go to war in crimea. they don t like the idea that we have a republican president reaching out to try to find some areas of common ground. they say they don t mind it, but in the end, i think they do mind it. because it upsets their applecart, their entire worldview post-cold war. laura: i mean, dwight eisenhower 60 years ago when he last was in the white house, no radical, five-star general, to turn president warmth that there was a permanent military faction that would benefit by having the u.s. on a permanent war footing, something the founding fathers never wanted. i was before the cold war really got underway in a hard-core manner, and obviously before the war on terror where it has grown ever stilled. there is huge factions in washington that are very invested in always having an enemy that americans are scared of. right now, what democrats and
global institutions, but that rhetoric that we just heard from the former cia director, who was also part of the cia under george bush as well, is incredibly not just unhinged, but remarkably dangerous. we are not actually at war with russia. this is the prerequisite for treason, he actually said that russia is our enemy, which is something that the president he served for eight years vehemently rejected even after all the allegations of hacking. if you look at all the nuclear weapons on the planet that can extinguish the human species, 90% of them reside in the hands of two countries, the u.s. and russia, and to create this climate where we compare russia, our enemy is remarkably reckless and dangerous, and it is shocking to hear. laura: isn t it the case that there are many on the right, the old neoconservatives, there are a lot who want to keep the cold war mentality going. russia is a big threat, we are going to go to war, montenegro,
going to go to war, montenegro, go to war in crimea. they don t like the idea that we have a republican president reaching out to try to find some areas of common ground. they say they don t mind it, but in the end, i think they do mind it. because it upsets their applecart, their entire worldview post-cold war. i mean, dwight eisenhower 60 years ago when he last was in the white house, no radical, five-star general, two-term president warned that there was a permanent military faction that would benefit by having the u.s. on a permanent war footing, something the founding fathers never wanted. it was before the cold war really got underway in a hard-core manner, and obviously before the war on terror where it has grown ever stilled. there are huge factions in washington that are very invested in always having an enemy that americans are scared of. right now, what democrats and republicans, what the leaders of these are working in unison to do is convincing americans to be