as a total block from the republicans. there seems to be some wavering, whether it s from the candidates or within the republican party, that make it not seem to be the top of the agenda. so that s why i believe what he s saying or what seems to stand out to our viewers, is that it does seem that tax cuts the one thing that republicans are united for, and then everything else seems disjointed. it may seem disjointed but it doesn t seem all that to david brooks it doesn t seem to be disjointed. remember the ryan plan passed the house of republicans. the democrats controlled the senate. it was never going to pass there, there wasn t any chance of that. the republicans in congress did all they could. not everybody is for it on its particular, some of the candants have their own proposals but they have quite bold alternatives to the ryan plan to get control of entitlement spending. this is the hardest thing to do. i used to think when i first started covering washington years ago tha
crisis. what kind of a hole is al qaeda in now as far as leadership is concerned? they ve been in a hole for some time. they ve suffered a lot of operational setbacks because of things like predator strikes, operational leadership is decimated. now the spokesman is gone. reporter: phillip mudd, former cia officer and counterterrorism official, says osama bin laden is irreplaceable. with so many jihadists having to look to bin laden for operational direction, for inspirational command, filling his void will be a disjointed, messy understaking. al zawahiri, ledge dare leader on the run since september 11th and al awlaki, american-borne cleric a key leader in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. experts say both are capable, but also have drawbacks that bin laden didn t have. al zawahiri has the strategic background to lead the network, but analysts say he lacks bin
our enemy grew, and our enemy used to be small, fragmented, disjointed, but now the taliban had become a brand name like the mujahedeen. so, you know, he s not a very popular guy in progressive circles, but don rumsfeld was the run who started thinking about much more nimble, high-flex, less manpower kind of operations. i think to some degree joe biden has been on that side. you re on the side of biden and rumsfeld versus some of the others that like large footprint operations. thanks a lot, steve, i really appreciate that. [ laughter ] i want to go to you for the last question, evan. as far as the past, i m with steve. i was in favor of going into afghanistan in the first place, but it s now a much different
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