Fox News’ Shepard Smith put the State Department’s Jen Psaki in an uncomfortable position Wednesday. He asked her to differentiate the Obama administration’s current policy for dealing with terrorist forces in Syria from that of former President George W. Bush’s “doctrine of preemptive war.”Smith said: “The law is if you have been attacked, absolutely go after it. If you believe an attack is imminent you can sort of preemptively (sic). It was only Cheney who said you can just go kill people because you’re afraid they might kill us.”

“It looks like to a lot of international observers that’s what we’re doing. I’m not suggesting this. I’m telling you that’s what it looks like international observers, who think what we’re doing might be illegal,” he added.