Joining us as Hillary Clintons former spokesman, suggesting we worked for Vladimir Putin for daring to ask about nato and montenegro. Its a serious question because Defense Guarantees or serious promises. Why would the United States promise to defend montenegro . Speak out the nato treaty has kept the peace since world war. I dont want your son to fight and montenegro. I dont want him to fight in germany or any of other of the9 nato countries but you are presenting nato as something likely to trigger a war when nato is in fact what has avoided war. While the soviet union has fallen, the russians are incredible tucker the reason i thought of montenegro and suggested there was some putin reason why you did, there was a much more prosaic reason because it just joined nato. Are you suggesting we owe them a Defense Guarantee . Im not looking at montenegro im looking at the full 29 countries. Tucker thats how bad decisions get made, one people to look at the statistics. How many times as the
americans have a moral obligation to die to protect it, do you think we do? here s what people who have talked about nato expansion have said to. whenen you add montenegro, doest addoe to our national security? or does it increase our strategic risk of war? i think it s more theth latter. when you add montenegro or albania, we have a resolution before us in congressut right nw that i have been opposingve that says anybody in the world who wants to join nato, anyone who is qualified can. we can have 50-60 countries.s. we can have equatorial guinea in there. if molly attacks equatorial guinea, we are in a world war. every member of the foreign relations committee voted against my amendment and all my amendmentmi would have done waso strip out the section that would have said we invite any aspirant to join.
attacked americans have a moral obligation to die to protect montenegro, do you think we do? here s what people who have talked about nato expansion have said. when you add montenegro, does it add to our national security or does it increase our strategic risk of war? i think it s more the latter. when you add montenegro or albania, we have a resolution before us in congress that i have been opposing that says anybody in the world who wants to join nato, anyone who was qualified can. we can have 50, 60 countries, we could have equatorial guinea in there and if molly attacks equatorial guinea, were going to have a world war. tucker: who would back at something that lunatic? we had a vote and i tried to strip out to the any aspirant can join nato and it lost 20-1. every member of the foreign relations committee voted against my amendment and all it would have done is strip out the section that we invite any aspirant to join it.