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and no one can always be ready with something to say about almost everything, hence, teleprompters for news stations and politicians. it is the rare politician who is well versed enough and well spoken enough to wisely handle any question at any time. so nothing terrifies most congressional staffers more than their bosses going beyond the talking points. you know, rewriting the talking points, by adding some after thought that was not written for them. i ll tell you this story, and then i have to go. my 5-year-old grandson as i left san francisco yesterday, he said to me, mimi, my name, mimi, war with syria, are you yes with syria or no with syria? and at that point, nancy pelosi staffers were tearing their hair out.
well versed enough and well spoken enough to wisely handle any question at any time. so nothing terrifies most congressional staffers more than their bosses going beyond the talking points. you know, rewriting the talking points, by adding some after thought that was not written for them. i ll tell you this story, and then i have to go. my 5-year-old grandson as i left san francisco yesterday, he said to me, mimi, my name, mimi, war with syria, are you yes with syria or no with syria? and at that point, nancy pelosi staffers were tearing their hair out. now, they will of course deny that for the record, loyal the way they are, but there is no one or should be no one on the nancy pelosi staff who thinks that that was the time and place for us to learn that nancy pelosi s grandchildren call her
said on this long-term issue. i cannot emphasize enough how much they are looking to us now, making judgments about us for the long-term, and how critical the choice we make here will be, not just to this question of syria, but to the support we may or may not anticipate in the middle east peace process. to the future of egypt. to the transformation of the middle east. to the stability of the region and other interests that we have. there is no way to separate one thing from all of the rest. relationships are relationships. and they are integrated and that is why this is so important. ambassador ginsburg, isn t one of the things that can t be separated from this question on the intervention in syria is iran?
and how much of this is about iran? oh, lawrence, it is so much about iran. because after all, this is a proxy war. this is a religious proxy war between sunni and shiite. this is a proxy war between the arab states, a war more or less between the united states and russia and israel and lebanon. and most importantly, it only shows you what you and i talked about before. syria is an extraordinarily complicated place with an extraordinary capacity to harm everybody that touches it. richard wolff, are you surprised at the white house s approach to this so far? it seemed to shock washington that president obama held to some real consistency here in his view that congress should be consulted in matters like this? you know, actually it doesn t