but unlike vietnam, pakistan's not going to invade afghanistan. um, in vietnam the u.s. left, the south vietnamese government didn't fall. then we cut off all financial and military assistance, and it fell. but it fell largely because north vietnam invaded, not because an ending juice insur seveny overthrew them. and that's not going to happen in afghanistan. >> we could all agree that it's a very high likelihood that we're not leaving afghanistan. pardon some afghans, though, for being a little confused on this when, you know, white house officials raised the possibility publicly of a zero troop option and, you know, options are put forth of, you know, maybe just a few hundred troops post-2014. that ambiguity that exists here in the policy debate, um, gets multiplied severalfold over as it echoes across the world. but that -- and so two other quick points. you know, the way you build public support is you, if you talk about these wars. i mean, political leaders aren't talking about afghanistan. you look at the 2012 campaign. i mean, neither obama nor romney said much ab

some say it helped end the vietnam war.he bombing and the photograph changed kim's life. >> the officer would come and pick me up from my school to do a lot of interviews with the foreign press. >> reporter: after the war, the communist government used her as part of its campaign to paint the u.s. and south vietnam forces as cruel. kim says she felt like a bird in a cage. so she escaped, defecting to canada in 1992 with her husband. four years later, she traveled to washington, d.c. to attend a ceremony commemorating the vietnam war. she says she forgave the u.s. who ordered the bombing that left her badly injured and killed some her relatives. with conflicts going on in different corners of the world, kim hopes her story will help promote peace. >> i just really want to -- my life, an example for the people who still have hatred, hostility. >> reporter: government leaders in vietnam now welcome refugees and their relatives. they invite to show them how the country has changed. officials has spent years criticizing people w

after vietnam, this is great. this is a game changing moment for healthcare and veterans in america. you as a private people, you're going to be the first line of identifying who these people are. unfortunately the va does not take care of families yet. when you have a healthcare system designed by congress, being in the family does not seem to be politically prudent at this time. so, welcome home. i want you to know that i used to work there. we did -- some of this is coming from -- i do not think it has changed the five over the last two years. nothing prepares you for the realities of war. when you're deployed three times, you know the drill. this is what is different about this war and any of the others. millionn people or 9 people in uniform. here are people reported that a percentage of them have experienced small arms fire. this is a high percentage but have experienced hostile action. during the readjustment study in which i was an interviewer, went the extra mile to have three groups of people who served

dennis fernandez, 82nd airborne division, vietnam veteran" "today is welcome home vietnam veterans day, and we're welcoming them home. they're on the wall. they don't need to go to d.c., they don't need to go to sacramento, it's right here in san jose. they can come and visit 'em any day of the week." mayor chuck reed officially accepted the memorial. chuck reed, mayor of san jose" "on behalf of the people we accept this monument, we revere this monument, we will take care of this monument we will take care of our veterans." one of the driving forces for this memorial vietnam veteran frank lopez sr., passed away before seeing this memorial become reality. he died from complications of agent orange. in downtown san jose. i'm victor guzman with update news." april is autism awareness month. update news' jessica melcher reports on efforts to educate more about the disorder. ">>>this child has autism, and according to the autism speaks national website, autism is a complex disorder of brain development. it can cause difficulty with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and

some say it helped end the vietnam war.he bombing and the photograph changed kim's life. >> the officer would come and pick me up from my school to do a lot of interviews with the foreign press. >> reporter: after the war, the communist government used her as part of its campaign to paint the u.s. and south vietnam forces as cruel. kim says she felt like a bird in a cage. so she escaped, defecting to canada in 1992 with her husband. four years later she traveled to washington, d.c. to attend a ceremony commemorating the vietnam war. she says she forgave the u.s. veteran who ordered the bombing that left her badly injured and killed some of her relatives. with conflicts going on in different corners of the world kim hopes her story will promote peace. >> i don't really want to present my life as just an example for the people who still have hatred, hostility. >> reporter: government leaders in vietnam now welcome refugees and their relatives. they invite vietnamese living abroad back to show them how the country has changed.

but unlike vietnam, pakistan is not going to invade afghanistan. in vietnam, the u.s.ft, but the south vietnamese government did not fall. then we cut off all financial and military assistance and it fell, but it fell largely because north vietnam invaded, not because the indigenous insurgency overthrew them. that is not going to happen in afghanistan. >> we can all agree it is a high likelihood we are not leaving afghanistan. pardon some afghans, though, for being a little confused on this when a white house official raises the possibility of zero troop option, and options are put forth of maybe just a few hundred troops post-2014. that ambiguity that exists here in the policy debate gets multiplied several fold over as it echoes across the world. the way that you build public support is that you talk about these wars. political leaders are not talking about afghanistan. look at the 2012 campaign. neither obama nor romney said much about the war. if you want to build public support for it, you at least have to say, bush talked about iraq and a lot, but remember the -

but unlike vietnam, pakistan is not going to invade afghanistan. in vietnam, the u.s. left, but the south vietnamese government did not fall. then we cut off all financial and military assistance and it fell, but it fell largely because north vietnam invaded, not because the indigenous insurgency overthrew them. that is not going to happen in afghanistan. >> we can all agree it is a high likelihood we are not leaving afghanistan. pardon some afghans, though, for being a little confused on this one a white house official raises the possibility of zero troop option, and options are put forth of maybe just a few hundred troops post-2014. that ambiguity that exists here in the policy debate gets multiplied several fold over as it echoes across the world. the way that you build public support is that you talk about these wars. political leaders are not talking about afghanistan. look at the 2012 campaign. neither obama nor romney said much about the war. if you want to build public support for it, you at least have to say, bush talked about iraq and a lot, but remember the

my friends are vietnam veterans and artists who try to tell the story of war through art but knowing what we know and what i know personally about vietnam i didn't imagine that we would ever go in my lifetime that we had a lot of work to do to heal those veterans and to bring them home and to appreciate their sacrifices we kind of threw them away and the people who are the politicians who decided on this war evaded service in vietnam and if they so they don't know the personal cost of war so it isn't for their moms that know clubby a lot of what this a lot of what the letter itself is about is about war crimes it's calling out the bush administration for war crimes do you and thomas do you believe that george bush and vice president cheney should be prosecuted for these crimes. i know thomas would have a much stronger evidence or to that question. i feel that. deep inside they have to know what they've done and i i don't want to condemn any other person that they will judge themselves at the end i guess i just feel i wish they would come and spend one day with us to see what it's lik

they have the vietnam era. the world war ii era, the korean conflict, and korean and world war ii deaths are leveling off, but if you look at the art of deaths for vietnam era deaths, that begins to trail off after 2030, but we are on the upward swing of fat, and certainly injuries and the use of veterans facilities must track with that as well. go ahead. >> i retired in 2009 after 30 years of service, and in 2010 i was diagnosed with prostate cancer. va, it was an the outstanding issue. however, my question is who makes of the panel that looks at that? i joined the service of the age of 17. said, we need to come up with a service connection. if after one year i come home with prostate cancer, how is there an issue with connections, who sits on the panel determines whether an injury is service connected or not? >> that is an interesting question, and i cannot enter that. there is a large claims and a disability system that is usually staffed bynes va -- by va staff. >> phone lines are open. we are also checking

vietnam. >> actress jane fonda is back. this time playing nancy regan in an upcoming film. the vietnam vets are outraged. fonda is responding with new incults. did the thoughtless thespian go too far? we'll have the story. freedom of speech being muzzled on campus and in the press. why is the left wing trying to silence those with whom they disapee. karl rove will be here to respond. if i let him. ♪ and jay z. defends his recent trip to communist cuba with a new song, if you can call it that ♪ obama said kill you going to get me impeached, you don't need this [ bleep ] anyway, chill with me on the beach ♪ >> greg: did president obama really give them the nod? we will get to the bottom of the controversy if there is one. caution, you are are about to enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> greg: i'm greg gutfeld in for bill o'reilly. jane fonda telling veterans and other critics threatening to boycott the new movie to "get a life." the far left fonda is playing nancy regan in the film "the butler" due out i

tourism is a key source of currency revenue for vietnam. state-run television is broadcasting the results of the government crackdown. on thursday, they reported that authorities had arrested a smuggler trying to bring a car parked with chickens in from china. the vietnamese government is instructing organizations to disclose information about the h7n9 virus. the authorities want to stop fear among the public as well as prevent an epidemic. nhk world, hanoi. >>> asean member countries are also watching the strain of avian flu. here in tile land, they are not confirmed any human cases however the public health ministry has ordered hospitals nationwide to closely monitor patients with severe respiratory problems. >>> pakistan is headed for general elections in may. young people in the country are looking ahead and what they see is not rosy. an overwhelming majority of them have a pessimistic view of the future according to the latest survey. around 94% of pakistanis between the ages of 18 and 29 believe the country is headed in the wrong dire

they were during the vietnam war because there was a draft.rsonally, i don't think the draft is the answer. i think a less more ambitious foreign-policy and a foreign policy that is premised on the notion of limits to what american military power can accomplish, i think that is the answer. i don't think over these last 10 years of war the american people have been morally connected to these two wars like a war with regard to vietnam. the other point about time and how long these kinds of worst take, you are right, a rational strategy -- how long these kinds of wars take, you are right, and original strategy is to use nation-building and counterinsurgency, if that is to achieve the policy aim, irrational strategy would say and come out front and be honest about it that if we're going to apply our nation building to keep al qaeda at bay in afghanistan, then it is going to take a long time and it is not going to take 18 months or eight years or 18 years. we're talking about a multi generally shingle effort. then my point in my talk all along is i

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 what the advisers were telling

>> i served in vietnam. i was a combat medic. >> patricia, do you have lounge the appeals take -- how long the appeals take? how long does it take to get the appeals considered? >> considering the backlog is quite large, the v.a.'s goal is get the claims done within 25 days but 70% of the backlog is past the 25 days. it could be quite a long time. it is not uncommon that vietnam veterans are part of this appeals and claims -- new claims process because there has been a lot of news after iraq and afghanistan of ptsd. we see the older veterans realizing that they do, you know, have some issues that they would like to have resolved. a few months ago i had a world war ii veteran call me and ask for some guidance or where he could turn from help because he had a flash back an it was his first ever. he didn't understand if he could have ptsd. so it was interesting to talk an 80-year-old man who promised he would talk to the vet centers and get help. >> you can read her reporting at "militarytimes.com" one of the r

we will look at the fight of his life, not boxing, but his refusal to fight in vietnam. the years of exile that followed and the supreme court's reversal of his conviction for resisting the draft. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. u.s. officials say intelligence indicates the regime of syrian president bashar al-assad has used deadly chemical weapons in its conflict with rebel fighters. the announcement raises the prospect of more direct u.s. intervention in syria since president obama has referred to the use of such weapons as a game changer. but the white house says the current information is not conclusive enough to spur action. defense secretary chuck hagel described the findings thursday. >> u.s. intelligence community assesses with some degree of during confidence the syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in syria. specifically, the chemical agent sarin. we still have some uncertainties about what was used, what kind of chemical was used -- who was using it. >> c

some of us reported from vietnam, recalled how thousand-year-old societies are a little suspicious of saviors with a shopping list. but it happens. so, what's wrong with us? >> good question. it's great to be here, thank you all for coming out so early on a sunday morning, and, mort, thank you for sitting here with me. we -- we're a great nation. we like to think we can good out and fix other societies. we have a lot o to offer but every spending two plus years observing our nation-building efforts in iraq, and now more recently three years traveling back and forth to afghanistan, to observe what we're doing the there and actually spending more money in afghanistan than iraq and it's the longest war our nation has ever been engaged in longer than the revolutionary war. i come away with mixed opinions about this. on one hand you look at both of these and say, what are we doing in the business of trying to build, in some case rebuild, in the case of afghanistan, build from scratch, shattered societies where there's little human capacity, very little infrastructure to speak of, and we're

i'm involved with the the issue of agent orange and the use of agent orange against vietnam in vietnamand the fact there was a a study that was done in one thousand nine hundred sixty five that showed the the problems with dioxin and agent orange and it was suppressed and finally it was leaked four years later and then it was banned and the fact is that in those four years from one thousand nine hundred sixty five to one thousand nine hundred seventy there were huge numbers of people who were exposed both u.s. veterans of u.s. military and others fighting in vietnam as well as the vietnamese people and that that there was really a climate of fear at that time as well with you remember enemies lists and so forth and that and that i think about the damage that's been done and continues to be done especially second and third generations of people from the military in vietnam for the failure to disclose. information that was known about the dangers of. these agents ok so this is the kind that i think we have we as a society have to really worry about mark go ahead jump in. as you mentioned

after vietnam, this is great. this is a game changing moment for healthcare and veterans in america. you as a private practitioners, health care people, you're going to be the first line of identifying who these people are. unfortunately the va does not take care of families yet. when you have a healthcare system designed by congress, bringing in the family does not seem to be politically prudent at this time. so, welcome home. i want you to know that i used to work there. we did -- some of this is coming from -- i do not think it has changed over the last few years. nothing prepares you for the realities of war. when you're deployed three times, you know the drill. this is what is different about this war and any of the others. -- than any of the others. 8 million people or 9 million people in uniform. here are people reported that a percentage of them have experienced small arms fire. this is a high percentage but have experienced hostile action. -- that have experienced hostile action. during the readjustment s

. >> reporter: ramon has buried inside the horrific images of vietnam. he's considered killing himself. but now he's learning to gain new perspective thrau camera lens. >> taking pictures to me is shouting out what i've dealt with. >> we'll call it a work of art. >> reporter: those suffering from ptsd and other challenges are processing their emotions in this photography class at the v.a.'s menlo park campus. veterans like ramon can explain their painful journey in poignant photos they snapped themselves. photography gives them a new focus in their recovery. the idea? that it can be easier to communicate with a camera than face to face with a therapist. v.a. nurse susan cofounded the photography class. >> some of these emotions can be so traumatic for people, that everyday language just doesn't get at the heart of what they're feeling. >> reporter: when richard finished the class, he could finally share haunting vietnam wars memories that caused years of anger and alcohol abuse. >> he said, you might as well leave my class now, because anybody that was s

back you look at japan south korea look at in fact china ally for long times singapore and of course vietnam philippines malaysia indonesia australia india and so when the u.s. is being invited back we have to look at the correlation that's concerned about the robustness on china's part can john you want to jump in could i come hell or listen to go ahead point i please claim since i seem to be i seem to be in the minority here. i think that when one talks about japan and south korea one must remember that those are both occupied countries i compiled by u.s. forces that is not trivial secondly i think that you have to look with the u.s. foreign policy establishment is saying richard armitage former undersecretary of state and joseph nye were recently and a trip to japan an unofficial mission but blessed by x. secretary of state hillary clinton and before that they wrote an article. i believe it was in foreign affairs i can't recall i think it was in foreign affairs. and what they were trying to do in that article is essentially go japan into confronting china you know absent. in the comments

back you look at japan south korea look at in fact china ally for long times singapore and of course vietnam philippines malaysia indonesia australia india and so when the u.s. is being invited back we have to look at the coalition that's concerned about the robustness on china's part john you want to jump in could i can tell instantly go ahead point i please claim since i seem to be i seem to be in the minority here. i think that when one talks about japan and south korea one must remember that those are both occupied countries u.s. forces that is not trivial secondly i think that you have to look with the u.s. foreign policy establishment is saying richard armitage former undersecretary of state and joseph nye were recently and a trip to japan an unofficial mission but blessed by x. secretary of state hillary clinton and before that they wrote an article. i believe it was in foreign affairs i can't recall i think it was in foreign affairs. and what they were trying to do in that article is essentially go japan into confronting china you know absent. in the comments of of the other two cast

he was a lovely young man before he was taken off to vietnam.a couple of months after, he sent her back a present. comms an ear of a viet and it was a souvenir for her to put around her neck oh stop i was horrified that this nice young men had turned into what i considered at that time a monster. to think that some of the human ear is something that you would wear around your neck. that change me for life. it really made me feel like we toe to do everything we can stop killing each other. we have to avoid wars that are avoidable like the war in vietnam. we have to speak out on behalf -f looking for other ways, non- violent ways, to resolve conflict. >> what did your parents do? >> they were your typical, some family.burban mostly republican. they said, hey, that is the way things are. >> what kind of business were they in? >> my father was in real estate. >> and mom? >> a stay-at-home mom. >> can you remember the first time that you protested? >> before i protested, i do remember that one of the things we would do as a family every year was when

get out of vietnam, start spending a lot more money on anti-poverty funding, right? actually fund this war that we declared four years ago. not the war in southeast asia can which we never declared, but the war in this country. so i think there was certainly some, you know, spontaneity around participation in the campaign, but there were attempts to try and control it. and the folks that are coming from the southwest, sclc's spending all this money busing them across the country, right? and sclc, they would pay for plane tickets home, you know? so there was only so much of that they could do even with the massive donations they got of after dr. king's death. great question. >> what happened to the tiarina movement? >> good -- >> the goals of that with the land grant -- >> well, it still exists. there's still lawsuits over land grants to this day. you know, it is a -- so it starts in the 19th century. tiarina has a vision. he grows up in sort of a pentacostal tradition, said he had a vision and said that, you know, god told him to help the poor and that this was the i

hotels.com jose, por fin se develo el nuevo monumento que honra a los veteranos de la guerra de vietnamnto se llama "hijos de san jose" y contienen los nombres de todos 142 soldados que nacieron en esa ciudad del sur de la bahia y que murieron durante su participaron en el conflicto blico que duro varios aÑos. ---tambien incluye el nombre de un soldado que resulto perdido en combate. ---el monumento esta ubicado sobre la calle west santa clara, cerca del hp pavilion. cesar ---"frank ryan" un bombero de san jose retorno hoy a sus labores despues de siete meses de estar convalesciente tras sufrir un ataque cardiaco cuando combatia un incendio en la catedral de san patricio... take vo ---en agosto del aÑo pasado y mientras combatia las llamas, ryan no se sintio bien y colapso siendo llevado al hospital... ---hoy y luego de recibir la autorizacion medica, ryan regreso a l trabajo y aprovecho el momento para agradecer a los paramedicos que lo mantuvieron con vida luego de sufrir cuatro paros cardiacos. blanca ---los impuestos a las ventas se incrementaro n en 3 condados del area de la bahia

during the vietnam war, he was shot down by ground fire, seriously injured. he was captured while trying to evade and spent over six-and-a-half years as a p.o.w. in hanoi. after a long career in the air force, he now occupies leadership positions in business organizations including symphonics and assent explo nation. he's also been the president and ceo of chicago's united way and is also the founder of sos america, service over self, advocating military service for america's young men. a motivational, political, business and philosophy speaker, he is in demand. we're lucky of to have him with us to speak on his latest book, "taps on the wall." please offer up a warm welcome to major general john borling. [applause] >> well, thanks. that was a pretty good introduction. you squirming on your chairs yet, wondering is this guy going to be any damn good or not, right? [laughter] we're going to do something a little different cranking up, and thank you all so much for coming. you had a flight line as you with walked in, and those were the patriot writers of washin

instead, this speech at riverside will become king's moral watershed over vietnam. by 1966 the u.s.ed in a war it could not win, and blacks were the losers, measured as a percentage of adult males, blacks were dying in vietnam at a rate twice as high as whites. >> in order to atone for our sins and errors in vietnam, we should take the initiative in bringing a halt to this tragic war. >> everybody attacked him. >> what was president johnson's reaction after the riverside speech? >> well, after the riverside speech, i don't think we talked to him anymore. >> he was angry? >> yeah. >> on that day, april the 4th, 1967, as king spoke at riverside, he would have exactly one year left to live. three weeks later, while king was leading an anti-war protest in massachusetts, 1,000 miles away in missouri, a small-time criminal named james earl ray would escape from prison and start on the course that would bring both men to memphis on april 4th, 1968. >>> ahead, a life spent outside the law. >> they don't catch them all the other crimes, you know, so he done a lot of things he got away with.