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global conflict. that is where this ends if we don't reconcile it, and i'm excited to talk to the governor about it. >> sounds interesting, dylan. take it away. >> here we go. show starts right now. ♪ so this is christ mass >> well, the big story, war is over. good wednesday afternoon to you, i'm dylan ratigan. nice to see you. note the question mark in the statement behind me. the remaining 5,500 u.s. troops in iraq are packing up. good news. ready to hand full control over to the iraqis by christmas of this year, nine years after the u.s.-led invasion but after they come home 16,...

>> that made the american way of war. we're going to start off with a little exapplication of what is in the book by its author, eliot cohen s and then we're going to have some discussion afterwards, and then we hope to have some time for comments afterwards and maybe even a chance for questions from the floor. eliot cohen has served in the, on the policy planning staff of the office of the secretary of defense before coming to sais in 1990. he has also been an officer in the united states army reserve. from 2007 to 2009, he was a counselor, was counselor of the department of state s...

>> it's a remarkable time for families. and it was a remarkable time in our history over the years. i hope this'll be my last christmas book. >> pearl harbor christmas: a world at war, december 1941, is the name of the book. historian stanley wine straub is the author. >> up next, eliot cohen talks about the battles fought along the 200-mile corridor between albany and montreal since the 1600s and discusses how those battles shape the way we wage war today. this program is just over an hour. >> well, welcome to johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. i am charles dura...

less popular view and perhaps unsustainable on its own. >> rose: we continue with donald rumsfeld, the former secretary of defense, talking about his memoir "known and unknown." >> the photographs of the people that abused prisoners in our care in iraq damaged the country damaged the military, and i knew they would be prosecuted and they were. some were still in jail, and they should have been. they were not interrogators interrogatg people they were guards. the people they were abusing were not people that should be interrated, they were just being detained and that was terrible thi...

but that's becoming a less and less popular view and perhaps unsustainable on its own. >> rose: we continue with donald rumsfeld, the former secretary of defense, talking about his memoir "known and unknown." >> the photographs of the people that abused prisoners in our care in iraq damaged the country damaged the military, and i knew they would be prosecuted and they were. some were still in jail, and they should have been. they were not interrogators interrogatg people they were guards. the people they were abusing were not people that should be interrated, they were just being det...