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International Relations

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We're all over the globe for this show: Mexico, North Korea, the Middle East, the well of the Senate, and more. That's in part due to the news cycle but mostly due to our great guests, the WSJ's Bret Stephens, and the EPCC's and National Review's Ed Whalen. We talk military action, diplomacy, nukes (both parliamentary and real), filibusters, and more. Also, what was the deal with that Pepsi ad?

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Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
BSBret StephensEWEd Whelan

Discussion (8)

  • BD1
    George W Bush, 2000 - "I am worried about the fact that I'm running against a man who uses the 'military' and 'nation-building' in the same breath."
  • Quake Voter@QuakeVoter

    So, coming after our successful invasions and reconstructions of civil society in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, we should attack Syria, destroy the Assad regime, create a set of Alawite, Sunni and Christian states, pacify the ISIS held Syrian-Iraqi borderlands and, one must suppose, supplant Syria as the guarantor of the creation of a civil society for Lebanon.

    This is madness.

  • Mate De@MateDe

    Rob and Peter discussing Trump's business experience also reflects that they are not necessarily familar with the ins and outs of running a business. Trump's company may have been a family business, but it's not like a family restaurant it's a multi million dollar real estate business in NYC. Do you know the red tape, and bureaucratic muck that you have to wade through to get anything built in New York city? I'm sure Trump realizes that you can't just fire someone, New York is a heavily unionized state, and most construction workers are in unions and like federal employees it's not easy to fire a union employeee. Also, in business you can't always choose who you have to do business with in the same manner as anything else, also in business you also have to deal with the government and you can't just walk away from the government is a deal goes south.

    I just wanted to point some of this out because what I heard was a lot of arm chair quarterbacking. Not saying that everything Trump does is wonderful but it can't be easy to transition a new administration when the exisiting government, deep state (or whatever you want to call it), the media, etc..... is activily working to see that you fail.

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