CSPAN Washington This Week December 8, 2013
A war in the middle east with an 80million nation is going to make the expeditions to afghanistan and to iraq look like shortterm, only lasting a dozen years or so. It is a very painful choice, but an important choice. What i do regret in the context of the growing public discussion of what might happen, the total absence of recognition of the fact that the u. S. For 30 years managed to prevent a nuclear war by deterrence, by acting in a way that gave reassurance to countries which have no capacity of resisting the soviet union if push came to shove, but the u. S. Was able to convince both of ...