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with the danger of being wiped out, and we have the capacity to do something about it, we will take action. that is our responsibility as americans. that s a hallmark of american leadership. that s who we are. welcome to the journal editorial report. i m in this week for paul gigot. that was president obama thursday night announcing he has authorized air strikes in iraq against the terror group isis as well as humanitarian aid to help save some 40,000 iraqi civilians trapped on a mountain without food or water and facing almost certain death. the announcement comes as the islamic extremists make dramatic gain in northern iraq threatening the kurdish capital of erbil. will the actions the united states is prepared to take be enough to divert a humanitarian and strategic disaster? let s ask. wall street journal columnist dan henninger, brett stevens and matt kaminski. dan, to you first, too little too late from the president? well, you know, stuart, recall back in ....
from anbar province in the 1991 gulf war, and now it gets to the long range rocket threat to israel from southern lebanon in 2006 or from gaz a saw let me intervene. you just listed examples to allies in the midst of war. if it s 1972, the american public is facing 25,000 nuclear weapons targeting it. so that s where i think the, in terms of it may be existential to those local actors, but in terms of the american public s viewpoint of it, is it viewed that, to me, is the disconnect. we don t view it as existential. with yeah. i think that s correct. and so, of course, it s incumbent upon the three of you to explain that. so, bill and then we re going to open it up. [laughter] you know, very quickly, first, you know, to my good friend, michael hanlon, who may be regretting having tendered this invitation this is why we want you. go for it. the point, you know, the point i was making does not pertain principally to the wars that we are now in, it ....
after the bomb went off, you could look up at buildings above where sugar habit is an marathon sports and the windows were blown out up to three stories. at this site, michelle was there. this was where krystle campbell was there as well. she was one of the fatal victims in this attack. this is actually a shot of emts working on the body of krystle campbell. this picture here was taken by a woman who we interviewed for the book who was at the mandarin oriental. the mandarin oriental has a big, very swank event of the day with a lot of politicians, celebrities, business men and women. and when the bombs went off, the windows at the mandarin oriental literally shook. they waved in the wind like the. the woman who took this picture, megan johnson, a writer from people magazine and some other outlets, she was a former colleague of mine at the herald, and she is the one who took this picture right after that. this is a double tragedy if there is ever such one. for th ....
politics like the ukraine. now, europe may not do as well as we hope as a result of the recent crisis, but it still possesses large power resources to influence the ukraine situation, and that is what we should look for in the future. thanks. i m always tempted to say we should stop there and go for champagne now. i suppose we should plow on. charlie. thank you. like andy, i m delighted to be here and to share the panel with the distinguished colleagues, and also because this is a conference that is being held in memory of clara. i didn t know her extremely well. i had memory interesting conversations with her about her passion, which is european defense and european integration. she is one of the most decent people i knew in washington. i speak for people here and in london wouho worked with her th she is sorely missed. i don t take fundamental issue with andy in that i share his view that europe punches above its weight in a civilian respect. the best testament to ....
bookings institution where they are about to begin a talk on russia s annexation of crimea. great friday.e a we ll see you back here tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] thank you for coming this morning. to thinkngs we like and we like to tell our supporters that are unique strength is our ability to use of analysts to integrate insights and merge with a global picture that can inform the uniquely global concerns of u.s. foreign-policy. crisis inw, the ukraine is an episode which analysis intype of part their its effects on u.s. foreign-policy. we think it has the potential to have some impacts throughout the world. people are arty asking what the crisis in ukraine means for efforts to make peace in syria for efforts to de-nuclear ice de-nuclearize iran. for this crisis will mean the pivot to asia or what ever you want to call it. we decided that we re ....