afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. threats remain, but they are being handled using special forces and intelligence. finally, after a decade we seem to be right sizing the threat from terrorist groups. or are we? we leave the battlefields of the greater middle east, and we are firmly committed to the war on terror at home. what do i mean by that? well, look at the expansion of federal bureaucracies to tackle this war. since september 11th, 2001, the u.s. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. 33 new building complexes have been built for the intelligence bureaucracies alone, occupation 17 million square feet. the equivalent of 22 u.s. capitals or three pentagons. the largest bureaucracy after the pentagon and the depa
wi willard. i agree, all they can say is it s not growing fast enough, others what would they say? it s part of the strategy they re putting out there. and with the record of bane capital, some things were successful, some things weren t, that s how the economy works. he can try, all right, let s move on to the polls a minute, i m not convinced it s a good strategy, but it s his strategy. let s look at what people are thinking and saying in the poles. president obama and mitt romney, easy going and likable, president obama 54, romney, 18. caring about average people,
elements of the faith are private and he keeps them to himself. when he was at bane capital, if you re a takeover artist, if you re in the investment business the way he was, you don t broadcast your plans. you keep them to yourselves pm also, he made a lot of money at bane and a big thing for wealthy people is to keep the strategies that use to protect their wealth private. he s a quadruple private guy and that fits into the strategy which is to say nothing and keep the focus on barack obama. richard, is this going to go throughout the campaign or we going get specific? is this the way the guy is going to run? i don t know that he can control his mouth here. these things are getting out there. this is a man who is out there saying i understand the budget. i understand the deficits. the little snippets we heard eliminating deductions for second homes is going to help all the sport franchise owners he knows, and closing down a couple of departments. even if you put those together it
strategy that the republicans had when barack obama was running in 2008, isn t it? yeah it is. i think it s very deliberate and very cynical. what they are saying is we re not going to tell you anything about mitt romney if we can get away with it. we want the focus on president barack obama. we want you to look at what he s done or not done. we re not going to tell you anything about what s behind the curtain. that also happens to fit with mitt romney s life and personality. i first interviewed him back in 94 when he was running for the senate. cards very close to the vest. very guarded. he s like that personally. also, his faith is like that. it s one where a lot of the elements of the faith are private and he keeps them to himself. when he was at bane capital, if you re a takeover artist, if you re in the investment business the way he was, you don t broadcast your plans. you keep them to yourselves pm also, he made a lot of money at bane and a big thing for wealthy
what does he stand for? what does he believe? what do we know about him? i mean, howard, this is the strategy that the republicans had when barack obama was running in 2008, isn t it? yeah it is. i think it s very deliberate and very cynical. what they are saying is we re not going to tell you anything about mitt romney if we can get away with it. we want the focus on president barack obama. we want you to look at what he s done or not done. we re not going to tell you anything about what s behind the curtain. that also happens to fit with mitt romney s life and personality. i first interviewed him back in 94 when he was running for the senate. cards very close to the vest. very guarded. he s like that personally. also, his faith is like that. it s one where a lot of the elements of the faith are private and he keeps them to himself. when he was at bane capital, if you re a takeover artist, if you re in the investment business the way he was, you don t broadcast your plans.