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This may lead to progress in middle east peace between palestinians and israelis we have never seen before. >> ready to work with arab states who will work with them for a while but this is a >> on the arab side of things and it is quite welcome. they are shifting gears as jack said, fundamentally, toward the administration, toward working with the sunnis and countries we have worked with in the past and turning against iraq which is absolutely essential. the biggest mistake the obama administration made, to agree to the nuclear deal two years ago, the worst agreement the united states is ever...

As sad as that is, people are out here sacrificing their lives in a combat zone and they are killed by a united states pilot and it's unbelievably tragic event, to be sure. we're learn from it and sadly, though, these things do happen in war. the good news is, they rarely happen with u.s. weapons. that's the good news. >> ambassador crocker, finally, as the former ambassador to that country, how badly does this hurt our standing with the afghans? >> it is a very strategic event, as jack said, but the afghans count on us. they will know it was a mistake. no country, no military does more than t...

Point about how close joe biden is with the president in response to the gates book. p.j., you've been in the communications office at the white house as well as at the state department. you know exactly what they were trying to do today. >> as jack said, bob gates has a point, and that when it comes to military decisions, those decisions are communicated from the president to the secretary of defense. some of the same issues and tensions that grew in the bush administration as well. but we have vice presidents that since al gore, dick cheney, joe biden, are playing an elevated role. they're p...

The table here. >> there is. and it comes down to something, i think, the difference in the political parties. jack kemp in 1998 at the republican convention sort of defined the difference in political parties. jack said, democrats measure compassion by how many are receiving government aid, and republicans measure compassion by how few need it. and i think the two parties are going to have to come together, because it's the dignity of a job, not just a job, but the dignity of a good job and an economic climate and an environmental, to pull us out of this economic downfall that we've been in, ...

War burns itself out for a while. so it is a dilemma in that taking action has consequences, not taking action, as john kerry said yesterday, has consequences. and i think the strategy for the moment is not one of transformation. what's remarkable about the argument for this attack is, gone is the transformative language of ten years ago or even two years ago. this is a sober, realistic assessment of what can be done. it's a limited step. it can hope the door not only for a political solution, it can, as jack said, also open the door that this will be the first act among many that will need to...