and had no advice to offer that was worth a damn. do you feel like when you re looking right now at the debates about syria, about iran, and how we re going to deal with them, do you feel like there is a real concrete effect of propagating a white washed history of what we went through with the iraq war? does that affect the debates we re having now on issues lake iran and syria? oh, i think so. i think as yogi berra once said, it s like deja vu all over again. i see us walking down the same road with the same characters singing in the choir, the same people off the same sheet of music with a few changes trying to get us into war with iran. the momentum with respect to syria is not because of the brutal civil war there, it s also because of people like lindsey graham and john mccain from my party and bob menendez would like to get in a war with iran. it s another catastrophe brewing, and if the american people don t wake up and start saying something about it, they ll find themselv
the least honed instrument in our arsenal, and the reason for that is longstanding. it starts with dick nixon and others who derided the state department is the home of pink communist dogs. that s the way the state department was looked at by the bush administration also. they tolerated colin powell, because colin powell had poll ratings like mother teresa. they couldn t very well not tolerate colin powell, but the state department, the state department was looked on as a filthy, dirty place where people worked to were not competent and had no advice to offer that was worth a damn. do you feel like when you re looking right now at the debates about syria, about iran, and how we re going to deal with them, do you feel like there is a real concrete effect of propagating a white washed history of what we went through with the iraq war? does that affect the debates we re having now on issues lake
because colin powell had poll ratings like mother teresa. they couldn t very well not tolerate colin powell, but the state department, the state department was looked on as a filthy, dirty place where people worked to were not competent and had no advice to offer that was worth a damn. do you feel like when you re looking right now at the debates about syria, about iran, and how we re going to deal with them, do you feel like there is a real concrete effect of propagating a white washed history of what we went through with the iraq war? does that affect the debates we re having now on issues lake iran and syria? oh, i think so. i think as yogi berra once said, it s like deja vu all over again. i see us walking down the same road with the same characters singing in the choir, the same people off the same sheet of music with a few changes trying
colonel gadhafi to step down immediately. we ve learned, a short time ago, the united states military is moving assets closer to that country. yet, gadhafi has just told a bbc reporter that the people of libya love me. nbc s stephanie gosk is inside libya, and, stephanie, u.s. military assets moving closer to the nation, is this a sign of escalation? well, martin, certainly a sign of escalating pressure on the government here. the moving of the ships doesn t necessarily mean there are troops on the ground or some kind of military involvement. but what we ve been seeing over last several days is a series of sanctions, first unilateral sanctions placed on this country by the obama administration, freezing the assets of the libyan government in the u.s. then you saw the u.n. pass its own package of sanctions. and these moves, really, instead of having necessarily a concrete effect on gadhafi himself, they