especially for americans with family members. the horror of that guy who was just arrested for the killing of all those civilians over there was in his fourth tour, three in iraq, one in afghanistan. it does seem whatever the courts decide about his guilt or measure of guilt, it does seem to be what s wrong, the overuse of a very small portion of our population when the rest of us are not even paying attention. when leon panetta went over there and talked to troops in afghanistan, he said, we will be challenged and we will be challenged by war itself. i don t agree with leon panetta on everything but i do agree with him on that. our reaction to afghanistan is horrifying. here horrified and it makes us question the war, but it also sees him as the perpetrator of the crime almost as if he was one of the casualties. it tells you how much we re concerned about how much we ve overused our military.
nationally, the family did, didn t get a lot of attention until they heard the 911 tapes and seeing the six minutes of video. there s a lot of emotion and outrage and people are making up their minds about this. people who support zimmerman will see what they want to see and people who support trayvon martin will see what they want to see. there has to be some sort of resolution in this matter. resolution. will we get there. thank you, ron allen for the nbc news and sari horowitz for the washington post. i believe rachel maddow in her new book that war is too painful for most of us and too easy to start. what makes the sleep number store different? the sleep number bed. the magic of this bed is that you re sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. wow! that feels really good. it s hugging my body. in less than a minute i can get more support. if you change your mind once you get home you can
together in a way i ve never seen done. all these pack torz making it easier for the average person out there who is non-military to say go ahead with this war. thank you, chris. that s nice of you to say and thank you for having me on to talk about it. i m not an expert on the military, i m not an expert on war. i never served. my father did but i didn t grow up on military bases or anything like that. this is a book about politics and our politics about war and about this feeling that i think a lot of the people in the country have had, whether you re left wing or right wing or even if you don t care about politics that it didn t feel like we re a country that went to war in afghanistan. we re a country that sent the military to war and let them go to work. and the military s lives have been so different in the last decade, and the book is essential about why we got to feel this way and why it feels so wrong to us. let me ask you about afghanistan because that s the case in point
briskly sharp and important, which a way to put it all together in a way i ve never seen done. all these factors making it easier for the average person out there who is non-military to say go ahead with this war. thank you, chris. that s nice of you to say and thank you for having me on to talk about it. i m not an expert on the military, i m not an expert on war. i never served. my father did but i didn t grow up on military bases or anything like that. this is a book about politics and our politics about war and about this feeling that i think a lot of the people in the country have had, whether you re left wing or right wing or even if you don t care about politics that it didn t feel like we re a country that went to war in afghanistan. we re a country that sent the military to war and let them go to work. and the military s lives have been so different in the last decade, and the book is essential about why we got to feel this way and why it feels so wrong to us. let me ask y
just arrested for the killing of all those civilians over there was in his fourth tour, three in iraq, one in afghanistan. it does seem whatever the courts decide about his guilt or measure of guilt, it does seem to be what s wrong, the overuse of a very small portion of our population when the rest of us are not even paying attention. when leon panetta went over there and talked to troops in afghanistan, he said, we will be challenged and we will be challenged by war itself. i don t agree with leon panetta on everything but i do agree with him on that. our reaction to afghanistan is horrifying. here horrified and it makes us question the war, but it also sees him as the perpetrator of the crime almost as if he was one of the casualties. it tells you how much we re concerned about how much we ve overused our military. it s not normal for a country to