liberal magazine, openly regretting his vote, i think for good reason. because today we got a report on the american economy, and the good news is that the economy is growing, it s just not growing very fast. part of why this bar is so short is the budget cuts john mccain supported then and regrets now. without those cuts, the american economy would look more like this, with more jobs and more money to go around. senator john mccain s expression of remorse for that is real news. but it is not even the biggest news right now about john mccain. throughout the obama presidency, john mccain has dogged the white house, blocking the president s domestic agenda, at one point rejecting immigration reform, though he himself had been a champion of the idea. senator mccain reserved a special level of disdain for the president s foreign policy. we need to take gadhafi out. we could have ended this conflict a lot earlier if we used the full weight of the u.s. power, instead of leading from behind
vote i have cast in many years. senator mccain talking to a liberal magazine, openly regretting his vote, i think for good reason. because today we got a report on the american economy, and the good news is that the economy is growing, it s just not growing very fast. part of why this bar is so short is the budget cuts john mccain supported then and regrets now. without those cuts, the american economy would look more like this, with more jobs and more money to go around. senator john mccain s expression of remorse for that is real news. but it is not even the biggest news right now about john mccain. throughout the obama presidency, john mccain has dogged the white house, blocking the president s domestic agenda, at one point rejecting immigration reform, though he himself had been a champion of the idea. senator mccain reserved a special level of disdain for the president s foreign policy. we need to take gadhafi out. we could have ended this
fly over libya, no troops on the ground, but something to nudge gadhafi out of power. they got that. later, sorry, in 2012, attack on the embassy there. didn t have a huge footprint on the ground, troops defending an embassy, that became a scandal of its own. you could see the train chugging closer to greater involvement in libya. asking basically for the same in syria with less certainty. libya we have an agreed upon regime, syria, you have a host of different interests. the difference with syria being we would i think americans prefer any regime to an assad regime, at least we think so. saying we have a light footprint, respond to the chemical weapon attacks, we have been there before, we don t know how that involvement ends. when you talk about americans, do americans really know anything about the assad regime? we leave it up to our elected
just doing what she did back in the 90s? well, i think there s a strawman here. i don t think that anyone is saying that everything is going to turn out just fine if nobody does anything. i think any outcome is probably going to be pretty messy. the question is whether or not the united states should be in the position of arming the rebels, some of which are very dangerous elements of that region. so i think that when ambassador rice talks about taking prudent steps and making sure that we re doing everything we can to protect american interests and not inflaming the situation the way that is not helpful, yes, that is probably the most prudent thing to do. if you look at what happened to libya and the way we were able to build a coalition and force gadhafi out, that worked. yes, it took a long time, and yes, dewas a long, brutal regime, but at the end of the day, there were no american boots on the ground and we weren t putting arms in the hands of people who shouldn t have them.
out at you, it s a country that isn t really being governed. militias control most of the country. training, helping more with security, i don t want to see boots on the ground in syria. that s not the kind of footprint i want to see happening. but i do think as i mention eed earler, we need to be more involved in helping the secular opposition groups be trained and the arming now is more symbolic, but there s no question that look, in libya, we got involved. i thought that was question bable. i really did, but we got involved, took gadhafi out. i think it sent signals to a lot f people about doing away with weapons of mass destruction, which is a whole other topic, but then we sort of left it there. it s a country that you know, it s remarkable that the citizens are even functioning in a normal way because the government is not.