external operations and the latest being in paris, the russian airliner. these traditionally look like more sophisticated al qaeda plots. we re realizing isis has the capability not just to establish the caliphate but then expand this mission beyond and conduct external operations. we need to have nato coalition forces in there. we need air strikes that don t have rules of engagement behind them, and we need to have the sunni arabs putting skin in the game to protect their own backyard and their own religion. jennifer. i think what we see here is a complete divorce between what is necessary and what the president and the administration is willing to do. they have this vision they are ending wars. they are not ending wars. they have a vision they will do a lightfoot print, they will let the countries in the region handle it. that is faltise.
this but we ve got to point out here that isis controls significant chunks of iraq. you have to be incredibly careful where you send the cash, where you allow these loans to be taken out. of course the fact that iran has significant control over baghdad, it seems like it is kind of a foregone conclusion they will benefit from this in some way or another. jenna: should we continue doing this? this is ultimately what treasury s intel is showing and how much they re able to control this i have doubts as we continue to say we want out of the middle east, don t want to deal with iraqs with we have this lightfoot print with isis that we ll have significant control. my prediction we find ourselves in crisis situation yet again as we find out more about how this money is being used. jenna: let s talk about leverage. we re providing currency and dollars even though it doesn t belong to us as amount of money. why don t we use that as
policy. he s in a bind. the public lost confidence in what the president is doing. they lost it when the website crashed and he has not gotten it back. editorializing, is the president calling out the russian government for what it is and really spelling out what america is prepared to do about it. no, he s not. that s called leadership. he s not leading. vladimir putin is rebuilding the russian empire. obama is worried about maintaining a lightfoot print internationally. what happens is a void, a power vacuum is created. people like vladimir putin are more than happy to make mischief here. senator graham mentioned syria. i think there was a turning point. we set a red line, assad ignored it. there were no consequences. putin was taking note. he not only took note, he took crimea. there have been no consequences. andrea, how do you read where the add manage is headed. i agree syria was the turning point last weekend it was interpreted in the gulf and
defuse this crisis. well, it makes it a lot easier than actually having to do what senator graham is asking for, which is let s actually arm the rebels and to ron s point, the public is not there at all. where the public is on this, they just want to see somebody who looks bold, who is going out and calling people out as thugs or whatever we want to call them, but they don t want to have a consequence to that. they don t want to see a foreign policy that looks like president bush s foreign policy either. so he s in sort of a bind, but the public has also lost trust in what the president is doing. they lost it back when the website crashed and he s not getting it back. jason riley, the washington post editorializing. is the president calling out the russian government for what it is and really spelling out what america s prepared to do about it? no, he s not. and that s called leadership and he s not leading. vladimir putin is rebuilding the russian empire and obama is worrying
that mubarak was making a little over two years ago, with respect to who his opponents were, they were paid infiltrators. they were people coming in from outside. they were ne r-do-wells from opposition groups. you re hearing same exact kind of rhetoric from president morsi today. bill: where is the united states, steve, in all of this? where is our influence? not being seen as much as it should be in my view. the president has sort of struck a deal with president morsi, president obama, and you know, thought that president morsi played a constructive role with the flare-up in the middle east within the past month. he has been reluctant, the united states has sort of a lightfoot print, leading from behind if you will with respect to the way that president morsi has taken on his opposition here. in my view, the united states has a role to be playing standing out, speaking to the protesters, speaking to the opposition.