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Republican party. but no one yet on the right is taking up that argument. >> as much fun as it is to watch the republican field twist in the wind over this question, it really is fun, i think there are more important questions like the men who manipulated the intelligence that led us into the iraq war whether or not bush made a mistake in trusting that intelligence, will those men be part of your foreign policy advising team if you are president. >> or how about this, how about the libya interve...

In pakistan, and weve seen all kinds of collateral damage in pakistan and iraq and we had an 11-year war in which we killed thousands of people, and the long-term effect of that is that it makes a burned memory in the arab -- in the muslim mind about whether the united states is after muslims. and i think you have to take this thing very carefully and have everybody understanding what it is we want as a final result. what did we get out of going into iraq? there was no al qaeda in there when we ...

Whether the united states is after muslims. and i think you have to take this thing very carefully and have everybody understanding what it is we want as a final result. what did we get out of going into iraq? there was no al qaeda in there when we started. we, it turned out, well, we got saddam hussein. was it worth all that mayhem and all the money we spent there for one person? >> that is the question, obviously, thats weighing over the congress, its weighing over the citizenry as we head int...

About boots 0 on the ground. they said 45% would favor the u.s. or its allies taking military action against the syrian government. i dont know where you are specifically on that, but when you talk about setting up these safe zones, you cant do that unless you put people on the ground, can you? >> well, you dont have to put people on the ground to set up a safe zone, as senator mccain was talking about. this is to establish a political free zone and a place for displaced people to go, kind of li...

Intervened in libya if we are trying to convince people that weapons of mass destruction. if you are an iranian and see we go in and intervene once you give away your weapons of mass destruction, what do you have? >> i think thats an interesting point. let me set the concept. gadhafi had a nuclear weapons program. during the bush administration, they convinced him to give up his nuclear weapons. he gave them up. theres a case to be made that he gave up the nuclear program, the next thing he knew...

Not syria. >> one of the things about libya and i have gone back and forth on this about the libya intervention. when looking at syria, the problems in libya, which is, you know, militant groups and militias that have a lot of weapons and bulk thats happening and power vacuum that happens in our environment, to the extent you talked them up to the american intervention is fair. you now have syria going on. you are running this experiment in parallel. we are not going to intervene in syria the wa...

Theres troubling evidence that he is setting up his own sort of secret police. so its better, but its by no means a healthy democracy. >> and the maliki government is the most stable that has been in the post war period, i would say, and theres often be a quick succession. theres a sense that democracy in iraq is tending towards a democracy in name only. is that something you feel is the case? >> i think thats fair. he is a less beautiful strong man that saddam hussein was. >> p.j., when you tal...

Draw from iraq and bring to the table in thinking about the intervention in libya? >> its what secretary clinton calls strategic patience. theres criticism in this country that we did not move into libya fast enough, but the president said lets get a strong consensus within the region that intervention is necessary, and lets get legality, and lets make sure that we are in support of indinlg nus political forces in libya that are now in control of the country. i think that kind of patience was po...

Learn more at anga.us. my story of the week, the obama doctrine. if i could send myself back in tinl to tell the 2008 version and a few years hence, barack obama would announce a total withdraw of u.s. forces, the reaction of the 2008 version of me would be very glad but also unsurprised. thats the whole point of electing this guy, right? if you had told the 2008 version of me that barack obama would also oversee a nay cointervention in another country resulting in regime change i would have b...

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