want to help. and they are being crushed by putin, that is true. how can we help? why don t we send more weapons in the middle of a word. doesn t sound like a bad idea. if you make that decision, you feel some obligation instead of the ramifications, like what effect this will actually happen. is it possible that doing this is well intentioned as it is, and it is, is it possible doing this would be counterproductive and hurt the people i m hoping to help or prolong the fighting in ukraine at the expense of a vulnerable civilian population in ukraine? if i did this, could i inadvertently be doing to ukraine what the west inadvertently did to let say iraq, syria, libya and afghanistan? you wouldn t want that. you would hate to do something like that again because that would be cruel. you would want to make sure you were not doing that. but not a single person in washington, at least in public appears to be asking that question. no one is allowed to ask that
you talk to folks who are concerned about how to pay for the wall or security. i talked to some who say iraq is not longer on this list. the president is able to bring the leaders to the negotiation sable in order to open the door for the middle east countries to get them off the least of we head that the prime minister is schedule to meet with president trump. new marine corp. scandal. paula broad well, joins me live.
with iraq? i m asking i understand. it s not the same question. that s the question i m asking you. that can make your head spin. back and forth, back and forth. ben ferguson host of the ben ferguson show is with us mark lamont hill also with us, professor at morehouse college. guys, why is this question so hard? look i don t like republicans that much but i m going to do them a favor today. chris christie you re going to run for president. mr. trump, you might be out there. listen as soon as you announce, someone is going to tell you is iraq a mistake or not? here s a pro tip, say it was a mistake. there s no extra charge for you. nobody will be mad at you. say iraq was with mistake and you win. you re welcome. ben that was easy, right? ben, to you, though, seriously, do you think that rubio s republican opponents are going to use this against him or is this a true case of like it s really just semantics here and, you know he s saying i was
to the united states. that s a question hillary clinton will be asked if she runs, it seems, in 2016. she s already being asked. part of her responsibility is the mess in syria. the mess in syria is related to the next-door mess in iraq today. these jihadists are operating in both countries. in my view, the mess that we have helped contribute to in syria, by destabilizing that entire country, because i do think we have contributed to that destabilization, weakening the government there, that has given more space for this these jihadists to operate in both countries, both in syria and in iraq. and i do think that there needs to be a question about that, what are we doing in syria, why does the president keep saying, we re going to aid more rebellion. if we just create more chaos in the region, it will spill over the borders. another pressing question that s come up in the context of hillary clinton, as she writes in her book, is egypt in the
leaving afghanistan? we re not tying up loose ends anywhere. clearly, no events in syria, in iraq, in afghanistan are under our control. they never were. it was the illusion that we could send in troops, and clean up the situation that was the root of all of this. we don t belong in any of those countries. yet we ve spent trillions of dollars now, we ve stirred them up and we are not in control. it was at one point a success in iraq. an example of proxy armies working. the awakening movements there. do you think this will actually change the way people talk about future entanglements, say, syria? it is changing things already. the american people are saying, stop, right now. they don t want more of these president obama, remember when he was calling for bombing syria last year, was basically stopped by u.s. public opinion. they don t believe these proxy wars. they don t believe getting in