political policy support because there are so many agendas in those things, and it's very easy to find yourselfblyi believing in the initial development of a plan and then seeing that through political pressures those implementing it stray. and then you are attached to something that maybe isn't going so well. but i would rather make a mistake doing something than make the mistake of doing nothing >> in the past, you have been very critical about u.s. foreign policy, interfering in the affairs of other countries such as iraq and afghanistan. is the u.s. sometimes unfairly targeted that it interferes in some countries and in syria, it made the decision not to go into syria. and was criticized for not doing so. is the u.s. expected to be the protector of people's freedoms, the protector of the innocent sides? how do you feel about that? >> look, i am an american and to engage in the culture of complaint about our own credibility failures is to have to acknowledge the part that we, as citizens, play and have failed on government not only the failure of the government to us and to the world. there are