this war is probably the most di vicive war this country has fought since the civil war. >> yes, it isery painful to this i da. we've talked to so many people who lived through this time who get upset just even just bringing up the word vietnam. people said to us, i don't think i can wamp the film. it will be too painful, why do you want to make a film about the vietnam war. that is just throwing salt in the wound and ken and i have said from the beginning, we don't think so. we think that we can maybe by shing some light on the story gives our country a way to talk about it that is not, sort of, i hate to use the word healing but it makes you think of that screening, people come to our screenings from many different per speblgives about this war. and because of the, i think the courage of the people speaking, and their honesty about their own feelings about what they went through, on a variety of perspectives, you know, there is something about the way that people are open in telling their stories in the film that what we have seen is people watching it show are willing to listen each

this war is probably the most divisive war this country has fought since the civil war. very painful to this day. we have talked to so many people who lived through this time to get upset even if you bring up the word vietnam. people of said, i do not think i can watch the film, it will be too painful. or, why do you want to make a film about the vietnam war? it is throwing salt in the wound. we have said, we do not think so. we think maybe by shedding light on the story, we can get the country a way to talk about it -- i hate to use the word healing, but people can come to the screenings with many perspectives about the war. because of the courage of the people speaking and their honesty about their own feelings about what they went through and a variety of perspectives -- there is something about the way people are open to telling their stories in the film. what we have seen his people willing to watch it and listen to each other in a different way. we have seen it over and over again as we have been going around the country showing clips and screenings internally as w

they call it war between the states, and the united states calls the civil war. well, that's not really what many -- what did the union people really call it? the war of the rebellion. when they published all of the records of the war, they didn't call them -- it's the war of the rebellion. that's what it is. about civil war in bigger print. and i can just kind of close my eyes and imagine the table where they are all arguing. i don't want to -- you have got to. i want it bigger, no you can have it smaller. and you can just hear. the committee meetings, i weep at that prospect. you're going to learn to hate committee meetings more than anything else in your life. you go in, you sit around for three hours, then you decide to meet again. and it really makes life seem not worth living when you're in those. ok, where are we today? well, the civil war still gets a lot of attention today. and i think people come at the war with two basic things in mind. and the first one is, what can we find in the war that is really about us and things we are interested in now? how do

it's a war for union. and it's a war that ended with this grand success that ratified the work of the founders. how do you compete with the founders? that's one of the problems. all they did was establish the country in a bloody war against scummy great britain, then they are responsible for the constitution. okay. check. check. and what have we done late? how do you complete with that memory? that's tough. how about saving the work of the founding generation. that's not bad. let's put that on our resume and that makes us look pretty good. that doesn't leave anything for later generations to do. who cares. we're taken care of. it's a baby boomer set of life. what about -- i'm more important, i want wall of you to take care of me. and my generation lives for ever. we are going to be around. you are going to have us as a giant anvil on your backs for almost all of your lives and you can't do anything about us, so don't even try. you don't have a chance. here this gives the civil war generation something that

-- world war ii, and provided what it took to win the war. the army did not change the policy, but they gave us an opportunity to serve, and we dispelled those biases and generalizations and in some cases, racist ideas about the negro population, but the army never changed the policy. it took the air force in 1947, two years after the war was over, to determine america needs to change, and the air force lead in that. i was just glad to have the opportunity to serve and be among those who helped dispel those biases and generalizations that had become part of mobilization policy. and, folks, i think we need to understand, as i said, world war ii, we declared war and provided what it took to win the war. korea, still divided. vietnam, not any better. unfortunately, when we use military power for political purposes, there's no wind. . politics is a compromise. we need to understand that lives are lost. we need to recognize and remember those who give, but we need to understand where we have been, where we are, where we are moving. thank you. [app

a defensive war is a just war.the other dimension of just war theory is -- he came out with the idea that the confederates were fighting a just war in the sense that they were defending themselves against invasion. my answer to that would be who started the war? you could define the union as -- motive for going to war is defensive. defending the black, defending the union. the conduct of the war i think is what your interested in, and that's what this book was mostly about. he indicted the north and abraham lincoln for conducting a war that was disproportionate in its conduct to the goals of the war. the destruction in the south, the vandalism the plunder. the suffering imposed on the south. curiously enough, he also said that northern soldiers, it was the black soldiers who were fighting a just war and they were fighting for freedom. my answer to that would be all northern soldiers were fighting for freedom. as far as the destruction, which touts condemned. as being excessive, beyond the requisites of a just war,

the time fifty one when korea but every war in my life time has accomplished nothing every war in my lifetime that i've seen from vietnam to iraq to all of the war on terror is accomplishing nothing and we're channeling all these resources and farms down a cesspool when there is this country going to wake up and understand that war is not the answer. yes. it's a big it's a big issue and you know when we normally talk about the cost of war we're saying you know eight hundred fifty billion spent in iraq seven hundred twenty something billion spent in afghanistan but we don't always consider you know future costs and obligations that we are going to need to deal with like better in disability event or in health care like if we even if we were to stop our involvement in every military campaign that we are actively participating in right now we would still have fifty and sixty years ahead of us of veteran disability and mental and physical health care for the youngest of the people who are serving today so i'm not quite sure what it will take you know to see you know it's the end war but

to be at war. i urge the senate to adopt my amendment which will be a six-month moratorium, a six-month sunset on the 2001 and 2002 resolution so we could then have the real debate. >> >> they q mat of president senator paul has been relentless to do what has to be done with the aid of a map from 2002 you cannot replace something in rehab nothing in it is six months of more time even at theth request of the president he - - we cannot come together as the senate the senate is befuddled to revive that language that we feed this to be a different debate with the actual a un zaphwithout with the existing authorities. are and without such aid we will confusion in a disruption of them with the allies and having spent a little bit of time with the areas of possibility to cease operations to begin planning almost immediately for those operations at a time when we get a round to even consider this we could see the of us evaporates with each passing day with the deployment or reposition that is more pressing

the culture of war lays the basis for the politics of war. to understand the political trajectory of the civilian relationship to war, and what i see as the production over time of the profound apathy of what we see now, i think it helps to step back to the civil war, and what she calls a republic of suffering. her landmark book on death in the american civil war, she argues that americans couldn't escape being affected by it. there was broad engagement with carnage and the death and suffering in the war. the "republic of suffering" title comes from frederick olmstead, who was working as a nurse on a hospital transport ship, who reflected walking among the injured and dying soldiers, and the community they had between them. i think about that when i think about a republic of suffering, a community being constituted in relationship to suffering and death. we think of the nation, the polity being shaped in some important way in relation to suffering and death. as authors often do in an epilogue, you say this dynamic continues. i actually do thi

war. we continue to host memorial throughout the city. our guide on this journey will be kevin fitzpatrick, who has written the governors island explorer's guide in the algonquin roundtable. -- and the algonquin round table. he wrote a guide to our cities -- city's enduring ties to the world war. it will be in the hall outside after the program to sign an answer your questions. -- hand answer your questions. reenactor world war i and new york city tourguide, so you have seen him around a lot. he is from the world war i centennial commission for new york city. please welcome kevin fitzpatrick. [applause] kevin fitzpatrick: thanks, kathleen. i do so much -- thank you so much. the new yorknk historical society for inviting me and to congratulate you on a fantastic world war i e.on the trenches exhibition, -- beyond the trenches exhibition. seven books are tied into new york history, this was the first one that challenge me to explore all five boroughs to great depths. from brooklynes to queen

it's a war for union. and it's a war that ended with this grand success that ratified the work of the founders. how do you compete with the founders? that's one of the problems. all they did was establish the country in a bloody war against scummy great britain, then they are responsible for the constitution. okay. check. check. and what have we done late? how do you complete with that memory? that's tough. how about saving the work of the founding generation. that's not bad. let's put that on our resume and that makes us look pretty good. that doesn't leave anything for later generations to do. who cares. we're taken care of. it's a baby boomer set of life. what about -- i'm more important, i want wall of you to take care of me. and my generation lives for ever. we are going to be around. you are going to have us as a giant anvil on your backs for almost all of your lives and you can't do anything about us, so don't even try. you don't have a chance. here this gives the civil war generation something that

who posts the war. machine . anthony diggs joins me now live from los angeles to talk more about the military anthony is a veteran who served in iraq he's also the c.e.o. of veterans stand an organization helping veterans transition from military to civilian life welcome aboard anthony thanks for coming on to the world according to jesse thank you for having me of a grateful for being here well and for the now the military you know i served way back from sixty nine to seventy four i'm a vietnam veteran and the military always finds money for new weapons like lately this fancy new aircraft carrier they've just built and named after gerald ford and i really find that ironic that they can spend money on an aircraft carrier and for gerald ford and yet flint michigan doesn't even have clean drinking water where gerald ford came from they got poisoned water but yet they'll build a new carrier why why is it that the government can afford all the stuff for weapons but yet fall short when it comes to supporting people lik

the war. our city played an important role and continues to host memorials throughout the city. our guide on this city will be kevin fitzpatrick, who has written the governors island explorer's guide and the algonquin round table. his latest book is world war i new york, a guide to our city's enduring ties to the great war. the book is for sale in museum store and kevin will be in the great hall outside after the program to sign books and answer your questions. , he doeseing an author an awful lot of stuff. kevin is a world war i reenactor and new york city tourguide, so you have seen him around a lot. he is also a member of the world war i centennial commission for new york city. please welcome kevin fitzpatrick. [applause] kevin fitzpatrick: thanks, kathleen. thank you so much. i want to thank the new york historical society for inviting me tonight to speak and to congratulate you on a fantastic world war beyond the trenches exhibition. i want to thank you all for attending tonight. of my se

wars are revealing.is the worst of humanity but also the best of humanity. >> there has been a lot done on this subject. documentaries, feature films, novels. -- it is not like not have ever tried but it remains a piece of unfinished business and american history. and it isades past important to go back and try to understand it. >> the heroes are the men that side. their loyalty and courage under fire. it was phenomenal. you would ask itself how does america produce young man like this? >> we wanted to get to know the people and the place and spend time there. try to figure out how we do what we do and vietnam was a challenge. one american side. in vietnam, there is a winning side there is a losing side. they were our enemy and ally. there are so many different perspectives and we tried to bring them all together. the most ambitious project we have undertaken. pbs is the only place it could happen done. >> i think the country is ready to have a conversation we never had about the war. >> the film is not

it was a huge factor on american support for the war. >> the war in the gulf is virtually over.gulf war. >> headlines in baghdad newspapers screamed fight them, but pictures from southern kuwait told a different story. >> the iraqi army began to emerge from their holes in the desert to give up. >> kneel down. >> we knocked out saddam hussein in 100 hours. it was a rout. >> this is sand from the liberated beaches of kuwait. >> that was a massive success. and it showed the world a huge lesson, that this kind of aggression would not stand. the problem was that they didn't go all the way to baghdad. >> but that would have been a much bigger military operation because what many of the allies had signed on to was only to liberate kuwait. the united states allowed saddam hussein to stay in power. >> the message flashed in new york city's times square said it all. the war in the gulf has ended. >> saddam hussein had bigger than life ambitions. and he was willing to do whatever it took to stay in power, to exert himself, to make iraq the geostrategic center of the middle east. and he fai

prediction here ok a few years when the syrian war the bloody syrian civil war will go you know it will be part of history and the people there will live in peace. the official american way of framing historically framing this war would be that it was the united states that defeated it was the united states that defeated it was the united states that conducted the peace negotiations and that maybe russia and maybe some other countries scoped out but not so much that's how it's not so there's not a western audiences think about the second world war exactly no and this is that you know think the normandy landing you know saving private ryan in the russians that a little bit on the other side of course was the americans that. you know it's already happening mr mongrel and the french president is already just saying call the political structure or syria should be formed after the war instead of apologizing for basically supporting and armed insurgency in a sovereign country he's now down in there now how they should organize well demon if you appear in a list habits die hard ok well really

good night. >> tonight on war stories investigates -- >> we awoke to this war on 9/11. but the roots of this jihad runs deeper than most realize. >> we represent everything they hate. >> they can watch "american idol" at night and the next morning there is suicides going. >> that's next on war stories investigates, jihad. >>> this is jerusalem. the whaling walls, part of the temple built by king solomon. above it, the dome of the rocks. one of the most revered sights in islam. just beyond, the garden where christ prayed the night before he died. all sites holy to jews, christians and muslims. good evening. tonight war stories investigates the jihad. the holy war or struggles to spread well beyond this yanjient city of david, threatening innocent people around the globe. as you see, the jihad goes far beyond terrorists taking hostages, hijacking aircraft and the horror of suicide bombers. this is a war we did not want and few saw coming. stay with us. as war stories investigates the jihad. >> you don't need them there. they are coming to you. >> i'm very aware they might

for world war iii. and, of course, congress then held hearings and took testimony from numerous individuals, and perhaps the most famous statement came from none other than omar bradley -- this is the wrong time for the wrong fight in the wrong place. and there's a lot to be said for that. and the justification once again was that our primary mission was protection of europe, and we didn't want to get embroiled in a huge war against the people's republic of china. you remember that great movie, "princess bride," and they talk about the second stupidest thing in the world is to get in a land war in asia? >> did macarthur ever like seriously pursue running for office or did he just know it wasn't going to work out for him? >> i think it became clear when he came back that he didn't really have the support that he was hoping. remember, he had a parade, a ticker tape parade in new york city and 7 million people came out to cheer him. this is after this debacle. and when eisenhower came home from world war i

that eventually escalated into a second world war -- second civil war around world war i. presidentwilson was of the confederacy and president roosevelt was president of the arctic states. they were the commanders in chief fighting this war. kind of like you are envisioning there. it is interesting to see how different it would have been fought with tanks and machine guns. things with the marines represented the union troops. >> ok, anyone else? how you saw the monuments. did they use live ammunition? >> not that we ever came across. particularly with the machine and did not want to hit anybody. they just wanted to be able to see without tracer fire was. even though they had tracer fire they were just shooting into a berm. >>. -- the guns of the time could not fire blanks. there was aming park service. they were in charge of the military fight. antietam, those were sites under the war department at the time. that is why they were able to come up and use it. the park service had been in control. i am sure they would have said no. bulletfind a machine gun on the battlefield

war. o there were two votes. the first was on the invasion of iraq. there were 23 of us, 22 democrats and one republican who voted against the authorization for the use of force in the invasion of iraq. i continue to believe that whenm it comes to foreign policy, it's the most important vote i have v ever cast, 23 of us voted no. the second vote was on the invasion of afghanistan and a different though completely. we just got through 9/11, 3000 innocent americans have been killed. the images are still in my mind and will be until i die. of what i saw as a result of that heinous attack, that atrocious attack by terrorists on the world trade center, on the pentagon, and, of course, would happen in the fields of pennsylvania.es and so the vote came to then floor of the basically said when it comes the invasion of afghanistan we are going after the people responsible for 9/11. i joined every other united states senator of both political parties in voting yes. we had to make it clear to terrori

the war. gov it was recently revealed that the us military spends ten times as much buying pills for soldiers with erectile dysfunction than it does on health care for transgender soldier is that when it comes to the latter the trumpet ministration claims that the costs are so tremendous they must be cut so let's look at the numbers now in twenty fourteen by agrah cost the pentagon over forty one million dollars alone in comparison an analysis from the rand corporation has found that health care for transgender soldiers only increases the budget between two million and eight million dollars per year and amount that rand says has little impact on overall d.o.d. health care expenditures here's a clip from a speech that you gave in one thousand nine hundred eight when you were first running for governor when you're in the military you work with every race creed color and nationality it doesn't come down to any of that it comes down to can you get the job done and that's how you respect each other

of war. while revenues will pay for p the war. it seems as if our political leadership wants the citizens c to believe we can go to war and may not suffer any consequences or participateza declaring war on the opposition of force brings it into this. rather than downplaying, wereer making sure others are all in this together and this involves congress making a decision that this endeavor is worth the potential loss of life by americans who serve in our military. mr. president, these are difficult, challenging and important decisions. i want to work with my colleagues to find the right solution, not just to walk away from a resolution, but to make sure we have in place something that gives the authority to our troops. i yield the floor.e presid >> let senator mccain be recognized prior to senator corker's speaking time. >> is their objection.ld >> right to object. i would ask if the gentleman from kansas would modify the request and i be allowed to speak for up to five minutes before senator m

i have done films on the second world war and the civil war and passed through other wars in other films i have done. there is a uniqueness to each one of these calamities. and a strange and very human similarity. what we understood is that there is more than one truth in war. we tend to, particularly something that did not turn out so well for us, tend to say it is only one thing or else we get locked in our hardened silo of opinion or do not listen to the other. we tried to create a space where, not just the participants , with feel like their voices were heard, regardless of their opinion. i do not want to talk about a political spectrum. that our viewers could as well. that is an important thing for us. acause we did not have political agenda and wanted to greedy all americans could sit down. were allbout -- americans could sit down. we talked about, grandma, why thatou talk -- go to protest, that is the conversations we wanted to have. host: if you want to ask them questions, 202-748-8000 for each role -- eastern and central time zones. veteran, 202-748-8002. we will sure you that s

you have some you have the cold war but before the cold war you have the second world war and though we are without poor and it's a. drugs war on terror it's own words so what's really interesting to me is that i've been here for the entire history of this television station and i would say the first time we made an impression was during this crisis of two thousand and eight people started to tune in and then it was really the so-called arab spring like all of the sunni winter we had a different narrative and then it you sort of ukraine in syria and we presented a narrative about those conflicts right there it was starkly stark. different and this is what really really angers them the freedom of speech in the west is a complete illusion and you know i saw in france the. current us contending the opening of all tea in french and so i mean this is a right it should be in the center i think and there's a real panic because they're going to last tense you're in france you have only one idea in on all the tunnels and during the last campaign it all defines the private one we're supporting

people talk about world war i, world war ii. but the cold war in its way was just as important, just as significant in affecting the outcome of the world and of history. >> host: now, mr. edwards, that meeting at yalta happened just a few month before the end of world war ii. correct? >> guest: yes. and fdr was dying -- >> host: january or february? >> guest: i think it was february. fdr was dying. looked taylor but still wanted to be there -- looked terrible but wanted to pin down what the world would look like. so he and churchill thought they worked out an arrangement with joseph stalin, the dictator of the soviet union, recording coming up elects in eastern europe and mr. stalin said we'll have free and open elections there. and of course, poland was the key factor in their discussions as well. and they thought, on our side, the west, that things had been worked out, things are going to be perfectly fine, and if they weren't, we could depend on the united nations to keep the peace. d. work out that way. >> host: did they bas

you know we don't want war i don't think they want war so it's better not to instigate and the best way to move away from war is actually to implement things on the ground so if we have thirteen border. points that we have still different different opinions about it there's a tripartite. between us and the united nation and israel meeting monthly we need to resolve these issues at once we need to take the pretext of any war away from from everybody and implement and see how we move to a full cessation of hostilities between us and the. prime minister you are no stranger to threats your father tragically died in a political assassination you also had reasons for awhile to be out of lebanon. has have things changed do you feel like this right is in the past or now that your prime minister in the more danger i think. more i mean is the is the role of. all of these groups. both think you know less security or do we draw the support. of the job comes with it and this part of we have to be careful but it's. just managing. the best of luck in your hopefully you'll come back to russia again soo

and treated as prisoners of war. we tell her story. pistol thatnglish belonged to a major who served in the 62nd regiment. he was badly wounded in the battle of freeman's farm which took place during the series of actions around saratoga. she mentionedle, him by name and cared for him. that is an object seemed almost certainly saw at the time, kind of a witness. he did recover and became a prisoner of war along with the baroness through the rest of the conflict. we have also in this gallery a display we call "arms of independence or co- this is a tremendous collection of nearly 50 weapons carried by american forces during the revolutionary war. in the center, this is a painting of the battle of princeton. you can see general washington brandishing his sword on the left. in the middle, you see a fallen white horse and a soldier helping general mercer. what is remarkable about this this is, the original, a copy, the original was by james peale. this is a copy done by general who was son, william, apprenticed to the pea

in front of me, i have documentation about prisoner of war conditions during world war ii. this is a report of the prison camp in shanghai and tear at the andsations, conditions football, sanitary conditions abominable, water supply for fires, no fuel insufficient blankets, in winter, 15 degrees to 20 degrees below zero, no food issued, no supplies, no medical in march, 1942, and american pow who escaped from camp was recaptured and tried by court-martial and under the provisions of the japanese military law, as a deserter from the japanese army and sentenced to 10 years confinement. the next part reads in the defense evidence that in december of 1942, the pow was justly treated and the swiss international red cross was delighted when they inspected the shanghai pow camp. camp inis from the pow another location, at least 10 men died from hardships experienced between the shipping camp. each pow left with a shirt and ts -- pair of pants, and the food was inconsistent with rice and vegetable. one sergeant and two privates and the p.o.w. dr. and assistants were severely beaten

the to the war the war has tipped into the other direction i think is pretty obvious here but you would know that from mainstream media you wouldn't know that from cable t.v. would you what happened in syria last time i heard over a half a million six hundred thousand people returned to aleppo oh i thought they were supposed to fear mr assad then to me the whole media narrative has collapsed into hurted basically the message from the new york times is stop telling me peace is coming back just like their main message for mr trump during the talks with is stop telling me that they want honestly. i want thanks to you and you're going to be held to account for that and this is in the detour you also the new york times you are absolutely right you wouldn't you wouldn't know that the situation is improving from the western media i actually learned the situation is improving problem the had all of their. positions negotiating so-called supreme council here lashed out at stuff on to mr worthy you under presented to on syria for what staffan de mistura basically said to their position you have t

the navy plays a crucial war and the war effort. >> here is len.abe >> hello.i'm glad to talk to the babe ruth's of documentary filmmaking. >> we like to think of it more like ted williams my dad was a world war ii vet, and he held harry truman in the highest in.s i guess i was 17 when the war ended in and started college the next year penn state. i noticed a lot of the guys in non- have become college students but having difficulty, academic, social, trouble with the law. when i talked my daddy said we went to college on the g.i. bill i didn't know anybody. so is the difference between that war and this one. they were both brutal according to this stuff my dad told me it was as ugly as it gets. >> we've done okay now and it is as ugly as it could possibly get. it was a big feature on our 2007 documentary, lincoln address. >> we wrestled with this a great deal. on one hand you could say there many veterans, known from world war ii with serious problems. at that time we didn't talk about it. i remember a veteran we talked d to said they went to see a dr. and sai

ven civil war beginners have learned real civil war guns have markings engraved on the front the mussel which identify the tube, the manufacturer of the eight and the initials of the inspector, everybody knows what i'm talking about? the griffin gun has none of required markings and on was two, the griffin gun never delivered to the war department for service in the civil war. right, it is is not a civil war gun. unfortunately for the general, gun is quite real, pre-war prototype. the markings on the griffin gun appear not on the mussel, but trunyon, protruding sideway from the center of the tube by which it is mounted on the carriage. case of this particular griffin gun, it has been painted trunyon times that the markings are barely discernible, even in the brightest daylight. i'm happy to report that information in the book is out of date because they have and now you can't read them. the book.k with adding to mystery the gun is just as spelled, legendary mini-ball misspells the name of the french developer laude monet, griffin gun is brain child of john griffin, who an ordinance rifl

spent rest of the war, trying and failing to escape from various prisons and war camps. the unit became under the command of paddy maine. the war enter ad differentof phase. hitler by this point passed something called the commando order. it was a direct response to what the sas was doing. what it did was effectively called for all captured sas personnel to be executed immediately and without trial. dozens, scores, of asa soldiers were murdered by the sas.rd in the final stage of the war it was vastly expanded. it played a vital role in d-day, parachuting behind the lines. really trying to prevent the panzer divisions from the south moving north to reinforce the normandy bridgehead. sas troops were amongst the first to enter bergin bell son, concentration camp. a scene of unbelievable horror greeted them there. there was a extraordinary moment, you remember red sick kings, the boxer, he began to take the law into his own hands. he beat up a german officer. he said no, we must arrest all the people. they must be put on trial. it was simple moment. the sas could have execu

not just because the korean war was first big hot war of the cold war with devastating consequences for korea. but living with today, but also bauds the korean war led to a military station of the cold war on the global scale. and i think this is gene something that's very often forgotten. and intense conflict between the united states and the soviet union and between the western european states and the soviet union prior to the summer of 1950, but i think very few people who have imaginedded this international system that would last forked next 40 years if it hadn't been for the outbreak of war in korea. it didn't change everything but it changed a lot of things in terms of how the cold war developed and then part of it -- in terms of turning points, the 1970s and economic change that took place during that decade on the first spot of the 1980s. i think plan to go into this much many the presentation today we can talk about it afterwards but basically my view of what happened -- is that from 1970s on after a period of what was in a tremendous weakness for the west i mean think the syst

news is the war machine they've to monetize so the only places you can really find the truth about war has been on you tube people like me and as soon as you put anything in a title or a tag that has anything to do with terrorism or isis or syria or war or the petrodollar they will demonic ties it so that it's discouraging you from to because you don't make money off it you've invested money in putting this video together and be monetized as a way of flagging it is there's a problem with this video so it's also not going to be shown as men. right so it's not just a money thing right so then so it suppresses the circulation of your video also it sets off an algorithm to do closer look at more of your videos and to monetize them and then you don't know which videos in your past have been demonetized to because i don't go check but it they can just do it all the way down and then those videos don't get circulated so there's a lot of theories about why this is happening but it certainly is no coincidence that the people telling the truth about things they don't want to fund especially the

is to started the war? that could be defensive defending the flag or the union if you are what you are interested and indicted the north for conducting a war that was disproportionate in its conduct vandalism and j suffering imposed on the south the curiously enough he said on the part of northern soldiers because they were fighting for freedom all those soldiers were fighting for freedom and as far as the destruction that is excessive that is the abolition of slavery. sewed to see an inconsistency in condemning the of the destruction of the southern railroad door homes on the one hand clearly there were excesses'. and those in the shenandoah valley clearly that goes beyond.li >> they did not line up the civilians to shoot them. >> if we want to say that strategic bombing those that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and while we were excesses'.e that this was a hard word that is part of nevertheless but that balance and proportion. >> let's take a few questions from the audience. >>. >> given all th

at are still officially war.e on site at the zone you can look over the mountainous landscape into north korea. you can see out there. >> the zone is not demilitarized. most one of the militarized spots on earth with a number of divisions and undreds of thousands of soldiers and artillery pieces of r.o.c. and north korea army. military his is a historian here with the sources. >> what is this music? >> it is propaganda. oth sides use multiple platforms to get their words to the other side. >> the flagsticking un haryl: jeff remember lee is among the troops stationed here more than half on the front line. >> are you told to be policied something to happen literally any second? that we are told but that is our mission every day. it is just a picture of what we do on daily basis. if you look at that concrete slab that is the border. far side you have north korean soldiers. soldiers and u.s. soldiers facing straight into enemy.t of the sharyl: today just like then anyone border in either direction would be shot. kore

doesn't start wars. we don't invade countries and they felt like when they entered the military, they took an oath but there was a tasset agreement that the u.s. government would utilize them for sensible -- for important causes and sensible causes and many of them felt like they were being put in combat in a situation that really didn't warrant invasion. now, they all of them obeyed it but it bothered them. so you see how civil military relations can be so complicated and so difficult from a moral standpoint. anybody have any questions about civil military relations? you guys are awfully quiet today. you're intimidated by the cameras. i understand. yeah? >> so if you decided that you didn't agree on a moral standpoint, would that be when you would like call yourself a conscientious objector or is that something different? >> well conscientious objector usually are opposed to war morally, period. i think that's really usually the case. yeah? >> in the case that you found something morally reprehensible a

the war. our city played an important role and continues to. our guide on the journey will be kevin fitzpatrick who's writen the explorer's guide and the round table. his latest book is "world war i new york, a guide to our city's enduring tie to the great war." that book is for sale in our museum store and kevin will be in the great hall after the program to sign books and answer your questions. now besides being an author, he does an awful lot of stuff. kevin is a world war i reenaker and a new york city tour guide. he's also a member of the world war i centennial commission for new york city. please welcome kevin fitzpatri k fitzpatrick. [ applause ] >> thanks, kathleen. thank you so much. i want to thank the new york historical society for inviting me tonight and to congratulate you on the fantastic world war i beyond the trenches. thank you for attending tonight. of my seven books that are all tied into new york city in some way, this is if first one to challenged me explore all five boro

that's next on war stories. >>> is this a war that we can win? >> i think it is a war we can win, but it may take 25 years. it's a war we have to stay at. >> the cia estimates at least 5,000 terrorists have been captured or killed in this jihad since september 11th, 2001. >> they are not looked@sports heroes or movie stars. they are looking at martyrdom. they can watch "american idol" at night and the next morning put a suicide vest on. >> the hard core islamist hates the united states in part because we represent everything they hate. a kind of world that the true believer wants to create. it's not a world of tolerance and democracy and freedom of oppression. >> they are prepared to do everything they can do. they welcome death. young men and women. >> what promises are made to women? >> women in this part of the world feel threatened. in one of the most extreme or oppressions is you have sinned, you have been bad and you are going hell. this is a way to be better. >> she straps on the vest and blows herself up. >> given this mind set, with arme

less than world war i or world war ii. memorials for fdr and for george washington -- and we know that general eisenhower continues off with terrific tension between the family and the powers that be here in washington. yours tomemorial of become a reality is absolutely .mazing even something like the george washington memorial, the design itself was totally different initially than what was built. there is a connection between the washington monument and the vietnam memorial in the sense that they are both indeed quite scaled down. it's one of the surprising things -- surprising to me and all of this was going into the way in which the vision developed for this thing, it was originally a very deeply antiwar design where it was not just the in her she presented class, but it was the chevron were there were a series of stones coming down to that chevron. and the stones going down are meant to be the dominoes of the vietnam war, as if those who died, all 58,000 serve down the stones of the dominoes to their depth. to me that

we have not voted to go to war in yemen. been to war for 16 years, the longest war in afghanistan. there is no purpose for the war in afghanistan. today's vote will be remembered as the first vote, if we have it, in 16 years on whether to continue fighting everywhere all the time without ever having to renew the authorization of congress. i hope senators will think long and hard about the seven ongoing wars and at the very least show regard for our young soldiers and go on the record to uphold their oath of office. each senator should uphold their oath of office and defend the constitution and its requirements with regard to war. i for one will stand with the soldiers, young and brave, sent to fight in distant lands in a forgotten forever war. i will stand for the constitution. i will stand with our founding fathers who did everything possible to make the initiation of war difficult. i hope my colleagues will stand for something. i hope my colleagues will finally vote to do their constitutional duty. and oversee and/or discontinue the many wars we are in. but even if my colleagues