he linkd that with pre9/11 attacks like the oklahoma city bombing. i would be more i think the real argument to be made is what the uk prime minister david cameron made after the algerian attack. a long struggle against terrorists fueled by a poisonous ideology. whatever the president said in terms of reframing the entire where and where we are going i think that is still the case. chris: juan? it is still the case. it is also the case that this president has wound down two large wars, afghanistan and iraq that were born of 9/11. what we have seen on the homefront is expansion in terms of incursions against civil liberties. and black hole in washington in terms of the homeland.
america is at a cross roads. we must define the nature and scope of this struggle or else it will define us. chris: president obama laying out the beginning of an exit strategy from the global war on terror this country has been fighting since 9/11. and we are back now with the panel. well, the president said that the scale of the threat we face now is more like what we saw you before 9/11 than what we saw in the years immediately thereafter. brit, is that sensible thinking or dangerous? well, it is interesting. what he say about it is that i hope this does not return us to the mindset toward terrorism that existed pre9/11 which was that it was a law enforcement matter principally and we he should pursue it in that way and not the treat it as a worldwide blend of military intelligence and in some cases police work. what i would what i think we have to say about the war on terror are is that by and large
america is at a cross roads. we must define the nature and scope of this struggle or else it will define us. chris: president obama laying out the beginning of an exit strategy from the global war on terror this country has been fighting since 9/11. and we are back now with the panel. well, the president said that the scale of the threat we face now is more like what we saw you before 9/11 than what we saw in the years immediately thereafter. brit, is that sensible thinking or dangerous? well, it is interesting. what he say about it is that i hope this does not return us to the mindset toward terrorism that existed pre9/11 which was that it was a law enforcement matter principally and we he should pursue it in that way and not the treat it as a worldwide blend of military intelligence and in some cases police work. what i would what i think we have to say about the war on
mcnair. he wants to close the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba, and limit the use of drones. before any strike is taken there must be near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. the highest standard we can set. reporter: that kind of talk was referred to as a retreat by republican senator lindsey graham on fox news sunday. this morning the chairman of the house homeland security committee republican congressman michael mccall went one step further. i found many parts to it disturbing for many reasons. i think the rhetoric sort of defies the reality in terms of the threat level that we have all been briefed on. i mean the narrative is sort of that al-qaeda is on the run, they are defeated let s call victory, where s over and then let s go back to a pre9/11 mentality. reporter: there are many in the president s camp who think this week s speech struck just the right chord in
to pre-9/11. that s like get back in the 40 i40 s to prepearl harbor and the good old days. it s a reality we were attacked on our soil. to go back to thinking in terms of these attacks pre-9/11 forgets the simple reality that we had 9/11, that we had attacks on your ship. political desires don t match national security interests sometimes, and the security of the nation muflt com must come . while the president may want to and perhaps try to manipulate the wording and the actions to appear to the america people that we are in a pre9/11 mind set and the types and number of attacks have decreased significantly from what we saw horribly on 9/11, the reality is the scope of these attacks is increasing across the globe. the number of attacks against measures anamericans and our ine