absolutely true and something on which the united states has absolutely no leg to stand on after we did exactly that same thing famously and on a much larger scale. russia has in fact invaded a part of ukraine on the completely trumped-up false pretext that there s some threat to russian speakers there, and russia is only protecting them. it s total bull pucky, total pretext. but there is an awkwardness about the united states government trying to lead a response to international outrage to that violation when we re only a couple of years out from our own near decade of war in iraq, which was a war that was also launched on a trumped-up false pretext. and every international crisis feels like the biggest international crisis. but everyone that we have had in the past few years, whether it was syria or libya or egypt or iran or ukraine now or even just the budget decisions we have to make about what size we want the u.s. military to be and what we want it to be designed to do,
thing famously and on a much larger scale. russia has in fact invaded a part of ukraine on the completely trumped-up false pretext that there s some threat to russian speakers there, and russia is only protecting them. it s total bull pucky, total pretext. but there is an awkwardness about the united states government trying to lead a response of international outrage to that violation when we re only a couple of years out from our own near decade of war in iraq, which was a war that was also launched on a trumped-up false pretext. and every international crisis feels like the biggest international crisis. but everyone that we have had in the past few years, whether it was syria or libya or egypt or iran or ukraine now or even just the budget decisions we have to make about what size we want the u.s. military to be and what we want it to be designed to do, every crisis we face
was syria or libya or egypt or iran or ukraine now or even just the budget decisions we have to make about what size we want the u.s. military to be and what we want it to be designed to do, every crisis we face internationally, every big national security decision we make, all of these decisions are made and all of these crises are confronted in the shadow of the last ten years. we are a country that is really quite desperately weary of war after simultaneously fighting two of the longest protracted land wars and foreign occupations in american history, and we are newly and legitimately wary of what gets us into wars in the first place and we come by that wariness honestly. that wariness is earned. we earned it the hard way under the last presidency. last year we teamed up with nbc news investigative reporter michael isikoff and david corn from mother jones to produce a documentary called hubris,
some reasonableness it s hard for democrats to say sorry, not reasonable enough. so i think this is going to pass. you know, one extra point here. the country knows who paul ryan s-of course, because he ran for vice president with mitt romney last year but patty murray is less well-known publicly and she deserves an enormous amount of credit. she s a member of the progressives in the senate and the fact that she was able to get to this point really is a huge amount of credit to patty murray and i think her star rises today. progressive like sitting down and negotiating with, i guess, a one time tea party favorites because tea party conservatives are angry at paul ryan. they say he and other republicans caved and are now at any rateors. marco rubio said this budget plan continues washington s irresponsible budget decisions. i know both of you think this will past but this will cause problems for paul ryan, won t it, john? it may cause some political
fractured dynamic and wants to move quickly to immigration reform. that will be tough after a health care rollout even democrats are saying was botched. back in the 2012 campaign, the president said if he won re-election he would break the republican fever of opposition to him. it appears the most recent wrangling only fired up conservati conservatives who noted american s founders wanted gridlock and now seem continued to do that. if america s founders gave the president any money he wanted without use of any delegated duties we basically move to a monarch. reporter: the other agenda is congress s attention focused between now and december 17th grappling with bigger budget decisions delayed. the good news is we get down through the government default situation and the bad news 15