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News, News Commentary, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Bombshell, we say nothing about Jim Comey! We recorded Monday and who could have guessed we'd be here today? Instead, we discuss recent casualties in Afghanistan and Somalia, check in on Venezuela and the French elections, and talk about the many ways one does and does not talk to friendly dictators. We also do our part to keep Costco margaritas in business. And then, in honor of Mother’s Day, we talk to our moms. You should too (your moms, not ours).

Episode Reading:

"Elite troops are being worked too hard and spread too thin, military commander warns," Vera Bergengruen, The Miami Herald
"Navy SEAL Who Died in Somalia Was Alongside, Not Behind, Local Forces," Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Revolutions Podcast, by Mike Duncan
"Facebook purges thousands of fake profiles ahead of UK election," Nick Summers, Endgadget
"Trump’s praise for authoritarians vs. his platitudes for allies," Aaron Blake, The Washington Post
"Venezuela’s leader wants to replace the National Assembly with one beholden to him," Francisco Toro, WaPo
"Mérida Escalates," Francisco Toro, Caracas Chronicles
"Tillerson calls for balancing US security interests, values," by Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee, AP
"Tillerson Seeking 9% Cut to U.S. State Department Workforce, Sources Say," Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg
"The End of Hypocrisy," Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore, Foreign Affairs
"This State Department Employee Survey Is Straight Out Of 'Office Space,'" John Hudson, Buzzfeed
"Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Reimagines the World After the 2016 Election," Alexandra Alter, The New York Times

Events:

YPFP, Conquering the Foreign Policy Establishment (16 May)
CSIS, Command Climate: The State of U.S. Civil-Military Relations (23 May)
CNAS, Annual Conference (28 June)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:13.5	Rada Aingar and Lauren D. Youngshelman.
0:16.0	And thanks for joining us for a very special Mother's Day edition of Bombshell.
0:20.0	Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there and all the mothers to be.
0:24.9	And we will have some special guests here at the end.
0:27.9	Our moms are joining us.
0:29.4	So we're going to wade through all the craziness of D.C.
0:32.9	and the foreign policy community here as per usual.
0:35.5	But then we're going to talk to our moms about...
0:37.3	And we get the insider scoop on the insiders. Like were we always like this?
0:41.6	Short answer, yes. Yes. Turns out. But also what they thought about, the Cold War and Vietnam
0:48.6	and all kinds of other things. So we have a lot to get through before we get to that special
0:53.4	segment.
0:55.6	What are we drinking this week, Aaron?
0:57.5	We are drinking one of my absolute favorites, which I like to call Costco margaritas.
1:02.6	Anybody who follows me on Twitter is familiar with my love of the Costco margarita.
1:06.9	I have to say that my dinner party circle is a big fan of the Costco margarita.
1:11.2	They are $9.
1:12.3	They include alcohol.
1:14.0	They are perfect for the summer.
1:16.4	They are not for the lighthearted, I would say.
1:18.3	They're really not.
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