I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moorersing Company,

the outspoken Dave's iron on the trials of Muhammad Ali and the fall of Alex Rodriguez,

not to mention how politics has turned the sports world upside down.

There's always so much happening in the world of sports,

and there's always so many different ways in which sports

not just reflects our lives, but actually shapes our lives.

I mean, it shapes our understanding of things like racism, sexism, homophobia.

It shapes our understanding of our country.

It shapes our understanding of corporations and what's happening to our cities. I mean, in so many different ways, sports stories are stories of American life in the 21st century.

Thanks for joining us. Let us now praise common sense. Once again, a president was about to plunge us into the darkest

waters of foreign policy where the ruling principle becomes, when in doubt, bomb someone.

Strategists in the White House, militarists in the think tanks, the powerful pro-Israel

lobby, A-PAC, and armed chair warriors of all stripes, neo-conservatives and liberal

humanitarian alike, were all telling Barack Obama to strike Syria, no matter the absence of any law

or treaty to justify, no matter the chaos to follow.

Do it, they said, to show you can.

Well, what's a superpower for?

But they hadn't reckoned on public opinion.

The people said no.

Not this time. Not after more than 10 years of soldiers

coming home, broken in body, screaming nightmares in their brains, their families devastated.

Not when our politics is an egregious fraud, unable to accomplish anything except enable the rich,

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