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The two wars we've been fighting. jenna: and the de intait whether it's the right strategy. k.t. mcfarland worked with the reagan administration and let's look at that particular area she was talking about, when carter made those cuts to the army. what was ronald reagan's response at the time? >> reporter: remember, the nation was very war weary after vietnam so there was high inflation rates, essentially there were 58,000 u.s. troops who had been killed in that war, nixon began the drawdown, carter carried out cuts, k.t. mcfarland as you mentioned worked in the pentagon under ronald reagan an...

Which often leads to the next ground war. "becomobama's plan does exactly that, it forgets the lesson of history," writes general bob scales. the chairman of the senate house services committee is concerned. >> time after time after time we found that that was the wrong strategy. starting world war ii, we had been going across africa with inadequate equipment, inadequate training, inadequate leadership and it cost us lots of lives. >> reporter: after world war ii, president truman cut the army from 8 million to 500,000. some argued that led to the korean war. after that conflict, president eis...

The two wars we've been fighting. jenna: and the de intait whether it's the right strategy. k.t. mcfarland worked with the reagan administration and let's look at that particular area she was talking about, when carter made those cuts to the army. what was ronald reagan's response at the time? >> reporter: remember, the nation was very war weary after vietnam so there was high inflation rates, essentially there were 58,000 u.s. troops who had been killed in that war, nixon began the drawdown, carter carried out cuts, k.t. mcfarland as you mentioned worked in the pentagon under ronald reagan an...

To rely on superior air power. which often leads to the next ground war. "becomobama's plan does exactly that, it forgets the lesson of history," writes general bob scales. the chairman of the senate house services committee is concerned. >> time after time after time we found that that was the wrong strategy. starting world war ii, we had been going across africa with inadequate equipment, inadequate training, inadequate leadership and it cost us lots of lives. >> reporter: after world war ii, president truman cut the army from 8 million to 500,000. some argued that led to the korean war. aft...

You were given the reason you couldn't fly is the pilot didn't want you on the plane, correct? >> yeah. >> were they embarrassed by what they were telling you at all? >> no, nobody was embarrassed by us in the plane because we received an e-mail by a passenger that we are okay. there was nothing with the passenge passengers. >> mr. rahman, are you telling us that the passengers were complaining about you? >> no, no passengers complained about us. >> okay. >> because we got an e-mail from a passenger. there was nothing from the side of the passengers. >> okay. are you going to follow legal acti...