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Process. at the same time, youve got to establish some kind of domestic order. so its a really terrible battle for them. patti ann: you believe, though, that the u.s. should be involved because, you know, there are isolationists who say the if this is -- if this is some kind of a civil conflict, we should stay out of it. >> yeah. the thing is that what happens in egypt will affe region. the muslim brotherhood which has been tossed out, their best friends are in the gaza strip to the west of isra...

That argue, the evidence is weak, even wrong. >> the nie is sent over to congress. it is kept in a classified vault. as far as we can tell, only about a half dozen senators actually read it. had they done so, they would have seen that it was filled with dissent. >> if i had red the national intelligence estimate on iraq, i probably would have been, have done myself a favor by being better informed on the intelligence rather than listening to the administration. >> the administration was intent o...

Moral imperative to do something there. im wondering, at the time weve all talked about how the isolationists were criticized and vilified. and we were vilified for maybe waiting too long to go in. and im wondering if you see vietnam and then later iraq as a resulting response of that fear that maybe weve waited too long to intervene in a necessary conflict. >> i think we tend to fight the last war. and i think that was true in vietnam. and it was true in iraq. how many times have we heard the t...

The messianic view of promoting democracy. neoconservatives triumphed. there always was a small, emphasize the word small, part of the party, paleoconservatives. traditional isolationists, like pat buchanan. >> pat buchanan. >> like pat buchanan. they never even were in the debate. they were so far out of the mainstream of their own party. now with rand paul, we see them kind of rising and the debates between them and the neocons -- >> whats changed in the atmosphere? >> the realists are gone. >...

Weve got chuck hagel and the scurrilous claims that were made by ted cruz about him. and also resurrecting mccarthyism. then youve got rand paul out there resurrecting the isolationist trend that dominated the party before the second world war. id like you to take a listen to john mccain. >> we are for a strong america and we believe thats the best way to prevent war rather than a weakened military which many of my colleagues now support who are the isolationists which goes all the way back to p...

Rain down on us from the sky. thats not the real question about droughns. the real question about drones is whats happening overseas, how much, where, what authorization, what legal basis. but it is nice to see a real filibuster and it is nice to -- and it just illustrates some of the divisions in the republican party. social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, isolationists, neocons, and strong executive branch conservatives like george w. bush versus get the government out of my business cons...

Is whats happening overseas, how much, where, what authorization, what legal basis. but it is nice to see a real filibuster and it is nice to -- and it just illustrates some of the divisions in the republican party. social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, isolationists, neocons, and strong executive branch conservatives like george w. bush versus get the government out of my business conservatives like rand paul. >> i really disagree. he did ask an important question and that is are there li...

American citizen, no trial, does the u.s. government have a right to kill the enemy? >> there is a real issue but paul did not frame it that way, what is the appropriate role of the united states using drones overseas? >> maybe now he is trying to rewrite his own history because he penned an op-ed yesterday in the "washington post" talking nothing about domestic drones but implies he was talking about drones anywhere. >> there is a legitimate debate and conserve we could have. i go back, john, t...

Very formidable candidate. >> what about rand paul? i mean so much praise really, bipartisan praise for rand paul as really beginning something of a more youthful, grassroots conservative movement that could run -- end up being a run in 2016? >> well, it was fun to watch the filibuster. i thought he was filibustering about the wrong question, that he was fill i bustering about the notion that we could be sitting here and drones could rain down on us from the sky. thats not the real question abou...

Weapons. if youre going back to this joke i said -- >> shepard: i didnt mean it as a joke,. >> it was a joke and your saying i wanted to bomb iran and of course i never did. the party of ronald reagan is the party that believes that we should have peace through strength and thats the best way to prevent these things. im of the party of ronald reagan and theres been a debate in our party for years and years about whether we should withdraw the fortress america or not. but to say were intervention...