and president of cedric leighton associates colonel leighton welcome tom thank you thanks for having me great to have you with us. if canada had you know if it became public knowledge that barack obama was actually born in kenya and an illegitimate president and canada invaded the united states to throw him out and save us from from a bad president. would do you think that you and i would be out on the streets fighting the canadians. probably because that would be one of those situations where you know we don't want foreign invaders we have never liked foreign invaders and other people are the same way the iraqis don't like foreigners running their affairs and afghans don't like four hundred one that's where it's going. so yeah so shouldn't we say you know george aiken famously in one thousand nine hundred sixty republican senator from vermont said when a johnson when only fifty two hundred americans have died. oh well short of the fifty six thousand i think it was we know that at that point george taking over for the senate said why don't you just declare victory and go home why don

and president of cedric leighton associates welcome to the program thank you so much for being here . david i'll start with you i'm not really sure exactly where we're supposed to look amrit two are right david what's your sense on this i mean is there i have a feeling i know you're going to say but isn't there a little bit of a hypocritical stance here when we're calling our one nation and sending our tomahawk missiles and and bombs to libya but turning a blind eye to ongoing massacres in in syria and then bahrain. well if you treat the propaganda seriously then of course there is split when you greenlight saudi arabia to go into bahrain and kilt human beings in order to get their support for going into libya supposedly to save human beings here dealing with hypocrisy from the get go we we switched sides we didn't intervene we stopped army a dictator to begin arming and fighting on the side of the earth of a desired opposition and in every other country in the region including bahrain we're continuing to arm and support the dictator or our policy if it were about support for democr

air force colonel cedric leighton coming in tonight. >> thank you. >>> four pieces of salvage steel from the world trade center are in prince william county. they escorted the convoys for a brief ceremony and they will be held at the public safety training center until a design competition to determine how the piece will be displayed. the smithsonian will display more than 50 items from the september 11th attacks to mark the 10th anniversary and the national museum revealed a special display of artifacts from december 3rd until september 11th and they will be on display on tables. they will include objects from pentagon offices, a fire truck door and frag mes. >>> the much anticipated u.s. open finally underway. most are done for the day and some still out there on the course. dave feldman joins us live from congressional. i saw that lefty was spray painted all over. >> he almost hit me under a tree. i was not on the fairway. he started on the 10th shall hold and that is the hardest hole and that is a par 3 and he sprayed it in the water and took a double both. that is how he started and

retired air force and intelligence officer cedric leighton ran missions to somalia in the 1990s.erous place for u.s. personnel, he says. >> it's extremely risky because if they are captured by al shabaab or similar groups, they -- they basically face death, and it's a very, very difficult environment. they have to be very careful. >> reporter: but the white house believes al shabaab and al qaeda are now hand in glove. >> we do have intelligence that indicates that they, too, are looking at targets beyond somalia. >> reporter: when this al qaeda operative was recently killed by somali forces, the cia rapidly stepped in. al qaeda targeting plans were found with him, showing targets in britain, including eaton college. think of it all as the war on terror 2.0. >> going after high-value targets like the leadership of al shabaab, any of the similar organizations that are out there, that is part and parcel of what jsoc obviously does and really the best coined of tactic for environments like somalia. we want to stay away from getting involved in a big land war there. general david petr