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Don't want it in the center of the baseball game. i don't think that makes you inconsiderate to say that. we know that mohammad ali made many profound points but he was a unique individual in a unique sport. i think there are many people who yearn for sports to be a sanctuary, and for only occasionally and only when it's most appropriate, for politics or social issues to intrude upon that moment when people just want to watch the game and root for their teams. but there are times, and 9/11 and its aftermath certainly proved it, there are times when sports can serve a useful and even profound p...

I think he wanted americans to think about not just 17 days but 20 years. >> how much of the tone do you think might have been the president trying to kind of frame or reframe the beginning of his legacy? >> very much so. he wants people to say that this was i ahard choice that had to be taken. and on some level what he believes, whether you agree with it or not, is that it was incumbent on a president to finally say that this was a war that was not being waged by all americans. you know, he talked about the fact that it was 1% of americans after all who had been deployed in the war since 9/11...

By by the time i came to office, the taliban was in its progress military position since 2001. controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. we were left for a simple decision. eitherfollow country. we were left for a simple decision. either follow through on the agreement made by the last administration and leave afghanistan orsay administration and leave afghanistan or say we were not leaving and commit another tens of thousands more troops going back to war. that was the choice, the real choice. the decision to in the military operations at kabul airport was based on non—discrimin...

Was democrats who were called warriors under kennedy, true man, l bj, and outlets like the new york times and time that worked hand in hand with the cia and with the deep state to disseminate pro-war messaging. so the american left has been against the war in the '60s but i think the corporate press has often been aligned with the democratic party and many of them were hard core warriors of the cold war and also in the post-9/11 era supportive of this endless war and we're still seeing that ideology now. howie: let me just suggest to you that fox news doesn't have one position on the war or an...

But i think when we have a few months or a few years on this, we're going to recognize that something else has happened here. the president has decided to end the post-9/11 era. the president has decided to shift our priorities finally towards the priorities of the century ahead, towards competitiveness, towards investing in ourselves instead of investing in war, towards achieving goals that benefit all americans as opposed to having unachievable goals like the goals that were set for this war a long, long time ago. and i think that when we do have the benefit of history, we're going to realiz...