The comedy new show redacted tonight on our t. V. America all right i mean cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate lets go to bethesda peter i think that all of us would agree and our audience that its unlikely that we would ever compared to donald trump ok theyre very very different but they do have one commonality and its an attitude towards foreign adventures now donald trump has not been able to do much about his rhetoric of the campaign while hes been in office but keeps going both of them are slammed every time they go outside the borders or the perimeters of the bipartisan commitment to these wars why is it why do they get slammed down so hard so fast even with people within their own party go ahead peter. Well as you indicate there is a bipartisan consensus when it comes to American Foreign policy and its dominated by a neo con neoconservative or a view is based on this idea of american exceptionalism that the United States has t
Hello and welcome the crosstalk were all paying for considered im Peter Lavelle what explains the bipartisan commitment to an ending wars in Foreign Military interventions recent polls show the majority of veterans in this centurys foreign wars say it wasnt worth it in 2016 trying to gain traction for doubting foreign adventures today. Doing the same why are the elite out of touch. Cross talking and ending wars im joined by my guest daniel shah in new york he is a professor of latin american and Caribbean Studies at City University of new york and but that is that we have peter cosmic he is a professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies institute at American University as well as coauthor with all of her stone of the untold history of the United States. And in washington we cross to camp he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our t. V. America all right jim in cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always
United states and in washington we cross to camp he is the host and head writer of the comedy new show redacted tonight on our t. V. America all right coming cross talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate lets go to bethesda peter i think that all of us would agree and our audience that its unlikely that we would ever compare to donald trump ok theyre very very different but they do have one commonality and its an attitude towards foreign adventures now donald trump has not been able to do much about his rhetoric of the campaign while hes been in office but keeps going both of them are slammed every time they go outside the borders or the perimeters of the bipartisan commitment to these wars why is it why do they get slammed down so hard so fast even with people within their own party go ahead peter. Well as you indicate there is a broad bipartisan consensus when it comes to American Foreign policy and its dominated by a neo con neoconservative
A war of them which the richest people have more wealth than the poorest 3800000000 people that u. S. Policy has been consistently interventionist one that the cold more never really and that policy change at the end of the hole or and theres been a war a war between the 1st more of the 3rd world ever since but its very very dangerous tulsi understands that i dont agree that donald trump and told syrian anyway comparable. Use of Foreign Policy are so much better informed than donald trump thats for sure thats what our record is actually in very hawkish very militaristic so even though he has a rhetoric about not want to intervene its very very different than the kind of aggressive intelligent view in which one is opposed to this i agree with you completely my point is for example removing troops from syria and. And you know even his own governor his own cabinet came piling in i take your point well taken here daniel let me go to to you in my introduction also i mention that recent poll
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