suggested? she seemed confident when she said it. well, i tell you, everything you said about general petraeus is true. we were losing in iraq, he turned it around. he got us back on good footing in afghanistan that i think the president has made poor decisions on iraq and afghanistan, in spite of great military leadership. but general petraeus supposedly told the house intelligence and senate intelligence committee a couple of days after the attack, he thought it was the result of a radio. he needs to testify. secretary clinton needs to testify. august 15, ambassador stevens sent a cable from libya to the state department, to secretary clinton saying, we have identified 10 militia groups associated with al qaeda in benghazi, they are all over the place. if there is a coordinated attack, we can t defend the consulate. so she needs to account for why she did not grant the security request. we need to hear from all of these people. the way the congress is doing it, they are going to fa
dependable as they were before. sean: last question, can israel fight on all of these different fronts? are they capable of doing this? because it s a tiny country. sean, they don t have a choice. sean: well, that s sad that america is not by their side. there are 35 militants. they have sufficient resources. but it s going to be a fight. sean: guy, good to see you both. coming up, every week, we bring you examples of liberal tv bias. tony we are going to examine how bad the trend is among left-wing radio hosts. remember ed schultz? fast eddy, spewing this nonsense. you are damn right dick cheney s heart is a political football. we ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him.
sean: tonight, we are learning new details about the escalating violence between israel and gaza. earlier today, israel launched an airstrike against hamas military commander, jabari, who has long topped israel s most wanted list, after overseeing the abduction of an israeli soldier and plotting attacks against israelis. a former defense spokesman said this is the israeli equivalent of america s strike against bin laden. the islamist group saying that israel has opened up the gates of hell. earlier tonight, president obama spoke to israeli prime minister netanyahu, reiterating israel s right to self-defense. we have tony shaver and former cia operative gary burnstein is with us. good to see you both.
going to say, you threaten israel, you don t get a dime. i don t think they should get a dime anyway. clearly he won t say that why? they have decided that they want to take a different sort of approach to the middle-east. they want to they perceive as to be even handed. but hai what they are doing is danger encouraging radicals to act against america s allies and the most important one is israel. sean: do you think the world rad calcwere emboldened by our election? i suspect they didn t want governor recommendny elected. they think they will get an easier ride from president obama. i suspect they were quite pleased with the outcome. sean: tony, what do you think they are thinking now? president blamed a terror attack on a youtube video. wasn t true. he sees that america s fighting over this. what do you think the people
tick tocks provided, minute-by-minute accounts from the pentagon and the cia and the state department. and at some point, there needs to be a reckoning because they don t always add up? look. i think you are one of the guy who is does try to play it down the middle like our own ed henry and there was a good question bijonathan carlton today. he did a great job. sean: i don t want to make a blanket media bias question. i want to credit you, you wrote a book, the outpost: an untold story of american valor. you talked about 53 americans surrounded by 400 taliban, they are really outnumbered and you twloat book. i am reading it. this is an amazing story that i don t think most people know about. tell us a little bit about it. well, this combat outpost was put in this incredibly obscure corner of afghanistan at the bottom of three steep mountain,