over a secure line for a basis over syria and other thorny issues before president trump took over on inauguration day. it s portrayed as this was a prudent act to take. it s seen in other circles as something less than that. david: i also want to ask though, the president sort of summarized in between his salute to the troops, which was very moving, but he summarized what this trip meant, what he accomplished and what he meant to do and what he did do. of course it s from his perspective. he think a lot of his detractors have to agree what he did, particularly in saudi arabia, was extraordinary. speaking truth to that power there to drive out the terrorists within their midst. he did get to turn n.a.t.o. into more focusing directly on the terror threat, rather than its historic focus on the soviet union which doesn t exist anymore. so, it was a tremendous
islamohphobia? are they anti-semitic? are they looking for sharia state versus western democracy? do they blame western democracy for the death of muslims? looks like this guy s family and close community his mosque, as much as the mosque condemned it isis they have homophobic screens, these things are so obvious that we are ignoring them because our politically correct ignoring the ideology. david: we don t want to be reactive as what happened in great britain. we want to be proactive, stop the terror from happening before it happens and one way to do that according to the president even though the courts denied his intentions are sincere is by preventing people from failed states from coming and visiting us. it is clear you don t go to
cold war, we can win it. to which you say? to which i say, the parallel is precisely correct, david. there s a marvellous moment, 1977, i believe it was, when the president was going over foreign policy matters. he was between serving as governor and had not yet been elected president, but talking over foreign policy matters with dick allen, a friend of yours and mine who served in the administration. and dick told me years later, the president said, would you like to hear my theory of the cold war? dick allen said, of course, mr. president. and ronald reagan said my thierry of the cold war is we win and they lose and it was just as tight and blunt as that. and now we have in donald trump, he s not as polished a speaker, as you said, he s not ronald reagan, but that central it s a kind of moral imagination. he s willing to invite people to see a world in which we don t have to put up with this
that alliance is going to stand up against the iranians and radical islam and that is significant progress and he told him three things, drive the terrorists out of your own country and stop having people in your country finance them and number 3, get your leaders to undermine the ideology because we cannot do it from the united states and that is a strong message no president has ever delivered a message like that to the muslim world. i m proud of him for doing it and respect his courage for doing it as well. david: the drive them out speech gave me goosebumps. i talked to a lot of people, jim woolsey, the other point the general makes. this alliance between the arab leaders and not only the united states but also israel. who would have thought a common enemy like iran would have brought israel and the arab world closer together.
it was dramatic indeed and there s a tremendous amount of hope in the middle east of the president is a new man, that barack obama isn t there. and i will say this, david, look, they re talking about putting 3000 more americans troops in afghanistan for we ve been for 15 years. we saw yesterday, the day before, coptic christians massacred in egypt. this is going to be a long, long war, there s no doubt about that. peter robbins did a great job with that speech and i didn t anticipate it. but that s a long war for those of us involved in the cold war. this one is going to be gradually and it s going to be a long, long time. david: president nixon, just as any president the last 40, 50, 60 years, trying to broker piece between israel and the palestinians and seemed to come