i, world war ii, the wars in korea and vietnam. as a writing team of a nurse and a psychologist, co-author dr. evelyn monahan, we have a combined 50 years of experience with the department of veterans affairs. now, you may be as surprised as we were to learn that the agency and the majority of its employees knew little, if anything, about the service of of america's military women any more than the average person on the street. this is undoubtedly the main cause that in 1989 the va published a bulletin for veterans' day that had only male veterans on the cover of that bulletin. it was evident to us that including women in military history had a long way o go. our interest in world war ii history started when evelyn and i were kids. evelyn grew up in new jersey and hearing war stories from world war ii. on a weekly basis, she went to the vfw with her father and listened to the male veterans talk about their military experience in world war ii that they shared with each other. my experience was really different. i had two female cous

war of 1812. well, this is going to keep me there for another 10 minutes, not that they are more suspicious of me, but just want me to know that canada won the war, and they want to know that i know that. [laughter] if any of you have been backed up for a long period of time behind my car, i just want to apologize to you. [laughter] now, what canadians remember is their victory as a david over the american go -- goliath. they recall american burning their public buildings first and the capitol of upper canada then called york, but now called toronto, and they had their own patriotic figures, the martyrs and the sea cord equivalent of paul revere now famous for a line of chocolates, but what i want to do in this book is not to try to promote pay treatism on either side of the borderment i think it's fine on both sides, but that's not the goal of the book. the book is to attempt a bodder tempt history for those who experienced the war along the border who were invaded by both sides. it's about the r

most of my war reporting has been in civil wars and the middle east. i was writing about the effect on the civilian population and every single one of those worse that i covered was stopped by a military intervention. that really gets confusing. you are using work to stop war. like you're using a disease to inoculate someone so they don't get smallpox. it is counterintuitive. bosnia, kosovo, macedonia and a minor way. in some ways afghanistan. the bloodshed in afghanistan in the 90s after the soviets pulled out, the chaos in that country in the 1990s, even rights figures, something like 400,000 civilians were killed. this society imploded. that era ended when the u.s. went in in 2001 followed by nato. in the decades since nato has been there the u.s. has been afghanistan the highest estimates of civilian casualties are 30,000. then you find yourself sort of arguing with violence to prevent violence. in the world that does happen. on an intuitive level that doesn't feel good to talk that way. that is my job as a reporter. the politics, morality of all t

in the war in afghanistan maybe many people feel they didn't want to be led into that war you know cameron has launched an inquiry today that looks at how you know british security intelligence officials might have been you know might have colluded with other intelligence officials into the torture of terrorist suspects british terror suspects you know you know britain went into afghanistan and when the soldiers went in they were plagued by a lack of equipment i mean what i'm saying is that since two thousand and one in the british public's mind that did the war if it has been hampered by in all sorts of ways and i think that at this time of financial insecurity in the u.k. it feels like many people don't want to be in this war and you know whatever whatever the politicians are saying i think that does seem to be deafening a british retreat from afghanistan are ten months all the time we have it thank you so much for being here definitely was a pleasure restrepo as the new documentary and we all can't wait to see still to come on the best of the a lot of show from two thousand and ten more

true test who's a great war poet of world war one wrote of mine war was a fiend who stopped our clocks though we met him grim and k. and i know people who got their clocks stopped so badly they never got beyond that drugs booze when the suicide whatever you want to call it and that happened to me and i think my clock was stopped for close to forty years before i got over that i was ashamed i was ashamed that i had been wounded i was ashamed that i hadn't been a hero. i never understood that my problems with my parents my problems with my wife my ex-wife were buried in the fact that i had gotten blown up i never i never understood it repressed it totally and then i began to go to a coffee shop and i would hear the big bands of the night hundred forty five and i would weep like a baby in public i had no idea that what i was doing i could weep right now was going back and try to find that the little boy of my teeth and what happened. the fall of eighty four i was driven to go back to fly to look some birds to spend the night there to rent a car and file and find the place where i was woun

the war that matters is war against the imagination all other wars are subsumed in it. the ultimate famine is the starvation of the imagination. it is death to be sure, but the undead seek to inhabit someone else's world the ultimate claustrophobia is the syllogism. the ultimate claustrophobia is "it all adds up" nothing adds up and nothing stands in for anything else. the only war that matters is the war against the imagination. the only war that matters is the war against the imagination. all other wars are subsumed in it. there is no way out of the spiritual battle there is no way you can avoid taking sides there is no way you cannot have a poetics no matter what you do: plumber, baker, teacher you do it in the consciousness of making or not making yr world you have a poetics: you step into the world like a suit of readymade clothes or you etch in light your firmament spills into the shape of your room the shape of the poem, of yr body, of yr loves a woman's life, a man's life is an allegory dig it. there is no way out of the spiritual battle the war is the war again

united states did not declare war on germany, we declared war only on japan on december 8, 1941. why did hitler do something seemingly so rash? there was a leak of an important document called rainbow five, a contingency plan that roosevelt had called for. what would we need, should we go to war against germany by 1943? how many divisions, how many ships, how many aircraft, how much fuel, etc.? the "chicago tribune" gets a hold of this secret plan and front pages it. does not play it as a contingency plan. the tribune plays it as a war plan and the headline says "f.d.r., five million troops against germany by 43." and when hitler declares war on the united states, fourdys after pearl harbor, he virtually quotes this. he says president roosevelt intends to make war agst us by 1943. so, in declaring war against the unitestates, he doesn't view it as being rash. he views it as anticipating the inevitable a getting the draw on the u.s. >> the relationship between f.d.r. and joseph stalin. >> well, the president recognized that stalin was taking 80% of the casualties during world war

wars. she left for pakistan and later to afghanistan within three weeks of 9/11. she never really came back. she comes back on leave. she is, too, now in her 60's. to say she loves it, how can anybody love war? she finds it exhilarating. like any woman of her age, she finds its very engaging to be needed, to be able to do something useful. we just had a very jarring experience at "the new york times," that you may be aware of. once we deployed lots of people to these wars, we have been fortunate in one sense that we have not lost to this moment any of our expatriate, our new york-based reporters, photographers, or others. we have lost an afghan and two iraqis. two weeks or three weeks ago, this change for us when one of our photographers, one of the great war photographers of our time and one of the nicest men you'll ever meet, rob silver, -- uriah silver, stepped on a taliban mine, ied, on an inbed with the united states military outside of kandahar. he was grievously wounded, i am afraid

>> exhilarating were the wars. these wars impose the quintessential questions of life in their darkest form because they bore so heavily on the interest of the united states and of my newspaper, an american newspaper. in terms of sheer fun, and exhilaration, i would say china during revolution. but do you know something? i used to say to colleagues of mine who were moving from very desirable assignments to those that were less desirable that there is no such thing as a bad foreign assignment. all i know is that i worked very little in the united states. people would say, well, he would say that, would he not? to be a correspondent in "the new york's times" is to have a front-row seat. i have had an enormous amount of fun in my life. i have had an ongoing paid education. honestly, had i won the lottery when i was 25, i would have wished to do exactly what i have done. i cannot think of anything else that i would have been well suited for. my father persuaded me not to go into the royal forces. many times on the golf

well anyway, jarvis goes to war.he fights and battles all the way from new jersey down to georgia and florida. he kills americans and writes about it. well, when the war ends, he's been in the tory regimen and seen plenty of battle for seven years. he comes back to denver, connecticut, where he is green loyalists uniform. the loyalists frequently when i get outfitted for whatever recruited them working uniforms to distinguish themselves from the redcoats. so he walks into dan barry and he expects he's going to marry a millionaire. and then they will settle down again very. when you read that, you say this is that going to happen. they decide what they're going to do is have a relative who was in anglican clergymen know how the clergymen are them and the local anglican church. what stephen doesn't know so that anglicans churches were closed during the revolution because the anglicans started their services by praying for the king. if you're paying for the king you're in trouble and you could wind up in jail or in the

the war, the wars -- and not just the wars, but the world that went with the wars, the world i was tryingto describe of the pebt gone, the world of crony corporations that build those bases and make the weapons and so on and so forth. they, i think they and the bush administration in particular helped drive us -- it was like they got into a car, said, hey, this car works and drove us directly towards the nearest cliff. you know, my own answer is a longer, more historical one which is the cold war ended in 1990, right? and in this country -- and it ended by our major enemy who to the last moment most people in washington saw as a major power basically disappearing. it disappeared more or less overnight. it was extraordinary. we dealt with that here in washington in particular and in the country as a giant triumph. it was a victory, you know? and that was probably the crucial moment where real american monies could have been redirected somewhere else. i mean, there was no -- we were looking for so-called rogue states. the military and in washington they were looking for for enemies, you kno

in iraq the war in afghanistan. when we're talking about the war dead yeah there's quite a difference. during the iraq war oddly enough while the bush administration tried to shut off images of the dead the dead were in a funny way all around because while they were shutting off those images they were also trying to. deal with the troops as kind of almost demi gods in the dead were treated with a lot of attention and when they died they made the front page. but in this period a period when in fact it's no longer there is no longer a ban on images of the dead coming home a military band. actually the dead of disappeared as to a large extent has the afghan war once again the iraq war of course had. been a had i war movement attached to it in the afghan war doesn't and so the the the people who want to continue the afghan war into two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen twenty sixteen they're just as eager not to have a lot of publicity for either the war or the dead and consequently except in rare moments l

hosting a suspension mr ball just in time for the hundred fiftieth anniversary of the start of the civil war and while the state defends its event saying that they're just representing the concept of self government the end of a c.p. argues that the history of slavery is being completely downplayed if not outright ignored here jamal buoy will give us his take on it then more flex on the advancements in medicine thanks to send cell research just last week alone scientists grew hair follicles through stem cells in one man who was hiv positive no longer has any hiv cells in his bloodstream courtesy of subsystem cell experimentation so is this proof that stem cell research is the key to finding cures in the future we're going to have a debate on the topic and britain wants to ban it pornography according to reports the only way the brits will be able to access their nudie pics as if they go through an opt in process now the government says that it's all meant to protect the children but is that really the government's job or to that topic at the end of the show but now let's move on to our top s

journalists on the front lines of the afghan war. reporter david rohde held captive by the taliban for seven months while here at home, his wife, photo editor, kristen mulvihill, waged a stealthy struggle for his freedom. an incredible look inside a shared ordeal. >>> and an inspiring tale of hope in the most intractable of wars. >> i know that she wouldn't have wanted us to lose our humanity and act in an uncivilized way. >> "nightline's" terry moran has the story of an israeli and a palestinian who share deep loss and also share the will to bridge the gap. >>> hello again. in this season of giving, some of those who've given the most fighting for their country have come upon hard times returning to the home of the brave for thousands of military vets has meant returning to no home at all and many of them, many of those who fought america's wars in iraq and afghanistan are finding their transition to civilian life overwhelming, sometimes complicated by posttraumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, unemployment and difficulty adjus

ideas in this case this is a civil war this is a civil war that breaks down along ethnic along tribal along societal lines along regional lines i mean it's very messy it's not not very clear you know but it is it's work but it's also a case then how are we supposed to fix that what do we have to do where. these ethnic divisions with the fact that this is a civil war why is it why are we there. that that's why i think a lot of people are asking now hey we went there to go after the guys who did nine eleven and nine years later we're in tables in the civil war trying to build government institutions that have never existed before and aren't wanted by a good portion of the people opposed to what we're doing is we're backing one side in the civil war so we're doing is we're we're backing we're building up these institutions whether it be the army brother be the police whether it be the central government you know in terms of delivery of services that are ethnically imbalanced or regionally imbalance or really just backing one side and so when you hear things like seventy percent of afghan

the white house under siege americans had enough of the costly war in afghanistan calling for peace on obama's doorstep but is the president listening stay with us for more on that. this week saw another spate of unrest and street protests across europe and made government attempts to tackle the economic worries at an e.u. summit in brussels a permanent fund was agreed upon to bail out eurozone countries that are at risk of bankruptcy thousands of people continue to take to the streets all over europe protesting tough spending cuts and other general strike in greece caused public transport disruptions and closed schools banks and courts demonstrations were staged by trade unions all across the continent in france luxembourg belgium the czech republic and spain danish member of the european parliament more than a messerschmitt believes the current crisis shows the euro is a failed concept. the euro for construction has created this problem because it has destroyed the southern europeans countries competitiveness and the bailout now is just prolonging and thereby creating an even bigger

on war crimes and obviously with crimes very serious. should be sufficient evidence. should we be responsible for doing with them we will certainly look into the issue. she has dismissed the reports is baseless and defamatory and is threaten to sue it's another shocking twist in the history of this already troubled region. peacekeeping in police cars stun god twenty four hours a day each side of this bridge that divides the serbian and albanian parts of the town of meet the reeds or ten years after the end of the cost of the war an ethnic divisions here still run very deep bass with the release of this report people are now saying that they feel about a let down by the international community here supposedly charged with protecting them all these years. and don't forget to log on to our website at home where there are always more stories for you and here are some that kate and i. use this thing at dolls and entertain an iranian born in iraq has told us here about his international roots and skyrocketing korea. and leave it all installs can sometimes feel like gallerie

the soviet war memorial. was so painful into salting what is most amazing it was not clear what it had to be done for. us do you think russia was sincere in its wish to partially recreate bokeh memorial yeah the was dug up at the most i think yes because for russians and especially for the generation of russians who are now in power the great patriotic war is a sacred thing i believe it was a sincere wish to show all the georgian people that their attitude to the memory of the war is different to their leadership i do hope that i don't make any mistake when i hear the words of very highly ranked officials in russia including the prime minister about the wish that the totally different regime is built in georgia built on respect to the interests of friendship in equality which has been again emphasized. it's the secret incursion into the country. it's the invasion by means of. language are you suggesting that the bees. are still unaware of what's going on in their land. much. less. the official. from the. vide

these things happen in war. it's an extraordinary testament to eisenhower's character, actually, and reveals something about his relationship with his son. so there's a lot hanging in the balance here including, you know, the future president's fate. my feeling is casrean was really a relatively small speed bump because what you found was after this driving defeat in february of 1943, three months later the german and italian force was utterly destroyed. they were completely defeated. and you had 250,000 axis prisoners bagged in tunis in the northeast corner of tunisia. it was a loss just in terms of stalin grad. now, nothing makes you recover from a thump in the head better than a good victory, and i think that success that came relatively swiftly after casrean menned the -- helped the army in particular to get past this existential moment really. and it, you know, it blooded those units, some of them quite literally. but what you see in the mediterranean generally starting in north africa and then we go to sic

war memorial. was so painful into salting what is most amazing it was not clear what it had to be done for. in india all cheese available in the grand central shirts in limbo and the. bowling coach president bloomberg was sure that they would result a little money beatriz old book clothes are going to go on hold her till. the summer of her turn to watch palace hotel close up in the radio to leave them to join the her jewels church in new delhi who took the most recent babyhood to carry collection ramon the clothes of the maidens hotel. blows a movie don't read this and shift it was promised but they promise. this is also a quick check of the headlines at home past the hour. finally gets to new start ups in terms of passing on those being but obama could get his way in a last ditch post wasn't u.s. senate finally approved the start nuclear arms construct seen with russia after months of wrangling also has a cloud comes to move as crucial during good relations. and. in other news this hour the new fa

anti-war campaigner sara flounders says the u.s. is deliberately working to push the peninsula over the edge. stephanie a provocation unintended provocation as are the past military maneuvers both last july and again in november the united states government may really be orchestrating a confrontation we should never forget the gulf of tonkin incident as it was called that led to the vietnam war the united states is no longer in the position it was sixty years ago when it was the great power in the region it is today an empire in serious decline and decay and attempting to do to military many aircraft carriers what it no longer has a productive capacity to do it really is an attempt to get out of the economic crisis globally with more military expenditures and more military confrontations and it's a great danger for the people of the whole globe but especially the people of the region a poll of american the shows that concern for the country's wars in iraq and afghanistan has hit a new low many were stunned when asked basic questions

the spoils of war on display israel in lebanon competing for a tourist attention with theme parks aimed at selling their side of the story exhibits include weapons tanks and missile launchers with some visitors questioning the morality of it all. and a tough crackdown on a racially motivated crime and justice for all criminals regardless of nationality the kremlin make strong promises in response to a number of incidents of ethnically linked violence. up next iconic left wing british politician tony benn tells us why he's backing the turbulent student protests even though they've been turning violent stay with us the interviews coming your way next. today i'm talking to the right honorable tony benn one of britain's foremost socialist and the president of the stop the war coalition tony ben thank you so much for talking to r.t. now you're a big believer in democracy as the means to pos power from what you call the wallet to the ballot what do you think is the state of democracy in the world today very imperfect i mean if you look at the world people are beginning to see the world as a s

for those people the destruction of the soviet war memorial. was so painful into salting what is most amazing it was not clear what it had to be done for. culture is that so much guardian cares about you go. to sleep also again on the brink after a less than successful election and allegations of organized crime organ trafficking in here. is one thirty am moscow time thanks for being with the international news broadcasting from the russian capital the vote. on this resolution or seventy one twenty six nays two thirds or so the president. of the affirmative the resolution of ratification is agreed down to the wire but just two and a half hours ago the start nuclear arms cuts treaty was finally passed by the u.s. senate after last minute intensive personal lobbying by president obama to win over republicans to swing the vital vote moscow is welcoming the move as a cornerstone in relations with washington. are other top stories the new face of russian patrick is in the country's best known agent on a chaplain prepares to start a political career

of speech and war. and if you want to get married was something a little more sophisticated than eggnog this christmas are to you has the perfect holiday rest. as christmas comes much for us media appears focused on whether or not the christian side of the holiday is being deliberately ignored but many americans say the so-called war on christmas issue is simply a distraction to divert public attention away from more serious problems or to dina goes off he takes a look. tis the season to be decided i'm just so enraged by these all these atheist displays in trying to push jesus to the back seat on christmas day but people like head humanist roy spec hard say they aren't trying to push jesus anywhere when they see these ads it does give them pause that it gives them a chance to think about the issues and the issues are plenty to wars record high unemployment and a budget crisis approaching but apparently the real good or well that one atheist group is putting a new spin on the war on christmas if you list

the only war that matters is the war against the imagination. all other wars are subsumed in it. there is no way out of the spiritual battle there is no way you can avoid taking sides there is no way you cannot have a poetics no matter what you do: plumber, baker, teacher you do it in the consciousness of making or not making yr world you have a poetics: you step into the world like a suit of readymade clothes or you etch in light your firmament spills into the shape of your room the shape of the poem, of yr body, of yr loves a woman's life, a man's life is an allegory dig it. there is no way out of the spiritual battle the war is the war against the imagination. you can't sign up as a conscientious objector the war of the worlds hangs here, right now, in the balance it is a war of this world, to keep it a vale of soul-making the taste in our mouths is the taste of power and it is bitter as death. bring yrself home to yrself, enter the garden the guy at the gate with the flaming sword is yrself the war is the war for the human imagination and no one can fight it but you and no on

then, of course, there is the concept of war itself. what is this thing called war? is it in fact, is it a reasonable thing to do? will come it is reasonable and so far as you plan to make it so. it is reasonable only insofar as the operations that you design, we do the successful, actually bring about the peace that you want to live with. designing operations because of their own feasibility, or designing operations because they might be pleasing to a domestic constituency or foreign constituency, designed for any purpose other than bringing one's own preferred these is quite really senseless. what most plainly plainly, you should know whom you are shooting, and what could it what do you. if shooting persons a dnc will not renew the peace that you want, then by all means don't shoot him. find someone else to shoot, or stay in bed. you see, war really must be conceived to bring about peace, otherwise there is no point to it. otherwise there is no end to it. the purpose of all movement ultimately is rest. what is the state of rest at which you are aiming? and with his

we're trapped in the coils of war. we're in wars and wars and wars and wars. technology is getting more and more sophisticated and that's why the book i wanted to do was called "cultures of wars" 'cause i wanted to sort this out. it doesn't mean it's all relative. obviously, it's not all relative. but there's a dynamic in the modern wars. and this threw me into it. and so i said, well, i'll do a little book after this after 9/11. and i had written about world war ii. i have written, and i avowed never to deal with war again because as you know, when we throw ourselves as researchers in this, it's nothing like what we have in time. but it's exhausting. it's so exhausting. and i didn't want to go on, but i did. >> host: no, this is wonderful. you talk about recovering memory which is what history is in many ways. and you point out in your book that the terror bombings actually began prior to the u.s. entry into world war ii. that the japanese bombs, chinese cities, germans bombing, and even the zeppelins in world war i were a form of terror bombing and they were

war, the modern experience of war, low intensity warfare is a lot of sitting around. it's 99% waiting and tedium and bore dumb punctuated by 1% of sheer terror. i think that describes the experience of the typical soldier, but it's the same for reporters, too, between the red tape and the logistic and the distances you have to travel, the logistics of being a reporter, arranging interviews and negotiating languages and cultural differences. you spend a lot of time weeding and maneuvering for the golden nuggets of excitement or the tiny little gems of a good story. >> host: and this is done much like, as a comic book -- >> guest: right. >> host: in a sense, a nonfiction comic book, and you write, i love how war made you appreciate the little things. you said coming home was like popping ec that si. what do you mean by that? >> guest: i've actually never done ecstasy, but i imagine it feels ecstatic. you spend time roaming around a place like somalia or chad, and it puts into perspective, i don't know, what we have here in the united states and what we call problems. so

cost of war. today stands as a state a false state based on ethnic cleansing and cemented by nato bombs the serbians who remain live in fear of their lives they are live they live in ghettos they're unable to get out and the only reason they still survive in kosovo and are not fed to the all good in trade is that the albanians have failed so many serbians too in the past is because nato likes to keep living serbs in kosovo as good publicity but they're there they are there just as a publicity to create the impression that cost of war is a multiethnic society course or isn't it a mono ethnic society which has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the leadership in kosovo consists of criminals who have moved into politicians as western intelligence agencies have said themselves so everyone knows what's going on in kosovo but the idea is to. lie about what's going on cos or to a bigger world audience. the european union has back to moscow's bid to join the world trade organizatio

and that toward iraq it's the war in. confusion of bounds over who the us is fighting and where with no sense of the losses how many u.s. troops u.s. soldiers would you say have been killed in the war in afghanistan oh far too many obviously and it's and it's terrible and i i hope it can be resolved i hope that how many would you say. gosh more than forty four hundred u.s. troops have been killed in iraq more than thirteen hundred in afghanistan. and along with lives those missions together have cost the american taxpayer a lot of cash i would say probably about twenty billion. the wars together have cost more than one trillion dollars and counting money spent since the u.s. invaded iraq back in two thousand and three and afghanistan when. one question because unlike the afghanistan i was two years the u.s. has been there since two thousand and one nine years the responses we've gotten here in the heart of new york city's times square are that surprising when you look at a recent poll it found public concern with the wars

both because before the war many had an impression. i had been the darling of the west it seemed to many in the former soviet union the church it had more chances for transformation including of democracy because the west was assisting not only morally but materially do you think that now that two years have passed since then georgia has lost its an ecumenical support from the western powers i mean benevolence and readiness to support some programs in georgia there are. a lot of ways but i georgia was kind of a favorite one my see that after the revolution both our government and myself proud because we enjoyed the support of the majority of the country and the west was loyal to us but as a matter of fact during the initial period russia had a sort of let's wait and see stance although positive unfortunately i have to say my main complaint against saakashvili is that he destroyed all that the domestic support that used to be so high in the support from the west as well well the west does back us now but it goes beyond comparison to wha

up next a look at how america's war on terror has given rise to war of religions in the u.s. triggering the rise of christian nationalism fusspot of all special report is coming out. this crusade. this war on terrorism. is going to take a while. i really believe that the pagans the abortionist and the feminists of the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle all of them tried to secularize america i want the thing in their face and say you helped this happen. they can point to nine eleven and say look we told you something like this was going to happen we're told at the end of the world was coming it would be a great confrontation and see something like this is never happened before and now it's happening and no you should listen to us now you should take note that our message has a meaning we were able to foretell these kinds of apocalyptic policy destruction. when all of the colonies had been established over here they got together for the first time in sixteen forty three and wrote what is known as the do england confederation and

earthquakes wars rumors of wars we are living in the final days before he turns. could overtake you sooner than you think all you have to do is turn on the evening news to understand that a cataclysmic drama is about to be the theater world of prayer you and i are living right now. in the days of the fulfillment of bible prophecy a day that prophet. jeremiah could only look forward to. the key to. making disciples. teaching. compromising the message of jesus christ. sure of drugs and divorce and homosexuality and pornography and satanism and suicide and incest and we're all the slightly slower thinking this is not progress ladies and john. what we are experiencing as a nation is poplog breath. plus with shock waves of mileage spreading through the middle east more fair all fall off a sea of harvick at what ominous signs convince these people that the end of the old is upon. a lot of christians are convinced that the apocalypse may be coming soon take a look at the rapture index on the world wide web so gentleman from books to blogs to the back pews the buzz it's a

then it was the war of 1812, the spanish american war. the war with mexico. world war i, world war ii, korea, vietnam, and we are still engaged in two great wars today. in all of those wars, mr. speaker, it has been america's youth that went to war to protect the rest of us. and unlike other countries, it's been said that america goes to war not to conquer but to liberate. that is true. and we got troops fighting right now not to conquer but to liberate. america goes to battle so that others will live in freedom. our enemies go to battle so that others will die in tyranny. that's what happened in afghanistan and iraq. and it's always been the american warrior that had to protect this document. and people like frank buckles. and today occasionally we get to see those great warriors from the current wars, and they come back to this capitol, we see them, many members go visit the wounded warriors. i had the honor to be in iraq and afghanistan to see our military in action. the finest military that's ever existed in the history of the world, represents us today.

that was prior to the cold war. it is that it gave me my first encounter with americans, as it happens. i was playing golf with him in germany. we passed this dome surrounded by concentric rings of razor wire and attended by these curious looking characters in army camouflage. he said, "do you know who they are? those are americans." something for which he probably could've been court-martialed. he said, "that is where we keep the nuclear weapons that we would carry two or in british aircraft if there was a war with the soviet union." at that time, i don't know if that installation still exists. there was a joint key shed operation where weapons released to britain by the united states at the point of imminence of war and the british prime minister had his decision to make whether to deploy them. i was 14 years old. for reasons i pondered ever since, since my father has been gone now for 20 years, he said to me, "those are the people they keep the peace in the world." i am thinking now, from what i have learned abou

for those people the destruction of the soviet war memorial. was so painful into salting what is most amazing it was not clear what it had to be done for. hello again this is aussie coming to you live from moscow with a check of the headlines. but finally gets to a new start in terms of personal nobody but obama gets his way the laws ditch british big u.s. senate finally approved to start a new day on the scots treaty with russia after months of wrangling moscow has welcomes the move it's crucial to renewed relations. also the new face of russian patriotism the country's best known agent i'm going to chop and put something in the school career and if used in. the u.s. but it's against a un resolution proposed by russia condemning the glorification of notes isn't as more than one hundred twenty countries including iran and support the mug shot. up next it's our interview show sport live with and today his guest is the state secretary of the last minute foreign ministry andries to cabinets and he also rescind a rocky relations between russian law

you have the war of choice of the islamists. then america is doing of war of choice. i'm a historians. i wanted to understand it's not all the same. but i wanted to see how you could do -- think comparatively about war. then every side is starting holy wars and wars always have been with us in our modern times even with our new technologies, and i really wanted to wrestle with -- it was a wrestling. i had to try to figure some things out for myself, some questions that i hadn't asked. >> vietnam is not a focus of your book, why? >> it's not a focus of the book because there was simply not space to do it. the vietnam figures in as one the major culture of war. it's mentioned in passing in a number of ways, vietnam figures in both as a place where you deliberately target -- targeted noncombatants. vietnam figures in a different way in the failures of intelligence, and i write about this at some length. it's just the subtitle could only be so long. and it wasn't that i was going back to vietnam. but the striking thing in the failure of intelligence was that in vietnam we

conducted by the united states and their allies it's really symbolic that their wilson's war their war part one and part two the current u.s. counterinsurgency both those stages personalized by robert gates who used to be of the cia coordinator of the anti-submarine jihad in afghanistan and in this century presides over the pentagon infuse new capacity merry christmas to you all who have been involved one way or another into the tragedy of afghanistan and its people. and watching our team live from moscow still to come. this hour a way to escape the apocalypse. if you could over the outside of moscow about three ball and the legend has been laid which will save humanity when the end of the world recalled the doomsday capitol hill. our teammates and russian engineers were is an unusual means of salvation from the end of the world which mad believe in. it's coming to your surely and before that let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world and at least forty people have been killed and seventy injured in a suicide blast in northwest pakistan near the afghan border the e

then of course, there is the concept of war itself. what is this thing called a war? is it reasonable? is a reasonable insofar as you plan to make and only insofar that the operations that you design, were they to be successful, actually bring about the piece that you want to live with. designing operations because they might be pleasing pleasing, designing operations for any purpose other than bringing about one all for peace, is senseless. but to put it most plainly, you should know what good their deaths would do you if shooting percents abn north carolina find somebody else to shoot. or must be conceived to bring about peace of the rise there is no point* otherwise there is no end. the purpose of all movement is ultimately rest. what is the state of rest? these are questions that are not asked by our foreign policy establishment nor do they ask you should secure the home front? it is terribly important. homeland security every time we go to the airport we know about homeland security. bled against whom are we being secured? everybody. that means nobody. deciding a

war memorial. was so painful into salting what is most amazing it was not clear what it had to be done for. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. we'll. bring you the latest. from the. coverage. here where she also he is going to have you with us the headline. finally gets to a new start also intensive by obama he gets his way in the last ditch push as a u.s. senate finally approved this stalled you could almost call streets with a long shot after months of running mate welcomes the move that's kind of sheltering you relations. and other news this hour the new face of russian patriotism the country's best. agent russia champ and replies to start a political career and if you look. at this football fans groups become infiltrated by white wing nationalist movements part of it is to protest says they need to be uprooted. and coming up next i'll see his

conducted by the united states and their allies it's really symbolic that there wilson's war the war part one and part two the current u.s. counterinsurgency both those stages of personalized by robert gates who used to be of the cia coordinator of the anti-c. . again history and in this century presides over the pentagon infuse new capacity merry christmas to you all who have been involved one way or another into the tragedy of afghanistan and its people. still to come this hour here on r t a way to escape the apocalypse. at the outside of moscow. st paul an invention has been laid which will save you money at the end of the world. called the do they cop to. our team needs a russian engineer who offers an unusual means of salvation from the end of the world some believe maybe not. turning out as some other stories making headlines across the globe at least forty one people have been killed seventy injured in a suicide blast in north west pakistan near the afghan border the explosion went off outside the u.n. world food program office in the town of car where locals were waiting for