Correct ways. Hello if youre watching r. T. International im or is on a lot thank you for joining us and we do start with this breaking news iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles bases housing u. S. Forces in iraq the Iranian Military is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General. Who was killed in the u. S. Air strike last week the pentagon has confirmed that the end base in western iraq and the herbal base in Northern Iraq have been hit those 2 facilities housing u. S. And Coalition Forces alongside iraqi forces and there are now reports of iraq casualties in both strikes this of course follows irans warning that it would hit u. S. Targets. In response to the death of its top general on january 3rd the Iranian Military has named the operation martyrs solemn army and warned that further strikes are to come since news of the attack broke there has been a 4 percent spike in the Global Oil Price and the Us Federal Aviation Agency has banned all flights over the p
Which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 10, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable david n. Cicilline to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, rabbi barry h. Block, from church, from little rock, arkansas. From congregation bnai israel, from little rock arkansas. The chaplain source of blessing we come before you today asking your blessings upon the United States house of representatives. At this time of grave division, inspire these members of the peoples house to reach across every kind of aisle, to build new friendships that may grow into opportunities for greater understanding, speaking shared solutions to americas greatest problems. As th
Of defeating jihad, why we fight. And most racially, the war for americas soul. The aand most recently. In your 2018 book, why we fight, you write the most significant threats we face today to not emanate from the world of nonstate actors. They come from old nationstate adversaries who have seemingly learned from the change wrought at the end of the 20th century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack. Could the assassination of general solar fit into that theory . It could because of who he was his official title. Thanks to having me on the show. He was the shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in a regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle for you face off in combat and everything is aboveboard and you know where everybody is. This isnt the battle of the bulge or the first gulf war. He used proxy forces including in the u. S. And the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage warfare by using means that th
He was the shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in a regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle for you face off in combat and everything is aboveboard and you know where everybody is. This isnt the battle of the bulge or the first gulf war. He used proxy forces including in the u. S. And the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage warfare by using means that the weaker power has developed against the far more powerful adversary like the United States. America is no longer a superpower as a french analyst claimed it. We are a hyperpower. Nobody can come close to us in our conventional capacity. We have 12 Nuclear Aircraft carriers. We have more special forces than some countries have soldiers. So use in direct means, proxies, terrorism and irregular warfare. Was the commander of that warfare. You also write and why we fight that we are not interventionists, but we are not isolationists. When it comes to this president , yes. As President Trumps former strate
another endless conflict in the middle east, but i fear that the strike against iranian major general soleimani last month may bumble us into one. with this bipartisan resolution, the senate can assert its constitutional authority and send a clear bipartisan message to the president that he cannot sidestep congress when it comes to matters of war and peace. it was immediately clear that the strike against general soleimani was carried out with insufficient transparency, without proper notification of congress, and without a clear plan for what comes next. last month has only magnified these problems. president trump initially claimed that no one was hurt after iran retaliated against forces on january 8. now the pentagon says over 100 military personnel suffered a traumatic brain injury. why has it taken so long for us to learn that american troops were hurt in the attack? who ordered the withholding of that information? was it president trump? it sure wouldn t be surprising.