civil war. there's still a problem of insurgency and transnational terror. then we were able to do thousand seven to reassess the situation and asked the right questions and then develop the strategy and an plan. this is supposed to give you the answer. a great prussian philosopher said, military theory is not to accompany you to the battlefield, and tell you what to do. it is like an old professor prepares the student. is not assigned to give you a strategy. when some people criticize, now it is become very fashionable. look what happened. of course, this was meant to be a strategy. >> the danger of these fallacies is that they confused important capabilities, vitally important capabilities for strategies. and for the answer to future wars. you assume you can solve the problem of future war by applying firepower on demand. the zero dark 30 problem is that all you need is a global swat team that can do raids against against enemies. you can do that for a low cost. our special operations forces a

mission orders. >> war is political. war is human. always. >> always war is human. fear, honor, and interest. what drives conflict? what is driving the conflict now in serious? you have to understand the fears. the minority populations who think their fates are tied to a sod. it is fear. if there is a political order that doesn't have room for them, and fear of these jihadist organizations. it is a sense of honor. >> there is the problem. the moderates are in between both groups. >> majorities are caught up in these conflicts. these, butadhere to they are powerless. in the caseliving of syria for generations under regime, there is. groups, what we would call liberals, they are voiceless and powerless because any opposition is stepped up. the organizations that have power after the collapse of the regime are the clandestine regimes. this helps explain to some degree the rise of the muslim brotherhood. who was organized? squarele were into here -- tahir square. they had been in opposition to the government for years. >> absolutely. in iraq, the only people who are org

"world war z" came from me. this was a true story so i have chosen to tellit and because it is a true story there's limits to how much they can do. like with "world war z" they change my book and they had to deal with a lot of really angry book fans but they didn't have to deal with the families of the real people from the book which they would if they had to change stuff so there are limits.ts. plus do you guys know about the movie deal? here's the irony of my career. all those years i told you about getting rejected, screenplay you don't want it okay fine. i will write it as a book and enough of hollywood. hi it's hollywood. two weeks before the book came out i got a call from will smith's company. he wants to produce and he wants me to write the script. [applause] this is not to say the movie is going to get made. this is not going to say that the eventual movie is not going to star brad pitt. [laughter] and maybe a chinese guy because the chinese market is lucrative for hollywood so they may just stick a chi

it's political dimension of war, the human dimension of war, war's inherent uncertainty, war is a contest of wills. i think we went from ignorance-- i think we went from ignorance to denial to a certain extent. we didn't want to conditional this was an insurgency and a threat to our vital interests and consoldaylight the gains in the iraq and get to a sustainable outcome there consistent with our interests. as the insurgency continued to evolve, we didn't maybe adapt fast enough. and i think when you saw that adaptation was toward the end of the 2006, beginning of 2007, when it was clear the dominant feature of the war in iraq had become this very struck thive sectarian civil war that still had a problem of insurgency associated with it, still had a problem of transnational terrorism associated with it. but them we were able in 2007 to reassess the situation, ask the right questions, and then develop a strategy and an operational plan to address it. >> rose: is it fair to say-- and i don't-- that the modern american text pook o textbook on counter-insurgency came out of the iraq war? >> i

that war. these two wars, vietnam, iraq and afghanistan all refer to as insurgencies, and it was going back to the philippines, it was a guerrilla war. i heard on tv, instead of insurgency, referring to to the situation in the ukraine, now they will say he will be facing a guerrilla war. and we should commit our troops if we are going to total war and willing to back them all the way. and they are willing to have a political tool, and i do not feel our troops should be committed unless it is survival. >> host: let's get an answer from bing west. >> guest: there is a lot of wisdom in what paul is saying. we rushed into these wars without thinking it through in terms of what warm and. we tried to define it as we went. i think that was wrong. paul is absolutely right. we started with president bush and president obama saying we are in this thing to win and we are going to defeat and then the taliban and then it changed to we are not going to lose and it changed to we are going to stop their moment

stake in the wars. it's an all-volunteer force, professional force now, and you know the stats, less than 1% of american families have had somebody directly in these wars, and so go to the door, not here, no factories shut down to build weapon so guys would not get blown up, but they were unpop popular wars by professional force in a far away country. you don't have to care until you have to caring and this is not a suggestion for con screenings, but it's just to state the obvious, it's not how do you forget about the human cost? it's not just that. nobody's thinking about the wars -- a lot of people are not thinking about the wars very much at all, so human cost is one of the casualties of that. >> i remember the girl in arizona seeing gold stars in windows in the neighborhoods, and there were quite a few of them, and one of the things that i did on memorial day after tim died was to make a big gold star and put it in the window, but, you know, that was a kind of sentimental thing for me to do. >> othe

the war runs deeper than this on the republican side. rand paul like his father ron thinks the people who got us into the iraq war violated the very nature of their oaths to use the u.s. military power only for the defense of this country. they believe that war was bought for ideological reasons, shrouded in this dishonest claim that iraq had nuclear weapons capable of hitting the u.s. cheney gets more real with each new national opinion poll. his own republican party might denounce him in history by selecting a presidential candidate who openly and starkly turns the party against the bush-cheney record on iraq, one that many now see as the cheney record, given w's far greater passion for oil painting these days than for any more oil warfare. as he stands at his easel, w wouldn't be less interested in defending what was done in iraq, including the 106,000 people killed in that misconceived freedom crusade. joining me tonight is david corn, msnbc political analyst and washington bureau chief for mother jones. four books on presidential po

war at a particular moment. the type of journalism i do doesn't involve something that's happened and you g in the yugo s and do interviews about what happened you show up and stay and watch what unfolds. in this case of the illuminating question in 2007 when it seems to have reached a moment is what becomes of the young man that goes into the war at such a moment and he turned out to be one of the answers i got so when it came time for the next book because i wrote about the diploma -- deployment into the book came out. it was sleeplessness and depression things they were not expecting so it occurred to me as a tragic moment. maybe this was it. not there but here as all of these people that did well on the battalion gets down to recover from the experiences of what they did and what they saw and what they tried not to see and on it goes. so basically he comes home into the opening line of the book is two years later than the book goes on from there. this whole cluster of people are now trying to get better. >>

these wars. he brings the counter terrorism military guys, people who run the drone programs with him into the oval office to give obama a briefing, charts and pictures and video off and he goes through -- he is trying to reassure obama that -- how careful and precise the program is and they don't kill civilians and this very intricate set of permissions they have to go through and show this video of these drones flying many thousands of feet above the target, with their camera watching very carefully the patterns of light this cia calls it to make sure they have got a right person and then patterns of light. then they show the target is with his wife for playing with his children and we will watch patiently for hours, days or weeks until we have a clear shot and then we take the shot and then, you know, if a civilian enters the frame at the last second week can divert the missile to a predetermined destination, some field thousands of feet away where they know they won't be any civilians. just n

war. the united states knew they were defeated. 18, telegram was intercepted from the japanese emperor asking for peace. >> the japanese emperor? japruman's exact words, the emperor. everyone else did they were militarily defeated and looking for a way out, but the people who knew that were the russians because they were trying to get the russians to intervene on their behalf and get them better surrender terms, and also their strategy was to welcome the american invasion and in conflict -- conflict heavy damages and force better surrender terms. when the russians invaded, that undermined the diplomatic strategy and military strategy. that is what really ended the war, not the bombing. we firebombed over 100 cities. it did not change the equation how many bombs and planes. the soviet invasion changed the message. >> august 9. a huge army off the german frontier by stalin. army i think in today's or one day. japan.moving towards if you let a month go by, if we really are interested in endin

they saved their money to buy goods after the war.ts necessary functions, and defense goals were met. it was a very successful experience. there was no inflation in world war ii when the economy doubled in output. although they caused some problems, there's general agreement that price controls @@ played a critical role in winning the war. richard gill explains. most economists agree that world war ii price controls were quite successful because of the special circumstances. the war involved a huge transfer of resources from the civilian to the military sector of the economy. without some sort of controls, this might have led to a rapid spiral of wages and prices. controls were instituted for a specific purpose, for a short time, and under conditions of patriotic fervor. under these circumstances, they worked quite well. there are other circumstances where the market may not handle economic problems efficiently-- when it comes to monopoly power or to air and water pollution. and remember, economic efficiency is not our only economic o

it is the drumbeat of the war in america bill builds whether it's a cold war a hard decision to voice really might have been there in the beginning slowly are you too overwhelmed by the war boosters or they are deleted by the kind of institutional leave blotches of washington and that's where we are today as things really really are moving fast toward the unimaginable which i would say is war between the united states and russia i was one of the most outspoken opponents of the iraq war and it was very lonely and it was very clear that anybody who opposed that war came under attack from all sides and we did not have a healthy debate in the united states about going into a wreck and people were afraid to speak out against the war it was really remarkably foolish so in a funny way the situation with ukraine is not that different. economic pressure to court. nominees finale. arts. what if. malnutrition. violent. drug addiction. coverage. corruption. what are the news you. see company reports on afghan realities. the american humanist association is really riled up over that one very famou

tonight hollywood goes to war. when the united states entered world war ii some of the most famous directors in the movie industry stepped forward to volunteer their skills, their experience, and their expertise. in some cases they made propaganda films rallying the nation to the war effort. in others they put their lives at risk documenting the combat itself. one of those was john ford. assigned to the pacific island of mid-way. they stood at the pacific filming the battle. ford himself was knocked off that roof and received shrapnel wound. he produced a documentary called the battle of mid-way. and in 2000, ktvu's bob mackenzie found a former american sailor who was not part of ford's film and who's heroism went unrecognized for half a century. >> reporter: for more than 50 years nobody knew that art lewis was a hero. that he had risked his own life to save other people's lives in world war ii. that's because lewis never talked about what he had done and because the men who hand out medals and write military hist

it was a war within a war in which not see germany diverted enormous resources down to the very last days of the war to strip them of a recently had an allies. the theft of art and other properties going back to the conquest of jerusalem by the romans and the insignia that we see in rome and the mona lisa in the loop taken on one of napoleons ventures. what established it was a sufficiency and organization. with respect to artwork, it is estimated that 600,000 pieces of art were stolen and 8000 of which are personally selected by adolf hitler for a museum that he planned after the war in his hometown. but artwork was only a part of it. so for example homes and businesses, jewelry, insurance policies and bank accounts. let me just mention these and we will come back to these a little bit later it will be found for an article in "the wall street journal" is a front page article and it said that there were doormen swifts bank accounts that had been set up during a war primarily by jews trying to show their money in the safest thing system in europe by the on lot of the third reich. and

in some cases their only experience has been living in war.y have no memory of what life was like before russia invaded. so the things that motive them is very different from what motivated the original taliban. and i think that's one reason why they have blended themselves to easily to criminality. >> it sounds like everybody has reason to be in it for themselves. do you have any optimism that anybody is thinking about the future and trying to create a more peaceful existence going forward? >> i don't think so. there really is no future in afghanistan, because as the previous speaker said, the taliban are entrenched in the countryside, the government is entrenched in the cities. and we're going to have a war of attrition basically in perpetuity, so that doesn't lead itself to a future of hope. >> you nod to this, it is an awfully frightening consideration that after all of these years what we will return to is an afghan of war lords. >> yeah, actually history has repeated it's a in a lot of the the -- rural areas, and that's why you see the c

we fought, if i could call the word existential war in world war ii. we had to win that war. unconditional surrender. when i went to vietnam, all of my top commanders in the marine corps had fought in world war ii, and we had the idea when you get into that fight, you get into that fight. we went over as individuals, not as whole units. and you accepted death. it just happened. sometimes you didn't even know who he was, and he was dead. that was world war ii. in vietnam, 50,000. i see a vast difference today in iraq and afghanistan not just on our side, but the other side. everyone is much more cautious now. it's like tribes fighting. you don't want to fight to the last man on either side. the american indians, when they were fighting in the plains against our troops, etc., in the 1860s, if they were losing a battle, they'd retreat. it wasn't an idea that you had to stay on a battlefield until you won or lost. i have to think we have to be very careful that we don't go too far with this, that death itself becomes what you want to avoid. but the biggest difference i've seen on

after world war ii, the united states confronted soviet communism but it also built a stable war order by creating institutions that set global norms and shared power from the u.n. itself to the imf and the world bank. they asked us to expand these institutions to include the rising powers of asia. if washington does not do this, it will strengthen those voices in asia, especially in china, who say their countries should not try to integrate into a western framework of international rules because they will always be second class citize citizens, and they should, instead, bide their time and create their own rules. at that point, we will all deeply regret that we did not let these companies sbu the club, when we had a chance. let's get started. >>> of course, president obama couldn't concentrate completely on asia this week as the crisis in ukraine continued and even heated up. i wanted to delve into both of these issues and how to handle them. that is the kind of advice that tom donnelin used to give president obama. until nine months ago, he was president obama's adviser. tom, thank y

that's one of the underlying risks as well. >> people thought that world war i would be a short war.>> they thought they would be home by christmas. >> what should the united states do? there is this balancing act that if it tries to support its allies, like the philippines, vietnam, it will get the chinese to feel like the united states is trying to encircle them. >> the united states needs to steer between two extremes. on the one hand, it has to prevent china from finlandizing, if you will, countries like vietnam and the philippines and malaysia. >> meaning that -- >> meaning that finland, because of its long land border with the soviet union during the cold war, didn't really have control of its own foreign policy. and china is going to seek to do that in countries of the south china sea. but on the other hand, the united states cannot allow vietnamese or filipino nationalism to drag the united states into a military conflict with china given how important the bilateral relationship is for china and the u.s. for the piece of the world in the 20th century. >> so for the united sta

it is the drumbeat of the war in america bill builds whether it's cold war or hot war dissenting voices really might have been there in the beginning slowly are either overwhelmed by the war boosters or they are deleted by the kind of institutional reflux as a washington and that's where we are today as things really really are moving fast toward the unimaginable which i would say is war between the united states and russia and i was one of the most outspoken opponents of the iraq war and it was very lonely and it was very clear that anybody who opposed that war came under attack from all sides and we did not have a healthy debate in the united states about going into iraq and people who were afraid to speak out against the war it was really remarkably foolish so in a funny way the situation with ukraine is not that different. i think with them the most vital role of the press is to give a voice to dissenting view points to people whose experiences do not conform to the particular narrative that is being peddled by those in power so that their voices can be heard. in. the present. it wa

>> said if we lost the war, we all would have been prosecuted as war criminals. i think he's right. he, and i'd say i, we're behaving as war criminals. >> robert mcnamara. served in the air force during world war ii. robert mcnamara reflects on war and morality and his own complicity as a human being and as a u.s. policymaker, and the film is both moving and in a way cathartic. >> we all make mistakes. we know we make mistakes. i don't know any military commander who is honest who would say he has not made a mistake. there's a wonderful phrase, "the fog of war." what the fog of war means is war is so complex, it's beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. and we kill people unnecessarily. >> it's from "the fog of war." the man who made that oscar winning film, erol morris has a new film out called "the unknown known." he subjects donald rumsfeld to the same scrutiny as robert mcnamara from "the fog of war" but this film donald rumsfeld has no interests in scrutinizing himself. >> osama gets away and a con

i mean, a guy comes in and says, "well, let's go to war," and we go to war. that's not the way it happens. you agonize over your decisions you agonize over your plans. you get input from everywhere. people up and down the line have to make very, very tough calls, and that's why that excerpt is in there. if read within the context of everything that goes before and everything that comes after, it doesn't seem quite so dramatic. read by itself, taken as a single isolated incident, it, of course, seems very dramatic. c-span: we've got just a short time left, and i don't mean to keep jumping back and forth, but i want to end it with what you found when you were in vietnam in 1965. this was a document from ho chi minh that you quote. this is a document, i assume, to the troops? >> guest: the south vietnamese captured this thing, showed it to one of my american advisers and said, "let me tell you what this says," and my american adviser brought it to me and said, "look at this thing. look at what these people have in their hands here." c-span: this is from ho chi m

london children in the british and german war experiences. so i changed it all. in the initial estimate is that they may have to make both ends. whatever perspective isn't touching distance events to commemorate the first one. it's spending sixteen meeting it was to markets including germany spending a lot despite million euros. i do. the ch ch and when. i was in the eye. while. the end. it is. . i the i. the poor. ch. key the key it is to lulu the rule. welcome to nhk world islam and chino tonic in tokyo. here's a look at some other stories we're following this hour. i am a japanese researcher has apologized for the controversy surrounding a high profile study of stem cells but she stressed the results are still valid an explosion at a vegetable market in the pakistani capital is the bubble has killed over twenty people. i can. three prominent members have

some of the war criminals were sent to war prisons. some were hung. those are the unmarked graves. ultimately the cold war was getting hot and john mccoy with truman became high commissioner of germany and gave clemanceancy to the majority of war criminals and they were released. here is hitler's favor chemist. he was convicted of mass murder and slavery. he was released and also his finances were fully restored as well. this is the world's, what i would call the cia's first black sight. after the war, the cia, well actually in 1947, after the cia teamed up with naval and army and airforce intelligence and used chemist and chemistry that was developed by the nazi and began enhanced interrogation techniques using lsd on what was soviet black prisoner because this was the cold war. the two physicians at the fill facility were the doctors. shriber went to texas and that is a long and tangled tail -- tale -- the cold war was heating up and this was the threat. the threat was the soviets, who by the way had their own german scientist program but unlike our program that put them on p ped

this goes into the war on terror, the war on drugs. i talked to peter. he knows a lot about the bomb. did the bomb have to start all this/ the bomb leads you to wallace because wallace was the key fake your -- figure. it is an inside deal. it is really ugly. it is a frank capra movie. in one particular night, it comes down to a moment in time like nine seconds one wallace almost makes it, he almost squeezes in. the crowd is cheering. the bosses convened the convention that night and overnight they turned favors and money and bribes. wallace does not end up as vice president. roosevelt dies. an unknown party hack called harry truman at one of the most important times in the history of the world becomes leader of the world, with all of the power and like a george bush he blows a. -- it. >> henry wallace would later run for president. >> he was smeared repeatedly as a communist at that point. the real drama is the 1944 convention. a visionary. he has been lost to history. he was an extraordinary man. said the 20th century must be the american century. famou

we were at war in pakistan but not necessarily at war with the government of pack stap.n war in yemen -- >> stephen: that's threading a very narrow needle there. we are blowing up people in your country, but we like you. ( laughter ). >> right. >> stephen: okay, so they're doing this mostly with drones, right? >> a lot of drones. there has been escalation of special operations missions around the globe in parts of africa. so not just the c.i.a. it's also parts of the pentagon that have sort of blended together over the years to do these kind of secret mission. >> stephen: the blowing stuff up with drones-- there was a lot of criticism and obama says he's not doing it anymore of strapping guys to tables and pouring water over their face or making them stand up for 36 hours or in a brightly lit room for seven days or something like that. but there doesn't seem to be a big public outcry about blowing them up real good in some place sandy and rocky. why do you think the difference? >> i think there are different reasons for that. i think that some democrats have been less he

in 1991, when the veterans of america's first war in iraq, the gulf war, returned, new york threw them ticker tape parade on the canyon of heroes. december 2011, the second war in iraq ended. the last american troops left iraq in december 2011. that ended our nearly nine-year military presence in that country. and at the time, for that occasion, two new york city council members proposed that the city of new york host a parade to welcome home the troops from that war, to mark the end of the war in iraq. then new york city mayor michael bloomberg said his office reached out to the pentagon to discuss the potential, but the pentagon reportedly said no. the pentagon reportedly told mayor bloomberg's office that having a parade would put soldiers who were still fighting in afghanistan in harm's way. they said it wouldn't be appropriate to do that while other soldiers were still fighting. should be noted, though, that other cities around the country didn't wait for the pentagon. the city of st. louis, missouri, was the first one to hold a parade, to say welcome home to iraq vets, followed b

the way in which the war was be remembered. it was one piece of it, but they were equally offended for battlefield relations. this was about the time you start to get the blue and gray reunions, the century magazine also did a very popular series called batters and leaders. and when that famous oliver wendell holmes ," they thought this was ridiculous. he was an abolitionist he had almost got and killed while trying to escort -- i don't know whether it was when bill phillips world lloyd garrison. they thought that the way in which is the 80 logical elements of the war were being stripped away and the service of national union was a bad thing. they were accused by their editors a practicing aggressive modernism. a was sort of say, we have to watch it and tone it down, but then his own chapters would be ludicrously in northern in their perspective. i think that is what they were concerned with, and it's fair to say that while they were successful in rewriting the way we imagine lincoln, the recasting of the civil war against that

that is the drone war in america bill builds whether it's cold war or descending voices really might have been there in the beginning slowly are you too overwhelmed by the war boosters or they are deleted by the kind of institutional leave books as a washington and that's where we are today as things really really are moving crashed toward beyond a magical which i would say is war between the united states and russia i was one of the most outspoken opponents of the war and it was very. mission to teach me. we're back with chris hatches author pulitzer prize laureate talking about media wars now chris if we steer away from ukraine for a moment and just talk about russia why do you think russia. keeps coming under informational attack from the west like take for example the olympics in sochi if all i read was the western press i would definitely think it was a disaster but you know i was there and all of my peers where there are a lot of my foreign correspondent friends were there and it will quite the opposite once you know you actually so what they had built in sochi. i'm just wonder

war comes to an end.e have the peace river out here, which is supposed to be the boundary for forever and always in that last for about 10 years before we have the third seminole war in the third seminole war occurs because they find out there's a lot of good land on the side of the river and the third seminole war is a sort of guerrilla activity. in the book i talk about the ending of the second seminal. i talk about the third seminole. see, florida was initially a territory. it eventually becomes state. florida was kind of at the perimeter of all the decisions being made elsewhere at that time. the decisions -- many decisions being made in 10. other decisions were made in tallahassee and the impact of these decisions was following upon the people who live down here and that's what we get involved with in the book. to some degree i talk about what happens when very ordinary people get into positions of extraordinary power and we took a look at some of the policies put through by the presidents, the membe

no more war!>> in my country, in britain, we had more than 1 million people demonstrating on the streets of london against this war. the opposition to british participation in the war was absolutely immense. >> british prime minister tony blair's government like its u.s. counterpart denies vigorously that overthrowing saddam hussein is about oil. >> let me first of all deal with the conspiracy theory idea that this is somehow to do with oil. there is no way, whatever, if oil were the issue, that it would not be infinitely similar to cut a deal with saddam who i'm sure will be delighted to give us access to as much oil as we wanted if he could carry on building weapons of mass destruction. >> britain, two major oil companies, bp and shell. they were asked, have you asked the british government for in relation to the iraq war? the oil companies and blair government said we haven't talked about it. absolutely no meetings on this subject. so i managed to get documents which recorded five meetings that

no more war!my country, in britain, we had more than 1 million people demonstrating on the streets of london against this war. the opposition to british participation in the war was absolutely immense. >> british prime minister tony blair's government like its u.s. counterpart denies vigorously that overthrowing saddam hussein is about oil. >> let me first of all deal with the conspiracy theory idea that this is somehow to do with oil. there is no way, whatever, if oil were the issue, that it would not be infinitely similar to cut a deal with saddam who i'm sure will be delighted to give us access to as much oil as we wanted if he could carry on building weapons of mass destruction. >> britain, two major oil companies, bp and shell. they were asked, have you asked the british government for in relation to the iraq war? the oil companies and blair government said we haven't talked about it. absolutely no meetings on this subject. so i managed to get documents which recorded five meetings that took

at 845, since world war i u.s. foreign policy has been wavering, uncertain and plagued by internal conflict much like today. at 10:00 p.m., ezekiel emanuel is on "after words" or it he talks about his book reinventing american health care. and we conclude our primetime programming at 11:00 p.m. eastern with jim demint. the former congressman discusses how we can fix our social and economic problems. that happens tonight on booktv. >> what you find on the larger corporate set yours are typically the things that would appeal to the broadest audience were those that are generally perceived as most profitable. and what i have discovered it's not the stuff that actually feeds us was going to uplift us. so if we are going to be able to share information about things that truly enrich us, all of your going to have to help do that. because the large corporations simply will not do it. it's not in their interest to do it and they haven't demonstrated a propensity to do it. but one of the things that i feel is lacking is tha

some of the war criminals were sent to war prisons. some were hung. those are the unmarked graves. ultimately the cold war was getting hot and john mccoy with truman became high commissioner of germany and gave clemanceancy to the majority of war criminals and they were released. here is hitler's favor chemist. he was convicted of mass murder and slavery. he was released and also his finances were fully restored as well. this is the world's, what i would call the cia's first black sight. after the war, the cia, well actually in 1947, after the cia teamed up with naval and army and airforce intelligence and used chemist and chemistry that was developed by the nazi and began enhanced interrogation techniques using lsd on what was soviet black prisoner because this was the cold war. the two physicians at the fill facility were the doctors. shriber went to texas and that is a long and tangled tail -- tale -- the cold war was heating up and this was the threat. the threat was the soviets, who by the way had their own german scientist program but unlike our program that put them on p ped

when days of the cold war to. do maintain and to expand nato and so this was contrary to the best assumptions of said it all just a specialist on russia at the time of the cold war was going on actually i would like to praise again their wisdom and the belief of george kennan george kennan was the one who devised the policy of containment which has been successful and brought success to the united states but once. through that union was no more there was no reason to maintain mater at all but once we decided to maintain later and even expand it we took and tag a nice to you developments in the in the former soviet union and so what is happening now in ukraine its exacerbation of the faulty. decision by united states government at the end of the cold war ok let me go back to richard here in washington is it really all i mean from the russian perspective it has a lot to do with nato expansion and i just mention you know azerbaijan we have georgia also insisted just an antagonistic policy i mean it does sound like lo

certainly a civil war in the republican party.xclusive headline, rand paul says dick cheney pushed for the iraq war so that halliburton would profit. so we have the early front-runner of the gop 2016 field calling the last republican vice president a war profiteer and a liability to the party to boot. there's a reckoning, i've said, coming for the republican party on national security, on war and peace. it looks like rand paul and dick cheney are the main card on this fight. joining me right now is david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and msnbc political analyst and clarence page, a columnist. i see a war. i talked about this at the end of the program. it remind me of '68 and the democrats in chicago where nay went hubert humphrey defending a war policy and a legacy of a war and along comes the left in the party among students, rye yating, disaster, four years later, mcgovern gets to be the dovish candidate, voting for nixon a complete disaster. is the republican party reaching an armageddon point where th

after the war he escaped prosecution. he lived as a gynecologist for a few years in germany, but in 1962, war crimes investigators started to catch up with him. and as they begin to close in, he disappeared without a trace. that is the jumping off point for this incredible book, souad and nicholas, welcome. and again, it's such a pleasure to be able to talk to but the story. first of all give us some background as to who he was. who was aribert heim? >> aribert heim was born in austria in a small austrian frontier town that, after world war i, was actually divided between yugoslavia and austria, have the talent and the south, half down on the north which is significant because that led to a strong surge of right wing feelings in the town. his brother joined the ss, after medical school, aribert heim also joined the ss. >> so you as a committed true blue, true believing nazi from the early days. >> his brother, in the family lore and in some letters that have cropped up, it was clear his brother was as hard-core a nazi as