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Different ways, even people who did not fight in the war. the movement to stop the war ended up having a profound social impact on our country, defined a decade or more for people in the anti-war movement and people who weren't in the movement but saw our nation's politics changed by it. in foreign policy terms, vietnam changed us to the extent that this gulf disaster wasn't supposed to happen, and we weren't supposed to get into another war in which our leaders were not honest why we were getting into another war in the first place. we weren't supposed to do that again. we did do that again, ...

The excesses of the left were actually impeding good governance, that they were making it worse, not better, and that it took a liberal with sanity, as he called himself, to stand up against the excesses of the far left and chart a course for the future. i think no ed koch, maybe no bill clinton. >> and koch also after 9/11 obviously certainly on foreign policy became much more conservative. >> he always was. i mean, he was always a sort of new york zionist, supported israel wholeheartedly, you know, sent a delegation to central america in the mid-'80s to chart a course against, you know, sort...

The experience of the united states. jenna: why now? why is this happening now and it didn't happen a couple years ago as you just mentioned? >> i think russia has been through, russian foreign policy tends to ebb and flow depending on a number of variables but increasing i you see in russia a consolidated government. vladmir putin, although he never left the reins of power has reemerged as the unquestionable public face of russian foreign policy. russia has had a string of successes in foreign policy terms in recent years, including a political victory and military one over georgia in 2008. i...

why? i will have a fascinating conversation about political beliefs. and china is infamous for stamping out any and all protests. recently they relented and gave these protesters everything they asked for. what in the world? first, here's my take -- culture makes all the difference, said mitt romney at a fundraiser in israel last week. he was comparing the country's economic vitality with palestinian poverty. certainly there is a pedigree for this idea about culture. romney cited david landis, an economic historian. he could have cited the great german scholar mo made the claim i...

To these wars. if you can be brief, is that your view? that you think the president has been weak on defense? weak in foreign policy terms? >> i don't think that is a realistic critique of this president. more importantly, mitt romney doesn't know the difference between an afghan and an afghani. mitt romney has had five different positions on libya. i'm leading my show with this tonight because i find it outrageous that he would claim any foreign policy expertise when he literally doesn't know the difference between an afghan person and an afghan uchbt currency. >> book is entitled drift. it i...