they were clearly people on the american side were uncomfortable about this, and george shultz was one of them, and george bush was another one who are skittish about to it of an israeli role. one of schultz is criticism which he says in one of his angst ridden discussions with charlie hill is that the problem is that we do this kind of thing, even if the president says it's miniscule and so on, it opens the door for israel to do even more. and there was of course a past history going back almost immediately after the revolution of israel providing arms and spare parts to iran. often in spite of america's disapproval. i talk about this to some extent a sort of the lead up to the a lot of pressure from israel sank let us do it, let us do it, and even menachem begin early on uses of some of his arguments, the same arguments that were used which is we can get you intelligence, we can to getting good with some of these moderates in the think this can work. just to go back to barbara's question, adding just a shred of legitimacy to this notion of moderates is the israeli argument that one o

vladimir putin that objective might be as george shultz said the other day to rebuild the russian empire. those mistakes combined with some other capital mistakes. in syria for instance, to draw a red line, and to say i can't react without getting congress's approval but right now he is willing to act without congress's approval in iraq and then steps back from the red line altogether. that sent a message to russia and others that has been unfortunate for america's so we have seen the explosion of very bad things throughout the world because the rest of the world has calculated what is happening. one more element of foreign policy, a dramatic reduction in our military capabilities. and the quadrennial review that was recently completed and reported on by a commission including president clinton's defense secretary. take a gander at that and see what is happening to our navy and our air force and our army and our nuclear capability and say to these other nations america is not here and we are not there. we can compete, we can -- shine at is investing enormously in the military including a