i don t feel it is being poll getic. i think as not only human beings and leaders of nations, if we admit we screwed up here and we re going to do better, that doesn t make us apologists. that makes us realists it makes us humble. when you have a global economy and a world that you want to work with you to fight terror, that we all can be safer here in the united states and all around the globe, you need to work together. if you re going to come in and you re going to act like clint eastwood, you know with guns loaded you re going to turn people away. you have to extend an olive branch. i believe the president has been more successful in doing that than his predecessor. megyn: the polls show, we pulled polls and they do show that, well, that there has been a slip in the opinion of america and confidence in president obama since he first took office. okay, so his poll ratings were through the roof in europe and muslim countries and russia and china 2009 and now they have all gone down o
decade, we have two enemy in the middle east. we have iran and we ve got syria. iran uses syria to forward their terrorist goals throughout the middle east and the world. you take away syria, that is a huge strategic win. you are right for us, strategically, bigger than egypt. yes. bigger than much bigger than libya. and for us, my dad s coming on. the last time we talked about this it didn t go very well. just saying. what? it was horrible. when remember when everybody thought assad should be dealt with. wasn t too long ago, whether it was this or the realist on the republican side or realists on the democratic foreign policy. you can deal with assad. exactly. good luck. just like dealt with. still looking at the moderates in iran. this will be fun. okay. on the point that you were making, chuck, about people taking people out of context, candidates, mitt romney going to read the barack
but good nature. i remember right after hurricane katrina, when his son, the president, asked him and bill clinton to co-chair things, it was just a perfect team. he s just a caring individual. you hear all these stories of town hall towns town squares being named after ronald reagan in eastern europe, but you talk to german leaders today, they will tell you they are a unified country because george h.w. bush didn t listen to the french, didn t do a victory dance on the brandonberg gate, but stayed back quietly not to shame anybody and to bring unification together. it seemed he was the right man for that extraordinarily historic time in 1989. he had a great team, too, brent scowcroft, jim bakker and they were realists who understood. you re looking at the headlines
the tough decisions. welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. that was republican governor scott walker of wisconsin on tuesday night after surviving a union backed recall challenge. his 7 point win over milwaukee mayor tom barrett was more than the election that he won two years ago and it wasn t big labor s only s loss of the night. voters in san diego, . and joining us assistant and editorial page editor, james freeman, jason riley and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, what does it tell us, this election, about the mood of the voters? it tells that the voters are realists, paul. the government are facing serious problems and they re going to reward politicians
clinton said the leader must go. covey anen prepares another peace proposal. with us, former intelligence officer mike barrett, also a director of strategy for the white house homeland security council and now c.e.o. of a security consulting firm, diligent invasions. what do you make of this? it s a real challenge right now about what to do in syria. so you ve got one crowd, the administration side with secretary clinton out there who wants to figure out way to get involved. then on the conservative side, you have one side led by john mccain who wants to intervene, see this end in a military thing. shepard: bomb, bomb, bomb. exactly. but there s the henry kiss engineer wing, the traditional realists and i hope they gain