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WAS HURT.
JENNA: WHILE MAKING THE CASE FOR WAR, MAYBE.
WE'RE WAITING FOR TESTIMONY PUSHING HARD FOR CONGRESS TO AUTHORIZE MILITARY STRIKES IN SYRIA BUT NOT EVERYONE IS ON BOARD OBVIOUSLY.
MANY OF THE LOUDEST CRITICS RISING CONSERVATIVE STARS LIKE SENATORS RAND PAUL AND MIKE LEE.
WE'VE HEARD THE REASONS AS TO WHY AND HERE ARE A FEW OF THEM SUMMED UP NEATLY FOR US TODAY BY THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL." IT'S NOT AMERICA'S WOOR.
THERE ISN'T A COMPELLING NATIONAL INTEREST TO INTERVENE.
WE'D BE COMING IN ON THE SIDE OF AL QAEDA.
THERE'S NO END GAME.
IT WOULD BE ANOTHER IRAQ.
HE GOES ON TO ARGUE THAT THOSE ARGUMENTS ESSENTIALLY MISSED THE POINT AND THE SYRIA DEBATE IN HIS WORDS IS EXPOSING THE ISOLATIONIST WORM EATING ITS WAY THROUGH THE G.O.P.
APPLE.
FRED IS HERE WITH US FOR MORE ON THAT.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? >> THE REPUBLICAN PARTIED, WAY BACK IN THE DAY IN THE 1930'S AND EARLY 1940'S WAS THE PARTY THAT OPPOSED ANY INTERVENTION IN EUROPE, REALLY RIGHT UNTIL WE WERE HIT AT PEARL HARBOR AND THEN UNDER ROBERT TAFT WAS OPPOSED TO OUR MEMBERSHIP IN NATO.
I THINK MOST AMERICANS WOULD A DEGREE IT'S A GOOD THING WE ENTERED THE WAR, STAYED WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND DEFEATED COMMUNISM BUT THAT NEVER WENT AWAY AND I SEE THIS BOILING UP AGAIN IN THE SYRIA DEBATE.
I THINK A LOT OF REPUBLICANS HAVE SINCERE CONCERNS AND THEY'RE GENUINE ABOUT THE CONFIDENCE OF THE COMMANDER OF CHIEF, THE JOB THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WITH ASAD.
BUT THERE'S A SECOND LINE THAT SAYS THE PRESIDENT HAS NO RIGHT TO GO TO WAR WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORIZATION OR THIS IS A CIVIL WAR IN WHICH WE HAVE NO INTEREST IN WHO WINS AND THOSE REALLY ARE KIND OF ISOLATIONIST THOUGHTS.
JENNA: ON THAT AND JUST FOR REVIEW, ISOLATIONISM IS A POLICY OF NOT PARTICIPATING, RIGHT? AND FOREIGN EVENTS.
THAT'S ONE OF THE GENERAL WAYS TO DESCRIBE IT.
WOULD IT AFFECT THE WAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TRULY FEEL NOW? IT'S NOT JUST A POLITICAL PLATFORM BUT IT'S THE WAY THAT AMERICANS THEMSELVES ARE FEELING AT THIS TIME.
>> AND IN FACT, I THINK A LOT OF -- THERE'S A LOT OF OPINION POLLING THAT BEARS THAT OUT.
HENRY KISSINGER SAID THAT AMERICA GOES BETWEEN PERIODS OF OVERCOMMITMENT AND PERIODS OF ISOLATIONISM.
IF YOU CAN SAY THE LAST 10 YEARS WAS OVERCOMMITMENT, WE'RE NOW OVERREACTING TO THAT WITH THE ISOLATIONISM.
NOTHING THAT HAPPENS IN SYRIA MATTERS TO US BUT A PIECE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS DOESN'T MATTER TO US.
IF THE SIGNAL SENDS THE PEOPLE IN PLACES LIKE TEHRAN, IT SHOULD MATTER WHEN THE UNITED STATES, WHEN AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT SAYS THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES AND THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES.
JENNA: HAVE OUR ACTIONS, OR LACK THEREOF, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN OR WHATEVER ALREADY SHOWN EVIDENCE OF AN ISOLATIONIST POLICY THAT'S IN THE WORKS? >> AND I THINK THE BIGGEST ISOLATIONIST TODAY IS BARACK OBAMA.
WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT NATION BUILDING AT HOME, HE CREATES A FALSE PSYCHOLOGY BETWEEN WHAT WE DO ABROAD AND WHAT WE DO AT HOME.
OUR INVEST NMENT GLOBAL SECURITY IS SOMEHOW TAKING THINGS AWAY FROM US HERE.
JENNA: YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT ALL THE TIME WHEN IT COMES TO MONEY.
>> RIGHT.
EXACTLY.
IF ONLY WE WEREN'T SPENDING OUR TRIVIAL AMOUNTS OF FOREIGN AID, WE WOULDN'T HAVE A DEFICIT.
THE MEAN WE HAVE HUGE DEB DEFICITS, WE HAVE HUGE ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS.
JENNA: WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THESE THINGS AS COMPLETELY LINKED.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT NATION BUILDING AT HOME, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SYRIA AND IRAN AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS HAPPENING OUTSIDE THE BORDERS.
>> WE WANT A WORD THAT IS CONDUCIVE TO FREE TRADE, TO AMERICAN SECURITY AND AMERICAN VALUES.
THAT BENEFITS US AT HOME AND THE IDEA IS THAT SOMEHOW IF WE PAY MORE ATTENTION TO, SAY, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE OR PAY LESS ATTENTION TO SYRIA, MORE ATTENTION TO INFRASTRUCTURE, THAT'S A FALSE PSYCHOLOGY.
JENNA: AND AT THIS TIME, THERE'S NO EVIDENCE AT THIS MOMENT WHERE THAT IS BEING TRUE.
WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME GOING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL SESSION WHERE WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LOT ABOUT THE DEBT AND THE DEFICIT NOW BEING DOMINATED BY DISCUSSIONS OF SYRIA.
I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF CREDIBILITY BECAUSE OUR VIEWERS ARE HEARING A LOT OF IT FROM THE PRESIDENT, FROM SENATOR KERRY, FROM OUR SENATORS THAT OUR CREDIBILITY IS COMPLETELY ON THE LINE.
IS IT? >> I TOTALLY ACCEPT THE CRITICS OF THE PRESIDENT WHO ARE LOOKING AT THIS GUY WHO HAS TRASHED AMERICAN INCREDIBILITY WHO HAS LET ONE RED LINE AFTER ANOTHER BEING ERODED AND ERASED.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, AS A COLLEAGUE OF MINE PUT IT, DONALD RUMSFELD, YOU GO TO THE WAR WITH THE PRESIDENT YOU HAVE.
WE'RE NOT ONLY INTERESTED IN WHAT HAPPENS IN SYRIA.
REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY.
ONE DAY WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND WE'LL RUDE THE DAY THAT OBAMA WENT TO ASK PERMISSION FOR STUFF LIKE THAT.
JENNA: SO YOU THINK THE REPUBLICANS NEED TO GET IN LINE.
>> I THINK THE OPPOSITION WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THE UNITED STATES.
JON: SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASAD'S BLUNT WARNING FOR THE UNITED
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