Using archival footage, United States cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the then 85 year old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from his birth during the First World War remembering the time American troops returned from Europe, to working as a World War II military officer, to being the Ford motor companies president, to serving as Secretary of Defense for presidents Kennedy and Johnson including his involvement in the Cuban missle crisis and the Vietnam War.
 
Eleven Lessons

Lesson #1: Empathize with your enemy
Lesson #2: Rationality alone will not save us.
Lesson #3: There’s something beyond one’s self.
Lesson #4: Maximize efficiency
Lesson #5: Proportionality should be a guideline in war
Lesson #6: Get the Data
Lesson #7: Belief and seeing are both often wrong
Lesson #8: Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning
Lesson #9: In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
Lesson #10: Never say never
Lesson #11: You can’t change human nature.

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#1 I like the part when mcnamara refused to speak out about the war after he resigned. i remember this part because of his quote that he is damned if he does and damned if he dose not, but he would rather be damned if he does not. This quote is true he would be more screwed if he spoke out against the war.

#2 I like where Mcnamara says you cant change human nature war will keep happening which i agree with because men can never live peacefully they always want to have more power, money and more land so until the greed stops which is highly unlikely war will most likely never end and eventually, it will get so deadly it will start wiping out massive amounts of people. 

#3 the eleven lessons i like the most are lesson #1, lesson #9, lesson #10, lesson #11. I like all these lessons because they are exactly what needs to and what does happen in war. The lessons i disliked the most is lesson #7 because if you saw what happened in Vietnam correctly he would have figured out it was just a civil war. I think lesson #11 was most important to the 21st century because if human nature doesn't change theres gonna be more wars in the 21st century so I think it's important to change our ways before it's to late. 

http://handofreason.com/2011/media/the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s-mcnamara

At least 24 people including nine children were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon. At least seven of those children were killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma. Emergency personnel on Tuesday continued to scour the school's rubble a scene of twisted beams and crumbled cinder blocks. The tornado was estimated to be at least two miles wide at one point as it moved through Moore, in the southern part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. The preliminary rating of the tornado was at least EF4 (166 to 200 mph), the National Weather Service said.
I think it's crazy how something as devastating as this wasn't tracked in time so the people of Oklahoma had time to prepare for this disaster.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/20/us/oklahoma-tornado-developments/index.html

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon attack indicated that the bombing was retribution for what he called U.S. attacks against Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq. Tsarnaev scribbled that the Boston victims were collateral damage as Muslims have been during war and that an attack against one Muslim is an attack against all of them.
One of two bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died after a gunfight with authorities four days after the bombings. The twin blasts at the end of the Boston Marathon on April 15 killed three and wounded more than 260 others. I think it's crazy that even after 911 an event like the Boston marathon that is so widely known and with the massive amount of spectators that the security level at the event was so low and the bombers were able to go completely unnoticed.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/us/boston-marathon-terror-attack-fast-facts/index.html?iref=allsearch

Politician and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was born as Margaret Hilda Roberts on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, England. Nicknamed the "Iron Lady," Thatcher served as the prime minister of England from 1979 to 1990. The daughter of a local businessman, she was educated at a local grammar school, Grantham Girls' High School. Her family operated a grocery store and they all lived in an apartment above the store. In her early years, Thatcher was introduced to conservative politics by her father, who was a member of the town's council
As prime minister, Thatcher battled the country's recession by initially raising interest rates to control inflation. She was best known for her destruction of Britain's traditional industries through her attacks on labor organizations such as the miner's union, and for the massive privatization of social housing and public transport.
Returning for a third term in 1987, Thatcher sought to implement a standard educational curriculum across the nation and make changes to the country's socialized medical system. However, she lost a lot of support due to her efforts to implement a fixed rate local tax—labeled a poll tax by many since she sought to disenfranchise those who did not pay it. Hugely unpopular, this policy led to public protests and caused dissention within her party.
During her three terms, she cut social welfare programs, reduced trade union power and privatized certain industries. Thatcher resigned in 1991 due to unpopular policy and power struggles in her party. She died on April 8, 2013, at age 87.

I think though she seemed to be hated during her later years in office with some of her ideas i think she was a terrific leader and she helped her country out of the recession and she will be forever known as a great leader.

http://www.biography.com/people/margaret-thatcher-9504796 

I think that north Korea poses no threat because the U.S are more advanced in nuclear warfare than north Korea and north Korea’s army is much smaller and less advanced than the United States. North Korea has only Russia to back them up now because China does not want to back them up. The United States is helping South Korea and if they were to go to war I’m sure Canada would help and many more countries would join in because they think that North Korea is going crazy. The fact that the U.S is so large North Korea knows that they would get crushed in a war against the United States. I believe the only reason that North Korea is being so aggressive to a dominant force like the United States is because I think that there leader is trying to rally up the people because technically he’s in a power struggle between other people right now. I think that North Korea for as small as it is trying to show the world that it exists because they are not very noticeable and by pursuing these threats everyone in the world’s attention is on North Korea and that’s good for him.

The plan provides for a joint response between both countries in the event of a limited attack from the North, officials say.

Help from the US - which has 28,000 troops in South Korea - has until now been optional in minor skirmishes.

Regional tension remains high after the North's third nuclear test last month.

The US already offers South Korea a "nuclear umbrella", but Cold War experts have pointed out that while nuclear deterrence may address the possibility of all-out war, it does not deter low-level incidents.

Under the new plan, South Korea will be able to call on US assistance should Pyongyang follow through with its recent threats, for example to attack remote South Korean islands, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.

"This allows both nations to jointly respond to the North's local provocations, with the South taking the lead and the US in support," South Korean defence ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said on Monday.

"It will have the effect of preventing the North from daring to provoke us," he added of the deal, which was signed on Friday.

The "provocative" acts that the plan seeks to address include incursions on the border and by low-flying aircraft, and attacks on border islands, says the Agence-France Presse news agency.

The new plan was conceived in 2010, after North Korea shelled a border island. A South Korean warship also sank that year, leaving 46 sailors dead. South Korea said North Korea torpedoed the ship, but Pyongyang denied this.

Last month the United Nations imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea following its nuclear test on 12 February.

Pyongyang has responded with escalating rhetoric both to this and US-South Korea joint military drills which it bitterly opposes.

It says it has scrapped the Korean War armistice and ended non-aggression pacts with Seoul.

South Korea says North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice and has called on Pyongyang to tone down its language

i think this is very confusing because north korea is acting very agressively and i don't beleive they have the military strength to take on both the united states and south korea if they were to attack.

The danger posed by growing resistance to antibiotics should be ranked along with terrorism on a list of threats to the nation, the government's chief medical officer for England has said.

Dame Sally said: "If we don't take action, then we may all be back in an almost 19th Century environment where infections kill us as a result of routine operations. We won't be able to do a lot of our cancer treatments or organ transplants."

"We haven't had a new class of antibiotics since the late 80s and there are very few antibiotics in the pipeline of the big pharmaceutical companies that develop and make drugs," she said

Dr Ibrahim Hassan, a consultant microbiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, said there are more cases of patients with bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics - meaning there are fewer treatment options

Death rates for infectious diseases have declined in developed countries in recent decades due to improvements in hygiene and sanitation, widespread immunisation and effective drug treatments

I think this is crazy because it seems like antibiotics wont work for most things and this is scary because we could go back to when people died just from being in surgery or some other basic bacteria that can be easily treated today and maybe in the future will be very harmful.

Site:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21737844

Rome (CNN) -- More than 140 Catholic cardinals met Monday at the Vatican, where the process of selecting a new pope edged toward beginning.

The cardinals gathered in the morning, but had not decided when the conclave to select Pope Benedict XVI's successor would start, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi told reporters.

"It's on the table, but no decision has been reached," Lombardi said.

The General Congregations meeting is a key step before the conclave, in which all cardinals younger than 80 are to meet in the Vatican to vote for the next pope.

Benedict announced his intention to step down on February 11 and resigned Thursday, becoming the first pope to do so in 600 years. The transfer of papal power has almost always happened after the sitting pope has died.

Favorites include the archbishop of Milan, Italy, Cardinal Angelo Scola; Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of Italy; Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, who would become the first African pontiff since Pope Gelasius I died more than 1500 years ago; and Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Canada, who would become the first North American pope.

I think this is interesting because this is the first time in 600 years the catholic church has elected a new pope while the old one is still alive and people are really interested in it because they are such a large group of people. 

Hong Kong (CNN) -- The Maldives government has said its hands are tied in the case of a 15-year-old girl sentenced to 100 lashes and eight months house arrest for engaging in premarital sex.

The registrar for the Juvenile Court confirmed Wednesday that the sentence was imposed Tuesday, after the girl confessed during a court hearing to the charge of fornication.

"She's staying in a children's home now so we have ordered her to remain in a children's home," registrar Zaima Nasheed Aboobakur told CNN.

"We have explained to her how if she wants to receive the punishment (the lashings) right now she can... or it can be postponed until she turns 18," she added.

Amnesty International told CNN the same girl was the alleged victim of sexual abuse by her stepfather.

The Juvenile Court registrar said she had no information on reported charges against the girl's stepfather, as that case was being dealt with by the Criminal Court, but she said that the teenager's fornication charge was unrelated to the stepfather's case.

Neither the stepfather's name nor the girl's has been released to the public.

I think this is crazy because as it seems like the world is moving forward places like hong kong afre staying in the past and giving a punishment like lashings which had been banned for years. It also amazes me for the reason like in the u.s you see this happening all the time and it makes hong kong seem so backwards compared to everyone else.

TV viewers in Montana briefly thought the zombie apocalypse was being televised on Monday.

During the Steve Wilkos show on KRTV, pranksters hacked into the local station's emergency announcement system and warned that the 'bodies of the dead are rising from their graves.'

In the middle of a 'Teen Cheaters Take Lie Detectors' episode an emergency message scrolled across the screen, accompanied by an eerie alarm signal.


This was followed by a deep and calm, but obviously fake, computerized voice intoning that the bodies were 'attacking the living.'



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