along. the dnc didn t even issue a press release all day. so all of the lessons that could have been learned go unlearned. as we enter the nation s history, so many senators seem intense on laying the groundwork for the next war in iran, they, iran was mentioned 986 times, afghanistan warranted just 26 mentions. why trouble ourselves with that old thing when there are new shiny conflicts on the horizon? more revealingly, in more than 430,000 words in the tript, the words war was mentioned 440 times while the word peace wag mentioned three times. no wonder we ve been at war for so long. joining me now, a member of the bush pentagon s defense policy board, michael hastings author