that sets the tone of the rest of the war as being a war in slavery. the inability of lead to defeat the campaign was a turning point in the sense that, it meant that the south was now committed to have to keep on fighting, something they really were not as prepared to do simply because there were a small country, fewer men, not the capacity to fight that the north had. the south really would have preferred to end this quick -- quickly. antietam put any end to hope for that. the other turning point, once you get past gettysburg would have been, lincoln would've had to lose the election. i think that one of the premises i have always held about the civil war is that a major theme that the north had going for it was a leader who was totally and completely committed to waging that war until the end, ending slavery, and winning the war. that meant the election for 64 would have had to go the other way. that would not have happened without something prior going different. two things i have differently are that the northern forces are not as successful, part

the military historian talk about world war ii, the iraq war, and the persian gulf war. he's -- authored six books including "an army at dawn" which received a pulitzer prize. >>> rick atkin son, what is the lib rail trilogy? >> guest: a project i began fifteen years ago, it's an account of the liberal of europe particularly from the perspective of america and other western allies. the first volume begins where the liberation began the innovation of morocco and algeria. the second volume is north across the mediterranean to the the the invasion of sicily. the third volume is the innovation of normandy. rome is fallen and d-day and normandy is june 6 within 19 44, it tells the final chapter of the story through d-day. >> host: why north africa? >> guest: that's when it begins. the decision was made to not the army was green. the green commanders. we didn't have the landing craft in other material necessary to undertake that enormous feat. so roosevelt, contrary to the advice of almost of all of his senior military commanders agreed to invade north africa. it took place on

they enrolled in constitutional to declare war, congress seems to have trouble declaring wars but it's far more finding them. i wonder whether or not eating the militarization of the cia, potential conflict between the different agencies might in fact except whether or not to the basic principle congress declares war and not essentially wars writes the conniving of the congress. do you think a semi-political will or do you think the american people just don't care? >> guest: a question about whether people care or not. basically the cia has been running this war on the basis of a presidential fine in spain shortly after the september 11 attack. given this authorization. historically they have the president's senior author is to do this. as you say for the military to operate, congress, and point used to declare war. in the case of the authorization for military after 9/11, congress gave a broad authority to fine, go take the war to whoever carried out the 9/11 attack is something called the authorization for use of military force. there's some discussion now about whether congress need

a war that was very significant in the country but was virtually invisible because of the civil war going on and occupying our presidents and were generals time. it also was involved with the largest scale execution in u.s. history. our author, scott berg, is a native minnesota and. the location of the defense in this book. he teaches creative writing at george mason university, is a contributor to "the washington post," and is the author of a prayer book about washington, d.c. called "the story of pierre charles l'enfant the visionary who designed washington, d.c.." it is on sale in our book attend. space berg will be signing in the authors area down here after the presentation. i have to talk about the book for me. i volunteered to be assigned a book to read, and when i saw that it was a very scholarly with lots of references book on history, on a not particularly a history buff and not a civil war buff, yet from page 1i was completely mesmerized pity that this is an incredible story that more people should know about. it is not a proud time in the united states history. and i learned s

john: wre at war against terror. >> this warlike all wars must end. john: so that american is wage war on apple? apple keeping massive profits overseas, a war on hate crime. >> what turns a normal fat little 8-year-old boy into vicious hate crime committing rapist? john: to connue the war on drugs. >> this is your brain on drugs. john: start one on food. amica'a's wars on food, terror, business, drugs, and hate. >> if you want to hurt another human being, you better make sure they are the same color as you are. john: that is our show, tonight. >> now john sssel john: we start show about america's wars with our biggest war, the w on terror, a strange question, what is the right way to kil homosexuals? now that we have your atttntion, i learned about the proper way to kill gays from former cia director james wou -- so ambassador woolsly explain. >> john, wn i was chairman of board of freed house we had a group of american muslims come in to us when were disturbed because the saudis sent imams with diplomatic passports to go to a number of mosques in the

john: we start show about america's wars with our biggest war, the war on terror, a strange question, what is the right way to kill homosexuals? now that we have your atttntion, i learned about the proper way to kill gays from former cia director james would -- so ambassador woolsly explain. >> john, when was chairman of board of freedom house, we had a group of american muslims come in to us when were disturbed because the saudis sent imams with diplomatic passports to go to a number of mosques in the u.s., including theirs, they took away the perfectly reason able instruct material for young people to who were muslim to learn islam. and they left instead a set of material they th the imam printd up, i remember a sond of the, it was three ways that it was proper to kill a homosexual from the rah habes -- wahhabis in saudi arabia point of view. yoview. >> it had to be high enougho feel pain coming down? >> right and would die becau it had to be high enough. the stoning, is supposed to be with small stones, so it takes a long time. and big stone does not knock anybody out. then other t

each other, the war of the revolution, the revolutionary war and the war of 1812. so, we have had our disagreements. and we still have our disagreements. and relations are not very close at the moment because president obama does not like britain and makes it clear that he doesn't. but these things are trivial on the service. presidents come and go. and as i have said before, president obama is the winner of the king george iii award for the worst president in american history. >> host: why king george iii? >> guest: because king george iii was the king of england at that time of the american revolution. and was to a very great extent responsible for that revolution taking place. >> host: why did president obama in your view win that award? >> guest: one thing i didn't like about him is that almost the first thing he did when he became president was that he had winston churchill removed from the white house. he wasn't only half american himself because his mother was american and he inherited most of his brains and brilliance from his mother, not only was he have a

war. japan and in in germany. when the modern tribunals came about yugoslavia and it was said that they were there to try all sides so that would not be victor's justice and the permanent international criminal court is specifically instructed to look at conflicts in the wronged so that all sides might be prosecuted. unhappily it's not always the case that the tribunals have been able to prosecute all sides yugoslavia tribunal did attempt to prosecute all sides but the rwanda tribunal failed and there are many people who think that the cases of the international criminal court in africa failed to look at all now i'm sure you encounter that in your legal practice and i saw it in the years of covering conflicts that what can turn pretty ordinary nonviolent people into mass murderers and the nature of the actions for mation is very very complex so i would argue if you do war environment without ignoring this fact and judging these people by the norms of peace time doesn't do justice doesn't y

john: that war, and on certain food. >> next. john: the war on food. od? , what war? i c eat what i want? except raw milk and 15 states, in my tow tran fats are illegal, the bigger fight is war on something that sounds scary, gmo foods. >> we don want them labeled we want them gone, people are getting sick. john: people are getting very sick? gmo stands for je genetically modified. most corn is. you eat is already, this is a product of years of selective breeding, corn was much smaller than this, and ls juicy, but, it means that scientists fured out a way to change food by manipulates individual genes. they have a gene that makes it taste bad to insects. here is an example of a genetetc modification that may not be sold in america, these fis are 18-month-old salmon. but the bigne was modifie to grow twice as fast. allowi this would mean cheaper salmon, we don't have that, company that engineers fish is waiting for approval are regulators, they have been waiting 20 years. keep it away said jf smith. who runs instead for responsible technology. >> and let it in said jas

what people don't realize is that there's been a war for four years they fought a war down through sudan and ethiopia and into somalia and then they tell us in the news that there's been a terrible drought and two hundred fifty thousand people have died when in fact what happened is that all the food supply and all the water supply was basically wiped out and so they're left to die in the desert because now they're going in developing the oil fields in this new country created south sudan and and then when it comes to to war crimes using weapons of mass destruction i mean the depleted uranium lined hellfire missiles and this is a fact they're fired from predator and reaper drones and they deliver at least ten kilograms of depleted uranium which permanently contaminated the target areas so when you go back in there you're guaranteed if you spend too much time to get some form of of of horrific cancer that will kill you between ten and fifteen years that's how poisonous this stuff is and we've got a lot of our soldiers around this stuff they're dying but they don't talk a lot about it like

we have a drug war because of drug use. neither i nor an ace and -- will argue that the drug war and cursor is substantial numbers of teetotalers with no involvement in the drug trade. obviously the drug war is in some way tied to drug use. but one pair of eyes to see their tremendous discrepancies between who is in jail and who is feeling the brunt of the drug war versus the numbers and diversity of those engaged in illicit drug use. if white suburban teenagers snorting cocaine filled our jails the government explanation would be in credibility. we are in fact attempting to explain this discrepancy. if we find the government's explanation to be woefully incomplete than the story of how and why the drug war came about would restore what is missing. in my book i argue that the drug wars particular shape, its scope and its function resulted from certain dilemmas of governance in an age of fast expanding state power. this story is impossible to tell without the district of columbia. tonight i will focus largely on the one-way

so-called war is going to end though as the war on terror there's so many wars that are on your heart as i hear on terror is not a traditional war that's really a criminal enterprise anyone who goes out as a terrorist is there is a criminal other of the war in afghanistan is about and we're saying that the president said in the speech this is not a number and bring more this war will end once it ends people need to be released unless you're going to prosecute them cried them interesting it's a very interesting argument and as you said the war on terror is not a traditional war so the question becomes should we be treating people like a traditional president of war era if we are treating them like prisoners of war but let's move beyond this what do these documents actually say you say that they so very little information that can actually down the u.s. government so what do it show they really showed the reasons that what they show is one of these documents that were done there were two hundred seventy three people at guantanamo seventy one of those people have been released since ther

an incredibly important inflection point in how wars and the consequences of the war have been foughtw we look at these cultural objects since world war ii. yes, ma'am. let us get you a microphone. bear with -- we have very speedy runners with the mics, so you won't have to wait long. [laughter] >> what's next for you? >> um, well, let's see. i was in many kansas city last week to watch it snow -- [laughter] i had to retire my scarf this morning in chicago because it was threatening to do so. tomorrow i will get to see my mother, and she'll be very happy. [laughter] i had to explain to her that the gestation period for a book is greatly in excess of the amount of time she spent carrying me around. [laughter] we have, i'll be traveling around the country for the next month talking about saving italy, sharing these stories, having a chance to see friends like bill and judy keller and other monuments, the monuments officers that are living and a lot of their kids. i always say kids, they're my age. and these are important opportunities for us and more me in particular because i get infor

this is a part of war.war makes good soldiers do bad things and bad soldiers do terrible things and i think to believe otherwise is not to understand what war does to the soul. this behavior, it's part of the story of world war ii. >> host: roger in california, go ahead with the question or comment. >> caller: yeah, i was a machine gunner if the first infantry in vietnam, and i taught at cal state, psychology of violence and survival, and your comments are just right on the money. it's really true about what it does to soldiers, but i wanted to ask you i read all three volumes, and your work is not just good, it's brilliant. i hope you get a pretty ser on the latest one. about montgomery. at the command level, there's enough mania to go around, i think, but month come ri, i think, took the cake, and you're descriptions of the political rig ma roll going on with him are just impeccable. i had to laugh sometimes. it's confirming in other command ways, a lot of stuff you had there. if you could just comment an

state university has the civil war guy. this guy said to my father who are you to tell us what robert e. lee was thinking? the killer angels' is a book that should never have been written. a year after that, a marvelous thing happened to my father. telegram comes to his house congratulations, the killer angels has been awarded the 1975 pulitzer prize for fiction. i don't know if he took that telegram over to the history department at florida state and -- they still were friends, but any author who wins a pulitzer prize has the right to believe his ship has come in. anything he wants to do will be sought after. there will be publishers fighting over his work. his book will become a best seller. this is what happens today. none of that happened to michael shaara. think about 1975, end of the vietnam war. nobody in this country wanted to read a book about generals. was as unpopular subject as you could imagine. my father was a master of bad timing. crushing blow to him was the killer angels' faded away. unless you were in the

after the war not after the war, but after the incident, not long after the incident, they are called in for a board of inquiry, and he testifies about what happens, and so all of this came to light, and they placed blame on the crew just the lowest officers, and just people who said we didn't have jesh r germans and points fingers, but in the end, really, nothing would have saved them, and difficult to choose whether lights on or off would have helped them. today, it's off the coast, and few divers visited the wreck. mike is one diver who got hermits from the polish government, and i got to know mike through writing this book, and he shared the following slides with me. it rests in about 150 feet of water. what is striking is the check from the jet and the stern are very much in tact. the midsection of the boat very much collapsed in on itself, and it came to him, and they know soviets in the year after the war repeatedly dove the wreck. what it was taking no one knows. there's a lot of mystery, a lot of rumor going on what they were looking for. there's speculations by some that bel

i go he's aiming for a phony war where nobody gets hurt like in world war i the so-called phony war where nobody really shot at each other. is that what he's aiming for? do you know what the president's aiming for? i can't figure it out. a transition peacefully where putin goes off to russia or perhaps iran? what is he telling you people? >> i acknowledge the president is in an impossible situation here. if he does nothing, it appears he is essentially endorsing the murder of civilians. if he does something -- >> who says that? >> i this i there's a lot of pressure on him to try to stop this blood shed. you have to both identify a problem. >> excuse me. >> and a solution, chris. >> we cheered from the sidelines iran and iraq. nobody said we should stop the blood shed. we have particular wars we want to get involved in. the only war going on in the middle east is between the shia and the sunni. we take the sunni side in this war. we took the shia side in the iraq war. we're irrelevant except for providing guns. it's not our war. >> listen, you're arguing my points here. i'm identifying you

. >> minesweeping in croatia, 20 years after the yugoslav wars. the tiny state is about to become a member of the european union. much of the country still looks like this. croatia will be the first eu country to have experienced a war in the lifetime of the you. the e.u. my journey begins in the croatian capital. it looks much like other european cities. in the 1990's, i often reported from here during the croatian struggle for independence in the yugoslav wars. , i want toears later find out how it has changed. a postwar generation has grown up. they are all around 19 years old and they're all musicians. their hard rock band is called, we create. by which, they mean their own reality. he thinks it is a good thing that croatia is joining the eu. >> it is great. we're going to tour in december. we won't have a border. >> i'm not for croatia to enter the european union. the price will go up. the paycheck will stay the same. >> for sale, a group of activists has put up posters like this. they fear their country is about to be sold off, mainly to inv

we attacked and went to war with iraq in 2003. we helped to overthrow the government of libya in 2011 and now targeting the government of syria. it's an interesting pattern when you think about it. in 2001, george w and the committed hawks he brought into our government with him including dick cheney talked of going after iraq, a big item on their agenda. it was the first item on their agenda and now looking back and what we're doing now, that's precisely what we're doing, going down the list. going from country to country, setting our sights on government after government, regime change after regime change. night after night, on worldwide television, this country of ours is out there taking sides with anyone who wants to bring down and islamic government. regime change in the islamic world has become our national pasttime. don't believe me? i recommend you stop, look and listen. next stop, iran. joining me is robin wright with the woodrow wilson center and david korn with mother jones. he is also a valued msnbc analyst. thank you

, a nuclear war, the world ending war, if you will. this is what the cuban missile crisis was all about, not the island in the caribbean where the russians have placed offensive nuclear weapons, but what the russians would do if we invaded cuba. the threat made by khrushchev, setting off the nuclear trip wire, starting the countdown to a third world war. this is what berlin meant in 1961 and '62, it's why kennedy said, when he heard the russians put up that berlin wall, quote better a wall than a war. it's why the people of west berlin were so exuberant when kennedy came to visit in june of '63. the american people were determined to stand their ground in defending the berliners. more than that, it was our country's statement to the rising third world at the time. this was the choice they faceds in building their own societies. a free west berlin or a society that needed walls to keep its own people in. >> there are many people in the world who really don't understand or say they don't, what is a great issue between the free world and

you might be wrong. >> i think war is bad. you think war is...? >> stephen: sometimes necessary, sir, sometimes necessary. >> agreed and only when necessary should we choose to go to war. and when we choose to go to war, we really ought to adhere to the provision of the constitution. meaning congress decides and authorizes the president to wage war. >> stephenn but they did. they did. they authorized him. they passed this thing that said go get him! , is ic him! >> i think that's exactly right. when a crisis occurs the congress said-- the congress throws the president the keys to the car and says drive wherever you want to. send us the bill. >> stephen: right. run over our enemies. >> well, president bush ran over the cliff. president obama has done somewhat better, and based on his speech today, seems to have come to a realization that, he wants to say to the congress, "here, maybe shutake the keys back." is there why would request president want to surrender power? that's like superman saying i'll take a kryptonite enema, please? >> if you read

casualties in those other wars. i'm not including the foreign casualties. but more americans were casualties in the american civil war than in all the wars we'd been engaged in -- the revolution, the war of 1812, the mexican war -- all rolled in together, not as many casualties as there were at shiloh, the first great battle of the war. it lasted two days. there were 25,000 casualties there, and that's the total casualties of all the american wars up until then. c-span: what was greenville, mississippi, like? >> guest: greenville, mississippi, just barely existed at the time of the civil war. where i'm from is called the mississippi-yazoo alluvial delta, and it was only settled along the yazoo and the mississippi. the whole interior was one great swamp filled with alligators and moccasins, and it wasn't until after the civil war that they put the railroad in and could get the trees out and then dig the drainage ditches that it became habitable. but greenville was shelled during the war. it was a little town on the r

he's tried for war crimes after the war. he's sentenced to death along with scores of others involved in killings near normandy. it was a tainted procedure. the confessions that have been extracted from the defendants were considered to be under judicial review to be improper, and so the death sentence was lifted, the life sentence eventually was commuted. he served about ten years in prison, and then he was let out of prison. he became a salesman for porsche and later volkswagen. he was in charge of american sales, if you can believe it. he was murdered in the early '70s. he had a house in the eastern france. the house -- there was arson. piper's burned body was found, the case was never solved. it remains unsolved. there were very few tears shed for im, it should be added. >> host: so after the war he sold cars to americans and had a house in france. >> guest: he did. >> host: there we go. david tweets in to you: do we tend to overvalue our contribution to the allied effort to defeat nazi germany and to undervalue the role

when we say save jour general we believe lost war, unpopular wars, wars not clearly defined. sherman said whether you like it or not, we have to go down. the people asked for the war. i'm going make it ceremony use. i'm going make georgia educate, et. people were it was the first time we had a won a war. it was a resolution. the first major engagement they authorized. they were confused that congress doesn't say it's a war. the u.n. said it's as soon as ridge way got there he said these are the talking points. he a manifesto he gave to every soldier. i'm here legally because the president of the united states as a toobility authorize the war. i'm here internationally because you approved it. i'm in a corp. legislation. i'm here morally because we gave to the south korean people. i'm here to stop whether we think it's silly or not. if we stop it here they won't take berlin and go to western europe. it galvanized people. when you add it together. here is a man you can see every day with us sharing the same risk. here is a man that thinks he can win. here is a man that tells us

don't you have to be in a war to win it? china? china, they have already beaten us in synchronized drumming and bear cuteness, air chew ability. (laughter) you got to take this from us too? >> china is the leading buyer of iraq oil purchasing is 1.5 million barrels a day or half of iraq's output. >> jon: china is buying that? huh? i guess all those protestors were wrong. they had the no in the wrong place. yes, that was what happened. that's what we did. we died for the no oil. how did china get to buy all the oil in iraq? >> china has spent more than $2 billion and sent hundreds of workers into iraq to secure a stake in the oil business. (laughter) iraq you awarded all your oil contracts to china, iraq. i mean come on, man. we launched a sustained shock and awe bombing campaign on your country. we reduced your already stressed infrastructure to rubble and unleashed sectarian conflict that even now cost your country hundreds of lives per month. and this is how you repay us? (laughter) you ungrateful-- china thinks oh, we spent $2 b

a lot of people don't know china was in the war. 50 million chinese that fought in the war.is amazing. we all know about d-day. those are the things that we know about. we all know about that with britain. we all know that there is a lot about the united states, namely in the pacific, where i personally think the united states navy was the greatest allied fighting force in the war. what the united states navy was up against. so we know a lot about all that stuff. there were a lot of other things that we didn't know so much about. especially, i have come to realize that although you have to tell the story of the battles, because who wins the battle besides the war, there is a huge thing that i have mentioned. now people like me will, we write a lot about it. which is about all of these countless millions of people, especially women who suffered in the war. this includes all of the wives and mothers who were separated. many in europe occupied the world and in china as well. especially on a manageable scale. so many people had the audacity to think about watching your child in

that could easily lead to a war in fact a nuclear war so they were playing a game with possible nuclear war in order to murder somebody who they could have apprehended and that's only the beginning how did they find out where he was well it turns out that trick that was used was a cia run fake like some a. period of about the you. know that's what he was. trying to get information about. that's a violation of principles that go back to when the credit goes and i sponsor it's first of all they cut the vaccination program off in the middle when they found it was somewhere else another one but in much in pakistan and in fact much of the third world there's a lot of concern about. foreign white people who come in and stick needles into your arms and what are they up to they've got enough history to be wary well now they have reason to be wary of these white people with the needles are trying to find some with a murderer. and what happened is what you'd expect there were abductions of. un polio workers were. several of them were murdered but the un had to pull its whole team. pakistan is one

we write about war you have to write about war in all of its. aspects and you know it's a i think it's a very thin argument to make the case that us reporting on strikes that may have gone bad or may have killed civilians is. it's the reporters who are strengthening the other side i mean i think that these things have these calculations have to be built in built into any kind of decision when you decide to prosecute a war and a specific example of a dual heidi is shining and i'm sure you've heard about him the journalist who's in prison in yemen he reported extensively on the drone strikes there and he shot the footage of children killed in one of those strikes he was jailed he was about to be pardoned by the yemeni president and then there was a phone call from president obama who reportedly insisted that they keep him in jail what do you make of that you know i don't i know this story and i don't know. in depth sort of i know others have reported extensively on this story i mean i think that there is a there's no question that there's been a c

wear what they war in the war of 1817. they marched n to battle in the same way as the officers in that poll -- flags flying. bands playing. they went no to action. they went in to action by bands playing. tens of thousands of them in the early campaigns of august 1914 up against the artillery, and machine guns. the consequences were devastating. everybody thinks that the worst slaughter in the world took place in 1915, '16, 17. the bloodiest day of the whole war was august 23rd, 194 when the french lost 27,000 dead on the battle field. that was more than the british lost the first day of the battle. the united states lost the battle of -- 20,000 some dead in one day. it was on an unspeakable business. it says to be the germans weren't wearing the red trousers. they attacked in gr

bush's drive to take america to war in iraq. here's part of our discussion the-week before the invasion. after the united nations had failed to back president bush. chris: the president's done a great job of sawing the country -- selling this country on the war. the "new york times"' poll was like 2/3 of the people. how come he can't sell the world and should he have tried? >> i think he should have gone to the united nations in the first place. do you believe in the words in your own resolution? immediate disarmment. everybody knows saddam didn't immediately disarm. they failed the test. >> i would think that the white house has realized that now. i think you get the sense that they've come around to that position that this is over. they're not going to get what they want. chris: not going to get what they want from the u.n. chris: that was campbell brown. the initial fighting was one-sided. i was amazed by the military and the torture chambers. >> with that the rest of our government was as utterly competent, brilliantly compe

john: we start show about america's wars with our biggest war, the war on terror, a strange question, what is the right way to kill homosexuals? now that we have your atttntion, i learned about the proper way to kill gays from former cia director james would -- so ambassador woolsly explain. >> john, when i was chairman of board of freedom house, we had a group of american muslims come in to us when were disturbed because the saudis sent imams with diplomatic passports to go to a number of mosques in the u.s., including theirs, they took away the perfectly reason able instruct material for young people to who were muslim to learn islam. and they left instead a set of material they th the imam printd up, i remember a second of those, it was three ways that it was proper to kill a homosexual from the rah habes -- wahhabis in saudi arabia point of view. yoview. >> it had to be high enough to feel pain coming down? >> right, and would die because it had to be high enough. the stoning, is supposed to be with small stones, so it takes a long time. and big stone does not knock anybody out. t

all i was saying is that they're trying to use a cold war rather outdated cold war framework in order to portray this as a case of espionage and treason and that's what they're doing there now let america it's a different story if you look at you know the obama administration's policy towards latin america it has very much been a kind of cold war policy the attacks on venezuela the. overthrow of the government of on doris for example in two thousand and nine which the united states government had an enormous role in helping that coup succeed in legitimate ng the coup government i mean these are these are actions that are very much done with the idea that we want to really get rid of left governments even supported the coup the parliamentary cool and part of why last year and the of course the the bush administration did other things as well the attempted overthrow of the venezuelan there's been perfect continuity between the bush and the obama administration on latin america and the general policy is they don't want any of you know they pretend to like the brazilian government because

more than a war decades later he says the u.s. government is going to even greater lengths to keep the public in the dark call it a war on truth telling truth telling specifically. truth with the government doesn't want. truth about government crimes or that the public needs to know. if military prosecutors successfully prove that whistle blowing is aiding the enemy then bradley manning could spend the rest of his life in prison a verdict handed down under a president who promised to usher in an era of transparency when he stepped into the white house according to new york maureen up or not. we've also been following the developments in the case of bradley manning on our web site you can know what he dot com to find all the latest here's a taste of what else is. should you log on disaster in the twister rips up the walls and walls of aware of the u.s. state of missouri and two of these you tube channel. this extraordinary footage from an area suffering at the hands of extreme weather. and mother nature is also working in mysteriou

different from world war ii? >> there's very little new in war except technology. we aren't trying to be masters of the obvious by calling it dirty wars. that was pushback on this idea -- the president and his advisors -- >> rose: just that wars can be. >> right. the president and his advisors have done an effective job of convincing that this is a cleaner way of waging war. >> rose: or more effective. >> both. that we're taking down these terror networks. >> rose: and we can be more precise, they argue. >> exactly. and the blast radius of a missile fired from a drone is much smaller than a tomahawk cruise missile and they'll argue on that technical level. but for me we have a national security policy. i've come to the conclusion that our national security policy is degrading our national security. that's a shocking thing to recognize as an american. >> rose: meaning because our national security policy we're not as secure as a nation as we would be otherwise? >> i think that we are operating on a fear in our society and have been doing that since 9/11 on a domesti

but this war like all wars must end so that america can wage war on apple? apple making massive profits overseas. >> what turns a normal fat little 8-year-old boy a vicious hate crime mal lishist? >> so we can win the war on drugs? >> this is your brain on drugs. >> start one on certain foods? america's war is on food, terror, business, drugs and hate. >> if you want to hurt another human being make sure yit's the right one. >> and now, john stossel. >> we started this show about america's wars with our biggest war the war on terror. first a strange question. what is the right way to kill homosexuals? now that we have your attention i will explain what i learned is the proper way to kill gays from former cia director. he says the reason the war on islamic extremism must continue no matter what the president said recently. ambassador please explain. >> john, good to be with you. when i was chairman of the board of freedom house several years ago, we had a group of american muslims come in to us who were very disturbed. the saudis had centosent imams to a numb

john: we start show about america's wars with our biggest war, the war on terror, a strange question, what is the right way to kill homosexuals? now that we have your atttntion, i learned about the proper way to kill gays from former cia director james would -- so ambassador woolsly explain. >> john, when i was chairman of board of freedom house, we had a group of american muslims come in to us when were disturbed because the saudis sent imams with diplomatic passports to go to a number of mosques in the u.s., including theirs, they took away the perfectly reason able instruct material for young people to who were muslim to learn islam. and they left instead a set of material they th the imam printd up, i remember a second of those, it was three ways that it was proper to kill a homosexual from the rah habes -- wahhabis in saudi arabia point of view. yoview. >> it had to be high enough to feel pain coming down? >> right, and would die because it had to be high enough. the stoning, is supposed to be with small stones, so it takes a long time. and big stone does not knock anybody out. t

war photography, does it reveal the horror or desensitize us to it? welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president obama has arrived in south africa saying he is not looking for a photo with the ailing nelson mandela. he tested down a few hours ago on the second stop of his weeklong tour of the continent. it has been overshadowed by concerns about mr. mandela's health. earlier, mr. mandela's former wife spoke to reporters outside of the hospital where he is .eing treated >> i am not here to answer any medical questions, i am not a dog her. .- i am not a doctor he is still on well. a shortore, i spoke time ago to our reporter in soweto. to what extent has the visit overshadowed by the concerns about nelson mandela's health? >> quite significantly. i have the opportunity to cover president obama's visit four years ago. there was crowds everywhere, which is of the president everywhere. you could get a sense of the excitement that the first african-american president of the u.s. was visiting. fast-forward five years, the focus is

it was like a third world war. people were living small valley only 2 kilometers [indiscernible] are interior minister at that time asked, why did you not capture them at that this said, they live in the high mountains and cannot reach them. which is a big falls. there were hundreds and thousands of people. we saw the bodies mixed with the meat of the cows and sheep and goats. honestly, we could only find a that we could recognize. there were hundreds of sheep and goats. they were all mixed together with blood. >> saleh bin fareed and nasser al-awlaki, thank you both for being with us. we're so sorry the broadcast has ended. we will continue the conversation and can -- put it on democracynow.org "dirty wars: the world is a battlefield." " opens today. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >> this is democracy now!, andcracynow.org, the war peace report. we are asking you to go to the phone. there is this exclusive broadcasting from yemen, from as wen, bbc studios brought you. the people at the target end of

was the case but in the civil war and world war i. the country attractive to a million immigrants a year before world war i. the economic growth rate was approximately 8 percent per year and was already the largest economy in the world giving it wasn't like china and our time having tremendous growth rates but from a very low base. when the decade began and is still grow at an astounding rate and huge increases in productivity accompanied by the pioneering advances in almost every industry they were finding steel for example, and in that period the u.s. could be itself. they were getting it through to the point that the states could abolish slavery if they were put to the test. in the war between the states and again in dealing with the economic depression and focusing the frustration and anger in the country not on the rich or on the mythical categories of roosevelt conjure with own purposes, the malefactors of great wealth and profiteers is nonsense. but if he had once said the rockefellers and ford will pay for this, they would hav

we haven't seen the end of the iraq war certainly the civil war and civil strife that's going on there to agree but i think that your point is well taken one sense but i totally disagree with you i think bradley specialist manning was basically use of the duped by wiki leaks and i think that they took advantage of him i don't think he had be expertise in terms of being able to decide nor did he have the authority to decide to release hundreds of thousands of pages of communiques of the united states he simply didn't have that we're going to see a war crime you don't have to. this is good in this is not ok with me if you want to believe it when you go ahead go ahead go ahead. david when you witness a war crime you don't need expertise to show that there was a war crime committed when he revealed the thing that really angered this ministration when he revealed the collateral damage video that showed a reuters reporter was killed by our helicopters and that they were flippant about how they had just killed a bunch of people and there were children and in this in this vehicle this is this