Tim Rice

I mean, one never really knows what the president's going to say.

I think if I were the president's advisors, if I'm Caroline Levin or Marco Rubio or Susie Wiles, I would be telling the president to actually take a different tack because, again, that, as you mentioned at the top of the show, that does sort of, people are immediately going to start thinking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Bush administration.

I think if I were the president's advisors, if I'm Caroline Levin or Marco Rubio or Susie Wiles, I would be telling the president to actually take a different tack because, again, that, as you mentioned at the top of the show, that does sort of, people are immediately going to start thinking about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Bush administration.

All of a sudden, disentanglement becomes 2003 and everyone's minds are made up.

All of a sudden, disentanglement becomes 2003 and everyone's minds are made up.

What I think the president could do instead, and what I do think he will likely do, is go back to the same posture that he usually takes after foreign entanglements, particularly successful ones, which is talking and describing himself as the president of peace.

What I think the president could do instead, and what I do think he will likely do, is go back to the same posture that he usually takes after foreign entanglements, particularly successful ones, which is talking and describing himself as the president of peace.

He's going to talk about all the wars that he's settled.

He's going to talk about all the wars that he's settled.

It's going to be some big number that, you know, will probably leave some head scratching saying 15 wars.

It's going to be some big number that, you know, will probably leave some head scratching saying 15 wars.

And you start counting on your fingers and trying to figure out what it is.

And you start counting on your fingers and trying to figure out what it is.

But he's going to talk about Venezuela.

But he's going to talk about Venezuela.

He's going to talk about bringing all the hostages from Israel.

He's going to talk about bringing all the hostages from Israel.

He's going to talk about how he's talking tough with Putin.

He's going to talk about how he's talking tough with Putin.

He's going to talk about peace in Armenia and all these other places that he's sort of brokered talks.