mr. solomon, i agree with you with afghanistan and the war and everything. i am surprised more people are not screaming about whyyare we over there and spending all this money. does that have something to do with oil? is there a pipeline that will be coming from the north through afghanistan and pakistan? i did hear it, but i have never heard it in the neww or anything. i ammjust wondering, is that true? guest: wars have been for a lot of reasons. others have documented, in the 1980's there was a great deal of interest from the u.s., and in the 1990's, in securing for u.s. oil interests, pipeline axis from the central asian republic to a water port in pakistan. i would not put too fine a point on that. right now, this is the war that keeps going, and is much more to start one. -pif you think about the amountf money being spent that is going around to all kind of military contractors, and let me remind you, we are organizing around the country to block the $13 billion supplemental that is now being moved to the house by the obama administration. you might rem

mr. solomon, i am a good example of someone who is a working- class democrats and not a liberal democrat. you are feeding into the terrible bashing that president obama is getting as a communist. you are absolutely losing all independent moderates for the democratic party. you are an example of making the perfect the enemy of the good. visa support the president. i wanted to vote for hillary, how about that. but i do not think that you have to -- the alternative, are you kidding me? you have to be a realist to be the president. you are also one of these people that remind me of the people being out of office. guest: i do know if you got my point. president obama with his policies is enabling and empowering right-wing populism because the white house has aligned itself so closely with wall street. when democrats but people like timothy geithner in top positions they become accessories to wall street, and labeling and strengthening the right-wing populist for electoral gains, i would say that the situation is the one lady from what you describe. these moderate policies from the administrati