country. why are you laughing? what, the coalition of the willing, is that what we have? like iraq? well, to be fair in libya, it was french and british planes that went in first. okay, good. let them go, it s about time they go. yeah? you think america s been for so long been the world s policeman? yeah. if i became president, the first thing i would do is shut down the 248 bases that are located throughout the world. i always put it in this perspective but that wouldn t help security for america, would equipment. why not? we shut down all our bases overseas? we can get anywhere. we have nuclear missiles. when you look at okay, let s reverse this for a moment, piers. we don t like we don t like hugo chavez very much, because he nationalized oil. he kicked corporations out of venezuela. that s why we don t like him. now, he s got a lot of money. how would the united states feel if hugo went, say, by palm springs and bought 100 acres of
of the entitlement programs, if you fund just those, all of the revenue the government takes in is gone. i would throw the wars in. you haven t even paid for the wars yet. we haven t gone to the department of defense or paid the interest on the debt. i want to talk about some of the politicians that i see that appear to be at least rhetorically in the coalition of the willing when it comes to framing this debate in an honest and honorable way. i want you to listen to a couple of them here. we have a system of corporatism. the big guys got bailed out an its guys didn t get bailed out and compounded our problems. it wasn t the people giving us honest services and honest goods. we lack the courage of our elected leaders to stand and lose to do the right thing. it s not about whether the republicans or democrats win, right now it s our country that s in trouble and everybody is going to suffer if we don t attack the real problems. i haven t gotten into detail with the governmen
bernie sander, but i have talked to him at length about these types of issues. i would add him as somebody who may be a member of the coalition of the willing when it comes to enjoining this debate. what can we do to get more politicians that are willing to have the debate that you might seek? i m not sure, dylan. the biggest problem we have is that we ve covered up the contraction in the economy that had to happen in 2007, 2008. we ve now gone four years into this. there s been no change in trajectory. and all we ve done is make the pain worse. so where we were going to suffer a 15 or 20% contraction top to bottom in 2007, now it s close to 30%. if we keep this up, when we hit the wall which has occurred in greece and threatens to happen in portugal and spain, it will be catastrophic. we need to stop this and we need to stop it now. i want you to hear john boehner on good morning america. the democrats say they could
you ve got an alliance of countries. why are you laughing? the coalition of the willing? to be fair in libya, it was french and british planes that went in first. good. let them go. it s about time they go. do you think america for too long has been the world s policemen? yeah. if i became president, the first thing i would do is shut down the 248 bases that are o located throughout the world. but that wouldn t help security for america, would it? why not? we shut down all the bases overseas? we can get anywhere. we have nuclear missiles. when you look at okay, plet s let s reverse this for a moment, piers. we don t like hugo chavez very much. he nationalized oil. kicked corporations out of the venezuela. that s why people don t like him. he s got money. how would the united states feel if hugo went by palm springs and bought 100 acres of land and moved the venezuelan military into there.
lot of arab heads of state in saying we trust nato to be able to conduct this, not forgetting that turkey is at the table, one of the 2 countries in this alliance. joe? paula newton, get back to us, will you, if you have any updates. let s bring in hala gorani. you ve been doing a great job reporting. it looks like they re very close to i adil, apparently still trying to get together on the rules of engagement for air strikes. what do you make of it? it s interesting the deal is coming almost a week into the air strikes themselves. it appeared when this effort started that there was some sort of agreement, that this was an organized coalition where it was clear who was going to lead for how many days, who was going to then pass over power or command and control power to another country or to another entity such as nate toe. however, it does appear now they ve come to some sort of agreement. france wanted a political steering committee to call the shots with more the military strate