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Rational Security

The "Battle to the Death Watch" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Former Trump adviser Carter Page is reportedly the target of a FISA warrant. The U.S. launches a cruise missile strike in Syria, and maybe sends a not so subtle signal to China on North Korea. And is the Trump administration’s foreign policy “unpredictable” by design, or just incoherent? 

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

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0:22.4

So I think we've established yet again this week that you never play the Hitler

0:27.2

card. Don't play the Hitler card in analogies. Definitely don't play the Hitler

0:30.9

card from the podium of the White House Press Briefing Room.

0:35.0

I would like to point out that not too long ago I had lunch with a guy named Mike Godwin, who is one of the founders of EFF and the originator of Godwin's law.

0:48.8

Oh, wow.

0:49.8

Godwin's law, which was originally founded for use net the old bulletin board system and which

0:57.0

posits that the longer an internet comment thread goes on as the internet

1:01.7

comment thread goes on, the

1:03.5

the likelihood that somebody will invoke Hitler

1:06.5

or the Nazis approaches certainty.

1:09.1

Okay, but what's amazing here

1:10.9

is that this administration made issues out of the Holocaust like its first week in office and they just keep coming back to it.

1:18.0

I mean if you can't let it go.

1:20.0

This administration basically is a long internet comment threat so Godwin's law does kind of hold.

1:25.6

Right, no no, I think they, they're, that we have now had cause because of this administration

1:30.0

to apply Godwin's law to the White House press room.

1:33.0

And that's what happened this week.

1:34.1

So Sean Spicer, we've had Death Lodges before, now seems to be on his own Death Wat.

1:38.3

But there may be some competition.

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