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Last Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher featured a passionate debate between Cornel West, a Princeton professor who has attended many of the Occupy Wall Street protests, and Ron Christie, a Republican strategist who previously worked as a staffer for Vice President Dick Cheney. The first topic of discussion after Christie came on the panel was Libya and why Republicans were not willing to give President Obama credit for carrying out the operation.
Christie explained that before going into Libya, it was important to ask what the clear objective was, how to win, and “what is the definition of success.” Former CNN foreign correspondent Michael Ware, who spent roughly seven years in Iraq, exploded at this point and asked why he didn’t ask those same questions when he served in the Bush administration.
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