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>> with a clear objective. >> absolutely, to restore kuwaiti sovereignty, get the iraqis out, cut the iraqis down to size. what the united states did was resist the temptation to try to remake iraq. one of the problems i think of the last 10, 15 years in both iraq and afghanistan is the united states got ambitious, we spent an awful lot of life, over 6500 americans were lost in the two wars, 40,000 were injured, $1.5 trillion and we simply dont have results that are commensurate with what it was...

Is more powerful and widespread today than when he took office and, frankly cece a much more volatile situation in the middle east. why we dont want to get involved in every war or every conflict. we need to be able to respond a jillly because agilely. >> >> clayton: move toward isolationism. should we just stay out of middle east and after all make the point that countries like iraq and syria have their bound dries drawn by britain. other countries invented out of europe. should america be invo...

Draw down from afghanistan, what can it learn from britains withdrawal 170 years ago? ill ask the author of a great new book. next, a look into the crystal ball of technology with googles executive chairman eric schmidt. a sure fire plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. how so? stay tuned. first, here is my take. conservatives are, of course, mad at barack obama. well talk about the various scandals in a moment, but theyre also mad at a country that isnt mad enough at him. this frustratio...

Withdrawal 170 years ago? ill ask theauthor of a great new book. next, a look into the crystal ball of technology with googles executive chairman eric schmit. a sure fire plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. how so? stay tuned. first, here is my take. conservatives are, of course, mad at barack obama. well talk about the various scandals in a moment, but theyre also mad at a country that isnt mad enough at him. this frustration is now taking over main stream and intelligent voices within...

Vast foreign policy. washington spends more on defense than the next ten great powers put together and more on intelligence than most nations spend on their entire militaries. we have more than 200,000 troops stationed at dozens of bases abroad from bahrain to germany to south korea to turkey. we have formal commitments to defend dozens of our important allies in europe, middle east and asia. and our vast footprint has been expanded under the obama administration. the white house has extended am...

Soldiers and intelligence officers working on americas vast foreign policy. washington spends more on defense than the next ten great powers put together and more on intelligence than most nations spend on their entire militaries. we have more than 200,000 troops stationed at dozens of bases abroad from bahrain to germany to south korea to turkey. we have formal commitments to defend dozens of our important allies in europe, middle east and asia. and our vast footprint has been expanded under th...

Jon: former president george w. bush issuing an unmistakeable warning to the republican party. speaking with fox news at the dedication of his new presidential library president bush cautioned the gop against the kind of isolationism that is gaining popularity among members of the tea party. chief washington correspondent james rosen has that live from d.c. james? >> reporter: good morning. with u.s. debt piling up, our political leaders seeming unable to make big decisions necessary to stop it ...

Get on with it. >> finish my point. it shows you how desperate conservatives and republicans are for stars that theyll even take someone who mccain calls a wackobird and give him the crown, at least for a couple days. >> david, just to be fair to rab rand paul, hes an antidote to someone as inauthentic and totally fabricated as moitt romn romney. you cant say his value to them is because theyre desperate. he also does have a level of authenticity. lets be honest, doesnt he? >> you know, i wont g...

Whole lot is known about kim jong-un. he is a young man. the united states was hoping when he took over in december of 2011 that he would help to lead north korea out of its current state of isolationism. that is not whats happening. in fact, its quite the opposite. >> kristen welker reporting live from the white house. joining the conversation now is p.j. crowley, former assistant secretary of state. sir, it is great to have you here. as youre hearing the reporting this morning from our krist...

The flash point that allowed our leaders to pull us into war? do you think we would have entered world war ii were it not for pearl harbor? >> certainly when the japanese attacked, that made it very easy in a way for us to go to war. we had been intact. we had to retaliate basically. i think we would have ended up in the war eventually. the american people understood that we were going to, that we needed to get into this conflict one way or the other. they were ready to go. so even if it had tak...