Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100815:18:51:00
>> what's worse, iran with a nuclear weapon or the fallout of an attack on iran to prevent a nuclear weapon? >> that's one for the policy makers. of course that's the huge question that looms out there. obviously when i was a central command commander, we had a variety of different input and made a variety of different plans and so forth. what the military gets paid to do is think about what ifs and indeed to prepare for them. >> i want to get a sense of your frame of mind while you're here. what are you reading? >> i just read a book about kipling in india of all things and most recently i've...