they need stability and predictability and they think president assad is giving this stability and all this creating uncertainty because nobody who are they and who will be in power would they win. do you think, professor, that the united states and the west now have faces a common enly alongside russia of islamistism, the danger of the chechnians and the danger of the people in al qaeda? do we see the same enemy across the frontier? i would not say that islam the enemy to west or to russia. but russia live with the islam peacefully for last 400 years and they had no problems. but of course, all the extremists are very dangerous there and when the u.s. started fighting there, especially when you have this fighting in syria, fighting between different religious groups, the islamist
campaign takes this as a personal shot at him. how will he respond? will he name ambassador rice his new secretary of state to replace hillary clinton? will he meet mccain s challenge head on and send rice up to the capitol to go face-to-face with the enly? tonight we study the battlefield and the fire power. mccain sure wants this fight, but do his fellow republicans? do they want an older white guy taking on the xre tense of a young woman of color, a rhodes scholar of solid reputation? most important what end does the president want for this match of fact and wits? i m joined by michael o hanlon of the brookings institution and jonathan lindie. michael, thank you for this. i want to get to the facts. am i right, is the main charge here coming from mccain and the others that ambassador rice knowingly covered up a national security breach for political purposes? i think that s probably
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candidate made europe part of his campaign tour. and i think that sent a message to america that barack obama understood because of his own background, because of his own travels, because of his own biography that we leave in a global age, and that sent a message that he would help bring america fully into the global age of multicultural, multidimensional thinking. and that was part of his appeal. it hasn t always worked for him, but it s worked for him pretty well on the foreign policy front. he gets quite good marks for foreign policy. his problem is that the enly thing the american people care about right now is the domestic economy. we ll see how the global dimension plays out locally. howard fineman, thank you so very much. thank you. mitt romney attempts to rewrite history with his latest ad. james peterson, john bramnick, and will durst will weigh in on that, and so much more. then, the regrets of a powerful hollywood director. find out how colorado s movie
roughshod over them? i would differentiate between the two. absolutely, there is a place in the private sector. i think there are some issues here. their problems didn t start with scott walker. there has been a 40 or 50-year decline in union membership. the world of work has changed, workers have changed and i don t think unions have changed sufficiently to go with them. as you know, private-sector membership is down under 7% now. that can t be blamed on scott walker or anyone else in public life. on the government side, honest people can differ, but there is i think a fundamental problem with government becoming its own special interest group, forced dues, recycled into politics to elect compliant and frenly friendly politicians in an unending circle. ultimately, there is not bargaining because government sitso sits on both sides of