kujat says germany needs to beef up its forces for its missions own protection on the ground. we don't have time. we need to act. so as germans revel in the magic of the season they know they have a big decision ahead. >> lehrer: and finally tonight, the analysis of shields and brooks. syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. mark, the president's nobel speech that margaret referred to, what did you think of the speech. >> the first thing that hit me, jim, listening to that speech was upon leaving office every president writes an autobiography. and people buy the book because of whose's writing it, rather than what is in it. this is the only president in our history who became independently wealthy by writing a book before. and then wrote a speech, nobody other than william jennings bryant ever launched a national political career from a convention speech. so i guess i should not be surprised by his ability to master the language to take complex ideas and put them into coherent structure and compelling structure. >> lehrer: you would expec

east germany is falling apart we must russian quickly. then he says we must not rush because it could be dangerous. you see the quickening of the tempo. when you see the russians are not able to put the alternatives together, you want to keep them on the back foot. other alternatives are likely. but when you get the quickening of the temple, they become less likely. then you have to do prefab because you do not have time a sense i am about to be quoted back to myself. in the book, i am trying to question the notion from bob hutchins. he wrote recently that even 20 years later, it is hard to see how dgerman unification could have been done better. i am trying to offer a point of view from other countries as well. it is not something that the dissidents were pacifists would agree with. and looking at what of terms of the outcomes there were and why they were not viable. >> i did not mean to say that. in the paper, and tried to be careful. there are two different tasks in jailed in assessing -- there are two different tasks in tailentan the

chole started talking about two germanies under a european roof. baker reading a text was talking about a trance atlantic security architecture. so i decided to follow the lead of the historical actors and use that as the organizing metaphor for the book. and this is also the way that i addressed the question of how do policy makers respond in the aftermath of these dramatic events. so what i decided to do was think about what happened after november 1989 as an architectural competition, where you had different ark teshts proposing different blueprints in a highly competitive fashion to try to succeed, to try to be the one who could put down the blueprint for post cold war europe the fastest. and i found that worked well because as you know if you win an architectural competition, that doesn't mean you get to build anything. because immediately the people who lost sue you. they say the contest was unfair. they say the people who commissioned it have second thoughts. so then there's a long process of realizing your model. and that was certainly the

>> japan, south korea, and germany. in germany alone, there are over 57,000 troops. there -- actually, almost 200 bases and installations in germany. some are huge, like the giants' medical center. some are tiny, and there are housing concentrations and small basis across the country. the same in japan and south korea. huge numbers, thousands of troops. it has been there since world war two, in the case of japan. the cost of this is way beyond but we sometimes think about. host: has any other administration taken a serious effort at downsizing the presence? guest: there was downsizing in the 1990 pus. there were no major wars being fought. but not in the key countries. not in germany, japan, or south korea. smaller bases were downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social

east germany is falling apart. we must rush quickly which is quite interesting because literally two, three weeks ago he was saying we must not rush because it could be dangerous. please see this conscious quickening of the tempo and bob zoellick is very explicit about this weird when you see these russians are not able to put their together you have to keep them on the back foot. so there are other alternatives which are likely but once you get is quickening of tempo, then they become much less likely and from that point on then you have to do prefab because you don't have time to. i see papers being exchanged so i sent them about to be quoted back to myself with dread. i guess what i'm really trying to say in the book is i'm trying to question the notion, this is from bob hutchins. he wrote that even 20 years later it's hard to see the german reunification could've been any better handled. i would have done nothing differently. what i'm trying to offer in the book is a point of view from other countries that was

at some point, i mea what germany under adolph hitr and the third like did cs to heav in -- reich ys to heaven for vennce and will never be forgotten by anybodwalking this earth. but after three generations it is time to lookt germany with fresh eyes. >> ba about the germans. >> that is the thi. i think we trust the germans. think successful add american administratio have asked them toake more gressive roles he, use their por in former yuing laughia, et cetera, et cetera. but cultures jt movely. and the germans themselve does not seem to be ere, especially the ones who ar western rman. and so cultus, the 65 years ter a trauma like world war ii oworld war i that is the blink of aeye. and we shouldn't rh them tohere they as a people are t willing to go. an65 years is just not a a long time. >> lehrer: new subject e senate democratic compromise on alth-care rerm what do you make of it? >> as so as we know what it is. >> lehrer: a you really getting piy, aren't you. >> i was there wednesd after noon tryinto find out again what it is. and loand behold senators off e record would admit th

do not run over the trees in germany. -- you do not run over the trees in germany. if this is a time for smart power, decisive power. we dug up all the trees brought them to a housing area, off replanted them -- replanted them and then invited the greens to come to our ceremony of rededication. i do not. russka was there -- i do not do notyashhk do notyashka was there are not. we have worked on so many issues, it is hard to list them all about it taking an hour. but he was always a different and a deer associates. this does not mean we had no disagreements. the we had your disagreements and many of you remember if the disagreement we have with germany over the iraq situation in 2003 to the point where our leaders were somewhat estranged from each other. but yashka and i were never a strange winter because we understood that what is important is to come back together. what i remember most vividly from those trying days is that yashka would say to make my you know, we have to keep working together. we in germany will never forget what the u.s. has done for us over the

plan. 20 years after that when we built the country that it bombed this comet doing well and of course germany and japan our world as trading partners and their political allies. less statistic you have 100 billion jobe's needed right now on the middle east over the next decade. so they calculate 60% of the population will be under the age of 25 at the end of the decade with the need for 100 million new jobs. how are you going to create 100 million jobs and money are losing 50 million jobs? as you said you don't know the ceo who is hiring so there's nothing more dangerous in the world than someone with no hope, no skills, no economic opportunity into much time. do you follow me? the real driver for the taliban, the recruiter is not the ideology. it is economics. so what i have said is we have

germany is ready to that. germany is ready to participate. the european union is ready to participate. i noticed today that the united states of america has made an important step forward to a long-term commitment. this is so that the poorest countries can rely on this as well. if our reduction are the ones to which we commit and make them binding in financing, we are ready and willing to make it binding commitment, then i think we will be able to help the emerging countries and they will shoulder their responsibilities and show themselves willing to bring this commitment into a binding legal framework. we need to be able to compare what we do. we have a common responsibility that is differentiated with countries like japan and india and other emerging countries. they have no signal to is that they are willing to give a contribution. it is important that all this leads to a common legal framework that we enter into binding commitments. this is why, ladies and gentleman, reduction and the question of commitments of the merging companies in a d

east germany is falling apart we must russian quickly. then he says we must not rush because it could be dangerous. you see the quickening of the tempo. when you see the russians are not able to put the alternatives together, you want to keep them on the back foot. other alternatives are likely. but when you get the quickening of the temple, they become less likely. then you have to do prefab because you do not have time a sense i am about to be quoted back to myself. in the book, i am trying to question the notion from bob hutchins. he wrote recently that even 20 years later, it is hard to see how dgerman unification could have been done better. i am trying to offer a point of view from other countries as well. it is not something that the dissidents were pacifists would agree with. and looking at what of terms of the outcomes there were and why they were not viable. >> i did not mean to say that. in the paper, and tried to be careful. there are two different tasks in jailed in assessing -- there are two different tasks in tailentan the

it includes one of britain's best known scientists and one of germany's best known scientists. it includes scientists from the world's top research bodies, bodies at the pasteur institute and a 50-year-old institution that has 20 country members and services half of world's particle physicists. it includes top climate scientists, legends in the field such as william gray who's considered by many the world's foremost authority on the prediction of hurricanes and reed bryson who has been called the father of scientific climatology and who was the world's most cited climatologist. at some point possibly quite soon if climate science doesn't demonstrate a breakthrough capable of impressing scientists, this whole big lie may come crashing down. so thank you. [applause] >> thank you, lawrence. we're going to have questions. i hope this has whetted your appetite to read this book. it's very readable. it's got a lot of stuff in it. i mean, i know most of the people here you have seen them as cooler heads lecturers including one who's here today, fred singer. but i learned quite a lot t

the wall was opened at 11:30 and evening and in germany it was two hours later and moscow. when the east german ambassador told gorbachev what had happened, gorbachev told him that the leadership had taken the correct decision, and please convey that view to the leadership. in fact, the leadership hadn't taken that decision at all. they were a bit deal more nervous and alarmed at what it happened than gore which are themselves was. the fall of the wall float is not synonymous with the fall of communism. the dismantling of communist systems within each central europe and indeed in the soviet union itself was already well advanced by the time the wall was breached 20 years ago. so i'm going to spend the remainder of my time examining the reasons for the fall of communism in europe, rather than for the fall of the wall in berlin specifically. the opening of the wall was a logical albeit unintended consequence of a chain of events which preceded it. we need to remind ourselves that communism was as a political movement was remarkable successful so far as sheer numbers were conc

the only crickcally elected leader was strongly opposed to east germany going into nato. his foreign minister resigned. if they had ever gotten their act together and come up with some coherent alternative that perhaps could have gelled. as they pointed out in a breakfast session, we were aware that there were all these other things involved that would make our life difficult. our job was to keep the pace moving. one of the great virtues of prefab is that it's already there. you don't waste any time on conceptualizing, and this is the last point. people in the east knew what they were getting and they wanted it. they saw the benefits. they saw the western lifestyle. and when push came to shove in the east german election of march 18, 1990, which by virtue of its timing is really the end game in the commission -- competition, they voted for prefab, because they wanted it. >> can i just say one thing? as a political scientist on the panel, aside from the chair, the most powerful country in the world wanted prefab. the most powerful country in the world wanted prefab. >> pre

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but for germany, is clearly too high. we may go and the duration of 40%. >> that appears to be the new consensus. you are 40%. at least a year. alice. >> what is really important is the direction of change. there is no magic number, and bill is right when he says that the 60% is that held by the public. it does not count the amount that the security and medicare systems -- we are indebted to them and have to pay those liabilities. these are a lot of numbers to keep juggling. but what is really important is the direction of change. as long as this dead is rising as a percentage of -- as long as this debt is rising as a percentage of gdp, we are in trouble. we've got to get that down. >> that are a couple of other causes. the cost of interest itself is growing quite rapidly. once interest rates move up, that is going to be significant. there are other generational issues there. there is also the other issue i worry about. because of entitlements, all of us are basically cutting discretionary. which means we're cutting infra

do not run over the trees in germany. -- you do not run over the trees in germany. if this is a time for smart power, decisive power. we dug up all the trees, brought them to a housing area, off replanted them -- replanted them and then invited the greens to come to our ceremony of rededication. i do not. russka was there -- i do not do notyashh do notyashka was there. we have worked on so many issues, it is hard to list them all about it taking an hour. but he was always a different and a deer associates. this does not mean we had no disagreements. the we had your disagreements and many of you remember if the disagreement we have with germany over the iraq situation in 2003 to the point where our leaders were somewhat estranged from each other. but yashka and i were never a strange winter because we understood that what is important is to come back together. what i remember most vividly from those trying days is that yashka would say to make my you know, we have to keep working together. we in germany will never forget what the u.s. has done for us over these years

>> japan, south korea, and germany. in germany alone, there are over 57,000 troops. there -- actually, almost 200 bases and installations in germany. some are huge, like the giants' medical center. some are tiny, and there are housing concentrations and small basis across the country. the same in japan and south korea. huge numbers, thousands of troops. it has been there since world war two, in the case of japan. the cost of this is way beyond but we sometimes think about. host: has any other administration taken a serious effort at downsizing the presence? guest: there was downsizing in the 1990 pus. there were no major wars being fought. but not in the key countries. not in germany, japan, or south korea. smaller bases were downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social

and then essentially took off to germany. and it's literally that simple. >> larry: we'll be back with some remains moments with edda mellas and curt knox. don't go away. ork better on pain tylenol 8-hour. so why am i still thinking about this? - how are you? - good, how are you? aleve. proven better on pain. your own seafood feast at red lobster. choose two or three from new creations... like wood-grilled shrimp with garlic creme and parmesan... to classics like succulent steamed crab legs. for a limited time, at red lobster. >> larry: edda, what would you say to the family of the deceased? >> you know, again, we said it so many times. we can't even imagine their loss and the pain that they must feel. but we would also tell them that we know that absolutely amanda had nothing to do with this. and meredith was her friend. and this is -- there's a couple new victims in this whole mess and that's amanda and rafaele. >> larry: curt, did the prosecution ever present a theory of a motive? >> you know, they actually went through fo

he had been educated in germany. his father was british and his mother was german. and he was taken on. you probably can't see from where you are but the picture is in the book. the problem was that he spoke with the strong german accent and in august 1914 even if you had eight-- you were suspected and we will provide further details on that, so the only way that he could be allowed into mi5 headquarters which was in the war office, was having alpa little sends which you can barely see which says he is a jump-- englishmen said by the head of mi5 but that was any one of his personae. at the age of 20, i'm not clear that anybody has had a more successful career in deception than this man. there he is as a german officer. there wasn't a single german p.o.w. who suspected he was not in fact himself a german p.o.w. and of course when he spoke english it was with a german accent but also there were a limited number of enemy nationals as they were called, who were allowed to carry on living in london during the first world war in the metropolitan police gave him a pass to

. >> he was six years old when he came to germany in world war i. his mother brought him here. two months before we declared war in germany he broke down in texas headed to the army air corps and was a protÉge of general arnold who was the u.s. air force during world war ii. then went to work on scientific -- bringing science into the air force. he used utilized science and saw this weapon would guarantee the peace because if we had it we could deter the russians from doing anything that would trigger nuclear water and then we ended up he ended up creating the nuclear stalemate which is referred to the nuclear people as nuclear assured destruction in other words neither side could get a surprise attack on the other because they would destroy themselves in the same process. >> in the book you talk about the resistance he issued during his team-high reading this team together. can you talk about the resistance? >> sure, this is a book not about hardware but about people. there was tremendous resistance from curtis lemay who was the head of the strategic air command. a great bomb

>> japan, south korea, and germany. in germany alone, there are over 57,000 troops. there -- actually, almost 200 bases and installations in germany. some are huge, like the giants' medical center. some are tiny, and there are housing concentrations and small basis across the country. the same in japan and south korea. huge numbers, thousands of troops. it has been there since world war two, in the case of japan. the cost of this is way beyond but we sometimes think about. host: has any other administration taken a serious effort at downsizing the presence? guest: there was downsizing in the 1990 pus. there were no major wars being fought. but not in the key countries. not in germany, japan, or south korea. smaller bases were downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social

chole started talking about two germanies under a european roof. baker reading a text was talking about a trance atlantic security architecture. so i decided to follow the lead of the historical actors and use that as the organizing metaphor for the book. and this is also the way that i addressed the question of how do policy makers respond in the aftermath of these dramatic events. so what i decided to do was think about what happened after november 1989 as an architectural competition, where you had different ark teshts proposing different blueprints in a highly competitive fashion to try to succeed, to try to be the one who could put down the blueprint for post cold war europe the fastest. and i found that worked well because as you know if you win an architectural competition, that doesn't mean you get to build anything. because immediately the people who lost sue you. they say the contest was unfair. they say the people who commissioned it have second thoughts. so then there's a long process of realizing your model. and that was certainly the

he moves to east germany. what does he do? he has a summer steady for an important people ahead of the chinese nuclear program he gives the chinese of how well los alamos program worked. the technology moves and wondrous ways. the six nation to go nuclear was israel. that is an interesting story because israel all they decided to have paid program after the suez crisis. two refresh your memory 1956, the brits and french and israelis decide to invade egypt and retake the suez canal. they did not consult the americans before doing this but they invaded and eisenhower's said stop and threatened with economic retaliation so they withdrew. febris already had nuclear-weapons france and israel came to the conclusion we cannot count on the americans to become our security blanket forever. the suez crisis was an october 1956. november, golden bear and went to france and made the deal to undergo a joint program and they have the physics and technology but they would do the heavy lifting of building of facilities. the interesting thing i

they go through germany? >> we -- there are a number of ways. depending on the severity of the injury is decided. >> is that your decision or someone else's? >> it is a medical decision. >> the final point is we have lost two individuals. it has been a dual action. >> we have a very similar program with the casualty assistance office. they make official notifications to the families in the event of death or injury. we have lost 35 people. we have a memorial garden with stones with names on them. that is part of the indoctrination process for the people who come to deploy to understand the significant sacrifices the others have made. >> let me talk about injury. you have employees that are american citizens, european, third-world, indigenous. do you keep track of all of them or just americans? >> i believe we keep track of what we consider ex-pats which are foreign nationals who from europe freed third country nationals, we really do not have interaction with the families. -- from europe. third country nationals, we do not have interaction. >> do

two months before we declared war on germany. he grew up in texas and joined the army air corps and a protege of general arnold the founder of the u.s. air force during world war ii. then went to work on bringing science into the air force. and he saw this what then would guarantee the piece because if we had it, we could deter the russians from doing anything and he ended up creating a nuclear stalemate. and neither side could get a surprise attack on the other because they would destroy themselves in the same process. >> in the book you talk about the resistance and can you talk about that? >> i have been tremendous resistance from curtis come with the herod days head of the strategic air command and the bomber from world war ii went over the edge in the israeli years and became a model of dr. strange love. so they read -- ran into tremendous resistance they overcame it. and eisenhower understood what they were trying to do and gave them carte blanche just in time. he signed off september 13 and had his heart attack 10 days lat

my main point of disagreement is that i just understand this -- you went back to nazi germany, that was the national socialist party of the left. r)ethe nazis a limited other socialists in a political power push parenth. there were in direct competition with the bolsheviks and others. the nazis were of the left. the direction of this country is very much now socialist. in the european sense which is very frightening. as a libertarian conservative, i would agree with earlier callers who were talking about ron paul -- host: you have given us a lot to work with. guest: i would respectfully disagree. you are absolutely right and one thing which is the nazi party, the name is national socialism, but the key thing to remember about national socialism is that they party was much more important than socialism. they sought to try to glorify the nation and this idea of the volks, which is the german people and they fought on the basis of this to create a state where socialism never had a chance because you had business planning an extremely important businesses supported the nazi party. you also

to months before we declared war in germany. he got into the army air corps and was a protege of hap arnold who was the founder of the u.s. air force in world war ii. then with the scientific, bringing science into the air force, he who lies that an saab that this weaponed would guarantee peace because if we had it, we could deter the russians from doing anything that would trigger a nuclear war and then we ended up, he ended up creating a nuclear still might-- stalemate, mutual assured destruction. in other words neither side could get a surprise attack on the other because they would destroy themselves in the same process. >> in the book you talk about the resistance that mr. shreve mer and his team had putting this together. can you talk a little bit about that resistance? >> sure, this is a book not about hardware but about people. there was tremendous resistance from curtis lemay who was the head of the strategic air command, the great bomber leader from world war ii who became, when over the edge in his later years and bec

germany is ready to do that. germany is ready to shoulder its burden. the eu is ready to shoulder its burden. i noted with gratification the u.s. too have made an important step forward to such a long term commitment. so the poorest countries may rely on this as well. if our reduction obligations are the ones to which we commit that we make them binding, we say in financing, we're ready and willing to make a binding commitment, then i think we will be able and particularly the emerging countries, step-by- step, shoulder additional responsibilities and will show themselves willing to bring this commitment and to a binding legal framework. we need to be able to compare what we do. obviously, we have a common responsibility. a common responsibility that is differentiated for china such as china and india and other emerging countries. they have signaled to us that they are willing to give their contribution. it is important that all of this leads to the common legal framework that we enter into binding commitments. this is why financing reduction and also t

. >> he normally does a listing out and france and germany went into recession at same time as britain yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this, given that those countries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us what he meant, and i quote, that we are leading the rest of the world from recession. >> mr. speaker, not one policy -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize and we have taken action for the fiscal stimulus, opposed by the party. we have taken action to keep unemployment down. they have been wrong on the recession, they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man, the mind-set is that of the 1930's. >> the fact is when you look at the prime minister's claims, the claim that we were to be better, that was worse. the claim that we are out of recession, we are still in recession. and the claim of boom andbust, is that the claim sdm>> -- the more he talks, the more he saves. >> mr. brown continued at a dig of the conservative candidate, richard park that would benefit f

germany. it's a little surreal to read. helmut kohl rapidly proposed his model which i've called revivalism. now, it's slightly different. it means building something that is informed by an older style but that is modernized, updated, something that thomas jefferson would have appreciated if you look around this campus, you can see very much how he admired roman architecture. so helmut kohl decided he needed to counter this notion that it was 1945 and that he didn't matter, and he proposed to revive a confederation in november, november 28th he proposed via his shocking ten-points speech which no one knew about in advance with the partial exception of the white house that there should be a confederation of just two german states, and over the course of decades he thought if he were extremely lucky at a minimum two decades but probably a lot more, over a long period of time two 21st-century germanys would eventually grow together in unity. so he proposed this revivalist model which he thought w

on germany. he grew up down in texas and was a protege of general arnold who was the founder of the u.s. air force during world war ii. then with the work on bringing science into the air force he utilized science and saw this weapon would guarantee the peace because if we had it, we could deter the russians from doing anything that would trigger a nuclear war. and then we ended up, he ended up creating a nuclear stalemate. it's referred to by the nuclear people as mutual assured destruction. in other words neither side could get a surprise attack on the other because they would destroy themselves in the same process. >> in the book you talk about the resistance that mr. scrriever and his team met with. can you talk about that? >> sure. this is a book not about hardware but about people. they ran into tremendous resistance from carr us the he may -- curtis he may who was the heat bomber leader from world war ii who became the model for the general in cube rick's dr. strangelove, jack d. ripper wa

the discussion about moving nato eastwards into east germany. i had read a lot of places that no one had thought of expanding it in eastern europe. i have a tab with myself that no one talks about going forward to eastern europe. the current holder of the record talked about hungry. very early on, there's discussion about gnat owe moving into eastern europe. not saying gnat owe membership but partnership. the calls are received. the whole issue pushed off the a againeda by saddam hussein. there's enough that gosh chafe picks up on it. baker says well, this isn't the phase where he's trying to come up with structures. he's come up with the common european home. you guys are the g 7 and ec 12. security council. baker said that's not only going to work. and the soviet union. baker says that's in the realm of fantasy. he keeps saying, why don't we think about this? it comes up but it's never taken seriously in the west baker then says where i finally come down in the book i find that justified or you say no, nato was and is all it should be in a mil

these are consumers in these countries, patients in england, france, germany and new zealand. those patients have the same protections we do. i've been in drug stores in canada, just two hours from toledo, ohio, less than that, and you see the same drug in the same dosage, the same packaging, the same company making them. and in those -- in canada, they're 35% to 55% lower than the summit. one drug, cholesterol lowering drug, lip to, $63 in the netherlands, $32 in spain, $40 in the united kingdom. every one of these countries, $30, $40, $50 for lipitor, same drug, $125 in the united states. we pay more even though most of the -- in most cases these drugs are either manufactured in the united states or developed in some cases by u.s. taxpayers and developed certainly in the united states for americans, but we pay two and three times more. 2009 consumer report survey found due to high drug prices, one out of six consumers failed to fill a prescription, 23 consumers cut back on groceries. they choose between do i get my groceries or do i pay for this drug? consumer after consumer

the same quantity costs you $40 in britain, $32 in spain, $63 in the netherlands, $48 in germany, germany, $53 in france, and $35 in canada. once again, $125 for the american consumer. here are the two bottles of lipitor. it's made in ireland by an american company and then sent around the world. this happened to go to canada. this went to the united states. same pill, same bottle, same company, same manufacturing plant, f.d.a.-approved. difference? well, the american consumer gets to pay three to four times higher costs. fair? not for me, it's not fair. and that's what this amendment's about. this amendment is about freedom, giving the american people the freedom in the global economy to buy the same f.d.a.-approved drug from those countries that have an identical chain of custody as we do in this country, so an f.d.a.-approved drug that is sold for a fraction of the price. why should we prevent the american people from being able to exercise and see the same savings that every other consumer around the world sees? now, let me see whether anybody recognizes this. prescription drugs are a

too much before we declared war on germany. he grew up down in texas, got into the army air corps and was a protÉge of general arnold who was the founder of the u.s. air force during world war ii. then went to work on scientific -- brings science into the air force. he utilizes science and saw this weapon would guarantee the peace, because if we had it, we could deter the russians from doing anything that would trigger a nuclear war. and then we ended up with -- he ended up creating a nuclear stalemate. in other words, neither side could get a surprise attack on the other because they would destroy themselves in the same process. >> in the book you talk about the resistance that mr. schreiber and his team had putting this together can you talk about that resistant? >> this is a book not about hardware but about people. there were some tremendous resistance from curtis lemay, who was the head of the strategic air command, the great bomb earlier from world war ii. who went over the edge in his later years, and he became the mode

we're still in korea, japan, germany, all over the middle east. the speech by the president the other day was conditioning as for the next war in pakistan. -- conditioning costs for the next war in pakistan. what you do is bring the troops home, save the money, defend this country. it is our presence, especially in the middle east, that motivates people to become a radical extremists and potential terrorists that will commit suicide. it is because they detest occupation of their land. we get into trouble and we think, oh, we need to occupy more countries, only compounding our problems both internationally and for safety, but also compounds are financial problem. i think the worst thing we could do is to raise taxes for the war. host: last call on the republican line. caller: i saw that twitter message about your running in trade -- in 2012. i am one of those college students that was awakened by your message. i look at what the republican party is right now and i cannot see the sarah palin or one of these other republicans. these guys say what sui

including france and germany, uk yes yet to show signs of coming out of the recessions. prime minister's questions tend to place the blame on the prime minister. . given that those cuptries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us on earth he meant when he said, and i quote, we were leading the rest of the world out of recession. >> not one policy -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize opposed by the party opposite. we have taken action to keep unemployment down as a result of creating jobs opposed by the opposition. we have taken action for international cooperation opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the session, they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man, the mind set is that of this -- is that of the 1930's. >> the fact is, when you look at the prime minister's three central claim the claim we were better prepared for other countries, that was wrong, our deficit was worse than other countries. the claim that britain was leading the world out of recessio

air force father who worked for the national security agency in germany in the late 1970's and very much aware of security precautions taken to protect the country. it really surprises me that there are terror lists that are separate from the no-fly list. and that they don't seem to intertwine. you just mentioned, i think you put a person known for being drunk on flights on the no-fly list but this gentleman was on a terror list for having ties to a terror organization. it's almost insane that this is the case. i think a lot of people are waking up yesterday when this happened and finding this out and finding that this situation is something that really needs to be figured out. and it's quite shocking that after september 11 that this is still the case. guest: well said. as i said i think this policy should be reviewed and i think it will be as a result of this incident. host: good morning you're on the republican's line. caller: good morning. my concern is the looseness of the obama administration with borders. we're very concerned about the mexican border with the drugs and cartels. my

france and germany went into recession at the same time as britain. and yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this. given that all those countries are now in growth and we are not in growth -- can he tell us what on earth he meant when he said and i quote we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> mr. speaker, not one policy from the leader of the opposition -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize northern iraq opposed by the party adversary. we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus and kept poverty down for jobs opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the recession. they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man. the mindset -- the mindset is that of the 1930s. >> i think that one must have sounded great in the bunker. the fact is, the one policy this country needs above all is a credible program for getting the biggest budget deficit in the g20 under control. that is the view of the governor of the bank of england and he says they haven't a credible pl

. >> one was macarthur in japan, the other was what we did in germany. i remember in january, clearly we're going to have to get rid of the top few henchman, d but, de -- but we cannot debaathify completely. >> that is important to hear. thank you. ok. moving back to something quite different, you said early this morning that in your view, the declared formal u.k. policy of containment was in effect over by spring or summer, and it was and remains the policy until at least 2002. >> this in itself is a comment on the importance of the issue. i cannot really remember ever in 2002 going in to see the argument for containment. i think the switches may have lasted quite a long time, but i do not remember doing this. nowhere in the briefing dar remember sending back. >> there is an asymmetry in the situation. a foreign affairs advisor relationship with the head of security council for different personalities and times. in the bush administration, the great administration did not lend itself to a natural bilateral relationship. so how is that managed? >> let me

>> japan, south korea, and germany. in germany alone, there are over 57,000 troops. there -- actually, almost 200 bases and installations in germany. some are huge, like the giants' medical center. some are tiny, and there are housing concentrations and small basis across the country. the same in japan and south korea. huge numbers, thousands of troops. it has been there since world war two, in the case of japan. the cost of this is way beyond but we sometimes think about. host: has any other administration taken a serious effort at downsizing the presence? guest: there was downsizing in the 1990 pus. there were no major wars being fought. but not in the key countries. not in germany, japan, or south korea. smaller bases were downsized, but in the last 10 years or more, all of the bases have been going up. host: to be clear, the organization for policy studies, your organization, has an opinion on this. guest: we do. we think this is a bad use of people power, and it does not make us safer. many are angry about what these bases are doing to the environment and social

born in germany in 1931, she immigrated to the united states with her family in 1934. she grew up in upstate new york, became a naturalized citizen, and worked her way through school, eventually earning a masters in library science from columbia university while raising five children as a single mother. she came to the northern mariana islands to help prepare for the first library conference in 1979. she fell in love with the pacific and soon returned. she's trained school librarians and raised public awareness about the importance of reading in enriching the quality of our lives. ruth eventually turned from managing the books of others to writing her own. she also established her signature column, "on my mind." over the many years of commenting on island issues, she's strived to be fair, objective, informative, and entertaining. judging by the popularity of her column, today a much-read and respected blog among people if many different backgrounds, i believe she has succeeded. at the age of 50, she took up scuba diving and has accumulated a record of over 400 dives. e

she was from germany. she knew something about the runaway inflation in germany. aped the significance of all of this. and the significance of owning property. this was very important. it starts with the idea of penny. at that time, the penny was made out of copper. that was not the truly traditional monetary unit. it never at that time, approached anything of having it advantage to melt copper. eventually, we inflated the currency with where that was the advantage to melt not used gold and use silver. it'd be better to melt silver than pay a bill with silver. we have gone so far that it has become an advantage that the copper is worth more than one penny. we went from copper to copper and zinc to zinc and we're at a point now that we can't afford the zinc standard. the obviously is creating money out of thin air in the government. inside the book as well i go over the history of the federal reserve. it's not the greatest in detail. there's a lot more information about the reason that they brought up the fed and created the fed. of course they came out of the cris

this is a 50,000 wieder water tank with its own internal filtration made in germany that is no supplying clean water to the entire village and a bigger village down the hill. this is a piece of the clinic but it is much bigger now in getting bigger even now. as we speak, they are building what will be the first, the first maternity clinic in all of burundi. sorry about that picture. that was a picture that for some reason doesn't come out of the production end of the demonstration gardens that theories volunteers and local people have created, both to feed the millionaires and also to try to improve local agricultural practices. this is the first electricity ever in this village. the money came from a generous american and the installation was made by a nonprofit organization called the solar electric light fund, it is 10 kilowatts of power. this is the training of community health workers and that is paul former's wife with her back to us. just the typical do you in the morning outside of the clinic. the pharmacy, the lab technician. these are all pictures of deo's. there is paul farmer

she was from germany and she knew something about the runaway inflation of germany and the significance of all this and the value of owning property, and this to me was very important is starts with the whole idea about a penny and at that time a penny was made of copper, and although that is not be truly traditional monetary unit it had been used as money a long time but it never at that time approached anything without having an advantage to melt copper. eventually we and flee to the currency where it was an advantage to not use cold and not use silver. it would be better to melt your silver than pay a bill with silver. but we have gone so far that it has become an advantage the copper is worth more than 1 penny. as a matter of fact we went from copper to copper and zinc and we are at a point now where we can't even look forward to the zinc standard. [laughter] and it is a pretty good story in understanding the importance of a commodity that the ultimate story is to restrain the government from creating money out of thin air. in the book as well i go over the history of the federal re

on -- commune kays and video they have roughly 40hard-core followers, and include peoe from france, germany, ausalia, i've been told, as well foreign fighte from egypt and kistan. >> can you how much popular support it has tre? i me, you're on the ground. what do you sein terms of any support for it or feeling foit on the streets? >> well, you don't seeny grfiti or outright, you know, support r al-qaeda, but you're also talking aut a country th has sent owe over the years has sent thousds of fighters to fightn afghanistan and iraq, basilly fighting to libete muslims from nmuslims. in ts sense there's this great syathy for al-qaeda, because of their core messa of protecti muslims and fighting for muslims, but at the sam time most yemenis d't want to see suicide bombs in the streets ery day. >> wt about yemen as a failed stat whether it's the kind of place whe terror groups can fill a power vacuum? what do you se again, just around the country, or lking at how govnment works or doesn't work? what do yosee? >> yeah. i wouldn't calleit a failed stat i would say it is failing state. e government

this is the 50,000 litter water tank with its own internal filtration made in germany that is now supplying clean water to almost the entire village and to part of the bigger village downhill. this is the piece of the clinic. but it's much bigger now. getting bigger now. as we speak, they are building what will be the first and -- the first maternity clinic in all of burundi. >> that was a picture for some reason that came out of the production and demonstration -- various local people have created. both to feed the malnourished and also to try to improve local al choral practices. this is the first electricity ever in this village. the money came from a generous american. nay are made by the nonprofit organization that has 10 kilowatts of power. this is a training of community health workers. that's the farmest wife actually back to us. just the typical cue in the morning outside of the clinic. the pharmacy, the lab technician, these are all pictures of dayos. there's the farmer treating a patient to the clinic that has been transported to the capitol, a little boy with tuberculosis. this

on this day in 1941 they declared war on germany and italy. we will be talking about the iraq war with major general robert caslen. ♪ >> coming out today, the latest in a series of hearings about what led to the acquisition of merrill lynch by the bank of america. live coverage this morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. you can also follow it on c-span radio and online c-span.org. president obama is making his way back to washington after winning the nobel peace prize yesterday. we will show you the speech in its entirety tonight at 8:00 here on c-span. this weekend, a look at climate change with former vice president al gore. lawrence solomon, on the scientists the question the validity of global warming. the biography of canton and scalia, the author is interviewed by the former solicitor general. ken oletta on healtow google became an internet giant. this weekend, on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: with us now is the commander of the multinational division in northern iraq. he is now out of iraq, reese stationed in hawaii. maj