In terms of blood, nearly 120,000 u. S. Troops paid with allies and another 20,000 were wounded. It was a dramatic dramatic conflict. To my second point, the media Lessons Learned after this conflict, its odd that this sort of idealism emerged, and this idealism trump sober pragmatism come and sort of a realistic assessment about the nature of man, the nature of the international system. We saw the league of nations form which tried to impose the domestic Structure International of domestic law internationally. We saw later in the 20s a aipac, 1928 which sought to outlaw war. Something, they could just outlaw. Within the United States, rather than sort of prepare for possibly there could be another major conflict, this is from a u. S. Army history, the war deparle urged congress to authorize the astonishment of permanent regular army, about a half a million, and threemonth the universal training system, and congress and the American People said no. Rather, not just meltdown, we tore do
Blowers complaints seriously. Within vha, the problem of intimidation, retaliation may be magnified by what some consider a protective culture of the medical profession. It is often thought to be against the code to point out colleagues mistakes or where a nurse or a tendant is told it is appropriate to question a physician or surgeon. The natural tendency is to close ranks, to not die that problems exist or mirs stestakes were ma. So after we listen to the testimony before us this evening from the whistle blowers, the office of special counsel and the va will anything change after we hear what the whistle blowers have to say and how do we fix this culture and encourage all va employees to step forward to identify problems and work to address the problems. Changing a culture is not easy. It cannot be done legislatively or 33inthrowing additional resos at it. Talk is cheap. Real solutions are hard to find. It is clear to me that the va as it is structured today is fundamentally incapabl
Acting secretary gibson recently stated that he was deeply disappointed not only in the substantiation of allegations raised by the whistle blowers but also in the failures within the department to take whistle blowers complaints seriously. Within vha, the problem of intimidation, retaliation may be magnified by what some consider a protective culture of the medical profession. It is often thought to be against the code to point out colleagues mistakes or where a nurse or a tendant is told it is appropriate to question a physician or surgeon. The natural tendency is to close ranks, to not die that problems exist or mirs stestakes were ma. So after we listen to the testimony before us this evening from the whistle blowers, the office of special counsel and the va will anything change after we hear what the whistle blowers have to say and how do we fix this culture and encourage all va employees to step forward to identify problems and work to address the problems. Changing a culture is
Anybody know the answer . I have met with this committee and staff the chairman. On a number of occasions to share what i know about va health. Im looking for a collaborative relationship. We have known each other for quite some time. Are you under the impression that this relationship has been strained for a while . The between congress and the v. A. . That is not our intent. That we work closely with you. Many of you talked to us about issues and we work to get you information as quickly as we can. We understand the constraints we work for two and a half weeks. To provide the committee with a response. I expected you would send a pile of stuff at any staffers would sort through and decide what needed to be done. Was that a naive assumption . I say that not leading or passive aggressively. I was not part of that process. Many have proved what we want to do. I cant help but feel something has not been given to me. The impression was there. I would have loved to see, over my dead body.
We want to get this done as quickly as possible. I think it would be appropriate to say that we would like to have everything done by the end of the day. In regard to the Conference Community signing off on the report. And the mechanism as to who goes first is not as critical. As other pieces. Thell step out and say house will probably go first, but that hasnt been decided. Is it isportant thing done as quickly as possible. That your view is that congress is dysfunctional, nothing getting done did i say that . You did. Going just from last week, it was a pretty tense moment at the end of last week. When you give us a sense of what it took to get here . It could be instructive. Congress is so divided right now. We have to work through these things. At the end of the day, what is important am i understood . Are you understood . This is the veterans of the United States. We have an obligation to do it. There has not been one time that senator sanders nor our staff have continued to commun