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Like a propaganda video with that toby keith "red, white and blue" song playing in the background. what theyre seeing bombs being dropped against our so-called enemies. on the flip side of it, on every other channel. youre seeing people who spent a lifetime in career and military service who understand the gravity and the complications of these situations. theyre going to speak responsibly to it, while they feed up propaganda to their base. >> this might actually flip on the base. forgetting in ...

Welcome back to "reliable sources." in syria, afghanistan, yemen and elsewhere the trump administration is taking military action and making the most of the military action of those actions, of those air strikes and bombings, calling to phrase the theater of war. we have heard commentary about the bombings making trump presidential. my next guest is concerned about that. dan rather, legendary news man, former anchor of nbc "nightly news" and he joins me here in new york. dan, you wrote about the...

Base. >> this might actually flip on the base. forgetting in all of this, the number of men and service women for 16 years. the same amount of time that geraldo rivera has been on tv talking about dropping bombs. they want to know what was the purpose of 16 years in afghanistan if were still not done? >> right. >> cool heads are prevailing, we need to have diplomacy. wolf blitzer was on, saying we need diplomacy, war should be the last option. >> thank you very much, my guests. thank you very mu...

Dropping bombs on the nato nations or going through japan or other countries, then whether we like it or not, sometimes the best strategy is one of preemption. i am off for lets make america first and that is what donald trump ran on. the problem is the world changes every single day and part of the uncertainty is if we might make a preemptive action and probably we should, we dont know how donald trump will react, he drops some bombs, does it escalate? does it keep going? is he more george w. b...

And have been for decades, is that there is not a strategy beyond dropping bombs, to find a way out of these wars, to end the military environment. all of the military experts youve had on the show will certainly agree that, yes, you can go after and use whatever weaponry, sophisticated weaponry you have to kill or intimidate the enemy. but at the end of the day you have to have a strategy, a complementary, parallel strategy that comes up with a means to whether its find peace in afghanistan, af...

Im going to do it in the name of god. how disgusting. this good friday jesus said came down on earth according to christian theology im willing to die for you, who used your free will. the gift you made for love and here you are destroying each other. even when i hear the war stories going on right now dropping bombs in afghanistan, you know, sometimes violence is necessary in order to stop an unjust aggressor but god weeps. if we think that dropping bombs -- im not saying sometimes it is not ne...

Something to beat the enemy at that place, no problem with that whatsoever. the difficulty with afghanistan is what is the strategy? when do we know we got out? weve been there 15, 16 years. dropping bombs is not a strategy. this can be used as part of a strategy. but what is the goal in afghanistan? keep in mind, by the way, hes been asking for more ground troops. hes not granted the ground troops. bombs are not a strategy. with the guerrilla warfare in afghanistan, we know that on a broad gene...

To get us in so much more trouble than we need to be in in the world is going to be heading straight for world war iii, is at the reality or is this what we need to do right now to make sure we dont wind up in world war iii? >> julie: after we went and dropped those tomahawk missiles in syria, i think a lot of people were concerned, are we beginning world war iii? as is contradicting to what president trump then campaigned on, that he doesnt necessarily want to get in every war or every civil wa...

Sixth nuclear test. i just came back from iraq, and i think the thing that haunts all of us in covering these wars and have been for decades, is that there is not a strategy beyond dropping bombs, to find a way out of these wars, to end the military environment. all of the military experts youve had on the show will certainly agree that, yes, you can go after and use whatever weaponry, sophisticated weaponry you have to kill or intimidate the enemy. but at the end of the day you have to have a s...

President roosevelt who said speak softly and carry a big stick, as you all have been noting all morning and so many others have noted from the pentagon as well that this kind of uptick in military activity and the public sizing of it is certainly the big stick of diplomacy, guys. pete: very much so. >> leland vittert live on the white house lawn. thank you so much, leland. brian brian everyone is taking a look at syria and wondering about north korea. not many people that i have talked to said ...