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Msnbc political analyst. an op-ed in the post, texas governor rick perry said senator paul was curiously blind to threats from iraq. he wrote, obamas policies have led us to this dangerous point in iraq and syria but pauls brand of isolationism or whatever term he prefers would compound the threat of terrorism further. rand paul responded quickly today. the kentucky senator said governor perrys ideas are rooted in bluster. that was his word. bluster. the lets intervene and consider the consequen...

The consequences later crowd left us with more than 4,000 americans dead, over 2 million refugees and over trillions of dollarses in debt. tough talk like perrys might inspire. some for the moment but when bombast becomes policy it could have long and disastrous consequences. we have to learn from past mistakes. perry seems comfortable repeating the history, rhetoric and mistakes. well written there. bob, this guy, paul, i wouldnt under estimate him. he has a sharp retort and did it within 48 ho...

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Countries of the former soviet union from essentially moving away to europe, moving to the west. and while he thought he could control them through plint political leaders like president yanukovych, hes realized that he actually cant control these populations, these peoples aspirations for a better future, for a democratic future, so hes turning to taking territory. crimea and ukraine. weve seen it in georgia and moldova as well. by gaining this territory, he maintains his leverage, his control,...

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Over and over again this is not a real thing. this is very -- were skeptical of this, no meat to this, what the russians are saying, playing a game here. then towards the end of the day, that language began to shift towards, well, the president did talk about this last year at the g-20 with mr. putin. so i think -- you have to look at putins sort of ability to game out american politics and give him credit for that at least. >> okay, so putin at the moment when were about to say, congress is say...

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Weve had abraham lincolns party. weve had teddy roosevelts party. weve had eisenhowers party, nixons party, reagans party and beyond. it is always remaking itself based upon leadership and we dont have a whole lot of leadership right now today and i think thats part of the problem. so you get the ron paul foreign policy based on complete isolationism, you get the mitt romney foreign policy based upon the cold war mentality. im not sure either one of them is the way forward and thats the reason t...