A Building Crisis in American Foreign Policy: Former State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 26 March 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks about a growing crisis in American foreign policy with Eliot Cohen, Executive Vice Dean of Johns Hopkins University?s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies. Cohen, who also served as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's senior adviser, tells Morell the United States risks becoming 'erratically internationalist' by making inconsistent or incoherent choices about where it is engaged abroad. He argues President Trump represents a broad American disenchantment with the country's post-World War II role, and suggests other state and non-state actors will move to assert more control in their respective regions.

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0:07.4	Hi, I'm Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondries Podcast American Scandal.
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0:27.9	This is the Intelligence Matters Podcast with former acting director of the CIA, Michael
0:32.8	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:37.0	I think being a conservative in the foreign policy world, you understand that all the hard
0:42.7	decisions are 51-49 kinds of decisions when they're not indeed 50.1-49.9 that you know
0:50.0	the decisions.
0:51.0	They wouldn't be on your desk.
0:52.0	Somebody else would have made them.
0:53.3	But it's a murky world that you cannot fully foretell the consequences of what you're
0:58.2	going to do, and you just have to live with that.
1:03.9	To some extent, what Trump represents is a broader American disenchantment with the role
1:10.2	that we've played in the world since 1945.
1:12.8	The larger point to make here is there are certain ways in which actually he represents
1:17.1	some continuity with the Obama administration.
1:19.6	The kind of not only disappointment with but dismissal of our European allies, the desire
1:26.2	to really disengage almost completely from the Middle East, the unwillingness to really
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