backed by the west, absolutely. in 1988, bob, you know more about this than i do, when the pan am flight was blown up over scotland, the west pulled together and isolated libya and did it fairly rapidly. it is not apples to apples necessarily, but i do think in this case you see some strong rhetoric from our ambassador, samantha power at united nations. i don t know if it is a strategy for the white house comments from the president not to match up with strong rhetoric from samantha power at the u.n., but seems to me it might be able to help if they could make those two match up and back it up with action. could help the policy position to get europe to try to take the lead. do you know that you said the president of the united states was responsible for the downing of this airplane? no, i didn t say that, bob. if you go back, you said that plane was down because obama s weakness. i did not. i think the point she was trying to make, bob, she said if you have diplomacy, it onl
he was a senator, 129 times, that s not showing the conviction the world wants to rally around this guy. this is a moment we can rally around this guy, all he s done is saying today, you know what, you invaded crimea, here is a slap on the wrist. now they re shooting down plains, innocent people are being killed. he says if you do this again, you face further isolation. i don t think putin is scared of that. bob, do you think we are being too hard on him? i asked you before about the idea of playing it cool somehow to i guess maybe to express the idea that we are not phased by this. however, it seems to me it is like he s afraid to ruffle putin s feathers, because he s afraid of what putin might do. diplomacy and world affairs are complicated. they weren t in the cold war, there were two sides, clear sides, that s the ussr. i would say when people talk about securing this crime scene, how in the world are you doing
put troops in eastern europe. right, and we can show some leadership. the problem is in the skies over ukraine this past week, we saw the consequences of obama s policy, leading from behind. that s my opinion, bob. you have your turn. you re right. and i don t think putin is back on his heels or worried about it, his poll numbers are this is about oil, about access to the black sea. he is not going to stop until he gets it. he is going to do whatever it takes to put his country in the best position possible. crimea, now ukraine. he is not sorry. he is not worried or running out to hire a madison avenue pr firm to fix this for him. he s the problem solver. look at his military and intelligence background. this is a ruthless man that believes in no problem with collateral consequences and damages, as long as he can achieve the goal. unfortunately, he has absolutely no respect for the united states or for the president or for secretary kerry, or any of that group. how do we know?
put troops in eastern europe. right, and we can show some leadership. the problem is in the skies over ukraine this past week, we saw the consequences of obama s policy, leading from behind. that s my opinion, bob. you have your turn. you re right. and i don t think putin is back on his heels or worried about it, his poll numbers are good. this is about oil, about access to the black sea. he is not going to stop until he gets it. he is going to do whatever it takes to put his country in the best position possible. crimea, now ukraine. he is not sorry. he is not worried or running out to hire a madison avenue pr firm to fix this for him. he s the problem solver. look at his military and intelligence background. this is a ruthless man that believes in no problem with collateral consequences and damages, as long as he can achieve the goal. unfortunately, he has absolutely no respect for the united states or for the president or for secretary kerry, or any of that group. how do we kn