joe. donald trump today and always has recented the advice of others who are experts because he regards himself as smarter than anyone. and what we re seeing play out here is the president of the united states is ignorant of so many things. he has confused the endless war in afghanistan and the endless war in the middle east with america s role in the world. there are two separate items. he is ignorant of world history. he is ignorant of our own history. he is ignorant of the way our government operates and ought to operate, and thus we are where we are today, this morning where we have people richard and i were talking about this off camera. we have people in the pentagon who take an oath. they take a very serious oath when they enlist in the united states army, in the marine corps or whatever. part of that oath is to obey the orders of the president of the united states. but they know in the pentagon, many of them, they are very
endless war in the middle east for the past 20 years are the same ones devising the economict strategies that have turned our great cities into places that look like the middle east. tucker: so, it s really simple. look at the polling. most people want what i just described in the opening script. which is a party that isn t socialist, but that cares about their economic well-being and puts that first, and the country s economic well-being first. but that also isn t radical and crazy on social issues, but doesn t think third term abortion is liberation. why couldn t you have a party that is economically nationalist and socially conservative? why is that so hard? well, that the republican party of abraham lincoln, talker. you might your member the famous link when he was out on the campaign trail, saying that, give us a protective tariff, and i will make us the greatest nation on earth. tucker, the united states was the greatest nation on earth, and we had a manufacturing base that
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these plans that envision almost endless conflict in the region are in the main opposed by people such as hagel. well, sam, you point and it may well be true you ve done more work on this than i have. the sense that the vision is for almost an orwellian war in 1984, endless war in the middle east, is that the prospect that the neocons hold for us? i don t know if it s that stated, but it certainly is underlining a lot of what we re hearing about hagel now. a lot of the media attention has been on some of the past statements involving the jewish lobby as he called it, involving the gay ambassador to luxembourg, but those are sort of side shows. what this comes down to is the future of obama s foreign policy. chuck hagel in many ways represents the clearest break yet by this administration from the george w. bush era foreign policy. keep in mind the president continued a lot of these bush era programs. we haven t really had a substantive comprehensive conversation about what went wro
or eventually where you re going, my earlier point, you don t know. and you can t just start out with a concept of, well, we re going to do this but it will be marginalized, it will be limited warfare. i don t think any nation can ever go into it that way. let s take a look at those words themselves. sam and peter in turn, analyze what he means there because i am for a war with iran if we have to. i think all three of us are if we have to, but we also realize it s not going to stop with a bombing. there s a lot of reaction that will come from the other side. hezbollah could be launched against israel, launched against us in our hemisphere. we don t know what buttons they have to push and will push if we go to war. what did the former senator have to say there? what i take from talking to people close to chuck hagel is he views all of these issues through the mindset and lens of people who are on the ground because he s been there before. when you talk to people in the administratio