be interesting to see how the candidates suggest how to do things differently. >> molly o'toole will be us for the next 35 minutes. we're talking about the 2016 candidates and national security issues. so we have lines for democrats, republicans, independents. we look forward to hearing from you. going to take a line off a piece you wrote in september after the second g.o.p. debate, the one at the reagan library. you talked about 11 candidates using much of their second debate to re-litigate the iraq war with each other, and its symptomaticow wrote of a national security identity crisis. what do you mean? >> it was interesting, after the iraq war, obviously -- i think this is particularly timely given the announcement yesterday but there was sort of a discrediting of the republican party. the republican party is supposed to be the party that is strong on defense, tend to emphasize that issue and have it be a central focus, but with the bush administration, with the war weariness of the american public, perceived foreign policy failures of the force first diplomacy second, george w. b

host: molly o'toole of defense one? there is a lot there.hought the line, we need to fight him everywhere, is interesting. how realistic is that, what is the cost, what does he mean by that? does he mean use military force, fight them in other avenues? for a new cold war, essentially. he did have some interesting -- this is the obama administration's argument, kind of counterintuitive that president is making these moves in syria as acts of desperation. not only has his economy been suffering in large part because of the drop in oil prices, as ben carson noted, because of sanctions put on russia, but that he is doing this to shore up his assets in syria. so they also suggest this is a sign that aside is losing his grip on power because russia had to step in before the government collapsed. that is a difficult argument to sustain when you start to see the syrian government going on the offensive, backed by the russian air force. also, an interesting counter to this is clinton's approach. the question was raised in the democratic debate, how w

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