so is it possible that the president still doesn t understand the line? i certainly think that for someone who came into government as the president, that there is a learning curve. that learning curve is going to last through the duration of the administration. you can just expect that it will flatten out as time goes on. i also agree that white house counsel don mcgahn is doing an awful lot of educating but that is what a lawyer is supposed to do and provide the guard rails. were they provided in this case? i don t know the taens to that. but let s assume for the moment they were. just for purposes of discussion. then it s up to the president to decide how to proceed. a lot of people forget even when you are the attorney general of the country or of the state, as i was, lawyers advise, clients decide. and heel make a decision how to proceed even if it s atypical as long as he stays inside the law.
both disagree with the president on his policy. he at least has a policy, it s just nobody agrees on it. he definitely has a different take on things, and he made it clear he wanted to use diplom y diplomacy. he wanted to try, in his estimation, repair backfired? could you have foreseen what we re seeing now with the ar rack spring and resulting issues? we should have been able to foresee, but will 300 berets going to iraq actually help? they re not there to advise. they re there to get a job done. lawyers advise. strategists advise. but they re going to go there and do something. that goes against the president s policy that he ran on as candidate obama. and to be fair, it s been very vague thus far. we don t know exactly who these people are going to be, what their role is going to be. you know, but the fact is when you look at something like syria, which a lot of folks are saying we wouldn t have this mess in iraq now if we had resolved things in syria. hundreds of thousands