And dangerous. With us, dan henninger, Editorial Board member Mary Kissinger and kim strossel. Kim, you like it. Why do you like it . This is exactly what the epa needs. This is a guy who has sued the agency and is highly skeptical of a lot of the regulatory actions hes taken with obamas actions. We dont need environmentalists there. We need a lawyer to restore the balance between the agency and the states of partners and put it back in its proper role. And you like the fact that he is from a state, now its an oil and gas station, but what they wanted to impose from washington is mandates essentially on the states. And the states fought back with pruitt in the lead. Well get a rebalancing here between the state and the federal government. This is how the laws are supposed to work, its supposed to be a partnership. The federal government set to minimum standards, offers technical support. Maybe enforcement with states not doing what theyre supposeds to be doing. And that is definitely t
troops or fencing ourselves off from the rest of the world, we have to take a long view of the terrorist threat. and we have to pursue a smart strategy that can be sustained. we need the wisdom to see that upholding our values and adhering to the rule of law is not a weakness in the long term, it is our greatest strength. we re back with dan henninger, mary kissel, bill mcgurn and kim strassel. mary, smart, long-term, what do you make of that defense by the president? he s making the long-term view and accepting the terrorists growing on his watch. he s leaving president trump with an extremely dangerous world, a far more dangerous world than he inherited from president bush. he would push back to say, i got bin laden, al qaeda has been diminished, and not just in afghanistan but elsewhere, and nobody has attacked the homeland
i think it s a contradiction. and we don t know yet. look, he s picked some very aggressive people to serve at the department of defense and other places. we ll see what they come up with as a strategy for doing this. but at the moment, he hasn t said too much that would be a big change in what we re doing now. and mary, one thing i think there will be a difference, he s not going to close guantanamo. no. in fact, he may even send some enemy combatants to gitmo if they re captured in theaters where they are not going to be normal prisoners of war. let s hope so. also, obama s legacy is not just a legacy of american retreat. obama went out and made deals with countries that don t share our interest or values with iran, with cuba, for instance, and donald trump may take a very different view of those arrangements. donald trump also may not view american casualties in the same way that president obama did. obama told jeffrey goldberg at the atlantic he saw the
well, in the economy growing under 2%, that just can t happen. and workers have an interest in growth, probably more of an interest than anything else because that s the only thing that gives them choice and opportunity. and they haven t had that for a long time. so what does that tell you, though, mary, when mike pence says, the president-elect says, that, in fact, company by company is exactly the kind of policy that donald trump is going to pursue? we re going to do this case by case, day by day? well, governor pence loves to do this. good, solid republicans/conservatives like rick perry, for instance, when he came in to see us a couple years ago, he talked about how great it was to give away his taxpayer money to certain kinds of companies. look, it s a terrible policy. and unfortunately, it also has echoes of president obama who likes to pick winners as well, and likes to punish businesses he didn t like, except for obama. those companies were the coal companies and the big