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Of a larger u.s. strategy look like? >> i think it would consist of two, maybe three things. one would be what we editorialized about last week which is to use tomahawk cruise missiles from a standoff hundreds of miles from syria. also standoff aircraft to destroy and degrade the six functioning fields they have in syria so they can no longer bomb the rebels. second would be to supply moderate rebels. they can be identified with military arms. anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft weapons and such so...

>> welcome to war stories. im oliver north. this is tuskegee, alabama. today its a small airport. and more prepare to join the fight. this is part of a military experiment. in july, 1941. the small group of americans all of them volunteers gathered on this very ground. their goal? build a special fighter unit for u.s. army air corps. but it wasnt planes they flew or weapons they employed but the color of their skin. the 1940s, our military, like our country was segregated. many believed black me...

>> welcome to war stories. im oliver north. this is tuskegee, alabama. today its a small airport. and more prepare to join the fight. this is part of a military experiment. in july, 1941. the small group of americans all of them volunteers gathered on this very ground. their goal? build a special fighter unit for u.s. army air corps. but it wasnt planes they flew or weapons they employed but the color of their skin. the 1940s, our military, like our country was segregated. many believed black me...

There, beneath its branches by what was then a union garrison, about 20 students gathered on september 17th, 1861, taught by a free citizen in defiance of virginia law. the students were escaped slaves from nearby plantations who had fled to the fort, seeking asylum. at the wars end, a retired union general sought to ensidelienslihrine that legacy of learning and took a collection from church groups, some war veterans, and a choir that toured europe. hampton normal and agricultural institute was...

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Or from violence. and so abolitionists and freed men and women and radical republicans kept con joeling and rebel rousing, and within a few years of the wars end, we passed two more amendments guaranteeing vote rights, birthright citizenship, equal protection under the law and still it wasnt enough. for another century we saw segregation and jim crow make a mockery of these amendments. and we saw justice turn a blind eye to mobs with nooses slung over trees. we saw bullets and bombs terrorize ge...

Air, that the jet stream would pick them up and carry them all the way across the pacific ocean to north america. and depending on where the winds carried them these balloon bombs would come down all up and down the west coast of north america. this is newsreel footage from just after the war. watch. >> hundreds of the balloons came down in canada and the united states. incendiaries and high-explosive bombs caused some damage but demolition squads were on constant alert. most landed without expl...

>> is it possible to dip your toe into iraq and not be pulled into deeper into the conflict? >> to understand what is happening in iraq today, its worth looking back to december 18th 2011 when quts the norkz times ran this headline, last convey leaves iraq ending a wars end. a wars end. it didnt run that headline on a one or two or three. it ran on a six and it included this amazing detail. as an indication of the country the u.s. is leaving behind, for security reasons the last soldiers may no ...

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