mccain hawks of washington, they have not gone anywhere since the last time they got us to start a war. right? they were not able to get president obama to continue the war in iraq for longer than he did. they were not able to get president obama to put boots on the ground in libya, not able to get president obama to open up an american front in the war in syria. right now in washington, president obama is making it clear that they re also not going to be able to get him to start an american war with russia over ukraine or anything else. message to troops about whether the use of force, militarily in ukraine, is possible. we are not going to be getting into a military excursion in ukraine. even the ukrainians would acknowledge that, you know, for us to engage russia militarily would not be appropriate and wouldn t be good for ukraine, either. president obama speaking last night to nbc 7 in san diego.
they re uniform and global. and right now they re not. so they re easily going to be kind of pushed aside by the russians. rather than saying that we are going to send weapons, never mind, you know, anything beyond weapons the president came out today, or yesterday and explicitly said we re not going to get into a military excursion in ukraine, we ll mobilize the diplomat sources. did he say too much in that message? well, i think he just said absolutely the wrong message. diplomacy 101 is to have a credible threat when you have a sort of negotiation. first of all we need diplomacy with muscle, but we also have to have a very real credible threat of u.s. military action. you know, the president has bought this idea and pushed forward the idea with the american people that international crises either mean that we have a war attitude or an ignore attitude. and i don t subscribe to that. i think there is a lot we can do
and right now they re not. so they re easily going to be kind of pushed aside by the russians. rather than saying that we are going to send weapons, never mind, you know, anything beyond weapons the president came out today, or yesterday and explicitly said we re not going to get into a military excursion in ukraine, we ll mobilize the diplomat sources. did he say too much in that message? well, i think he just said absolutely the wrong message. diplomacy 101 is to have a credible threat when you have a sort of negotiation. first of all we need diplomacy with muscle, but we also have to have a very real credible threat of u.s. military action. you know, the president has bought this idea and pushed forward the idea with the ither meaneople that that we have a war attitude or an ignore attitude. and i don t subscribe to that. i think there is a lot we can do
they re uniform and global. and right now they re not. so they re easily going to be kind of pushed aside by the russians. rather than saying that we are going to send weapons, never mind, you know, anything beyond weapons the president came out today, or yesterday and explicitly said we re not going to get into a military excursion in ukraine, we ll mobilize the diplomat sources. did he say too much in that message? well, i think he just said absolutely the wrong message. diplomacy 101 is to have a credible threat when you have a sort of negotiation. first of all we need diplomacy with muscle, but we also have to have a very real credible threat of u.s. military action. you know, the president has bought this idea and pushed forward the idea with the american people that international crises either mean that we have a war attitude or an ignore attitude. and i don t subscribe to that. i think there is a lot we can do
russian bear is on the prowl, and it s not certain where that appetite stoch stops and starts. that nato coming together and the use of military force is something that people wonder whether the united states will really be there or not. right. and david, take a thereon a little bit more sound to president obama today on this. take a listen. we are not going to be getting into a military excursion in ukraine. might doesn t make right. and we are going to continue to ratchet up the pressure on russia as it continues down its current course. there s a better path, but i think even the ukrainians would acknowledge that for us to engage russia militarily would not be appropriate and wouldn t be good for ukraine either. what is the foreign policy strategy here? we heard more assertive talk