on friday, as well. that makes me think they are going to do them all later. chuck kagel, we believe, is the front-runner to be secretary of defense, but i was on the trip in 08, i think you were as well, mike, when president obama the candidate went to jordan and other capitals and was with him in iraq and afghanistan, vietnam veteran, but one who has been averse to the iraq surge, voted against that, spoke out against it, and has earned himself some enemies among the stronger, shall we say, lobbyist for the state of israel. by floating this name too early, the white house has really attracted criticism for him. politico just posted a story saying beginning tomorrow, the emergency committee for israel conservative group founded by william krystal is going to have adds on msnbc and other attacking chuck hagel for voting against iran sanctions. the white house tells us they believe this criticism is
so remarkable since the very first day i remember you stayed up all night that night, now we re seeing with this report what an unfortunate way, uncharacteristic way, for secretary clinton to go out. she s had this fantastic run, unquestionably, a great record, and she s going to be gone in a month. very hard to see how all this can be cleaned up in a month. there s a million threads of the sweater to pull on in that report, and we saw from that interview that republicans are going to start pulling on them right away. even those that are less politically inclined, because there s a lot of substance here, this report was done by two of the most outstanding diplomats and retired military you could imagine. chuck kagel, here we go, first in terms of a kerry nomination friday, the funeral at the international cathedral, which will involve all these players
because he never wanted to be known. until jane mayor s book, the dark side, america didn t know this guy. to walk out and see him in the cameras was amazing. these are the people who hatched and were the architects of the iraq war on the whole. i d say jon huntsman is a bit different. the henry kissinger, richard lugar, the chuck kagel wing of the republican foreign policy establishment is basically an endangered species. you ve seen the neocons failing in some of their policies but have done a brilliant job of taking over and it being very, very strong in the major think tank institutions in washington, d.c. that is the crowd that basically sets the terms, if you will, for foreign policy debates now. so you re framing this as a kind of lack within the current republican party of this particular sort of republican statesman model that we ve once
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i d say jon huntsman is a bit different. the henry kissinger, richard lugar, the chuck kagel wing of the republican foreign policy establishment is basically an endangered species. you ve seen the neo cons failing in some of their policies but have done a brilliant job of taking over and it being very, very strong in the major think tank institutions in washington, d.c. that is the crowd that basically sets the terms, if you will, for foreign policy debates now. so you re framing this as a kind of lack within the current republican party of this particular sort of republican statesman model that we ve once seen. does this mean there s a real ideological commitment to the neo conservative foreign policy values on behalf of these republican candidates? or is this just kind of a fear tactic that s employed in the context of a campaign.