any justification to go back and . the lies compound upon lies in they re all from mckenzie to be 12, so if we have the accountability, then we re goin to start looking at when the lies started and the lies go back decades in afghanistan, they go back to the beginning o the war on terror, the iraq war and et cetera. they don t want to start going away at that. i suspect you re absolutely right. joe kent, thank you. thank you very much great. if you care about the countr you mourn most of all the decline of american credibility. taxis that, he s a keen observe of the united states. i wish he was in the visor he joins us tonight with a reactio to all this. thank you bring much for coming. what you make of this? i think all of this is a reminder of why the politicization of the american military and the politicization of the american intelligence
than it was then. no question the middle east is a mess. and syria, here is an example. if you look at the obama legacy, what was the obama foreign policy vision? as encapsulated by them. don t do stupid stuff. substitute the word for stuff. that was the formula. the idea being that you can make situations worse by intervention, a lesson of the iraq war and et cetera. a place like syria, lack of intervention can also leave horrendous problems. refugees, you name it. chemical weapons use. so in addition to being a valedictory speech it was also a rebuke of donald trump s at least proposed altering of the course. when you look at the big issues, the big interventions i don t know that donald trump has articulated that he ll be that different. he has talked about standing up, being tougher, negotiating better deals, et cetera. he is not talking about a military intervention on the ground in syria. just the opposite. not talking about a greater
was a wonderful photoop for the libyans. we have an antiwar president . he s hated our involve iraq war and et cetera and now the hawk of all times and being pro war under the un s guidance of a responsibility to protect. humanitarian causes. that s the new shield that we use when we go to war . his friends, mr. obama s friends of the libya media have been very happy to cooperate in with this. the papers are full of let s go to war cheer leading and those poor people and we have to do more. take for example something in the new york times . pardon me, the washington posts, an editorial said we believe that mr. obama was right to support nato s intervention in libya not only because of the risk of