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Unreliable. >> let's start with today's commencement speech with retired u.s. army colonel medal of honor recipient and west point professor colonel jack jacobs. colonel, the president is talking about the end of combat operations in afghanistan, but he is also talking about nearly 10,000 u.s. troops staying there after the end of the year. what does it mean to say the war is over if we're leaving 10,000 troops in the country? >> well, it's a very good question indeed. we've been there for a long, long time, and in actual fact, haven't accomplished a great deal. we've gotten ourselves to the p...

Doesn't mean we need the nail -- that every event, situation is not a nail. that's obviously the take-away line from this. i think much of the speech is actually pretty unobjectionable. if you read it carefully, it allows the full range of everything. we can go it alone if we have to. every conceivable oping is included 234 there. the overall theme that we are sort of the conveners in chief, and that america is now the sort of convening power for training, for alliances, for international consensus, and stressing that at the west point i think is as good as a definition that president obama is...

You heard from the foreign policy speech today, too, andrea. >> colonel jack, at west point, i know you talked to a number of cadets. and we wanted to play a little bit of their reaction as they are going forth, commencing today, an important day for them. let's watch. >> i think part of what we're taught here at west point is to understand that the nation's needs might not always be a growing army. so, you know, it's our job to serve. >> i don't think many of us who would, you know, pass judgment on the war effort, and the strategy per se, i think all of us are just ready to get out into the ...

And of course, colonel jack jacobs, a medal of honor winner and someone who can inspire a whole new generation there of young graduates from west point. thank you, colonel jack. speaking of inspiration, on the military front, senator john mccain. stay here on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. new car! hey! [squeals] ♪ [ewh!] [baby crying]

Need to do. we need to do a better job certainly to be able to counter the economic perceptions and motivations of our european allies, for example, when we say we want to squeeze russia, let's assume we really want to do that. we want to skis russia over ukraine to have the europeans effectively say, no, we're not buying into any of that stuff. we'll do some things to sort of paper over it, but we're want in this with you because we have huge economic relationships with russia, and we're not going to squash them. our ability to exercise our will, forget about the military instrument of policy...