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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
That the secretary of defense has ordered the pentagon to let women serve besides men on the. Ront lines of battle that experiment is under the defense secretarys order. We will come back to that story throughout this first 45 minutes of the washington journal. Our phone lines are open to you. Also open is our twitter and facebook page. You can follow the conversation on facebook at facebook. Com face facebook outcome cspan. We want to talk about this morning. Like i said, we have a special line for active and retired military. I especially want to hear your thoughts on that. Some active and retired military members were interviewed last wate in in knoxville tennessee. Interviewed was u. S. Air force veteran ashley oughts. She was a utilitys apprentice doing Water Purification there. That is one of the veterans interviewed for that story on start with john in hot springs, North Carolina. John, good morning. Thanks, he made a lot of good points in your previous intro and came to fiscal
Think is very interesting study, john f. Kennedy and the missile gap also in 2004. And finally we have Michael Cohen who is a fellow at the century foundation. He has been a columnist at the guardian. A blogger for the new york daily news. Hes the author of life on the campaign trail which is about notable 20th Century Campaign speeches of consequence and he is also published widely in wall street journal, new york times, l. A. Times, politico, et cetera. So john, over to you, sir. Good. Im supposed to speak here. You can all hear me. I thought the subject of this panel and of this conference had something to do with realism so im going to playoff that theme and ill get around to pl ticks at the very end. Theres a narrow version of realism. Im not talking about the academic theory of realism or the diplomatic theory that resinate with Public Opinion. Thats the idea that america should only deal with threats that directly concern us but in places like syria, the middle east and ukraine
Its in some ways the most ambitious project that existed to try to remake, you know, National Identities into something larger. You know, sort of european identity of the notion that theres not just greeks or italians or spaniards but this european identity. If you take a look at the most parliamentary elections you discovered the exact opposite occurred. Essentially you have actors on the far left and far right. Both of which are within europes boards and outside of europes boarders doing relatively well. And, in fact, the only place where that didnt happen is germany and thats because germanys mildly insane policies that they instituted across the rest of the euro zone served them well and no one else well. So i think unfortunately youre still operating in a world where National Identities or sub National Identities trump any sense of cosmopolitanism. Just quickly. Just from a political perspective, the American People are in a particular place right now, very skeptical as foreign in