Rational Security: The “Toodle 2020-Two Doo” Edition
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 1 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
For their end-of-the-year episode of Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott took on a number of hard-hitting questions posed by you, the listeners, including:
- What did Quinta mean when she referenced "the radical political statement" of the Star Wars series Andor?
- How should we grade Biden as a foreign policy president? Has he made America credible again?
- Will recent mass shootings make Congress more open to any sort of "domestic terrorism" legislation?
- What delay tactics did former President Trump use in the courts, and what can be done to stop others from doing the same?
- Who wins, werewolf or vampire? And how?
- How would the Afghan Adjustment Act provide legal protections for Afghans who fled the Taliban in the final days of the U.S. military presence? And what is stopping Congress from enacting it?
- Why has the United States let Turkey bully Stockholm and Helsinki over NATO membership?
- How can we get Americans to care about foreign policy?
- Which Muppet does each host identify with most strongly and why?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising. |
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| 0:18.0 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, |
| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode of Rational Security for January 1st, 2023. |
| 0:42.0 | For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross-post this week's |
| 0:46.0 | episode of Rational Security. |
| 0:48.0 | A weekly roundtable podcast featuring Quinta Geressex, Scott R. Anderson, and Alan Z. |
| 0:53.0 | It's a lively and a reverent discussion of news, ideas, foreign policy, and law. |
| 1:00.0 | Today's episode is entitled Rational Security 2.0, the total 2022 due edition. |
| 1:07.0 | In the episode, Anderson, Jurassic, and Rojanstein sat down to answer some of the biggest |
| 1:12.0 | national security questions from listeners. |
| 1:14.0 | They discussed the US's failure to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, |
| 1:18.0 | if the number of mass shootings this year could lead to a new domestic terrorism bill, |
| 1:23.0 | the best way to get Americans invested in foreign policy and more. |
| 1:27.0 | This is Rational Security. |
| 1:30.0 | So I was at the gas station this morning. |
| 1:34.0 | Good in trouble, good win. |
| 1:37.0 | I was at the gas station this morning, and the gas froze. |
| 1:42.0 | Like the gas was not coming out of the popcorn? |
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