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Like a propaganda video with that toby keith "red, white and blue" song playing in the background. what they're seeing bombs being dropped against our so-called enemies. on the flip side of it, on every other channel. you're seeing people who spent a lifetime in career and military service who understand the gravity and the complications of these situations. they're going to speak responsibly to it, while they feed up propaganda to their base. >> this might actually flip on the base. forgetting in all of this, the number of men and service women for 16 years. the same amount of time that geral...

Welcome back to "reliable sources." in syria, afghanistan, yemen and elsewhere the trump administration is taking military action and making the most of the military action of those actions, of those air strikes and bombings, calling to phrase the theater of war. we have heard commentary about the bombings making trump presidential. my next guest is concerned about that. dan rather, legendary news man, former anchor of nbc "nightly news" and he joins me here in new york. dan, you wrote about the coverage of the syria strikes more than a week ago. you thought the commentary around this was dist...

Base. >> this might actually flip on the base. forgetting in all of this, the number of men and service women for 16 years. the same amount of time that geraldo rivera has been on tv talking about dropping bombs. they want to know what was the purpose of 16 years in afghanistan if we're still not done? >> right. >> cool heads are prevailing, we need to have diplomacy. wolf blitzer was on, saying we need diplomacy, war should be the last option. >> thank you very much, my guests. thank you very much. up next, a sneak peek at the new landmark cover.

Dropping bombs on the nato nations or going through japan or other countries, then whether we like it or not, sometimes the best strategy is one of preemption. i am off for let's make america first and that is what donald trump ran on. the problem is the world changes every single day and part of the uncertainty is if we might make a preemptive action and probably we should, we don't know how donald trump will react, he drops some bombs, does it escalate? does it keep going? is he more george w. bush or barack obama, drew the line in the sand? we don't know. i don't think it is about his ego. ...

And have been for decades, is that there is not a strategy beyond dropping bombs, to find a way out of these wars, to end the military environment. all of the military experts you've had on the show will certainly agree that, yes, you can go after and use whatever weaponry, sophisticated weaponry you have to kill or intimidate the enemy. but at the end of the day you have to have a strategy, a complementary, parallel strategy that comes up with a means to whether it's find peace in afghanistan, after six years, in dealing with the taliban. when i was in mosul in iraq, you know, there is a sens...