who are optimistic, (202) 748-8000. if you are pessimistic, (202) and if you have mixed thoughts about 2017, (202) 748-8002. i hope 2017 is a terrific year for all of you. with some breaking news from istanbul, turkey as the death toll continues to mount. the current death toll at 39, including at least 15 foreigners killed in an attack in a nightclub and desk in istanbul, turkey. a gun man opened fire at about 1:30 local time as revelers were marking the new year. another 69 people were being treated in the hospital or are said to be , four are said to be in critical condition. have imposedrities a media blackout on coverage of the attack, citing security and public order concerns. some media reports speaking of wyatt more than one attacker, and some witnesses claimed the attackers were speaking arabic but there is no confirmation. a developing story, the situation in turkey were the death toll stands at 39. on the front page of the new york times as times square, with mo
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, it s 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 three-month the universal training system, and congress and the american people said no. rather, not just meltdown,