Part of it is that you have to explain to people that terrorists are terrible people. I like it when they are killed. But they do not threaten our civilization the way Stalin did or Hitler did.
They do not have that kind of power. They are not a threat to our existence as a society. They are not the communists. They can come here and murder a few people, a terrible thing. Try to stop it. They cannot overthrow us they cannot invade us they cannot do the damage to us that the Nazis….
FRANK: There is a qualitative difference in your need to spend between protecting yourself and for humanitarian purposes or whatever for helping other people. People talk about wars of necessity and wars of choice. These are wars of choice. I voted against Iraq. That was always a mistake; that is widely known now. I voted for the war in Afghanistan, but we let it go on too long. People hate each other. CW: So the United States should stay out of those countries? CW: What about Russia and China?
CW: Some people would disagree with that. Both of them threaten their own peripheries. CW: It depends on how far across the peripheries they get. CW: Is Germany the line? Is Poland the line? Some would say Ukraine is the line. I would worry about Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, etc. I want to help those people. I want to send weapons to Ukraine. With regards to China: China is threatening to Vietnam and Japan. The most important thing we should be fully supportive of right now is Japanese rearmament.
I am ready to forgive them for World War II to the extent that they can have their own military and defend themselves. With the Taiwanese, we should make clear that if the Chinese invaded Taiwan, we would support the Taiwanese. Will they come around? Why do you want to do that to someone who is in a tough fight?
Be critical of her, differ with her, but support her. Walker has moved pretty far to the right. The economic issues are playing in our favor.
The issue will be how do we more fairly distribute the proceeds of a pretty good economy. CW: A Republican Congress would dispose of all of those in pretty quick order. Depends on whether Democrats take back the Senate, which is a possibility. Less likely the House. There are some executive powers. You can appoint strong people to the National Labor Relations Board to be fully supportive of unions. If you were still in Congress and had the opportunity to meet with Pope Francis, the current pontiff, what might you say to him?
FRANK: I would never have gotten to talk to him, but I would have told him tell that I am very happy that he has taken up the economic inequality issue. He goes further than I do. I think more highly of capitalism, apparently, than he does from what I read.
But I would encourage him to keep pushing for public policies that diminish inequality. He makes an effort to demystify these issues, make them less radical. He is a great validator of the legitimacy of those things. Gabrielle covers several beats, including mass transit, municipal government, child welfare, and energy and the environment. They have become perfect foils: two oversized characters whose wicked wits, acerbic and sometimes smug personalities, and razor-sharp tongues have added to the spectacle and high drama of American politics.
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