1965, 1967, 1968. Outbreaks of violence throughout the country. You read the introtucdurks tctie turner report. This was after the detroit riot was a particularly big one. Five days. 41 dead after the detroit riot. There were 163 riots during the summer of 1967. Johnson put together this panel to investigate and come up with an explanation so were moving now to interpreting urban uprisings. So what is the colonel commission. This commission by the way is chaired by the governor of illinois and has members from both parties on it and has a labor official and member of the naacp. Its a real blue ribbon panel. What did they have to say. I thought it was interesting. White tuinstitutions created it White Society condones it talking about the violence that occurred. They are talking about the ghetto. Yeah. But thats where the riots occurred. So they are saying that white institutions created it. They maintain it. They keep that status quo. I thought its interesting that they basically defin
Decision to use the atomic bomb. In 1999, a poll of journalists ranks the bombing is the top new story of the entire 20th century. Beating out the landing on the moon, the attack on pearl harbor, and other prominent stories and events that occurred in the last century. The importance of a story of the atomic bombings of japan, has come over the last five decades or so, a enormous and highly acrimonious controversy, both among scholars and among the general public. It is safe to say that the issue of the atomic bombing is arguably and it is a strong argument the issue of the atomic bombings of japan is the most contentious debate in all of American History. I dont think we are going to settle it today. But i hope we will advance our knowledge of the subject and shed some light on some important issues and perhaps lower the volume of ill will at all to often has been a prominent part of this controversy. Trumanssy over decision to use the atomic bomb arises from two fiercely competing in
The director of navy history and heritage command and curator for the navy, he is responsible for the museum, art, and artifact collections, 150 million pages of archives, and for collecting and interpreting u. S. Naval history throughout the world. A graduate of the u. S. Naval academy, his 37 year career focused on intelligent. Professor richard strainer comes from Washington College where he is a professor of history and coauthor of 10 books and numerous articles. His new book how america can spend his way back to greatness comes out at the end of the month. John maxwell hamilton comes from Louisiana State university and he is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson center for international scholars. His career has taken him through journalism before academia. The book he is working on now focuses on propaganda in world war i to set the stage, we will start with you. 100 years ago a german uboat sank the luxury liner lusitania as it steamed toward port, killing nearly 1200 passengers
The microphones well get to you. Please identify yourselves. All right. Thank you. Thank you what was the luck excuse me, the rule of law in regards to this. Well, its very hard to win with this type of strategy. They still didnt manage to pacify afghanistan in the 1980s, even though they were wanting to kill a million people. Because the nazis and the soviets offered nothing positive. They offered no reason why the people of yugoslavia or afghanistan would support them. They offered nothing but death and desolation it was not a winning dratted he. People want to see the rule of law. Not necessarily our law, but there law. That is something that our people respond positively to. Rather from stealing from them and raping their daughters, they will be more likely to support those soldiers. I would argue that this is a crucial element of successful counterinsurgency. Right here . Hello. How do we do this . We have done this before twice in iraq and afghanistan. There have been. Periods of
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