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Republicans cannot use it against him. they have no foreign policy position other than to say democrats are traditionally weak, and he is not weak. so now, lets get it on the republican failures on the domestic side, and that is where the campaign will go based on a very strong platform in foreign policy, and the drone attacks being part of it. he has not been afraid to use a powerful weapon, and thank goodness he has, because 20 of the top 30 leaders have been taken out, and we have osama bin l...

>> that was president obamas address to afghanistan from afghanistan on tuesday evening where he underscored the message that the tide of the war is receding in afghanistan, but on that very day, a stark reminder when a suicide bomber in kabul killed seven people, and showed that security in afghanistan will continue to ebb and flow no matter the stated time line. in the months ahead as the time line draws near, time will tell how the war in afghanistan bears fruit on election day. but here to j...

But the tides kind of come in and out and at different levels, and when you look at the events in afghanistan there is two more years of american combat and ten more years of commitment to afghanistan and a drone war occurring with a lot less visibility next door in pakistan. so the war is very much a fact of american life going forward. >> i want to pause that. general clark, wapt to ask you a little bit about the drone war question, because part of what we want to do here is to provide more us...

Decisions. this is why you want to stay the course, if you will, with the president. >> and literally behind the scenes. nbc news this week had a sort of groundbreaking interview and opportunity to see inside of the situation room. we heard the during the gop primaries and the language that president obama is an appeaser, and yet on december 8th of 2011, last year, president obama directly responded to that. we will take a listen to that. >> our goal is not to build a country in americas image o...

Prompted secretary hillary clinton to go to work for his release. foreign policy rarely galvanizes voters except when war is the d dominant issue. so president obama campaign and in part won in 2008 on the anti-war stance and remember that obama then criticized the pred sors for taking the ball off of war in afghanistan and misconceived support in iraq, and now he is a president who ended two wars and brought the 9/11 masterminds to justice. the question is will the voters care? and joining me i...

Particularly primaries where part of how he positions himself as a distinct candidate over and against hillary clinton is that, look, i thought that the war in iraq was a stew wupid war and i would not have voted for it and i was not in congress to vote for it, but at that time i stood against it. i will close guantanamo bay, and so there is a portion of the left that is not responding to the hawkishness and feeling a great deal of angst about it. what will happen to those voters? will they hold...