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They want to bring back the defense system in poland. every step of the world sounds like the neocon argument that we must be in the face of our adversaries and be ready to fight and be really aggressive about it. >> with all due respect to rand paul, who had a very good night tonight by his standards. >> he planted his flag. >> he did.his flag. if it were only rand paul in the military involvement argument, it wouldn't be an argument. you remember what happened to his father. >> he was stuffed. >> he was stuffed, okay, years ago. but now you have donald trump who is saying, wait a minute, her...

To attack? i think they already knew we couldn't. >> what shifted the balance of power here, and i think mike's exactly right, for putin it's all about reasserting russia as a great power in the world and restoring the -- even said in his op-ed, we defeated the nats yisz together, we were friends in the -- he got that moment because the president of the united states happened to be at a particularly weak moment because he had misgambled in terms of the vote in congress. >> do you guys buy into this -- this is a tough question for journalists. i want to start with you, peter, because it's hard ...

Watching -- in moscow watching nerk knew the president didn't have the votes on the hill? didn't they know that earlier this week when they gave us the lifeline the secretary of state threw out to them? we jumped on it because they thought they could do something. you think they did it because they were afraid we were going to attack? i think they already knew we couldn't. >> what shifted the balance of power here, and i think mike's exactly right, for putin it's all about reasserting russia as a great power in the world and restoring the -- even said in his op-ed, we defeated the nats yisz to...

1991 and the obama administration threw it all way. and here's lindsey graham. >> was the iraq war a mistake? >> no i don't think so. the biggest mistake we made was leaving iraq without a follow-on force against sound military advice. >> well, michael hanlan is a senior fellow with the brookings institute and michael tomasky. what do you make of the neocon argument? it's an ideological war, we admit it we never really did believe in the wmd, we're glad we fought it because we got rid of saddam hussein. >> yeah, well look saddam hussein was a really bad guy, chris. nobody argues with that. but...

Well, the fourth argument, catch this, sort of covers all the bases. it doesn't think through the horror of the war or the dishonesty that led to it, it simply lumps it all together and blames it all on, guess who, president obama? let's start with those who say, we should have gone in, no matter what. bill kristol writes, we were right to invade iraq in 2003 and to remove saddam hussein and to completely the job we started in 1991 and the obama administration threw it all way. and here's lindsey graham. >> was the iraq war a mistake? >> no, i don't think so. the biggest mistake we made was le...