Episode 143: How Trump Demurred on the Kurds

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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AEI Middle East expert Ken Pollack rejoins the Remnant to attempt to make sense of Trump’s decision with the Kurds and other aspects of U.S. policy of late. Shownotes –Go to The Dispatch –The last Ken Pollack episode –Ken Pollack –LA Times column on Trump winging it –On the Trump cult of personality –Unthinkable – Ken … Continue reading Episode 143: How Trump Demurred on the Kurds→

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0:00.0	Dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, the host of the Remnant Podcast, which is
0:28.5	a product of the Dispatch.
0:46.2	This week's episode is brought to you by the online trading academy.
0:53.0	We have a returning very popular guest on this week's episode or today's episode.
0:57.4	He did a great explainer for us about what was going on with Iran and the Middle East
1:01.3	generally.
1:02.3	Ken Pollock, former CIA guy, is fair to say, right?
1:06.7	A former national security guy.
1:08.4	So it's set on my card.
1:10.4	Former Brookings guy who we at AI plucked him away because we needed a ringer on the
1:16.1	softball team is here to explain why everything is just going swimmingly in the Middle East
1:22.8	right now.
1:23.8	Ken, thanks for coming back.
1:25.8	Pretty little short notice.
1:27.5	Just a year on his assessment.
1:30.5	How is everything going since it's been 11 days in October since the phone call.
1:35.0	We're recording this on Thursday between Erdogan and Donald Trump.
1:40.8	Huge foreign policy success.
1:42.6	How would you characterize it?
1:44.7	Absolutely, John.
1:45.7	This has been brilliant.
1:46.7	I mean, you have to go back to Washington, Lincoln, maybe Truman to come up with a
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