Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. The first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. They add a view of what they think happened. Until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. In russia and the United States took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. The struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says some people kid t
will do for america. - i m gonna save you from them. it was a national version of rudy s 1993 campaign. - as mayor, i will lead the battle to take our streets back. - i want to build the wall. we need the wall. - to take our parks back and to take our subways back. - they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists. - from the violent criminals on the streets - we have some bad hombres here, and we re gonna get em out. all: dinkins must go. dinkins must go. dinkins must go. build that wall. build that wall. build that wall. - i think trump was the perfect candidate for the media. he s a celebrity. media loves celebrities. he knew how to work them and work the storylines that they wanted. - it s a rigged system. she is crooked hillary. that s why, folks. oh, is media dishonest. how dishonest are these people? - he gives you exciting rallies where he s insulting people. - ah. i don t know what i said. ah. - he s threatening violence against protestors.
- took over the roadway of the brooklyn bridge. jumped on cars. stormed city hall. - saying that their jobs had become too difficult and that they didn t have the support that they needed and they wanted a much tougher hand. crowd: dinkins must go! dinkins must go! - these were some angry-looking white men. - now, you ve got to see the setting. this is at city hall. city hall is under siege. - and, you know, right in the middle of all of that craziness on september 16, 1992, is candidate rudy giuliani. - the mayor doesn t know why the morale of the new york city police department is so low. he blames it on me. he blames it on you. the reason the morale of the police department of the city of new york is so low is one reason and one reason alone. david dinkins! - they were cheering him on. they were saying, david dinkins, we don t want him. - some of them were calling out, [bleep], for instance.
to rudy giuliani, it s clear. - the last two weeks, he went absolutely as hard as he could after david dinkins. - well, we re in the final stretch in the mayoral race in new york. the mudslinging seems to get worse by the day. - giuliani has tried to make dinkins the issue. dinkins accused giuliani of gutter politics. - david dinkins is not prepared to be mayor of this city. [crowd yelling] - now to politics in the big apple. a final flurry of campaigning there, where polls show dinkins ahead by about 15 points. - there was a big voter turnout. one estimate said 60%. the city s 3.2 million registered voters cast ballots. - the night of the election, i felt that we had a chance. but i kept telling myself, don t build yourself up for disappointment. let yourself accept that we ran the best race we ve seen for mayor. and then we won.
and that was his strength, you know, crime fighting. - tonight, mayor giuliani wants to revamp the community policing program. - where are the cops? that s the question, among others, mayor giuliani vowed to find an answer to today. [applause] - he empowered the police. the police had felt unempowered under dinkins. here comes a guy who says, do your job. and i ll deal with the consequences. and i got your back. - i d like to introduce the new police commissioner of new york city, bill bratton. [applause] - [clears throat] early on in my career, i came to understand that what impacted on everybody was quality of life crime. - you deal with some of those things that used to be considered small things, so they don t become bigger. - like? - well, like squeegee operators, and excessive noise, and aggressive panhandling. - a lot of these crimes were described as victimless crimes. what was not recognized was, the victim was the city. - in the past two years,