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Of the cold war, it was very definable in the cold war. you were with either the ruskies or you were with us. now, they have brought out thousands of years of animosity, you can't blame obama for not having the kind of very clearly defined lines that the cold war gave us. >> oh, no, no, you can. i actually think you can. there was a very clear line after 9/11 and it was one that the media made fun of, it was president bush's you are either with us or you are against us. i think it goes back to the red line syria problem that the president created for himself. >> back to 9/11, we had common gro...

Next week or one month from now. and i'm prepared to give that order. >> the president believes that the united states of america for a decision like this is stronger when you have the time to be able to have the support of the united states congress and obviously the support of the american people through them. >> if we don't con front the people now i promise france, the people, the americans, we're going to see this issue grow. >> there was no expectation that this would be -- that congress would be finished with its deliberations over the next week or so. >> our action would be designed to...

That hadn't been used for years at that point. and it was based on this intelligence about where we think they might be. this is a situation with a lot of open intelligence. we know an attack took place. the issue of whether or not there are chemical weapons that have been used in syria is not really in question. >> i'm with you. the use of the weapons is not an argument any more whether they're existing. josh, the whole question is, do you want to be in a position of colin powell who was used? his credibility was used to make case for war rather than him believing in the war. i tone know what...

What to do. be careful what you ask for. >> i think even now after all these months we still don't have a clear policy about what to do in syria. these are big problems obviously. but i think that -- the way this unfolded and our lack of input is quite shocking. >> so, another aspect, the fact that the russians are the bad guys. >> well, you know, the administration has famously -- i think we're up to two resets now with russia it and what has it gotten us? >> bush tried one. that didn't work out so well. >> we've had two resets now. we had the initial reset. we had the falling out. we reached...

And the party line is that everything was fine in the world because we got bin laden soit wasn't just her -- depiction of what happened at the consulate in benghazi it was the entire schtick she gave. but the president has the right to appoint people he wants. elections have consequences and i don't agree with her, i'm strong disagreement. i won't have picked her to say the least. but now, she's been selected, we have a syria problem, al qaeda problem. we have extremists all over the middle east. we have iran moving towards nuclear weapons a china continues to hack. we have a -- a more difficu...