Question: senator mccain came on “new day” very strong on this. he believes that the u.s.’s credibility in the region has been hurt, that a situation like syria – that he believes there’s been delay, and it has led to a boldness by the regime there, that in egypt, that what many believe was a coup wasn’t called a coup that led to the problems that we’re seeing there now, do you think that’s fair criticism?
Answer: well, you know, i am sympathetic to senator mccain’s passion for helping people work through what is an extraordinarily difficult and heartbreaking situation, both in syria and in egypt, and these two countries are in different situations. but what i think the american people also expect me to do as president is to think through what we do from the perspective of, what is in our long-term national interests? and, you know, i – you know, sometimes what we’ve seen is that folks will call for immediate action, jumping into stuff, that does not turn out well, gets us mired in very difficult situations, can result in us being drawn into very expensive, difficult, costly interventions that actually breed more resentment in the region. so, you know, we remain the one indispensable nation. there’s a reason why, when you listen to what’s happened around egypt and syria, that everybody asks what the u.s. is doing. it’s because the united states continues to be the one country that people expect can do more than just simply protect their borders. but that does not mean that we have to get involved with everything immediately. we have to think through strategically what’s going to be in our long-term national interests, even as we work cooperatively internationally to do everything we can to put pressure on those who would kill innocent civilians.
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  senator mccain came on “new day” very strong on this. he believes that the u.s.’s credibility in the region has been hurt, that a situation like syria – that he believes there’s been delay, and it has led to a boldness by the regime there, that in egypt, that what many believe was a coup wasn’t called a coup that led to the problems that we’re seeing there now, do you think that’s fair criticism?
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  well, you know, i am sympathetic to senator mccain’s passion for helping people work through what is an extraordinarily difficult and heartbreaking situation, both in syria and in egypt, and these two countries are in different situations. but what i think the american people also expect me to do as president is to think through what we do from the perspective of, what is in our long-term national interests? and, you know, i – you know, sometimes what we’ve seen is that folks will call for immediate action, jumping into stuff, that does not turn out well, gets us mired in very difficult situations, can result in us being drawn into very expensive, difficult, costly interventions that actually breed more resentment in the region. so, you know, we remain the one indispensable nation. there’s a reason why, when you listen to what’s happened around egypt and syria, that everybody asks what the u.s. is doing. it’s because the united states continues to be the one country that people expect can do more than just simply protect their borders. but that does not mean that we have to get involved with everything immediately. we have to think through strategically what’s going to be in our long-term national interests, even as we work cooperatively internationally to do everything we can to put pressure on those who would kill innocent civilians.