had any feelings about those types of issues. it is a great show. i will hang up and listen. thank you. thank you. your question is so timely. it is time for us really to spend time learning about his years as secretary of state. we said earlier he served three presidents and some historians suggest that we look at blaine s legacy. it is really in the area of international affairs. can you speak to his influence and answer his question about whether or not he left the country? sure. maybe i will take the first one first is that s okay. i don t believe that he went to central or south america. europe. europe, yes. he he traveled several times to your open. in the period between the time he ran for president and the time that he became secretary of state in the mid 1880s, he spent quite a bit of time in europe. some of that time was actually with a very close friend of its, andrew carnegie in scotland. i in terms of his significance as secretary of state, developm
so this is [laughter] that s kind of a déjà vu kind of thing. i don ti don t know. i mean, it s a very old tactic. before the israeli election beginning end of 2008, beginning of 2009. it s an old tactic. i didn t realize the u.s. was in on it. i ve seen television with regard to israel getting closer and closer to doing this. you know, i mean, the irony is that there are, apparently, something like 100 nuclear warheads in the desert and, you know, iran probably has about enough nuclear power to light up a few watches. and so here we re, you know, why do they have the right to have nuclear weapons and iran doesn t? i mean, you know, who decided that? [inaudible] you know, the bomb being this is being discussed. no, no right. right. and, i mean, it s hard for me to, you know, really comment extensively about that. but i think israel will do, if it happens, israel will do the job for the united states. the important thing about, i mean, the united states and get