A german port town so lets see what the us functions its like a defiant tone. That theyre trying to tell us what to do here its really shameless the way the United States is trying to manipulate german along some european interests so that your interests come out on top. Moscow demands on says from washington amid reports the u. S. Is honoring troops in crimea the russian if he says terrorists. Kevin owen will be here with your full rundown in an hours time but 1st its crosstalk. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on Peter Lavelle over the last 3 president ial election cycles there is clear evidence voters are attracted to the message of not interventionism and are very wary of foreign wars this most certainly helps trump in 2016 but his time in office is spotty at best now joe biden appears to embrace the same foreign policies as bush and obama i guess nothing really will undo mentally change. Cross knocking forever wars im joined by my guest laura fink in
The president ial candidate for the democrats he had an interview with the news outlets are stars and stripes and the men are very clear that he would continue the foreign wars in the middle east should strips would remain there he had doesnt contemplate any kind of cuts in defense spending and at the same time we have like the Eurasia Group foundation which is kind of in the sec its a very centrist and they have research tend to be overwhelmingly the public supports less militarization of Foreign Policy and decrease in military spending and are on the side of ending these forever wars why is joe sticking to the bush obama agenda go ahead mark well i think that its the white the American People want is probably in line with like joe biden wants no one wants to be an endless wars apennine change man is sometimes necessary and you know everyone would last you know in the Defense Budget after 19 years its still worth it how. Well look i think you know but look we can we can just you know
The essence of this issue and that is simply this what is our mission nobody is against military involvement military action defending our allies but the idea that our of being there does something magical to keep our enemies and why we need to know why are we there look i dont want to go deep state police state in tells a shadow government ruling class but this is the military Industrial Complex that has been a part of the american political system irrespective of party thats what this is this is something to do with beach nobody can explain what were even doing in afghanistan yet if you ask people that had something remotely to do with 911 and that said there is nothing unamerican by demanding that we have a clear and cogent and limpid of system of protocol and a message and a mission thats it you know lower it it is. It seems to me because if we you know campaigning is campaigning promises or promises ok were all political junkies here but it seems to me that no matter what a candid
A president and the media. But in fact, its a long tradition in American Government and American Media history that the president and press do not share the same interests and have been out war, and a sense, ever since george washington. Susan from the time you started this project, was it always it versus the press . Mr. Holzer im glad you asked. No. Originally it was the president s and the press. In my research about president kennedy, i found that he gave a very defensive speech in 1961 for the American Publishers Association in new york city. And during the speech he said, i wanted to call this speech the president versus the press because you are not always living up to your responsibility to protect the american interest. And i have to be talked down so i could call up the president. But i like the first version better, he put it all out on the line and kennedy is the one who got our interest. Susan is that why he also earned the photo on your cover . Mr. Holzer well, i went bac
Continue the foreign wars in the middle east should strips would remain there he had doesnt contemplate any kind of cuts in defense spending and at the same time we have like the Eurasia Group foundation which is kind of in the sec its a very centrist and they have research then to be overwhelmingly the public supports less militarization of Foreign Policy and decrease in military spending and are on the side of ending these forever wars why is joe sticking to the bush obama agenda go ahead well i think that its the white the American People want is probably in line with like joe biden wants no one wants to be an endless wars apennine gauge man is sometimes necessary and you know everyone would last you know in the Defense Budget after 19 years its the worth it how well look i think you know that look we can we can just you know different decisions made by different press. Events and i would say that there is a diversity of the last to be among the different president s specially names