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You don't get around it by trimming the edges and stuff. you're talking about force levels. look it up in the budget. >> it's not going to be easy, chris. >> amy, i'm rooting for anybody who gets involved in american politics is on my side. go look at the federal budget and see where the money is going. then you will know more. thank you sam hall and amy kremer. we'll be right back after this. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it...

Should be respected. >> i want to get to the guys that have been released. the senior defense official says the president was warned not to do that and the former defense secretary saying i was against this when i was defense secretary. i believed i had an obligation not to release the soldiers, these taliban soldiers given the on going war and i assumed this would never happen. >> well, that doesn't surprise me because, you know, i've been around penetta for a number of years. he's a straight shooter. general mcchrystal, general austin and general allen and dun ford made recommendations to th...

It. the fact of the matter is, from an american perspective, and from nato perspective, our force levels are getting down very low, and in a couple years, we're going to be out of there entirely. so the risk to our troops from those five released out at guantanamo is very slim. but make no mistake about it, i doubt if they have been rehabilitated at guantanamo bay. i would make the assumption they would rejoin their teammates, be heralded as heroes and welcomed back on the battlefield. >> we welcome back our own hero as well, and that is sergeant bowe bergdahl. and general, we thank you for yo...

It will be the united states. >> things like syria are one square on a global chess board. we've got to ask ourselves what can we accomplish there? i would say not that much. second of all, how is it we look at syria against the backdrop of everything else? we've got to worry about iran, china. we've got to put it against the context of the resources we need to devote here. if we devote them here, we'll be better able to deal with challenges there. >>steve: were we right to get involved in libya? >> for me, no. >>steve: what about iraq? >> it was a war of choice that i think was ill advised. >...

One i worked for, which is bush 41. overseas, he had an internationalist role, coalitions and all that. but also limits. we got rid of saddam hussein in iraq, but we didn't march down on baghdad. there was international involvement, but still a limit on what was smart to do. and at home, he was the one willing to go out to andrews air force base and forge a coalition across party lines and deal with the budget. i think history, you're writing the book on it. i think history will look at bush 41 as the model of a modern president who was involved but yet realistic abroad and willing to be pragm...