companionable soul. don't forget that. and then the bush/cheney administration looked the other way on soviet georgia. so they don't have any credibility on that. but what ted cruz is doing is what the republicans have been trying to do to barack obama from the very beginning. they use the same words over and over again. they use feckless, you know, that he is feckless, that he is weak, that he wears mom jeans, as if. anything they can get their hands on to try to take him down as a strong leader on foreign policy. the fact is that you want to look at libya. don't look at benghazi. look at the fact that the united states, essentially, let a group in there that took moammar gadhafi out. i mean, that's what happened there. benghazi notwithstanding. and barack obama in many respects, in many ways in his administration have used drones have, used surveillance, have used economic pressure in a very shrewd way, which these people would never acknowledge in a