but this notion that it is somehow america s responsibility, our opportunity, whatever you want to call it, to intervene in every crisis everywhere makes no sense, and i m not an isolationist. we should be doing more in economic international cooperation, helping haiti, fighting aids internationally, but there s a gross exaggeration of what we can do. this is not 1947, 48 when we were the sole survivor, so the answer is we should not be engaged militarily in nearly as many places, and let me just briefly, chris, we make this mistake. the military is great at keeping bad things from happening. but the military can t make good things happen. we have too often used our military to try to make good things happen in societies foreign to us, and it never works out. do you ever think through what we re talking about when we talk about countries like syria, libya, we say secretary clinton does this fine job of saying, we call on the side to compromise with the rebels. you re basically askin
wealthy allies a free ride. do you think we can go in the direction we seem to be going. you follow this more than i do. the whole idea of drones and aavoiding big commitments of ground troops but winning the wars by knocking out the bad guys with rockets going through their windows with their names on them. is that a good way for americans to fight the wars without people but with high-tech? no, a better way is not to fight wars we shouldn t fight. i was just reading today an article, i was a day or two behind in the paper, i was reading some foreign policy pundit saying, well, america has to figure out how can we control the situation in syria without putting boots on the ground. the answer is we can t control the situation in syria. i wish we could. but this notion that it is somehow america s responsibility, our opportunity, whatever you want to call it to intervene in every crisis everywhere make nos sense, and i m not an isolationist. we should be doing more in economic inter
while you were out last night? another dead satellite falling out of the sky, this one, we re told, the size of a minivan. we think it s crashed back to earth. we just don t know where. also, we re going to be heading to ft. bliss this morning where everybody is celebrating. you can imagine why. their loved ones are coming home from iraq for good in a few weeks. a special good morning to the men and women watching us on the american forces network all around the world, thank you for what you do. we are going to start with herman cain this morning, under fire from his republican rivals. this time for recent comments he made about abortion. and what a platform they had to take shots at him last night. a major gathering of christian conservatives in iowa. shannon travis is in des moines. reporter: a big night here in des moines, iowa. the iowa faith and freedom coalition, a gathering of 1,000 iowans, many of them christian evangelicals. six presidential candidates came to cour
check out sanjay gupta ph.d. 7:30 eastern time. president clinton has a lot on his plate, campaigning, helping haiti, running the clinton global initiative, and planning his daughter chelsea s wedding to marc mezvinsky. hillary clinton talked about it with nbc s andrea mitchell. the former president, your husband, assume he won t be oaf officiating? you should assume if he makes it down the aisle in 81 piece it will be a major accomplishment. he will be so emotional as will i. we are both looking forward to it and very happy for it. the wedding is coming up soon, set for july 31st in upstate new york. the president and first lady michelle obama are on the guest list. how would you like to work two days a week for 100 k a
all right. it s been almost four months since haiti s catastrophic earthquake. it orphaned tens of thousands of children. our soledad o brien introduces us to an american missionary family whose commitment to help haiti s orphans came years before this quake hit. reporter: arianna has dreamed of helping haiti s orphans since she was 9 years old. she s now one of thousands of missionaries living in haiti. her journey started in california with a few coins. i started putting little money in a jar. the jar just got so full. my dad started putting little coins in it. i started putting more, like, dollars in it. reporter: in 2004, ari and her parents, bill and suzette, visited haiti. one year later, this family from