we do germany first and skwraepl. mcarthur had an island hopping strategy. someone said anyone who thinks the shortest distance between two points is a straight line should be disqualified from worki working. i think they should be disqualified from working on strategy. making decisions about allocating resources, when you think about commanders in battle that is what they are doing all the time. and a third thing is usually implied is that somebody is out there trying to defeat you. a business competitor or opposing commander or maybe just the world in general. you are not just sail inging a straight line. having said all of that, if you are talking about the totality of strategy it is never going to be written down in a document. it is going to be the product of a thought process, sometimes an individual, sometimes a very good group that has thought through so many different branches that they know what to do when they get to the next one and they probably are not going to want to write it down for a number of reaso

three world leaders who were in power when the berlin wall fell nearly 20 years ago were honored in germany's capital. former president george h.w. bush the former soviet president, mikhail gorbachev and former german chancellor helmet coal attended this ceremony. president bush said the wall's collapse had more to do with the determination of everyday people than the power of governments. >> the historic events we are gathered to celebrate were set in motion not in bonn or moscow or in washington but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprooiched their god-given rights. and the wall could confine them from loved ones and lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> kohl called the fall of the berlin wall his proudest moment as chancellor. >>> two men accused in a terrorism investigation face an

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you were trying to explain why japan and germany were successful in spite of unpromising history. i agree it was an unprecedented situation. i remember sitting in south korea in 1983 when ronald reagan visited. george shultz was told by senior diplomats not to push the regime too hard on human rights. south korea it never had a democracy in its history and was not ready for one. four years later, they had a democratic revolution in the country. i have heard people say that indonesia has no democratic history and is too poor to have one. it now has 10 years of rather impressive democracy. it may be an oversimplification, but i am much more inclined to professor mueller's view. i am open to the argument that some countries cannot handle it. the scars that are left in rumania or iraq by the secret police are huge things to overcome. the evidence does suggest that the past is not a great guide to the future when it comes to this question. i guess i am a jeffersonian. i will proclaim that. >> let's take your question. that will be the last one. you will have five minutes to go through

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in discussion, the grid opponents from the second world war, germany and japan. drawing a comparison that is often drawn is that these are both countries that are new democracies, fairly sales social structures -- stable social structures. >> coherent with the place. japan is important to study. i recommend the book "embracing deafeat" as an example for what can be achieved. about changes that came up. what is interesting to me, and it would be interesting to follow up, would be if the critique that comes up almost from day one in the bush 43 administration is to some extent during the bush 41 administration. this is what i was talking about when i talked about the problems that would come out of the late-and 90 +. they wanted to seize opportunities by interpreting history and hands-on manner and acting. there is nothing wrong with that. those things are hon. instincts. the problem is when somebody has to read what kind of circumstances they are that they are working in. what can and cannot be done. there are some issues the bush 43 administration got wrong. ther

when viewers in czechoslovakia and germany and see their local uprisings presented on their own televisions and they're all living rooms, they encountered "instant political education of," drumming but with political message. -- drumming home a political message. eastern europeans watched the events into an immense square and they were struck -- in tianenman square, and they were inspired by peaceful revolts that seem to spring forth all over the world at the same time. will television gave them inspiration. -- global television game of inspiration-- gave them inspiration. it does not mean they build systems of democracy. i am struck by the fact that at 43, i am just one year younger than the voting rights act. that is a pretty stunning thought as well. basically, since the year before i was born, we have had something close to universal suffrage. that is a very short period of time. when i look at my current political culture in my country, i see more indignation then deliberation. we have built a tremendous beating nation the machines that consist of cable news network's, various sites on

at an elaborate ceremony in germany. washington, d.c. sniper john allen mohammad is scheduled to be executed on tuesday. ten people died during a series of shootings in 2002. >>> and on tuesday, david letterman's accused extortionist will be in court. j >>> the number of u.s. banks that failed this year just climb to is 20. -- 120. five more banks failed yesterday, but they were taken over by other banks. the fife banks were based in california, michigan, minnesota, georgia and m missouri. this is the highest number of bank failures in a year since 1992. the fdic says it's fund that protects deposits in banks says it's running low, and that it will likely be in the red until 2012. >>> online retailers are slashing prices, walmart got the ball rolling, it said it would sell new dvds on line for just $10. then amazon slashed it's dvd prices to just 9$9.99 then walmart followed suit. >>> >>> so you hear a crying baby or you think you hear a crying baby. scientists hear the language of the baby's parents. new research suggests that newborns

caller: i served in the army air corps in europe and with a unit in germany. interesting enough, in august of 1945, was leaving germ noy go to japan and we heard on the radio, 2:00 in the morning, that the japanese had surrendered and you never saw more happy guys in your life than the guys in the outfit who were heading for japan. but what i want to bring up is this. we had 16 million of us served in world war ii, and out of the 16 million, there's only two million of us left at the present time. and we're losing almost a thousand world war 12 veterans a day. but i want to talk about what's happening in afghanistan. i want to ask both of you. have you read the book "lessons in disaster". have either of you read that book? host: david, not only has this network read it, but also he was featured on our "booknotes" interview in an interview with -- mr. bun di is available at booknotes.org. guest: that's why i got the book, because i saw the interview on c-span. host: go ahead, please. caller: oh, i'm sorry. i was working for the united states electronics command

if only britain had been able to land the force on the continent that would deter germany before world war one. they are immensely difficult. immensely dangerous. if the actions had been taken, people would blame them for doing it. this is what of those things that of course, it is terribly difficult, but i do believe that as we look back on those episodes, if we look back on this and say that we did not stop iran from getting nuclear weapons, we will consider it a missed element with big consequences. what is interesting to me is that the breadth of opinion runs from the right to all the way to the non-proliferation. some of the most fervent in the administration are about non- proliferation. you'll get tremendous proliferation following a iran. people see venezuela or brazil drizzling -- pursuing nuclear weapons. the notion that iran can go ahead and do this without consequences is astounding. if something is unacceptable, you have to do [unintelligible] >> is there anyone there really thinks that when the administration says that is unacceptable, will they do anything about it? it i