John's not going to put this country and this party through some high theater and high drama ... that's not his style, John is straightforward, says it plain and that's what he will do here, I suspect, in the next couple of days, |
locked into a bogged-down problem, not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam. |
look at the big picture here. |
Military force alone, |
No one knows how many millions of dollars have been tucked away for special projects for individual members behind a curtain. |
No one knows what the country -- or the party -- will be looking for when we get ready to choose a new president. |
nominees are always the responsibility of the president and his team. |
North Korea is a different situation as well, ... Different area, different dynamics, different leader, different possibilities. Syria is different from Iraq. Each of these nations must be dealt with based on their own specific situation. |
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations. |
Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. |
That means they are either going to have to be in a position sometime next year to really step up in governing themselves, defending themselves, supporting themselves, or we can't continue to stay there indefinitely, |
That soldier and those men and women there deserved a far better answer from their secretary of defense than a flippant comment, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. |
The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations. |
The American public can still pick up things about people. John McCain is a fine man and he always does best in a question-and-answer forum. |
The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them, ... Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years. |