama. god knows why they picked those three states. couldn't get a decent job aren't health care joined the military because that's all that we offered them. i am not bragging or complaining. this is my 16th trip to cover this war. i spent a m

vietnam survived. we left it in a horrible mess. they'll do what they do whether we're there or not. and why waste more lives? i don't understand it. >> thank you for your phone call. i also got a text. mary says the only way we come close to winning in afghanistan is to completely withdraw all our troops now. she agrees with norma. and joe wrote this on my facebook page -- and clay wrote this -- there have been lots of varying opinions. i would say if i had to really kind of game this probably more on the side of people saying that they don't think there's a way to win. we want to continue to talk about this. what are your views on this? how do you define winning in afghanistan? e-mail us. call us. 877-tell-hln. text the word views and comments to hlntv. standard text rates apply. >> all right. stimulating. thank you. >>> life can be hectic for rudy guy but the nba star took a moment to show us how to stay connected on this week's road warriors. >> i'm rudy gay. i play in the nba. i spend 100 days per year on the road. some things

eileen was a flight nurse for 20 years including vietnam. her twin, emily, the first female commercial airline pilot and captain in the country. they are best friends and after years apart love living near each other. happy birthday, emily and eileen. thank you, verizon for supporting the atlanta victim and witness assistance program. supporting victims in every way as they make a traumatic and painful journey in the judicial system. the program established in atlanta when i was a prosecutor and still going strong. verizon, thank you. >>> an intense search right now for a 7-month-old baby. little shannon beat rick was reported missing halloween day by her parents, but it doesn't appear to be a kidnapping. >> we are appealing to the public in this area, if they have seen any suspicious activity or someone is carrying a baby, they would give us a call. >> welcome back. this 7 month old baby allegedly taken out of the home. although police are saying no foul play. denise in alabama, hi. >> caller: i love your show. >> thank you for calling, dea

not to mention the thousands of troops in vietnam. an additional 40,000 troops is somehow unthinkably massive. i believe it is mistaken. finally, the 40,000 troops make a difference? none of us are experts, but what i believe is the goal of the 40,000 troops is to get to the point where richard wants to get to, creating enough space to create stability to beat back the taliban sufficiently as the train the forces. the strategy is to get -- the only way out as forward. we have to fight our way, and if we keep current levels, it will be a very unpleasant experience. >> this is a follow-on to rogers initial question about iran turning into a nuclear power. i heard the panel state a couple of options. one dealt with negotiations, and the other dealt with military action. i propose a third option, having spent a fair amount of time with leaders of the green party. they believe that their adoption is regime change. they feel that june 12 was a the -- basically, the great many iranians said that they were willing to not only go out and the s

'that is what happened with the vietnam war, which wiped out the great society, what happened with the korean war, which wiped out harry truman's square deal. in each case, the costs of these was shut off our ability to pay for anything else.' well, that is what reading of 20th-century national security, but another way of putting it is that the real liberal objection to the war on terror is that it takes away from domestic spending priorities like obamacare." clyde is joining us from arcadia, florida. caller: the left never seems to get enough taxes. in this healthcare plan, there is 12 new taxes. you had a caller earlier talking about more taxes. the spanish american war -- 5% tax was put on one percent of the population and it stayed on until recently -- i think until the clinton administration. and al gore came up with the internet tax. wilson got us into the income tax and the federal reserve. there was an engine tax during the civil war. the big central government tried to implement the income tax all way until 1961. it finally got put in by wilson. the left never gets tired of s

i am a 60-year-old uncompensated vietnam veteran. i have multiple problems with my body that might stem from agent orange. i had a hernia, a liver disease, bone spurs, arthritis, and it goes on and on. this is complicated by my blood pressure. i do not have medical coverage and the va will love process might claim. what good would it do me to ask congress to switch their debate on medical coverage to jobs if i am too sick to go get a job? that is number one. no. 2 is this, i adopted a phrase from rep homes, the tea party minority, a rush limbaugh entity initiative, is only a cover to hold back progress with medical care until they take back the senate. that is all they want to do, take back the senate. like sheep we are being led astray by the republicans. my third point, let's take the money from tarp funds that they guzzled from us and give it back to us on the ground, here on main street, in the form of stimulus checks, like the republicans did before they left office. we need money. thank you very much. host: next caller, kenneth

trained us financially and plus, i don't see an end -- i'm almost afraid it is going to be like another vietnamd that's my comment. my question is, as we get out, i don't see where we could win either one of the wars. and can we get out of it somehow and don't look at being you know a failure even though we don't complete the -- the mission that the president wants us -- where is the end game? that's what i'm trying to say. can we get out of both of them, as if we just took out and you know, left the country for them to do what they have to do because it is so much crookedness seemed like is going on and we not getting the support we need from the -- from the president there in afghanistan. everybody keeps saying they're crooked and they're doing things, and you know, that is not really helping our soldiers and we're there losing lives for people that is not helping us. >> mary, we'll get a response. and that word end game coming up again. >> and one thing i have realized about -- as i speak publicly, is that you tend to get characterized as being in or out and i don't think there's anybody wo

experience in vietnam, before rather than after a decision to go to war? would it be useful to study the differences between and within the world's great religions. and would any aspects be relevant to decision making. the asymmetric tactics of francis marion, who attacked the best training army at the world at night, and then vanished into swamps during the day. the neh advances cleanup in these and other areas. this is a challenging undertaking because it involves multiple parties, serious scholars, and open-minded public on the other. a monk come templated in the cave maybe admirable. but it is noiseless thought in the forest. likewise, thoughtful scholarship that was available but not pondered who might have limited interest is a prescription for social ere. on the assumption that this is neither a time for scholarring setting nor citizenship, should it not declare that little is more costly to society than ignoring or shortchanging the humanityies. at issue today is world struggling on the one hand and localist instincts on the other. divisions are ma

witnesses say the vietnam vet was a regular at the sports grill.he became i rat saturday and was being escorted out the front door when he pull ad gun and opened fire. >> we thought he threw a chair at the window. we knew there was a fight on the other side of bar. >> it's hard to kound while you're running. they seemed like they kept coming. >> i found a man holding another guy. he had been shot in the arm. >> put my belt on, tightened it down and held it there. >>> two other people were injured in the shooting, taken to area hospitals 6789. >>> a man wanted for questioning in the shooting deaths of three women in illinois is wanted. the store owner says the gunfire was directed at a car carrying three women and three kids. the three women were killed. the children were not hurt. local media report the man is an ex-boyfriend of one of the women and the father of two of those kids. they fired several rounds at an apartment complex and killed a 7-year-old girl while she slept. the girl was asleep in the living room when a stray bullet pierced the ap

given by soldiers, but sadly isn't this repeating the situation from the states adecades ago as with vietnam? we want to withdraw, boat we keep going closer and closer to accomplish that cannot be one. >> look at the support for the taliban in of in the standing of his assumption is that somehow the insurgency has massive popular support and the vast majority of the population would go with that insurgency if they have the choice. i do not think it reflects the situation in of in a stand. a poll was done recently that said only 8% of the population there supported in any way the taliban and insurgency. -- i do not believe it reflects the situation in of in a stand. the poll says only it% support. i believe we have the ability to work with the afghan people to defeat this insurgency. possibly there are many people associate with it who are emissaries of others who do not share the extremist ideology is. >> thank you. why is it taking the prime minister so long to make up his mind to send these extra troops? commanders have been asking for them for at least one year. >> last year we had a thou

not to mention the thousands of troops in vietnam. an additional 40,000 troops is somehow unthinkably massive. i believe it is mistaken. finally, the 40,000 troops make a difference? none of us are experts, but what i believe is the goal of the 40,000 troops is to get to the point where richard wants to get to, creating enough space to create stability to beat back the taliban sufficiently as the train the forces. the strategy is to get -- the only way out as forward. we have to fight our way, and if we keep current levels, it will be a very unpleasant experience. >> this is a follow-on to rogers initial question about iran turning into a nuclear power. i heard the panel state a couple of options. one dealt with negotiations, and the other dealt with military action. i propose a third option, having spent a fair amount of time with leaders of the green party. they believe that their adoption is regime change. they feel that june 12 was a the -- basically, the great many iranians said that they were willing to not only go out and the s

eileen was a flight nurse for 20 years including vietnam. emily, the first female commercial airline pilot and captain in the country. they are best friends and after years apart love living near each other. happy birthday, emily and eileen. thank you, verizon for supporting the atlanta victim and witness assistance program. supporting victims in every way as they make a traumatic and painful journey in the judicial system. the program established in atlanta when i was a prosecutor and still going strong. verizon, thank you. >>> an intense search right now for a 7-month-old baby. little shannon beat rick was reported missing halloween day by her parents, but it doesn't appear to be a kidnapping. >> we are appealing to the public in this area, if they have seen any suspicious activity or someone is carrying a baby, they would give us a call. >> welcome back. this 7 month old baby allegedly taken out of the home. although police are saying no foul play. denise in alabama, hi. >> caller: i love your show. >> thank you for calling, dear. what wa

caller: i'm a vietnam veteran in the united states marine corps and i have a wide range of views on thingsmy question is this, the globalization of the food sources, the food products in this country and in the world, has that added to the e coli issue in any way? guest: the fact that we are now getting our food from all over the world -- you can go into the supermarket and see oranges that come in from soups -- from south america, fresh fruit and vegetables from all over the world, processed foods from all over the world, the problem is that we have a food safety system that dates back to the 1930's that has not kept pace. you put your finger on a very important issue, which is that we have this outdated set of laws and regulations. in many cases there are no rules. believe it or not, only about 1% of the imports, of our food imports are ever checked by the fda. we really need this new law to update and make sure that we are not seeing food borne disease transmitted across the globe. host: do other countries have strong for food safety laws? guest: some do, some in the european union, som

my name is michael anderson and i'm a veteran of the vietnam war. >> this is actually the first paintingit's of a p.o.w. flag. this one right here is a desert scene with cobras flying through the desert. painting helps me forget about any problems i might be having, anxiety, helps me stay calm and something i enjoy doing. i'm a veteran from the iraq war. >> i met sergio here in new directions. that was my first time having a talk with him. in the process of talking, i found out he was a marine like myself. there was kind of like an instant bond. >> any time we see another marine, it's like, he's your brother. you know you will have that bond with any other marine, because that's what we were, we were brothers. >> just by chance i had some work i had done. just by chance, he mentioned he liked to paint. >> as the bell tolled at attention i stand, honoring heroics of every woman and man who serves unflinchingly to heed our call where all gave some and some gave all. >> the idea of a collaboration came together. we started bonding. >> we decided to paint something which showed an act of bra

however, what happened in those last years when vietnam took away, he felt his legacy cut in two.me -- it became more forbidding place. prior to his decision to withdraw in 1968, he used to have a recurring dream that he had become paralyzed. and outside the door of the room where he was laying in the red room, his aides were dividing up his power without consideration to him. he would have to wake up, take his flashlight, and look at the picture of woodrow wilson. touch the picture, persuade himself that wilson was dead and he was alive before you went back to sleep -- before he went back to sleep. >> he was surrounded by protesters. some of them chanting, lbj, who did you kill today? his daughter and his wife heard the echoes of those chants. >> i will not seek or accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. >> with lbj desk being readied for removal, another deft way to the same room, signifying the white house tradition of peaceful presidential transitions. >> [unintelligible] >> it is an office that he aspires to for much of his political career. insi

caller: i am a vietnam veteran. i am not opposed to war. i have a big stipulation.believe the united states and the american people are being manipulated once again into another war. i think it will lead to world war three because russia and china are going to take full of vintage of our military cutbacks done by this administration and the last one. once we art bolted into a rout war by the state of israel, the united states will be subject to a nuclear attack by the soviet union and china. this will help establish their one world government. my question is how can you somebody who is knowledgeable on the middle east failed to mention how israel is trying to get rid of and destabilize all of the countries in the middle east that they perceive as a threat to israel. why have not you commented on that? guest: we did not get a chance to talk about israel and their relations with iran. i think israel would rather leave in eight peaceful middle east and be surrounded by enemies. i do not see any sign -- i am not an expert on military issues. i do not see any sign that a

corner of the world but wal-mart sells more shrimp than anyone in the world and shrimping is a large vietnam, lots of shrimp over this. you, if you raise shrimp, have to get certification from a third party. an environmental group saying i run my shrimp farm within the guidelines. so in that erule with a mart imposed a set of rules and provide tow -- and then tried to improve the product by buying only from them. that's one product out of -- when they decide they are going to change their behavior and everybody else's behavior they are going to step up and do it. it's complicated. one of the reasons the blender is -- it would not be operating legally. the way it foits -- and so that's -- you've outsourced some of those costs, and that's why it's so cheap. it's not an appealing cost at all. host: go ahead. caller: good morning. i have been shopping at wal-mart almost 20 years, started in the goesry business about 20 years ago. and used to -- i sold or i was selling to kroger. and every year products prices would go up. but when wal-mart entered the grocery market fetishes prices flat lined. t

presidency and the supreme court held that the fdr library, and our 2006 conference on the presidency and vietnam. many of you in the audience may have been at that conference. these symposia are one way in which the presidential libraries collaborate, share resources, and educate the public. we also work together on a variety of initiatives, including traveling exhibits, interactive web sites like the presidential timeline, institute for teachers and national issues forums that allow the public to convene and discuss the pressing policy issues and challenges of our time. outside in the hallway is an example of our joint collaborations', an exhibit the kennedy library curator with photos and documents of the presidential library. this display, highlighting key moments in presidential history related to nuclear arms, demonstrates the power of our unique holding to teach new generations about our national history. the exhibit features a photo of winston churchill meeting with franklin roosevelt. as you may know, president roosevelt conceived and was the first to build a presidential library and don

gary solis did a study of the vietnam war crimes cases. the results were quite remarkable about sentences' being reduced materially as they progressed into the command review process and the appellate review process under the ucmj. draconian sentences tended to be reduced dramatically. i am not saying that that will happen here. there are a lot of steps along the way. brian mentioned life without parole. as this case unfold, the military is greater at acronyms. you may hear lwop, which is life without parole. the only other thing that i wanted to mention renown is that, more broadly, going past the army record, the other services are not what i call bloodthirsty in terms of the administration of the death sentence. the u.s. marine corps has not had an execution since before the war between the states. it is a system that is quite slow to impose a death sentence >>. >> just the gray case alone, his death warrant was signed by president bush last year. but it had been sitting on the president's desk for basically his entire term. it was some

professor gary so last, a member of the advisory board and teaches at west point did a study during vietnam of the war crimes cases, basically , and the result were quite remarkable about sentences being reduced materially as they progressed through the command review process and through the appellate review process under the ucmj. really draconian sentences tended to be reduced dramatically. i'm not saying that's going to happen here. there's a lot of steps along the way. i think brian mentioned life without parole. as this case unfolds, -- the military is great at acronyms. the acronym that you may hear is lwop, which is life without parole, l-w-o-p. and i guess the only other thing that i wanted to mention right now is more broadly, going past the army record, the other services also are not what i would call blood-thirsty in terms of administration of the death sentence. and indeed, the united states marine corps, i believe, has not had an execution since before the war between the states. so it's a system that is quite slow to impose the death sentence. >> and one example of that -- an

experience in vietnam, before rather than after a decision to go to war? would it be useful to study the differences between and within the world's great religions? and would anies a aspects of our history be relevant to decision making. the tactics of francis marian, who trained the best army at night, and vanished into the swamps during the day. the neh advance scholarship in these and other areas. how do you do it in public policy? this is a challenging, because it involves multiple parties, serious score -- scholars, and others. a monk in the cave maybe admirable. but wisdom that isn't shared is voiceless thought. likewise, thoughtful scholarship that is available but not pondered is prescription for social error with many costly dimensions. this is neither time for scholarly key sitting, nor vast citizenship, than ignoring or shortchanging the humanities. in the issue today is localist instincts on the other. divisions are magnified at home as well as abroad. it is particularly difficult not to be concerned about american public manners win the rhetor

professor gary so last, a member of the advisory board and teaches at west point did a study during vietnam of the war crimes cases, basically , and the result were quite remarkable about sentences being reduced materially as they progressed through the command review process and through the appellate review process under the ucmj. really draconian sentences tended to be reduced dramatically. i'm not saying that's going to happen here. there's a lot of steps along the way. i think brian mentioned life without parole. as this case unfolds, -- the military is great at acronyms. the acronym that you may hear is lwop, which is life without parole, l-w-o-p. and i guess the only other thing that i wanted to mention right now is more broadly, going past the army record, the other services also are not what i would call blood-thirsty in terms of administration of the death sentence. and indeed, the united states marine corps, i believe, has not had an execution since before the war between the states. so it's a system that is quite slow to impose the death sentence. >> and one example of that -- an

countries, but with three others having indicated their interest in participating, including australia, vietnam, peru, and i happen to know, having just been in korea and japan a few weeks ago, they are ready to come into the effort now that the u.s. has done so, depending on some domestic politics, but very much interested in doing so. that would provide critical mass and an important step in opening trade across the pacific. but that said, there is a positive signal for the first time from the obama administration to move down the road. it might add to the auspicious nature of a possible discussion next week with the prime minister with respect to india like ernie had mentioned. we will watch that with keen interest. we appreciate your answer. i want to ask a related question. there's a lot of discussion in asia about the architecture of the region itself with competing proposals, the one china has championed, there is one japan has championed, all of that in some sense parallel with are competing with the trans-pacific vision in a pack -- apec, what is the indiana perspective on the asian ar

and many of the things we did in vietnam were fighting the previous war and many of the things we didiraq were based on our experience gulf war. we must be very careful in this circumstance, mr. chairman, not to build our solution to the financial regulatory challenge on the last war. or in this case on the last crisis. we must understand that the regulatory regime we will put in place must be forward looking instead of entirely structured on the basis of well, how can we prevent what happened from happening again? we know how to do that. that's fairly easy. let me give you some examples, one of the glaring problems of the past crisis is that we put too much faith in regulatory supervision. some of the largest bailouts that cost taxpayers the most money have been at the highest regulated institutions. some of the more loosely regulated entities subject to pure market discipline came through this much better than the more regulated ones. there's a signal we should pay some attention to. a badly managed firm, firm that's overextends itself will always be punished by the market. at some