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Citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. >> historically speaking, foreign policy tends to either stain or illuminate a president's legacy. time will tell which foreign policy position will define the obama years. joining us to discuss from washington is former assistant secretary of state and professor at george washington university, professor pj crowley. professor, thank you for joining us. >> hello. >> pj as we talk about the legacy of the obama doctrine, vis-a-vis our war on terrorists drones. the attacks were motivated to do what they did by the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i'l...

You know, if playing whack-a-mole in pakistan is creating a dynamic where people come out of the woodwork like faisal shazad or the tsarnaev brothers, we've got to relate to that, or perhaps keep the tool, but use it less. >> i want to go back to something that wes was talking about. the other piece of this as somebody who has a loved one in afghanistan, on a fifth tour of duty right now is the impact that the bombing in boston and how we treat these two men, now one, has on our soldiers on the ground. i mean they're the ones who are there on the front lines trying to make the case for america...

Easy it is to develop these things as we've seen now for a decade in iraq and afghanistan. i think the other thing it's important to remember that all of these things that happened to reform policy are not done in isolation. whether we're talking about drone strikes, whether we're talking about you know, islamic cartoons, collection of other things, these things are noticed by people around the world. and you know, a perfect example was the past weekend, i was overseas. the number one lead overseas, the number one and the number two lead overseas, was in europe on bbc was first the boston bomb...

Has been a motivator for jihadists around the world, particularly the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. so this just continues a theme, and it's not even unique to the united states. faisal shazad, the times square bomber, said he was motivated by the ongoing drone campaign in pakistan. >> wes, as someone who has seen combat, we're having our first hearing on drone strikes, which is interesting given how long we've been using them as a terrorism measure. generally stanley mcchrystal told "reuters," the resentment creates created by use of unmanned drones is much greater than appreciated. it issed...

Are there and they're going door to door and they're going into, and doing sweeps, they're creating enemies and resentment as well. so then they move to the drone strikes and again that shows arrogance and you, we saw the figure, 4,000 people killed. 10% civilian, maybe? or unintended people? hundreds at least who have been killed. and if we're engaging in any sort of military conflict in afghanistan, pakistan region, yemen, or in iraq as we had previously, we get into this position where we're going to tick off a lot of people. and resentiments will build, almost regardless of whether you do ...