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Pantsuit Politics

More Democrats and The New Rules of War (with Sean McFate)

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We discuss news coming out of the Judicial Committee and two more Democratic candidates putting their name into the presidential primary. Then, we share a fascinating conversation with Sean McFate, author of The New Rules of War about how the nature of war has shifted dramatically and how American defense strategy needs to as well.  Recommended Resources: Alabama Tornadoes Judiciary Committee John Hickenlooper Enters Democratic Primary Jay Inslee Enters Democratic Primary Compliment the Other Side: Rep. Katie Porter We are so thankful to our wonderful patrons who support the show. If you'd like to join the ranks of our faithful supports and get access to bonus content, visit our Patreon page. Thanks to our sponsors: ThirdLove and Lola. Help us find great sponsors for the future by taking this survey. Want more Pantsuit Politics? Come see us in Paducah, KY on March 9. Our book, I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening), is available! You can purchase it now - for yourself, for friends, for your representative, for your senator, for everyone! We appreciate all of you who are spreading the word about the book to your local bookstores, libraries, and social circles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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World War II is easy to understand.

0:04.0

Everybody knew what they were fighting for and why.

0:06.0

And modern wars, we don't know that.

0:08.0

Why do people go to Iraq?

0:09.0

Why do people go to Afghanistan?

0:11.0

Why are they dying?

0:12.0

And that's for having this question.

0:14.0

And I talked a lot of young people,

0:16.0

a professor I teach graduate students at Georgetown,

0:19.0

and they think that forever wars is now the new normal,

0:22.0

which is sad and tragic,

0:24.0

because it doesn't have to be that way.

0:27.0

This is Sarah from the Lett and Beth from the Right.

0:30.0

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

0:32.0

They're shouting, no insults, plenty of nuance.

0:47.0

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

0:50.0

On today's episode, we're going to run through some of the top news stories.

0:55.0

In our main segment, we're going to share our interview

0:57.0

with the authors of the new Rules of War, Sean McFate.

1:00.0

And it closed out, we'll be talking about what's on our mind outside politics.

1:03.0

Before we get started, we have an event this Saturday in my hometown

1:07.0

of Paduka Kinteki at the Macracken County Public Library.

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