writer of a book called "the director." it talks about his 25 years covering the cia. nick is a columnist just back from burma. she is just back from ukraine. and dan ceno is a co-founder of the foreign policy initiative and was a key adviser to the romney campaign. so dan, let me give you first dibs, the case for the opposition. tell me why obama's speech was terrible. >> first, i think he set up the straw man, the notion that anyone who is critical of his policy just wants to go to war. my response is, point me to that person. critics have advocated a more muscular approach, more fore-leaning approach to the president's policy have advocated for some form of air power. it worked in the balkans when clinton did it, it worked in afghanistan when president george w. bush did it. >> and on afghanistan, the day