PREVIEW: LEBANON: AFGHANISTAN: Conversation with colleague Mary Kissel, formerly of State, re the fact that the UK FM has urged British citizens to depart from Lebanon for fear of war -- and how the US State Department conducts similar instances -- and wh
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel |
| 0:27.4 | with us. P and Dau Ferris, there is another way. |
| 0:31.5 | This is John Bachelors speaking to colleague Mary Kessel, former senior advisor to the Secretary |
| 0:37.0 | of State, about the report from London that the Foreign Minister David Lamme has urged British citizens to leave Lebanon as |
| 0:45.7 | soon as possible and urged British citizens not to travel to Lebanon for fear of the |
| 0:51.3 | war breaking out between the IDF and the Hezbollah gangsters who work |
| 0:56.7 | for the Islamic Republic of Iran. |
| 0:58.7 | I asked Mary how it works, what the procedure is, what the mandates are is, |
| 1:03.0 | is there a timeline. |
| 1:05.0 | Mary gives a history of how the State Department recommends |
| 1:09.0 | and helps with evacuation of American or British personnel depending on the country. |
| 1:15.4 | But most interestingly Mary then takes the Cabal example and gives what went wrong, how |
| 1:21.0 | we need to improve what went wrong by studying it. |
| 1:24.0 | Is Mary Kessel on the State Department's responsibilities and risk |
| 1:29.0 | when it gives the order for American citizens to leave a country |
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