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First tier interventions there were no american casualties, fewer than ten in the syria intervention, but in afghanistan, the initial military action was in conjunction with a local partner, that is the northern alliance, and by the time that was accomplished at the end of 2001, sporting the local partner and accomplishing what it wanted which was to oust the taliban and retake kabul, the taliban was gone and al-qaeda was gone. then we transformed the mission to make afghanistan into the kind of...

Than no american casualties, fewer than ten in the syria intervention, but in afghanistan, the initial military action was in conjunction with a local partner, that is the northern alliance, and by the time that was accomplished at the end of 2001, sporting the local partner and accomplishing what it wanted which was to oust the taliban and retake kabul, the taliban was gone and al-qaeda was gone. then we transformed the mission to make afghanistan into the kind of country which we thought it wo...

Complicated you break it you buy it strategy. >> yeah, i thought what we were going to see this week was something different. i thought what we would see was a clear signal to the russians saying we are going in to degrade assads military capability. get out. the way. then what we would be doing is hitting assads command and couldnt troll. military intelligence headquarters. machine of war if you will. trying to be careful not to engage unnecessarily the russians. but using the opportunity to re...

From the oval office in the first 100 days an arbitrary stander of a new administration. a legislature does not move with speed, if you are going to try to do something as expensive as health care, we have to remember the affordable care act was not even passed by the senate until december of your two of the obama administration. so try to affect the health care regime is a massive undertaking, we see how abstained the administration is off the bat because of some of the policy feelings. if you ...

The actual base. >> yeah, you know, and its interesting to watch because part of, i think, peter kings problem, frankly, is that every time he sort of draws the line in the sand, more stuff comes out about what the nsa has done which is emboldening folks like rand paul. he say, well, they arent collecting any information on americans. turns out they are. well, then its not very much. well, turns out that they are collecting quite a bit of information about americans. and, you know, now we think ...

Preposterous to me, frankly. just in terms of what his actual chances would be in a republican primary field. right now youre going to see this test case of where republican lawmakers line up as these battles happen, legislatively, over nsa reforms, in which they are going to be torn between the kind of establishment and elite foreign policy thinkers in the party and the actual base. >> yeah, you know, and its interesting to watch because part of, i think, peter kings problem, frankly, is that e...

Running the experiment and letting the disaster flower, but of course millions of americans would be hurt and youre not going to do that. thank you, congressman. all right, next, joining me steve kornacki, i find the rift in the republican party fascinating. and it is one of those things that is a cliche, but it is a very real thing, getting more intense to the point where you see substantive clashes like syria intervention, and up until now i felt that ted cruz was very deftly walking the lin...

It is strange to see kirsten, we remember they had very different takes on the war in iraq. >> i have a completely different memory of the run up to the war in iraq. i remember the media not being skeptical and pretty much banging the drums for war and being supportive of the war. i think they are not skeptical enough with president obama. and we never heard about the drone war for example. and for most of his first administration, and i think they did not show the proper skepticism and i am not...

Is, the president builds up the syria intervention for months, changed his mind at the last minute, goes to play golf and then the next day "the new york times" says president puts congress in box, making it sound like president obama is some kind of mack developly, outsmarting congress. president, oops, secretary of state kerry making the case on all sunday shows. looks like he is in charge now. gregg: i was anchoring at the time when secretary kerry made his speech on friday. incredibly dramat...