iran. whatever the question is. then they turn it no to israel and iran. it is a base republican party issue more than it is an actual foreign policy disagreement, is that a fair way to put it? i m not sure there s any disagreement on what to do. i have not heard any of the candidates to date say that we should exercise the military option at this point. they are talking about getting tough. one way to get tough with iran is to get the chinese and russians on board to impose serious sanctions. they haven t been there yet. to that extent it s a foreign policy issue. we have to make it very clear to the russians and chinese, unless they are winning to crack down on iran to prevent them going forward on the nuclear weapons program, then the military option does become a more plausible option for the israelis and others to pursue, including the united states. absent that, i don t know of any republican at this point calling for an attack. if that s the case, i think we
these two warring factions apart. and as we ve moved into the nighttime there s molotov cocktail s thrown over and we ve seen medics treated wounded people on the pavement underneath the street ramps here and the opposition demonstrators have been digging in for a siege. we ve been listening to one of their leaders on a loudspeaker exhorting the crowd here. at some point calling for jihad and other points saying we were holding a peaceful protest and they attacked us so now we must fight back and mobilizing the thousands of young men here, women and older men here directing them to different entry points of this roughly one-square-mile area square in the heart of cairo to extend the different entrances depending on
unquote, hostile policy toward north korea. that s a typical respond from north korea. the kind of thing we see published by their state-run news outlets. at the same time we have to see if they will respond in a more bold way, not if, but when. they ve launched at least 12 tests since the start of the year. a regime that said the two recent launches were a direct response to extreme sanctions from the u.s., and also stepped up military pressure. so the chinese foreign minister is at this point calling for a calm response from north korea. there was a conversation that took place just this weekend at a diplomatic meeting where the chinese foreign minister was able to speak to the north korean foreign ministry. that was the message that he passed along. china, of course, had to get behind these very tough sanctions in order for this to get through the u.n. security council. that happened after some weeks of negotiation. we do know, obviously, in recent weeks, while china and the u.s. sa