producer, whoever takes advantage of that. and they are then afraid to make some kind of a claim, because they don t want to torch their career. final question for mark geragos, not a legal question. professionally speaking, is he done? he would have to i can see various exit strategies for him. but from a legacy standpoint, stick a fork in him. mark geragos, thank you for your analysis, as always. up next, some law school students say that recent grand jury decisions not to indict police officers are so traumatizing they can t take their final exams. i m an attorney. i ve got an objection to that one.
charter, anybody who understands self-defense, can justify what israel is doing today and it may not be easy may be that the exit strategies will require a lot of sharp minds to work out, but right now, we need a defense strategy, a defense strategy so the people in israel can go to sleep at night and not be under this kind of threat that has been going on since 2001 but only intensified when israel withdrew from the gaza strip in september 2005. the hope was, according to israeli officials, that this wouldn t be necessary. that a ground invasion this situation could be handled, that peace could be achieved by some mean other means. clearly didn t work. you re missing mixing terms here. peace you can make with palestinian leaders who want to end the conflict. hamas is not in that category.
hamas and other terrorist groups both in gaza and in lebanon now k continues and escalates. how long can both sides hold out? whether both sides will now turn to some type of diplomatic option. israel, i know, would like to avoid a ground invasion of gaza that would probably cost a great number of israeli lives as certainly a greater number of palestinian lives as well as bringing down on israel s head tremendous amount of international censure and sanctions. whether the united states can play i have yet to hear anything about finding a diplomatic solution. he hasn t accepted united states help, for example. he s been talking to secretary of state kerry and talked to the secretary of state several times, talked to president obama and i can only assure you i m not in the government now, but i can assure you they re talking about possible diplomatic exit strategies and who can mediate. in the past, egypt played a very
the good old days of economic malfeasance, waterboarding, nonexistent exit strategies, environmental malpractice and the shadow administration of dick cheney. perhaps pining for the republican xwoess of the recent past, amnesia a little more towards the frontal lobe. fear not, for $5 the national republican senatorial committee is peddling a romney was here bumper sticker with your name on it. what better way to commemorate the 47% self-deportation, trickle down economic policy, binders full of women, and $10,000 bets. one might think that for republicans looking back may not be the best idea. then again, given the current direction of the party, maybe that is actually the best way to go. that s all for now. i ll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. the ed show is coming up next. good evening. welcome to the ed show.
we need to when you leer looking at maliki and the way he governs, that s where the west can also have a serious influence in terms of the way he s being so divisive, and we know he s been devicive. i think there just needs to be more support in terms of the way that governance is executed within iraq, and i think that s another area the west can zone in on. to pick um on your point, exit strategies is the name of the game here. and what the west needs to do is it really needs to understand what an exit strategy is before it goes into a certain place. libya is a classic example at the moment. the muslim brotherhood and al qaeda, they have training camps now in various parts of libya, because effectively it s a governless state. and that s what we ve got to avoid doing is imposing this western democratic template on areas that want that aren t ready for it. i m also understanding that we can t take out security institutions and replace them and expect them to be at the level of maturi