feed. reaction. and it seemed that donald trump doused kerosene all over himself and setting himself on fire. then i started looking at the text of the speech and i saw, yes, very strong language towards north korea. language you and i wouldn t prefer and be used. but he also criticized iran. he also criticized venezuela. he criticized rogue regems. he spoke glowingly of the marshall plan. he talked about dig cheney and richard pearl on steroids talking about the righteous many ago ens the evil few. i would say, okay, so i m missing something here. then i read you are op-ed later in the afternoon where you said actually you take away the bomb bath, this is actually a fairly conventional speech from a president at the united nations. well, joe, i had the same
rhetoric with the security people in a wartime situation. right. what do you make of donald trump s rhetoric? i don t find it that sensational. i was in asia when bill clinton came over and said if the north koreans pursued weapons it would be the end of their country. paul: this was in the 90 s. 93. at the end of the day we had a big debate on iran and their nuclear ambitions and we had a big debate on whether the preferred wording should be iran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons or must not be allowed. i would say at the end of the day what matters is the policy, mr. tillerson says the north koreans don t understand diplomatic language, they understand it very well, they have been hearing for years. richard pearl said was asked the question, i think we can negotiate and if we want diplomacy to succeed we have to have made decision that if it doesn t succeed we would take action. paul: defense official under the
on u you had george w. bush spend money like it was going out of style. he took 155 billion dollar surplus and turned it into a trillion dollar deficit and doubled the national debt. he was a big government republican. on foreign policy, he was a big internationalist, but he was also sort of a unilateralist in that everybody had to follow his view and richard pearl s view. a big spreader of american yi ideals around the world and a lot of republicans quite agreed with. i just i think basically what i m saying i think they will cave to trump. i think we are going to have a 30 trillion dollar national debt and unfortunately people are so excited to be in power. as i found under brush they
including president busch the first war in iraq because i thought we had treaty obligations to kuwait. the guardian and independent publishing data from mi6. they have the closest relationship in the world with the american intelligence. i knew that if the british intelligence agency said there were no weapons of mass destruction as cheney was trying to hint, there was no atomic weapons program that our cia knew it. we did know it. richard pearl and i debated. he said that pow well had created one of the greatest traitorous acts by forcing us to go through the united nations. there was great deal of knowledge that we would not find wmds. i think we deliberately went to war knowing they weren t there. i think to answer the major
i supported the previous wars including president busch the first war in iraq because i thought we had treaty obligations to kuwait. the guardian and independent publishing data from mi6. they have the closest relationship in the world with the american intelligence. i knew that if the british intelligence agency said there were no weapons of mass destruction as cheney was trying to hint, there was no atomic weapons program that our cia knew it. we did know it. richard pearl and i debated. he said that pow well had created one of the greatest traitorous acts by forcing us to go through the united nations. there was great deal of knowledge that we would not find wmds. i think we deliberately went to war knowing they weren t there.