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President speak yesterday and he talked about strategic patience, the year of strategic patience failing miserably and that is over and that gives way to what the president had to say. >> this plan seemed to work, we had so much patience, very passive with this country for a lot of years and it didn't work and this method, we called their bluff. >> charles krauthammer said there is a place for thread overkill. see what he had to say. >> people got upset when trump use the words fire and fury, overkill and all this other stuff. they forget the fact that john kennedy, president eisenhower and mo...

The launching would be an act of war. and i assume we have plans for a complete obliteration of the north korean regime. now, people got all upset when trump used the words fire and fury overkill and all this other stuff. they forget the fact that john kennedy, president eisenhower, and most of the cold war presidents had a policy called massive retaliation, which meant if the soviets attacked us, we were not going to be secret and proportionate in our response. a massive retaliation was understood as code for we're going to obliterate russian cities. now, that wasn't a pleasant prospect. but ...

Before who, during times of great stress, have said look, israel can't destroy a nation. and they, as david just said, thrive off of this in a sense that they appear more legitimate in the eyes of palestinian citizens than their partners, fatah and others. so you have both sides, the israelis engaged in something that looks like massive retaliation, and hamas using what they have to basically escalate and neither side can back down. i think this could go on for a very long time. >> does the israeli leadership recognize the problem with the way they run these attacks? yes, they are effective an...

Long time. i've talked to hamas officials before who, during times of great stress, have said look, israel can't destroy a nation. and they, as david just said, thrive off of this in a sense that they appear more legitimate in the eyes of palestinian citizens than their partners, fatah and others. so you have both sides, the israelis engaged in something that looks like massive retaliation, and hamas using what they have to basically escalate and neither side can back down. i think this could go on for a very long time. >> does the israeli leadership recognize the problem with the way they run...