so, we had newt gingrich and mitt romney. both on the offensive over the last 24 hours. they know that six days is a short time and that s when the caucuses are. what have we been hearing from both of the candidates, mark? well, hala, you re absolutely right. so much on the line, so much at stake here. six days until january 3rd when iowa republicans will caucus and will really kick off what has been already a very long presidential season. well, newt gingrich had pledged not to go negative in this campaign. he had said that he would only go positive and talk about his plan to try to turn the american economy around. well, the gloves have come off and, in fact, he is going negative. yesterday on the situation room with wolf blitzer, he went right after mitt romney. in fact, let s listen to what newt gingrich had to say. all i say mitt is, if you want to run a negative campaign and you want to attack people, at least be man enough to own it. that s your staff and that s
retaliate. let s step back for our viewers back to the 50s when there was war and it was a proxy war. it was the west and democracies in the south, communist countries in the north. the war never ended. from was a detente between them. they agreed not to fight and demilitarized zone between them and pretty calm since then. at this point what is our major concern? the north is they call it the hermit kingdom but that s what it was called a long time ago. they re isolated and heavily armed. yes, they re heavily armed. what s the difference now, not only are they heavily armed. their political culture is such that there is everything military in fact, military first politics so to speak. promotes militarism there. given this environment we cannot maintain business as usual. so we have to deal with the armistice agreement, which is a mere cease-fire it s a cease-fire, right.
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