americans' minds, strength translates to troops. americans want the united states to appear strong, but most are against boots on the ground these days. how do you appear strong without the threat of military action? >> i think you put your finger on exactly the challenge the president is going to try to address in this speech. my guess is he's going to try to point out that being strong, being engaged, being internationalists, even being interventionalists in the world doesn't necessarily mean boots on the ground, that we have rallied the world on the ukraine issue or put in place sanctions against russia, are opposing russian efforts to destabilize ukraine, but it would be crazy to try to find a land war with russia over ukraine. so a lot of times i think the president's frustration comes from the fact that the critics seem to be saying you're not doing enough. you're weak. you're giving in, when i think his feeling is, well, i'm doing