and reconnaissance. >> sean: churchill, chamberlain, peace in our time. carter vs. reagan, peace through strength, trust but verify and the appeasement policies of carter.ç for the prism of that history where does barack obama stand? >> one of the misstatements he made this week reaffirmed by his secretary of state hillary clinton, both ever saying, we are going to be the dominant military force as we've always been. i hate to tell them this. in 1941 we were not the dominant military force. it took us two years to gerd up to fight world war ii. -- first offensive operations in world war ii after pearl harbor didn't begin until august of 1942 we lostç every battle leading up to that we can't afford to lose the battles today. >> sean: senator mccain says the u.s. keeps pointing a lided gun at iran but failing