naator leor it is the most denselyg, poputed area of vietnam,er. city embraced the so-called "on door" policyeople. introduced by the governmentn 1986 to stimulate the economy. daniere: ho chi minh city is the economic center of the country. hanoi is the potical, cultural, bureaucratic cente of the coury, located thousands of miles away. building on its history of an economic center, saigon-- a ho chi minh city-- has reemerged as a flourishing place to conduct capitalis globalization business. a mber of very large muinatnal corporat, for example, have located in aund ho chi minh city anemploy hundreds of thousands of vietnamese toork in their factories. vietnam has tried to encourage partnerships with vietnamese state-owned enterprises and private multinationals to set up jointly owned factories. shoes, clothing,ais, chemicals, radios-- i mean, you name it, th're doing it. narrator: ho chi minh city is the ricei. rice from the provinces arrives at places like the bi tay mill. in 199t became the first mill in vietnam to supply rice to the united sta

the vietnam war. and it seemed appropriate for the book because this is a book about war photography. but it's also a book about how war photography came to be so important to americans. and so it seemed interesting and critical to have that sort of duality. a picture of a war scene that itself had the photographer in it. c-span: who's the photographer? >> guest: minium domcoum. c-span: why did you pick him? >> guest: well, i guess, because he's one of the critical photographers from the vietnam war -- his very important body of work. c-span: when did you first say to yourself i want to write a book about photography and war? >> guest: well, it happened when i was in graduate school. i was at harvard and had been a photographer previously. i had been a photo-journalist here in washington d.c. and when the time came to make a decision about what i wanted to write my dissertation on -- classic dilemma. actually, it was sort of a funny story. i had spoke to a number of the harvard professors about -- not

it opposed vietnam. i followed your career and i know you did but you've done the right thing here. i got emotional in the end of our conversation. this guy was a vietnam vetera veteran. he felt this against the core of his being. >> eric: i hate boycotts. the better thing is man up and apologize. if you -- i have been there first hand doing this. i misspoke. they should apologize. they can run something at the end of one of the shows. hey, sorry for the insensitivity to the vietnam vet or all americans for that matter. karl rove had something to say. he has a message that will appear later on greta. this is a message. >> god bless bob beckel for standing up on this issue. this was tone death, insensitive, callus and stupid for cbs to do this. they allow themselves to insult every vietnam era and the family and those who cherish the memory of someone lost in the conflict by doing this. i cannot imagine what idiot producer cbs did this. bob was right to stand up and do this. >> eric: can't two times i agr

this is the anniversary of the participation of the vietnam war. i was occurred the war in vietnam.y, we weren't going to win. but you know i got my own apology to make as i think about it. i never said to any of the people who fought in vietnam, thank you for your good service. it occurred to me that i wasn't among the crowd that would spit on them but i didn't take time to say thank you. 4 years late, but there is my apology. heart-felt. >> dana: what is interesting to me is the story came to us initially because a vet, vets look after one another. protects their mission and their cause. sent greg e-mail. on sunday night. you could have missed it. >> greg: i read all of my e-mails. >> dana: "amazing race" has viewers and nobody else picked it up. >> greg: the guy that e-mailed me had the best intention. he didn't say you need to destroy the "amazing race." the maybe they screwed up. can you look into it? a nice do us a favor and check it out. >> dana: as we know, bob doesn't always read the full pact coming on the show. your reaction was authentic and genuine and it took us by sur

want to get in another unwinnable war like vietnam. i'm not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. but what i will tell you is, vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it! folks, when you hear people talk about the lesson of vietnam, it ought to be this. you don't send american men or women to harm's way unless you are going to give them the authority and what they need to win and then bring them home. that's the lesson of vietnam. >> let us praise the brave conservatives who are willing to ask the question. willing to ask the question of each other whether america is fighting too many wars. let us also be cognizant while we praise them, among the applause lines when conservatives ask this question is when people answer that the only problem with the vietnam war is that it wasn't long enough, that seems like a reasonable answer to the question. see, this is why i love cpac. i already cannot wait for day two. >>> good friday morning. right now on "first look." a

how horrible the vietnam war was and the atrocities. was channel surfing last night and hit "amazing race" when they showed the picture of the mangled wreckage of this b-52 bomber surrounded by this buzzing city. the contrast of that i thought was jarring. it reminded me of how terrible communism was and what a disgrace the war was. >> if they had gone 20 years ago to south africa would they have sung a song about uh par tied? >> would have have gone to sun city? >> i want to play sun city. >> i admire that, bill. but are you talking about s-o-n city. >> you take off everything they are wearing and they are not girls. >> you participated in the hobo american race. you ended up winning because you stabbed the other three contestants to death. what was the prize anyway? >> no one wins in the hobo american race. i tried to get "the amazing race" with my daughter. it was canceled because she was dressed inappropriately. it was more of a bandaid than a skirt. i am going play -- like i am not going to judge them. let's look at the lyrics of o

after vietnam, however else it did or did not change us as a country, we vowed the way vietnam veteransated when they came home, we vowed that would not happen again. we would not make that mistake again. we will never again compound the impact of war itself on veterans by disrespecting their wartime service, even if we didn't like that war. the aftermath of the vietnam war made that a nonpartisan commitment in our country. and yet right now, with the war in iraq over and with the end of the war in afghanistan, at least in sight, we are screwing some stuff up when it comes to how we're treating our veterans coming home from our generation's long wars. it's not at all like it was after vietnam. it has very different contours, there is still a problem. when our veterans return home with disabilities and they cannot work because of their service connected disabilities they file for disability benefits. those new first-time claims are taking nine months on average to process, for some people taking years. there's a benefits backlog at the department of veterans affairs that is embarrassing.

was it disrespectful to americans who lost their lives in vietnam?s next on "the five." ♪ ♪ [ male announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need without any surprise fees. ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. ♪ ♪ >> greg: ho chi min. the show, not albanians had the contestants travel to hanoi, vietnam. they were made to mem mize a communist song, done by a kid in front of a large portrait of the north vietnamese murder dictate or ho chi minh. >> this requires them to watch the performance of the patriotic vietnamese. at the end, they will reveal the words of a celebrated quote. ♪ ♪ >> greg: in the song a contestant said it's like one direction. yes, if it was the massacre of millions of vietnamese. they had to match lyrics to the propaganda posters and then visit b-52 memori

vietnam defined my generation. it tore our country apart. it was very emotional.nam but i was never for the commies, i was against the policy of the domino theory. when i saw it, i got so outraged. i could barely conceal it. i find it inexplicable that somebody could not have picked that up and understood there are 950,000 living vietnam veterans at minimum. seems to me they owe them an apology. >> karl rove is so behind you? >> i haven't heard from him. my phone calls are backed way up. i didn't know it was going to take off like this. i'm glad it did. not from my standpoint. when i was talking to the commander today, there were almost tears in his eyes. wouldn't you have, first they tried to blame it on young producers. somebody had to be looking at that thing who was alive during the vietnam war but the idea of the bicht 52, it's bad enough to listen to those patriotic songs but two died and four went to prison. it would take an idiot to allow that to go on the air? where is there decency. i don't get it. >> greta: even it were a person that has no sense of his

i believe we can continue the great society while we fight in vietnam. military chiefs were asking for more money. yet president johnson rejected a tax increase. we asked his economic adviser, james duesenberry, why. we had, after all, just gone through a big program of tax reduction, so that turning around did not appeal to him. but i think a more significant matter was that it brought the issue of the vietnam war into a very sharp political focus. william mcchesney martin, then chairman of the federal reserve, had very good contacts with the pentagon and with the defense producers. and through the federal reserve system, those directors and branches all around the country, the information was pouring in, showing that the economy was heating up. to martin, inflation was more than a distant threat. it was a present reality. the federal reserve board decided to fight it. in december 1965, they raised the discount rate. johnson hit the ceiling. he announced publicly he would call bill martin, the chairman of the federal reserve, down to the ranch for a ton

was it disrespectful to americans who lost their lives in vietnam? on "the five." ♪ ♪ >>> i'm bret baier in washington. the big story here is threat of mass destruction in the middle east. tonight, on "special report," focus of the president's trip to israel is the danger imposedpy iran and syria. president obama promises to do whatever is necessary to keep iran from developing weapons. there are reports if chemical weapons are being used in syria and it means. are you rights threatened by the use of drones in the u.s.? the chairman of the federal reserve says there will be no changechanges in fed policy. we look at the state of the u.s. economy. our series on the anniversary of invasion of iraq catches up with one of the men at the tip of the spear. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and my colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ >> greg: ho chi min. the show, not albanians had the contestants travel to hanoi, vietnam. they were made to mem mize a communist song, done by a kid in front of a large portrait of the north vietnamese m

combat troops left vietnam a new memorial was unveiled in the south bay to honor those killed during had a war. ktvu's john sasaki was in san josi, where soldiers' families told him about the importance of that monument. >> reporter: in dramatic tribute a vietnam- error helicopter flew over the any san josi vietnam memorial. >> it's important to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of the men and women who served during that era. >> reporter: hundreds came together to honor the 142 men known as the sons of san josi. >> who sacrificed their lives fighting for the freedom and ideas of our country. >> reporter: the crowd was moved as the memorial was unveiled. then all the names were honored individually. >> lance corporal steven walters, jr.. marine corps. >> one of those who died was 20-year-old kenneth dahl and his sister was there honoring both him and their brother jason dahl the captain the united 93 that crashed in pennsylvania on 9/11. >> i'm so proud of both of them. it's been over the years, i'm so proud of their service to our country. >> reporter: what do you think? >> you

. >> there has been a huge backlash over letting them go to hanoi vietnam.t is the wreckage of an american bomber plane shut down by the war. four americans and two of them died. they used it as a roadblock in the international race. to make matters even worse they had them learn a song performed by them in front of a portrait communist leader. cbs addressed the controversy and apologized. >> parts of last sunday's episode filmed in vietnam were insensitive to a group that is important to us. we want to apologize to veterans particularly those who served in vietnam as well as to their family and any viewers offended by the broadcast. >> that apology was voiceed by the host phil hagan. he will be on fox and friends later on this morning with reaction to the apology. >> apology airing last night. that's what we want you to brew on today. the cbs amazing race controversy. do you think cbs's apology was enough. we have a full screen in the visit and just the voice over. you can send us your comments tweet them to us at fox friends first or shoot us an e-mail at

. >>> 40 years ago today the last combat troops left vietnam ending a painful chapter in u.s. one veteran stores and the reason it took her 40 years to get help with his experience from there. >> reporter: last troops from vietnam left there this day, 40 years ago. >> nobody talks about it for years. here is me in basic training. >> reporter: at 19 years old gary was drafted in the arm tow fight in vietnam. he came home with a purple heart and s is hrapnel in his arms and faces and this. >> you get an experience like that it is like being in a plane crash you never forget it. people kill. putting dead people in helicopters. and, you know, guys i knew. >> reporter: it was not until three months ago that his counselor recommended he get treatment. he was not sure what the condition was or why he needed help. >> nobody told me it would be a goat idea. one of the avoidances -- >>> a number of vets diagnosed with the condition have increased among vietnam vets. >> since the war we know a lot more about the psychotherapy, and more about medications. so, help is out there. >> reporte

the vietnam war, the iraq war, vietnam, hurricane katrina, etc. >> vietnam and the assassinations yes. we have the johnson administration that started this. and we had robert mcnamara who was, at that time, very prominent. you had the white house and pentagon briefing about the situation in the war. then you have other journalists were on the ground. i'm not saying that the public was naÏve, but they were used to a certain level of honesty. they were seeing this diversion. that was the gap. the loss of both kennedys, end of martin luther king, it will shock people about the nature of our political system. but i think that it is -- i know it is part of it. vietnam and then you know, look. the president -- president nixon in 1973, he makes a statement. he denies lots of things. a year later, evidence comes out. some of which he provides to the court. which contradicts almost completely what he wrote in 1973. it did not even take a year. as a citizen, you have to wonder if i was lied to by johnson and mcnamara and now our electoral process and our governments commitment to privacy by pre

vietnam. his brother traveled from vietnam because collin needs a transplants. his brother just landed a plane and is about to clear customs in the meantime, this is their story. a year and a half ago the 5-year-old was diagnosed with plafltic aneema. his parents reached out to collin's brother, a 27-year-old who lives in vietnam. >> just hoping he's going to do it. he said yes with no problem so we're relieved but wasn't sure if he'd be afraid or have no interest. or, you just don't know. >> collin was adopted by mcfaddens at only 14 months old they've stayed in contact with his birth family. collin's brother was a perfect match. collin is lucky he has a brother. >> there is 10 million people in the national registry. less than 7% are asians so for someone that is asian decent has a chance of finding a match. >> they're telling their story to encourage people to get on their donor registry. >>. >> it took months to sort out the paper work this tralgz transplant will be performed april 18th. l

trade agreement involving all these different countries you know mexico again canada japan bruna vietnam new zealand austria australia i mean it's amazing how big this thing is and it's basically an idea to have them all trade together but it's a bad idea because it's going to open the american our country to trade from new zealand where they can basically talk about the dairy industry we have over a million people in the dairy industry that would basically be threatened by basically a dumping from new zealand there's a company called from terra that is you know basically owned and subsidised by the new zealand government that could basically inundate this country and we could lose all kinds of jobs here this is another nafta ready to happen we don't need another one of these i don't get why it is every other country in the world is protecting their their domestic industries i mean you know whether germany japan taiwan south korea australia new zealand either they do it with tariffs most of them have dropped their tariffs they replaced it with that taxes where they added tax on an import

things get rid of buy american you know flood us with you know a dairy products from new zealand vietnam you know basically taking our jobs it will all be in there and we won't have a chance to stop it right now a number of congressmen are writing letters saying we want to see it now we want to be part of the negotiations and i think one of the most important thing is for it to take fast reco because you know congress should have a part of seeing what's right and wrong about trade agreements and the fact that they have fast reactors they basically packaged this deal done in secret with these corporate interest is put together they slam it in front of them vote yes or no well that's pretty hard to do isn't it better to we all have been put we have a chance to debate it come on your show and when we talk about what's in this agreement what's right about it what's wrong about it isn't that the way we do things here in america well they don't want to do it that way they want to do it in secret they've kept this thing secret all the way members of congress are madder than hell about this they

after that war, reluctance to commit power abroad was called vietnam syndrome.hen came desert storm in 1991 and the first george bush told us that the lightning victory there had banished vietnam wearyness. >> it's a proud day for america and by god, we have kicked the vietnam syndrome once and for all. chris: after the second george bush launched two long wars, many feel war wearyness like against vietnam. against the wearyness, how should we take this week's statements from this president on veryia and iran? >> we are clear that the use of chemical weapons against the syrian people would be a serious and tragic mistake and i will repeat, all options are on the table. we will do what is necessary to prevent iran from getting

is it back to vietnam? >> we go over to heat. ten years ago we were if first guy to fill up the restaurant with heat. >> l these over things you did, sound to me like it came together with the restaurant? >> yes. i understand the service side. i bussed tables from 8th grade throughout college, so, i knew service. i wanted the wine to be a certain way, but i didn't know a lot of the stuff, so, i got help. the wine director and myself are the first to put reisling on the map. now we have an amazing wine director. our cocktail, our bar director, last year we won the best restaurant bar cocktail. and over the years the family grew. not just blood family but the team. eric has been with me for 12 or 14 years. we were the first of the restaurants in san francisco that got into the whole mixology, going crazy on the ice and syrup. we are making our fresh pin ya colada from scratch. now we are branching out. my latest swedish project is hard water. i spent five days in kentucky drinking so much bourbon that i thought i would never drink

but for somebody at cbs was old enough to have been around during the vietnam war. idea they would put something like that on and to go to a memorial where americans died why didn't they stop at the hanoi hilton where they put everybody in prison. someone owes 800,000 plus americans an apology and ought to get on the air and say it in prime time or apologize for it or ought to get out of the business of doing stuff. >> megyn: and the disrespect and demeaning of the memories of those four p.o.w.'s and the two mia soldiers airmen, on board that b-52. by the w by the way, this turned out to be a major point, after that the vietnam contacted d.c. to continue the peace talks. the men went down with a fight and the memory of what -- of that b-52 bomber sitting them in the lake and some celebrate over there, but not normally americans, not normally americans dancing around it looking for the next clue. >> now, even the kids who are the runners and the rest of that stuff, maybe they have no institutional memory of it, but somebody at cbs, the director had to have memory of

a dramatic tribute, a helicopter flew over the new vietnam memorial. one of those who died was 20- year-old kenneth dahl his sister was here and honoring her brother and jason hall. p who was killed on -- hall, who was killed on 911. >> i'm so proud of them. i miss them. so proud of their service to our country. >> happy to see it, as a vietnam veteran myself, it's important to honor those who served during the era. >> there has been a steady stream of people stopping by to pay attention to, to honor and really appreciate the message here at this memorial. live in san jose, i'm john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> it's a service held for centuries at the vatican but pope francis is making some changes as he presides over his first easter vigil. >>> definitely east. definitely east. get away from the ocean. >> see how san francisco officials are teaching residents what to do in case of a tsunami. mom, i invited justin over for lunch. good. no, not good. he's a vegetarian and he's going to be here in 20 minutes! don't stress. we can figure this out. [ m

george bush is not fighting this like vietnam.e don't need to re-fight the history of vietnam. >> saddam -- >> it's not going to happen. this is going to be a two-month war, not an eight-year war. >> daniel ellsberg who knew about earlier wars. >> they said whatever it took. they had no backup for this sort of stuff. we were talking at the time to analysts in the strategic war colleges and others who were coming up with reports saying this could take forever. we don't know the difference between a sunni and a shia. they may not greet us as liberators. for everything they said with assurance, you could find people at the time who knew better. >> we are all part of organizations. i'm part of the organization here. and you get into a group thinking, you all talk to each other like you're on a common effort. you know what you're doing here, putting on a pretty good television show about politics. when did they decide they were going to war, michael? when did everybody know -- the theme here is, stop arguing about it, we're going. >> n

when charles de gaulle said don't go to vietnam. we know the terrain. missile be seem badly as an army of occupation and told kennedy you will sink step by step into a quagmire and predicted go broke last two years. so what did we do? relaunched french goods and poured wind down the drain. conversive we should take of the boys and normandie to bring them home because it was no wonder if it resting place. we said he was anti-american and there were demonstrations around the world against the vietnam as a wave of anti-americans. but we ignored for an opinion, we said the problem is they are anti-american and we marched off into the two foreign policy debacles of the 20th-century. there is a problem there. rob nerve wracking mara 30 years later spoke of his regret we have not been able to listen that it was a failure of imagination to realize the french were the best informed westerners on in vietnam. we did not take them seriously because we assumed they had in for us. but i went to the records records, the french archives what his advisers were telling h

. >>> in south bay, veterans of the vietnam war have their own memorial. the memorial is called sons of san jose. it is located on west santa clara street near hp pavilion. it resembles the memorial in washington, d.c. workers unveiled it today in a ceremony. it is dedicated to the 142 men born and raised in san jose who died in vietnam. it also includes the name of one soldier who is missing in action. >> it's important we recognize the guys in the area who gave the ultimate sacrifice in vietnam. it's good to see that we have something for the local guys. >> washington, d.c., you see all the names. now you can come here and seat sons of san jose, touch them, remember them. >> volunteers donated $75,000 for the memorial. it was 40 years ago this weekend that the last u.s. combat troops left vietnam. >>> coming up next, he's fought hundreds of fires and saved countless lives. but it's what happened on one call that left this south bay firefighter fighting for his life. we'll hear from him for the first time. >>> also just days after being hit in the leg by

vietnam war. they are all from san jose. today hundreds of people came out to pay their respect to those members. they call it the sons of san jose monument nestled in the shadow of the hp pavilion. it is a monument for those who died fighting for their country during the vietnam war. many say the monument unveiled today finally gives these soldiers the respect they deserve. >> it's only been fairly recently that they're starting to get the respect that i think they deserve for their service and especially those that gave their lives for the country. >> here to support and thank those veterans that have given their lives in vietnam and veterans anywhere who have stood up for america and the freedoms that we hold dear. >> a group of veterans began working on the memorial back in 2008. they were happy to see the community support today. they say the monument fits their motto, nobody gets left behind. all afternoon we have seen a steady stream of visitors. many people coming here and laying red, whit

i serviced in vietnam as a marine.one of the things people do not appreciate enough in this , with everything else that has been going on the past 10 years, is how hard that war was, the vietnam war. i am so glad that we have been and respect credit to the people who served in air rack -- in iraq and afghanistan. my son dropped out of college and enlisted in the marine corps and fought in the mahdi, some of the hardest fighting in iraq. in the year i was in vietnam in 1969, we lost twice as many americans dead as we have lost in iraq and afghanistan as we have in the last 10 years of war. that left me with strong feelings about helping veterans , knowing it is a lifetime once you have had the honor of commanding troops in combat. it is one of the reasons that the first day i was in the senate i introduced the new g.i. bill, the post- 9/11 g.i. bill. which has given people from iraq and afghanistan the best g.i. bill in history, comparable to the ward war roman to -- the world war ii g.i. bill. with respect to drones, a

medal for service in vietnam.ou think-- and here are pictures of you during that time in vietnam. what do you think about this stunt that cbs staged? >> well, first of all, i think it shows a real lack of judgment and professionalism. it just-- it violates the normal thing that we would think of to the professional would have for the data, sensitive to the families who lost loved ones in vietnam and people who served in vietnam and the propaganda promoting the communist party and they're the party of truth and love and bright way to the future and that sort of thing. that cbs would participate in that really concerns me, that they would have no screening of judgment, no more wisdom than to do that just really doesn't make sense. >> alisyn: what you're talking about in terms of the propaganda is this communist anthem that the contestants were taught to sing. let's listen to a little piece of that on the show. >> this roadblock requires each to listen to the patriotic vietnamese song. ♪ >> it's like one direction. >

-- the vietnam war. i had a radio show, and we had donald kagan and walt rahs tow who was national security adviser both to kennedy and johnson for a while and asked him that very question. and he said, bunk. he said jack kennedy, before he died, had no intention of withdrawing from vietnam. thank you. >> guest: no, you're absolutely right. and, um, i'm sure many of our viewers have seen jfk, the oliver stone movie. and the premise of that is that johnson has kennedy killed in order to sell more bell helicopters, because bell helicopters were gonna -- were used in vietnam, and they were made in texas. now, a small problem with that. nobody even thought of using helicopters in a widespread, anti-guerrilla move until 1966 which is made famous in another book, "we were soldiers once and young," when the 7th cavalry taliban began using -- began using helicopters to drop troops into a hot zone. so the notion that johnson has the prescience to say, oh, we're going to be needing bell helicopters here pretty soo

. >>> they're refighting the vietnam war over at cpac. >> vietnam was winnable, but people in washington decided we would not win it. >>> howard fineman has a wrap-up of the conservative conclave. >>> plus more republican obstruction of appointees has democrats fuming. i'll ask former senator tom daschle if harry reid needs to revisit the filibuster reform. >>> and yesterday it was the president. now democratic leadership looks like they may cave on social security. i'll ask the big congressional panel where they stand. >>> good to have you with us, folks, thanks for watching. people around the country are still buzzing about the man behind the 47% video who revealed his identity on this show last night. now, today the world is getting to know the real scott prody. he described himself on this program as a regular guy. he's got bills to pay, he struggles in the middle class like anybody else. he has a dream to go to law school and he's -- really, here's another thing about him that i think you should know. he's a bartender. this is interesting. bartenders are in the service and hospitali

we lost 59,000 soldiers in vietnam. the numbers that were contemplating suicide were in the tens of thousands. >> eric: it's an epidemic. >> bob: and they need psychological help instead of backlogs of claims by the vets. >> eric: and it would be good for the media to shine a light on the story. >> dana: my thoughts are, if we had a strong and growing economy and if washington has the guts to do entitlement reforms to preserve those programs in the rest of the budget we wouldn't have to have the discussion whether we should provide military honors for our veteran. okay, i'm going to go back. can i redeem myself with the next story. do you like dodge ball at all. >> bob: i don't. i dodge ball, you get the big dudes and taking out some little guy and winging the thing. it would be like eric. >> dana: let me tell you why. in new hampshire, live flee or die state, believe it or not, they have voted in a school district four to one to ban dodge ball and any other human target activities. is it right? aren't we all targets. >

but they said as they analyze intelligence from vietnam 17,000 french citizens they are. exiles in paris and they try to share with us. we couldn't here because it is confusing concept we have. >> host: professor friedman a month of been times in there's another anti-nation type feelings? anti-british empire come anti-roman empire? >> guest: indeed. does the right question to ask because it should be to the use of the term we have in the court age of the british empire. perdition officials talk about anglo phobia to explain why they encountered resistance in the middle east or south asia. their explanation was when people rise up or criticize us, the problem is they don't like your civilization you didn't like the values we stand for. and for phobia has a way of explaining resistant to the british empire. the recursive phobia. they don't understand us. they don't like tolstoy and so forth. what are we doing this in an imperial terrible worried democratic power? is a curious thing is something used by national chauvinist. the used the term window each. they talked about th

my first protest was against vietnam, and so when i saw el salvador compared to vietnam, i was interested. i ended up going to a meeting, and i volunteered, shoving those same mimeographed pamphlets into people's hands trying to educate people. >> who handed out those pamphlets? >> the committee for solidarity with the people of el salvador, i worked with them for a few months, but then i thought since the reagan administration was taking a regional approach to south america, i thought their approach should be regional and they disagreed. >> where did the money come from? >> i wasn't paid. >> but for the organization? >> i think it was all donations. but i'm not sure, i was just a volunteer. >> who cared about el salvador back then? >> reagan, if you remember, was drawing the line against communism anywhere he could and in his view, nicaragua was a communist state, cuba is a never-ending thorn in the side of american politics and salvador, the revolutionary movement had a rhythm after several elections in a row were overthrown and on the reagan side they wanted to draw the line against co

he's going all the way back to vietnam.'s watch. >> i'm not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam but vietnam was winnable, but people in washington decided we would not win it! cenk: he's still talking about vietnam. is it because of the older crowd, are they like oh, yeah, i remember when the departments wouldn't let us win vietnam. >> speak to the smack of hippie, but vietnam really? wasn't that war over sometime ago? it also talks the fact that this is an older crowd. it's an older crowd, this is a picture, a snapshot of the conservative voter of who romney won handily. here and there, you would find a few younger people, minority voters, very clean cut professional looking nothing like the occupy wall street crowd who would be very happy to upset the apple cart at the convention. the older crowd, it was a with it wango tango. that's the kind of red meat they expect. they're uncomfortable with new stuff, don't even try it. cenk: they're going back to like being crosby. all ri

had basically was they were ready to end the vietnam war nixon blew that up that got him elected and reagan's campaign i believe was bill casey wasn't his campaign which case it was a campaign director but involve other people including his vice presidential nominee in a drawer james w. bush so reagan and bush that blew up the hostage negotiations between between jimmy carter and and bonnie solder or or that's what the evidence points to without very clearly very strongly this point and so nixon wasn't a legitimate president reagan wasn't and by extension bush sr was an illegitimate president and then we have in florida eighty thousand african-americans being thrown off the rolls just before the election in two thousand by jeb bush at the you know by katherine harris at the behest of jeb bush the the brother. george w. bush have there been any republicans legitimately elected president united states since eisenhower. well i mean it depends what you mean by legitimate i mean if you and i was out with crimes and misdemeanors well if you're ninety four reagan was reelected by a substant

combat troops last vietnam on this day more than 40 years ago. >> and it's kind of like, when the warabout it again for years. it was like it was something that never happened. here's me in basic training. >> reporter: at just 19 years old, gary higgins was drafted to fight in vietnam and came back with a purple heart, shrapnel in his arm and face and painful memories. >> i just know this. you get an experience like that, and it would be like being in a plane crash or something. you never forget it, you know. i put dead people on helicopters, you know, guys i knew. and that is -- you can always remember that. that doesn't go away. >> reporter: it wasn't until just three months ago that his va counselor recommend that he get treatment for post- traumatic stress disorder. >> nobody told me it would be a good idea to do. >> one of the symptoms of ptsd is avoidance, human nature, you know, to avoid problems that have been around for a while. >> reporter: in 2008, va hospitals actively screen for ptsd in the clinics, and the vets diagnosed have increased. >> we know a lot more about the ps

want to get in another unwinnable war like vietnam. i'm not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. but what i will tell you is, vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it! folks, when you hear people talk about the lesson of vietnam, it ought to be this. you don't send american men or women to harm's way unless you are going to give them the authority and what they need to win and then bring them home. that's the lesson of vietnam. >> let us praise the brave conservatives who are willing to ask the question. willing to ask the question of each other whether america is fighting too many wars. let us also be cognizant while we praise them, among the applause lines when conservatives ask this question is when people answer that the only problem with the vietnam war is that it wasn't long enough, that seems like a reasonable answer to the question. see, this is why i love cpac. i already cannot wait for day two. >>> thanks for being with us tonight. now it's time f