overreaction. where is the lack of vigilance that you see that says we re in a different place mentally? i think it s the hypocrisy that he wants this rhetoric that the war is going to be over. he wants to sculpt a legacy where he is a peacemaker ending bush s wars, with the same time he s ramping up drone strikes. now, i favor drone strikes, but drone strikes are not going to kill an ideology. and i think this is a war of ideology that s going to be a long-term struggle that we all have to be very adult about. and it s going to be around for quite some time. and the threat is not getting again, it s not getting less, it s getting worse, and we need to deal with it in a responsible way and not put our head in the sand. and i think impacting the moderate muslim, the moderate muslim community, is an effective tool that we have wholly failed to engage in. ted koppel, let me come back to this krd. i think what the president would argue is there s been a more targeted approach to deal
conditions, that s been resolved. the issue of seniors getting lower prescription drug costs, that s good. but, you know, a lot of it, david, is up to governors. it s up to the states. the states the governors have the ultimate decision on do we accept more medicaid, do we participate in the health care exchanges, and it s split. but i think eventually when this obama care is implemented, and i think it will be implemented, it will be one of his crowning achievements in the first term. but right now, short term, a lot of difficulty. there s a lot of politics. and i agree with ana. i mean, you have the tea party basically saying we re going to defund obama care or we re going shut down the government. i mean, that s a suicidal mission. david ignatius, from the fight over obama care and the budget to foreign affairs, which is in part about dealing with the ruptures in e e e jupt, the war in syria, and russia is a
that you see that says we re in a different place mentally? i think it s the hypocrisy that he wants this rhetoric that the war is going to be over. he wants to sculpt a legacy where he is a peacemaker ending bush s wars, with the same time he s ramping up drone strikes. now, i favor drone strikes, but drone strikes are not going to kill an ideology. and i think this is a war of ideology that s going to be a long-term struggle that we all have to be very adult about. and it s going to be around for quite some time. and the threat is not getting again, it s not getting less, it s getting worse, and we need to deal with it in a responsible way and not put our head in the sand. and i think impacting the moderate muslim, the moderate muslim community, is an effective tool that we have wholly failed to engage in. ted koppel, let me come back to this krd. i think what the president would argue is there s been a more targeted approach to dealing with terrorists, killing osama bin laden.
war in syria, and russia is a partner. here the president this week talking about vladimir putin as the bored kid in the back of the classroom. a ruptured relationship with russia, as well, and the debate over nsa. here was the president making wisecracks about the leader of a major country, calling him a slouch in his posture. is there a strategy is the question. is there a big strategy? i think the strategy here is the russians signaled, according to people in the white house, that they were going to find some accommodation that would get edward snowden out of moscow. the u.s. was led to believe that, and then suddenly that changed, and that upset people. i think that obama s challenge because he has some big foreign policy issues coming at him is to keep momentum, and he s trying to do that through secretary kerry s tireless travel. secretary kerry has made six trips to the middle east and he actually has gotten arab/israeli peace negotiations started, contrary to many peo
president obama said it would be a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. gretchen: and now confirmation that so-called red line has been crossed in that country. u.s. intelligence agencies have determined that syria has used chemical weapons as many as two times right now on those protesters. the white house says the new evidence falls short of the marker. two years ago we should have intervened on behalf of the people who are struggling for freedom. it s a shameful chapter in american history and i hope this new revelation of chemical weapons will move the president to do what he should have done two years ago. from the statement that s coming out of the white house, i m not sure they will. gretchen: the war in syria has raged for more than two years, leaving 70,000 people dead. today president obama will become the first sitting