these countries. but let s not confuse him with jimmy carter. this guy is willing to kill osama bin laden. he s willing to go over there and use drones to knock people out one after another. he s ready to sit in that room and push the kill button. he s quite willing to do it so you can t call him a passivist, michael. i don t think he likes boots on the ground in terms of bringing in soldiers and we can t get them out. that s a key part of it, i think. the other thing i would say to michael is this isn t a campaign speech. this is not some untested guy laying out the obama doctrine should he be elected. we have had six years of this president. we know what his foreign policy is. we know what his national security policies are. so, yes, i can see the hungering for a bigger vision, but we know, yeah, he likes to work multi laterally. we know he does use force when he has to. we know that he likes diplomatic solutions and he was a little hawkish on libya. i think you can wonder what e
engage in order to foster democracy, but they do, i think, want to still get a sense of, okay, so how do you redefine this landscape in terms of the vision when you would use that military power. but you know, michael i think there s a difference here. i think the president is not a passivist. no. i think dovish like i am. he doesn t like wars. he doesn t like getting stuck in these countries. but let s not confuse him with jimmy carter. this guy is willing to kill osama bin laden. he s willing to go over there and use drones to knock people out one after another. he s ready to sit in that room and push the kill button. he s quite willing to do it so you can t call him a passivist, michael. i don t think he likes boots on the ground in terms of bringing in soldiers and we can t get them out. that s a key part of it, i think. the other thing i would say to michael is this isn t a campaign speech. this is not some untested guy laying out the obama doctrine should he be elec