we are seeing here. we are going back to peace through strength, which is what won us the cold war, without firing a single shot. that s what the american people need to hear, and that s what world is now hearing. this president so cherishes the men and women in uniform and their blood a treasure that we have to spend and expand when we fight wars. we don t want to do that, he does not want to do that. peace through strength is really so far his way of telling his enemies there s going to be repercussions. martha: governor, quickly before we go. here at home, the trump administration is facing questions about wilbur ross, whether or not his businesses had a tie to the putin government, the russia investigation continues apace i guess. we wait forever for
we re talking about north korea doing it or iran sending a missile to the united states. it s because we did it without firing a single shot. i believe what the president is saying today and he s signalling the administration may do here is the height of irresponsibility. it will make us worse off both with respect to iran and with respect to our attempt to stop north korea on its nuclear march as well. and that is the linkage, dennis ross, that certainly is being observed by people around the world, and in pyongyang they re saying, why should i negotiate with the united states? not that we know that they would. if the u.s. is going to break out of deals as soon as another president is elected? it certainly becomes an argument for them, although i don t think it really shifts the focus off the nature of their program and everything they re doing to isolate themselves. it gives them an excuse. it does give them an excuse.
with china and economic war and that they are not giving a single weapon or single true but because of these deals that have a rabbit in so many of these countries, they are leveraging their interests in a way that doesn t help us without firing a single shot? china is pursuing global mercantilist policy inside the wto and outside and tend to abide by the free-trade rules, but this is a very, very aggressive country. you look at the south china sea, a look at what they are doing in the east china sea, all around the periphery. i know that we have a general saturday on it yet, certainly the obama administration didn t. i think it does come down in this case in the context of afghanistan to getting them to do more to stop the pakistanis from encouraging and fostering terrorism. peter thompson, a former career state department double matt once said that pakistan was the only country he ever knew whose
questions. the communication channels, by the way, discussed but never implemented. you wanted to confer with ey iranians, you went through the omanis and they would pass along the message? is that how it would work? yes. and we talked on american equipment. not iranian equipment or omani equipment. and we would never go to an iranian facility to do cloak and dagger conversationes. and we could give you a very straight forward answer for that back channel. to secure a nuclear deal with iran without firing a single shot. what we haven t heard from jared kushner is, what was he doing to set up this back channel? what were they trying to get out of it? supposedly designed to reduce russian support for alsay sad s regime in syria. which sounds like a good cause. first of all, the pentagon had open channels with the russians to talk to them about this. the state department had open channels with the russians to talk about this.
it was a proud moment of the cold war without firinging a shot, and yett in that tinderbox of a time, he led with a steady hand and defusing the cold war without firing a single shot, and forcing the young rights of young black men and women to study at the university of their choice, and unleashing a corps of young volunteers as ambassadors for peace in distant corners of the globe and setting america s sights on the moon precisely because it was hard and unwilling to consider the possibility that we might not win the space race, because he had an unwavering faith main th character of the character of the people that he led, resilient, optimistic, innovative and courageous. it is worth remembering this,