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military intervention or the other. in business, when you look at a project, you look to see whether you have achieved your objectives, and at what cost. i want to see through this last half-century of military interventions, partisan politics aside, for our the aside, what morality aside what happens , after the party is over? what are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides? when did this idea first start? mr. gruber: my birthday is august 4. two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. maraudingme, isis was across northern iraq. it seemed to me as sort of bookends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident which as you know, president johnson went on national television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. it ....
last half-century of military interventions, partisan politics aside, morality aside what , happens after the party is over? what are the after affects of war and what are the human and financial costs on both sides? brian: when did this idea start? mr. gruber: my birthday is august 4. two years ago on august 4, 2014, was the 40th anniversary of the gulf of tonkin incident. at that time isis was marauding across northern iraq. it seemed to me as look ends that was odd that the cost of the vietnam war and the outcome of the vietnam war 50 years after the gulf of tonkin incident, which as you know, president johnson went on national television that day in 1964 to ask congress to approve his ability to accelerate our intervention in vietnam. it was a claim that north vietnamese patrol boats attacked the uss maddox. based on that, we escalated the war in vietnam. years later, secretary mcnamara and many others admitted the attack never happened. similarly in going to iraq, ....
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the thinking of both sides of this historic moment. here they are coming to talk to them, really uninvited, he invited himself but the severity was out there and they didn t even know how. [inaudible] they tried to get a sense of how it goes and then there was a discussion, could it full of pterosaur explosives we will have all of them from israel here waiting, there there was snipers all over the rooftops just in case, and the plane, his plane comes in and there are searchlights that catch the fuselage and people are on pin hooks. so he lands and he comes down and he embraces them. he shakes hands and people. [inaudible] there was a sense of unreality that this could happen. he went and made his speech and it was stern, but he expected something in return, and he left jerusalem empty-handed. a lot of that was because of this individual. he is a fascinating figure in history. he was born in a little polish town called brisk and his first memory was of polish soldiers fl ....