michael crowley had a good piece in "time," how we went into bengha benghazi, we are americans, we have to do this but then you have republicans like john mccain and marco rubio saying we need bigger measures, we need to go in hard and attack assets in syria and across the region. >> let's focus on the president, manu. peter is right, the american people are with the president when he says no combat troops no, big military interventions in the middle east but pretty much anywhere in the world. except they don't support what he's doing otherwise. look at the nbc/"wall street journal" poll this past week. how is the president degree with russia and ukraine, 23% is his highest mark, civil war in syria, 18, israel and hamas, the border crisis 11%. few months back we thought foreign policy was his strong suit. >> ran on that in 2012, that was his calling card taking pair of billi osama bin laden. the second term is kick dictate events outside of his control. in a lot of ways the white house seems powerless to deal with this, hurting his approval ratin ratings, what is putting the senate at r