his block on his neighborhood in the south side of chicago, it s unacceptable. you hear the report that the homicides were down in chicago, 34%. when i look at those who were killed over the weekend, it s on the northwest side. it s on the south side. it s on the west side. that you re seeing, it s all over. even though you and i know there s always a heavy focus on the south side of chicago here. when you heard that young man in that vice episode that you were featured in refer to it as chi-rac, what did you think? well i was shaken when i first heard it. but i understand it the number of the past weekend is greater than iraq, greater than afghanistan, these are war numbers, and the truth of the matter is, we re at war. there s an epidemic of violence, a genocide that s going on. if it is a war, we have to understand what a war needs is soldiers, boots on the ground and the community is going to have to be involved in and engaged, if we re thinking the police are going to stop t
was it the right decision for the u.s. and allies to launch the air strikes. 47% say it was the right decision. 17% say they don t know. so slightly more say it was the right decision. if you dig deeper, among republicans 54% say it s the right decision. democrats only 49% say it s the right decision and 44% of independents say it was the right decision. what do those numbers, david, say to you? there s a little bit of good news. republicans are reachable in times of national interest and will rally to a president even of the opposing party. it tells me those are not going to war numbers. a plurality of numbers is not sufficient. the president ha bring a lot more people along with him. he s been so concerned to win support at the u.n. security council and in the arab world, but it s american who s pay his salary. he has to win their support. there is a case to make but he has not made it. a long time has passed. this uprising started on the
libya? don t you think the republicans are losing credibility when it comes to war numbers? all of a sudden we can spend a decade in afghanistan, go supplemental war funding after supplemental war funding and the republicans are all there but all of a sudden we have a democrat in the white house who goes through the diplomatic channels, who goes through the i ll give it to you this way, the dog and pony show of getting a coalition, a real coalition, even lets the french go in first and take the first shot at the libyans but, you see, no. it s just too expensive. the republicans have no credibility when it comes to money. they never have and they never will. and now they have no credibility on this. they re the ones that are crying about going after terrorists. well, you had your chance. there s gadhafi. he took down pan am 103. you mean we forgot about that? americans died on that plane? and all of a sudden the republicans are concerned about a very expensive operation in
and if you think congress won t put up a fight, listen to the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee, republican richard luger, out of indiana. it s a strange time in which almost all of our congressional days are spent talking about budget deficits, outrageous problems, and yet at the same time all of this passes which is a very expensive operation even in a limited way. which is a very expensive operation. now we have been in afghanistan for ten years. we ve been in iraq, this is year number eight. you mean to tell me mr. luger who has been in washington what, 30 years, all of a sudden he s concerned about the money that we re spending on a little pid ly operation of a no fly zone in libya? don t you think the republicans are losing credibility when it comes to war numbers? all of a sudden we can spend a