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

but you said cars, shipping cars to germany? >> well we're shipping one, but like we have to do, there's things we have to do to the car before. new tires, all of these different things. >> and you're having to pay for the shipping of the car? >> we're not paying for the shipping, but the maintenance that needs to be done. the shipping of the pet. we're going over the $1,000 mark and of course, i don't have that budgetsed into the monthly budget. >> but you do have savings. >> see, because you have savings you're making the people right behind you very happy. because you actually have a pay to pay for those expenses for relocation that are not covered. >> this is how much this guy loves saving money. and he's going to share a little bit of that with you. he uses one razor every six months. i'm not joking. >>> i'll be remiss if i didn't tell you this. my father in law and my father are both huge fans, any time we ask them any sort of financial advice -- they always say, well clark howard says -- so we hear that a lot. so we had t

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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

but you said shipping cars to germany? >> well, like we're shipping some one. there are things that we have to do to ship the cars. things that we have to do to the tires. >> and you're having to pay for the shipping of the car. >> no, we're not paying for the shipping but all of the maintenance that needs to be done and the shipping of the pet and -- we're going over the $1,000 mark and, of course, i don't have that budgeted into the monthly budget. >> but you do have save sngs. >> yes, we do have savings. >> you're making the people right behind you very happy. you have a way to pay for those that are not covered. >> next on clark howard -- >> this is how much this guy loves saving money and he's going to share that with you. he uses some one razor every six months. i'm not joking. >> my father-in-law is a huge fan and any time we ask financial advice, they always say, well, clark howard says. so we hear that a lot. we have to tell you that they are huge fans. and they really like you a lot. >> thank you. >> on my way back from my wreck, just before we redepl

if this bright, dazzling young woman lived in, say, japan or germany or britain, france or italy, spain, canada, et cetera, the healthcare system there's would have given her the standard treatment for lupus. nicky white wrasse a citizen of the -- was a citizen of the world's richest country, the united states of america. once she was sick, she couldn't get health insurance. like tens of millions of her fellow americans, she had too much money to qualify for health care under welfare but too little money to pay for the drugs and the doctors she needed to stay alive. she spent the last months of her life frantically writing letters and filling out forms," mr. president, "pleading for help. when she died, nicky white was 32 years old." that is a story that should move every one of us, move every one of us, to action. look, we've spent years studying and analyzing what's working in our health care system and what's not working. what it comes down to is this: too many of our fellow citizens are suffering because of the broken promises of a health insurance system that abandoned them when th

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

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

the discovery had been made in germany. many of the leading physicists in germany were deeply involved in the development of nuclear physics. they seemed to have a head start over the rest of the world. there was a profound sense of fear, a race toward developing the atomic bomb, which intel the program for at least the first years. >> as the reports from those emigrating scientists came in -- and many of them fled to this country but had a network at home cut -- and their report to this country that there were rumors, research going on in germany, and that germany was ahead of us in the development of a very powerful new kind of weapon. as these reports came through, and we had civilian scientists, leaders of institutions like bush of the carnegie institution, james conant of harvard -- as these men heard the reports, they grew alarmed and of course we have very quickly, to move their history, we have a very famous and very and scientist who drafted his friend, albert einstein, to write a letter finally to president roosev

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

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

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

i believe it said that a unified germany has to be associated with nato. we agreed there was something and let the -- something there that was potentially harmful for the alliance. i think his initial reaction was the soviets would never accept that. baker is a great negotiator, and he said yes, that should be our opening position. to his great credit and a lot of other people, what looked like something the soviets would never accept eventually became something they embraced. i do like to think it is important that we achieve this agreement that this was something important, and we did not have to have a three-hour discussion about whether this language was harmful or not. if you give me an opportunity in questions to talk about informal process is, but let me -- two more things. business and has become a very important part of the process. it started shortly after the war came out. and he said more or less, this is not quite a direct quote, but he said that he was going to go and defend one more cold war budget, and it would take a piece of it out of his

the president praised germany for its help in afghanistan. >> i should just note that germany has been an extraordinarily strong ally on a whole host of international issues. we appreciate the sacrifices of german soldiers in afghanistan and our common work there to bring peace and stability to afghanistan and to create the environment in which the afghan people themselves can provide for their own security. >> merkel's visit comes one week after she was sworn in for a second term. >>> a seventh person has been arrested in connection with the homecoming gang rape case in richmond, california. police and a s.w.a.t. team arrested a 21-year-old man this morning. so far, five suspects have been charged in the case. a sixth was released for insufficient evidence. security measures have been put in place in this high school in california where police say a 15-year-old was gang-raped. >>> a 25-year-old pregnant mother in pensacola, florida, is missing. she went to see her unborn baby's father thursday and has not been seen since. he is married and one of his old neighbors said he was in a hur

and it was for the chancellor of west germany. and music that night was provided by the national symphony orchestra who is going to be part of tonight's entertainment as well. for some especially noteworthy visitors, dinners had been held in the east room, not just in 1902 but more recent times where you could accommodate guests up to about 230. 130 in this room, 230 in the east room, more on the grounds. . the social secretary recruited of very nervous last-second replacement, that was me. early in his administration, and jimmy carter invited his 8-year- old daughter amy to come to a state bennett -- dinner. she spent the evening reading a book while the other guest were talking around a table. in 1976, to honor the bicentennial, there was a big dinner for queen elizabeth ii in the rose gone -- rose garden. that afternoon, most of the resident staff including myself rushed outside to try to hold the tent down during an afternoon thunderstorm that might have taken off the whole thing. it might have disappeared in a big summer stor

there you see angela merkle, the chancellor of germany in that picture. >>> a u.s. pilot yanked off a flight minutes before taking off because a co-worker thought he was drunk. irving lamont washington was set to fly a united jet from london to chicago on monday. british police arrested him when he flunked a breathalyzer test, though. washington is now grounded. there have been several incidents for the airlines industry recently. this morning on our sister network a former ntsb official said flyers should be concerned. >> the whole structure of flying has changed. the airline had industry has been in a profound downturn for a number of years and not getting any better. pilots, they -- flight crews are the key component. they're being worked harder. they're being paid less. they're under more stress. and i think there is an issue. and i think you're going to see the ntsb and the faa looking at the whole issue of pilot fatigue, pilot work rules. how do we optimize people's attention in these cockpits? i think that's going to come up in the next few months. >> washing

in revealing clothes and bound and gagged. 26-year-old edis kayalar walked into a police station in germany and gave himself up. and i would have to think that cindy is really relieved about this tonight. and hey, a.j., there's also some more news just in today about carrie prejean. >> yes, and thank goodness for that, brooke. a big-time u.s. congressman says carrie prejean has what it takes to run for office, even after that leaked sex tape. republican utah congressman jason chaffetz says that carrie may be a political contender. carlos diaz and leslie, i want you to listen to what this congressman, congressman chaffetz tells tmz about the disgraced beauty queen. he says, "carrie has the ability to draw crowds, and if she has a strong message with that, who knows what she can do? she has star power that can open doors. leslie, do you agree with the concept? >> i'm getting a little ill just hearing this. if our political races are becoming just popularity contest or beauty contests, i mean, the congressman did talk about it being a long stretch between the vice presidency and the white hous

he already sold this bavarian castle in germany for $2.5 million. does cage have a case or should he have kept a closer eye on his own money? >> we are always all individually responsible for our own taxes. that's an obligation that can't be delegated to an accountant or to a business manager. when you sign your 1040 on the dotted line, you are responsible. and so nic cage is going to be responsible for his tax liability. >> reporter: the lawsuit says cage hired levin in 2001, but that he first learned he was in dire straits after he replaced him in september 2008. with more than 50 films in the last two decades and half a dozen more slated to be released in the next two years, cage is a tireless actor. good thing it pays the bills. >> that was cnn's randi kaye for "showbiz tonight." so is nic cage ultimately to blame for his own financial meltdown? joining me tonight in new york, midwin charles, an attorney with m midwin charles and associates. midwin, i'm thinking here, a lot of people probably looking at nicolas cage, a guy who earned $40 million

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

much closer tie between the people cuba and the people of canada, and certainly luxembourg, france, germany, or any of these other countries. >> listening to your testimony, the other thing i heard which i thought was an outrage is some doubt it was the american people's fault for the brutal regime of the castro brothers. that somehow the restrictions we have on cuba somehow it is our fault that the castro brothers continue to be a brutal regime. maybe you and i can sit down and talk some other time and i understand. >> i never said that. >> what i heard you say is if we drop the restrictions, then no longer could the castro brothers used -- use u.s. policy. that somehow u.s. policy is to blame here. i think you are misguided on that. my question is to the ambassador. going back to this idea of people traveling to cuba with this money -- with this money trickle down to cubans? i have listened to your testimony. would you talk a little bit about that? in my opinion, it's not going to help one bit. >> i think very little trickles down. a lot of them are owned by people behind the scenes and s

. >>> and within of my favorite former nba players, dennis rodman was temporarily detained in germany for allegedly skipping out on a $5,000 bar tab. officials say that rodman was playing an exhibition game. now organizers agreed to pay his hotel bill, but not an extra $5,000 on drinks at an after party. he paid the tab and another $2,500 to avoid a possible legal procedure. tennessee titans owner bud allen was fined 250,000 for shooting the bird. gabriel wrote on our facebook page. it seems like the nfl takes a look at your checking account before they find out how much to fine you. doug d. wrote, who gets the $250,000? i think that would make a great postseason us in for all the folks at morning express. doug d., our hats off to you, sir, you get the post of the day. >> that's right, doug, we'll take it, you are the man. je gestures or no gestures. >> a man comes back from gracy,? oh, my god. >> this actually did bring a tear to my eye. >> it does. and it's nonstop. this dog is so happy to see him. >> look at him go crazy right here. >> people have clicked on this nearly 800,000 tim

ministers who have troops in afghanistan and france, poland, canada, netherlands, norway, spain, turkey, germany, uk, denmark -- a lot of countries. i am not going to get into the specifics of any requests she made. >> without getting into specifics, did she talk about more troops? >> i think she talked about the need for mostly coordinating our efforts. that was one aspect of this whole effort that really became apparent when she was in school -- in kabul of the need to talk about not duplicating efforts, about giving the right coordinated effort to get the right results. i am not going to get into numbers or increases or anything like that. >> apparently the president spoke with the secretary sunday night. can you give me some idea of the guidance he might have given her? >> i cannot give you the details of that conversation. i do not have a readout of it. yes? >> could you give us an update of geneva. do you think it is still possible to have a successful treaty by december 5? >> i think clearly it is going to be impossible to have ratified the treaty. i think everybody knows that, and i do n

she's a yellow belly coward and she just went in thinking she would be sent to japan or korea or germany. >> let me stop you quick. she said her mother -- she would have been comfortable serving if her mother was taking care of her child. that's what fell through. you're not buying that? >> no. that's an excuse. >> thank you for letting me stop threw to ask a question. i appreciate it. another caller. lori is calling from wisconsin. lori, you do have sympathy for her situation. >> reporter: yes, i do, actually. i'm a big believer in our military program. there's a humanity side to this. we're talking about a baby and family and something that america was built on. i think that it's very important that we keep in mind that this is not a situation where she can't be sent and who would like her over there holding a gun possibly, who knows what position she could be in, thinking about and worrying about her family back here. this child is a possible future soldier and is a citizen. the humanity then heres has to be looked at as well talking military and they have also a responsibility if the