actually, that wasn't genghis khan. that must have been chairman mao. i tell you. none of history's megalomaniacs went as far as president obama did today with our precious american youth. >> i hope all of you are washing your hands a lot and you stay home from school when you don't feel well so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter. >> what kind of power hungry, subversive, fascist, communist bad guy would have our children wash their hands a lot? it's a good thing we saw this coming. >>> joining us now is mark mckinnon, former adviser to president george w. bush and senator john mccain. he's now president of the public strategies and contributor to the daily beat. thank you very much for coming back on the show. >> thank you, rachel. i'm running point out here on the partisan control and i had to blow the whistle today on the daily beast. it's insane when a united states president can't deliver a simple speech to the students of this country without everybody going absolutely berserk, and you know, i think it's bad for the country. but i al

they were acting like genghis khan. that turned the people against them. our troops, even though there have been incidents where civilian casualties occurred our troops have been extraordinarily careful to avoid civilian casualty. that is a big reason why most of the people are relatively friendly to us and hostile to the taliban. so, i wouldn't listen to a lot of simple-minded comparisons saying we are going to go the way of the red army. host: max boot 's area of study is a contributing editor to the weekly standard, "l.a. times." you see his warfare frequently in the waushl. i also have -- "wall street journal." you are a member of the u.s. joint forces command transfer advisory group. what is that? >> a group of civilians that advise one of the u.s. armed forces military commands on how to do the mission. that is a group that a number of people far more distinguished than me have been included hillary clinton when she was a senator. host: you have been on the ground in afghanistan how many times? guest: i have been there a couple of times and going bac