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Intimidate us into doing what the hawks want us to do which always leads to being stuck in yet another geopolitical trap. how many times do you hear, we have to keep all the options on the table? translation, we need to be in a war footing all the time, whatever the issue, whatever the country. you hear it when china, when a plane gets shot down over there. on iraq, on libya, on syria, on iran. and now in some vague way on ukraine. we actually need to do is speak out for our values, free elections, rule of law, respect for national sovereignty and self-determination. these are our values. we have other values, too, like the need for peoples to find ways to get along with each other. especially those countries on our border. russia, ukraine, need to accommodate each other, at least not provoke each other. why? killing people shouldn t be the optional way to settle political disputes and this is very much a political dispute. this question of what kind of trade deal ukraine strikes with ....
Intimidate us into doing what the hawks want us to do which always leads to being stuck in yet another geopolitical trap. how many times do you hear, we have to keep all the options on the table? translation, we need to be in a war footing all the time, whatever the issue, whatever the country. you hear it when china, when a plane gets shot down over there. on iraq, on libya, on syria, on iran. and now in some vague way on ukraine. we actually need to do is speak out for our values, free elections, rule of law, respect for national sovereignty and self-determination. these are our values. we have other values, too, like the need for peoples to find ways to get along with each other. especially those countries on our border. russia, ukraine, need to accommodate each other, at least not provoke each other. why? killing people shouldn t be the optional way to settle political disputes and this is very much a political dispute. this question of what kind of trade deal ukraine strikes with ....
Diplomatic compound in pakista. they were aware of the dangers of the world. they wanted american diplomats to be out there trying to sell america and not always being able to do it in a place with a heavy military presence. the president didn t want boots on the ground in libya. i think we lay out the philosophy that hillary clinton had and also having talked to jason chafitz, that that s going to be something that gets debated out. what is the nature of the american foreign policy, where do we get ourselves involved? are we leaving ourselves vulnerable to an attack and in some case is the calculated risk worth it? amie, do you think that she was a good secretary of state? what was her most successful accomplishment? you know, it s a mixed bag. we talk to some people who say republicans are saying what is her big accomplishment? berma? and we quote people saying that in the book. she was a hawk and backed president obama on several ....
Things, on libya, the afghan search, on getting bin laden. we have a section in the book where director panetta has to talk to her and get her buy-in on the bin laden raid because he knew that she would back the president. these are things that she should point out should she run for the presidency. one of your early leaks about the book, not leaks but excerpts is it begins in the wake of the 2008 campaign for hillary. it s called hillary s hit list so that friends could be rewarded and enemies punished. john kerry, jay rockefeller, claire mccaskill, ted kennedy, patrick leahy. you know that all politicians do this to a certain extent but do the clinton aides do this more ....
War. we can only fight a war if we have been attacked, if we are about to be attacked, if we are asked to come to the aid of an ally, or if the u.n. asks us to enforce a law or rule that another country has agreed to. none of these situations apply to syria. john: and i go back to libya3 when the president on libya. he said, well, this is different from the hostilities and completed in the war powers act which this is not sustained fighting more active fire with hostile forces. i would think bombing people is like going to war against them. of course. after he said that, no books on the ground. now, when someone says that you have to ask them what they mean because boots on the ground means people in uniform. americans on the ground, yes. special forces out of uniform and cia who never wear uniforms. ....