going to give radicals more ammunition? it s really an american issue. it s about soul-searching in the united states. about trying to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. at least that s the way it s presented today. but i think some of our allies in the middle east will say, they would have kept it to themselves and our adversaries will use it to make themselves look better. and the fall-out, our dirty laundry is out there. countries can decide what they think about torture, the stress positions for the body, isolation, and waterboarding and the rest we call these same things torture in other countries. i think the fall-out is going to be, we ll see. there s already a lot of anger out there toward the united states because of droning, because of policies with israel, palestine, gaza. this could be another excuse to go out and throw some molotov cocktails at the u.s. embassy. hopefully it s not.
before they lose control of the senate, otherwise it may not get unearthed. in some sort of liberal, i don t know, confused world, droning is more humane than torturing or interrogating them aggressively is bizarre. but here s one of the fallouts of shining a light on this. i said it throughout, i think it s okay to release it, i just think their techniques were okay as well. here s one of the fallouts, though, as andrea points out, the rhetoric is now, hey, did they act legally back then, if the next time the cia has a bad guy in their custody and they have an opportunity to save an american s life by interrogating this bad guy aggressively, enhanced interrogations, whatever it takes, are they going to worry that down the road, some is stupid dumb ass senator is going to say, hey, back then in 2010 or 2015 they
public has been the one leading our foreign policy to the extent it can. barack obama has wanted to do lots and lots of things, but general public just doesn t want him to do. he got dragged into all this mess with syria because americans were justifiably outraged by the beheadings of americans. i want to make this point about the drone argument a lot of people on the right are making. i think it is a dead end in a lot of ways. the moment barack obama is out of office and a republican gets, in the left will say, droning is bad, too. and they said we have to win afghanistan right up until the point they were responsible for trying to win afghanistan they abandoned that also. my guess is they will pocket the concessions on the interrogations and do the exact same thing with the drones as well. interesting i didn t get the time. but vice president cheney also on another issue is a proponent of robust executive authority and executive power. republicans line up behind that, most of them.
he s got once he reads the files he ll learn and group like everybody else does. president obama grew up on foreign policy and started droning. that may be something to be said about that. there s a little reminiscent. after the first world war there was a movie. they fought roosevelt up until the time pearl harbor. i think that s exactly where the country is now. call ran paul a child but on foreign policy. on foreign policy. you call a vast majority of american people a child because they don t want to be involved in it either. the other thing we can t afford. you can t ask for balanced budget and do that. maybe the american people feel this way but maybe they are wrong. remember the military exists to preserve our survival. and sometimes that goes against our own feelings about war. the fact is they go out and they kill so we don t have to. that is their role. whether we like it or not.
he s got once he reads the files he ll learn and group like everybody else does. president obama grew up on foreign policy and started droning. that may be something to be said about that. there s a little reminiscent. after the first world war there was a movie. they fought roosevelt up until the time pearl harbor. i think that s exactly where the country is now. call ran paul a child but on foreign policy. on foreign policy. you call a vast majority of american people a child because they don t want to be involved in it either. the other thing we can t afford. you can t ask for balanced budget and do that. maybe the american people feel this way but maybe they are wrong. remember the military exists to preserve our survival. and sometimes that goes against our own feelings about war. the fact is they go out and they kill so we don t have to. that is their role. whether we like it or not.