reporter: crt, or critical race theory, is not being taught in the schools, but that doesn t matter to the people unloading at the school board. it is the purpose and intention of those that push crt to create guilt. reporter: the message here in a county of fewer than 50,000 people echoed in school board meetings from florida. as a community, we need to come together and pull our children out of these government camps. reporter: to wisconsin. it is divisive, biased, radically left, marxism designed to further alienate our american children from each other. reporter: republican candidates are seizing on this rally cry as fertile ground for campaigns, from virginia gubernatorial candidate glenn youngkin. parents asking for our schools to teach our children how to think and stop teaching them what to think. reporter: to nevada. good evening, everybody. reporter: where republican u.s. senate candidate adam licksalt chose the douglas county school board meeting to mak
youngkin. we ll see if that eventually happens, but i ll end on this note, don. that is if we look at virginia s history right and we look at all the elections since 1977, what do we see? we see that eight out of 11 times if we get that slide up, eight out of 11 times, the party that wins in the virginia gubernatorial election goes on to win house seats in the next midterm election. so the winner in virginia tradition traditionally has projected forward to the midterms. a very good sign for republicans heading into next year. doesn t history show that whoever is in the white house in virginia, the governor s race, it s the opposite party who wins of course, don. it s measuring the same idea. but this is essentially what we re finding out in the result is if the republicans win, then this is politics as normal. that is, we see a midterm penalty whereby the party in power why is everyone saying, this is so unusual? because of the lead that he has? no, it s not unusual at all. i
could be a whole lot worse and for that matter so is this you know the situation throughout the middle east without the presence of the u.n. peacekeepers and you know i think they can they can play a constructive role. it s not a panacea it s not a band-aid when you talk about mali and we talk about germany s role in general of the united nations on a peacekeeping missions and i m interested to come back to the point that both of you mentioned the legacy of germany from the second world war that it is still largely a country that has a pacifist streak very sort of central to german society and german politics is germany going to have to overcome that doesn t history consider is germany going to have to shed that legacy yeah it has to overcome it doesn t has to set a legacy in the sense that we shouldn t think about it and keep it in mind of course we should keep it in mind it s a responsibility but it s not a responsibility not to act it s a responsibility to act in order to find solut
removed reasonably quickly within a few months but then what happened is you ve got this s secretarian fight where they try and overwhelm the majority of people. doesn t history show that unless a regime, though, is willing to make changes itself, no outside power can intervene and really do it for them? you look at south vietnam, unless that regime had actually been willing to stop being corrupt or meet the needs of its people, no amount of western involvement would have helped. you write about maliki, i mean, t his government, he snuffed out the opportunity to build a cohesive iraq. we had more than 150,000 troops and we couldn t get him to reach out to sunnis and kurds. do you believe he s capable and willing to do that now? i hope so. that s essential for iraq. you make a good point here.
and even if we want to, and our public opinions want to, we can t disengage from it. we re going to have to try and deal with it. do we know how to properly engage, however? given how wrong the u.s. and uk were in the run-up to the war, wrong about presence of wmd, wrong about saddam working with al qaeda, and given our failure to predict and plan for an insurgency here after the occupation, what makes you so sure that now you ve got the right prescription for what needs to be done here about the current crisis? well, look, it s important for a start that we do learn the lessons, the actual lessons of what happened. what happened was that saddam was removed reasonably quickly, within a few months. but then what shaped you ve got this sectarian fight where internal dissidents combined with external forces to try and overwhelm the wishes of the majority of people. doesn t history show that unless a regime, though, is willing to make changes itself,