Blame the Nerds

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It's easy to blame the pols. For the pols its easy to blame one another. (Or if you are Roy Moore, who used to be a Senate candidate in the U.S., you can blame the sinners. Or Mitch McConnell. Or Sassy, the horse. Take your pick). But when policies don't match the global situation and policy advisors don't have the courage to stand up to their bosses and countries like America end up with the White House heading one way (toward disaster) and the State Department heading another way (sometimes a different disaster), then who are you going to blame. Is it the nerds? Have the wonks let down America? Have we lost the narrative and our spines at the same time? We ask Hisham Melhem, Kori Schake, David Sanger and Ed Luce. Listen to what they have to say.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0	I am David Rothkoff and I am your host and I am joined for this episode by
0:56.2	Hisham Melham of the Anahar Daily who writes a column there. David Sanger of the New York Times,
1:02.4	Ed Luce of the Financial Times, and Corey Shockey of a beach somewhere in California
1:11.0	searching for an honest politician or something she's doing out there in the general
1:18.1	vicinity of Stanford University.
1:22.4	David as we look at what's going on in Washington these days it seems that the president of the United States in terms of his foreign policy is increasingly driven primarily, not by national interests, or by a national security strategy because Lord knows he's not even going to read this because it's 70 pages long and the last time he read a document that was 70 pages that wasn't his tax returns was possibly in college.
1:56.4	It seems to be driven.
1:57.4	I'm going to preen up.
2:00.4	That's good.
2:02.4	Yeah. That's good. That long? If you got an empire the size of Donald Trump's, you assume they're at least that long.
2:08.7	Yeah, no, that's good, David. I'm with you there. But he's being driven by the Mueller investigation. And everything he does is to, you know, as Ed said in the last episode, it's to distract from it.
2:24.7	It's to counter-program.
2:26.2	He is doing counter-programming as President of the United States as opposed to foreign policy.
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