nikki haley first day at the u.n. said we ll be watching those who don t have our backs and taking names and figuring out how to respond accordingly. this is the rhetoric they use, that the administration s uses at the u.n. and i don t think it s winning them more friends. yeah. i remember the coalition of the willing rhetoric somewhat similar, steve, by the george w. bush administration when they were trying to assemble the iraq coalition and didn t exactly work and people didn t want to be involved and a carrot approach with the stick. apparently a tweet from the ambassador of a save the date picture invitation. nikki haley invited 64 countries that voted against or abstained to come to a party onnian 3rd. among those partying with the united states as a reward for being obedient, honduras, the marshall islands, nauru, palau,
some of these inflammatory tweets and statements the president makes. and that s an unknown. and by the way, it s worth noting to the extent there s religion in north korea, the dity is kim jong-un and his predecessors, his grandfather and his father. so when you insult the head of state of north korea you re also insulting their diety. and other thing senator flake argues, our allies are looking for leadership. what does the lack of leadership in the world look to you? what it looks like to me is i think very small groups of the coalition of the willing. i spent a month in australia in june and got asked a lot of questions about what are we going to do to fill this leadership void that has been
services. that s very interesting. the iranian angle, though, is probably even more colonel, i want to focus more on australia for just a second. what you say is very interesting. we ve come to find out that the phone call between the australian prime minister and president trump was rather con ten sthous, right? you re right, australia is a very important ally of the united states. i think many people might forget that australia stood by us in the wars in iraq and afghanistan and fought alongside, part of the coalition of the willing, right? of course. not just did, they still are. they re one of our most important allies in the global war on terrorism. they have australian special forces are among the highest rated in the world, and they are there today working very closely with u.s. forces in afghanistan and also fighting isis very covertly in iraq and syria. so it s very important that we maintain that relationship. i saw some of the fallout in the australian press.
there. again, as she has said. please, richard. one second, mercedes, this coalition that they have got which mercedes poo poos includes france, germany, canada, all of these arabic countries like saudi arabia and so forth none of which were included in the coalition of the willing that george bush put together when he fought a war in iraq. mercedes, i have the former i m sorry we have james comey who says there is hundred open investigations in all 50 states. jay jeh johnson saying we need to infiltrate refugee program. ash carter the defense department saying no, no, isis isn t contained. it doesn t seem like we have them where we want them. no, we don t. to suggest that syrian president assad is going to listen to united nations security council resolution, when have we ever heard of a dictator do that. remember, this is the same president who basically, president obama along with
significant, but it is not enough to justify what would be the cost of human lives and the cost in money if the u.s. were to go forward with this kind of deployment, and does he make a good case from your perspective? is he backing a wway from th stated goal of defeating isis, because if he wants to defeet isis, it is going to be taking ground troops, but we need american leadership to assemble the coalition of the willing like george h.w. bush did in the first gulf war. they provided one-third of the troop strength, and paid 75% of the effort. that is a true committed coalition, but because president obama has not led sufficiently, people are holding back, and you cannot defeat isis and deny them that territory and it away without the troops on the ground, and you simply cant no do it. so president obama has to be level with the american people, is he committed to the goal of defeating the isis or sit here in the holding pattern for next 11 or 12 months to the end of