"The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend" Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

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🗓️ 2 September 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Gen. David Petraeus has a new plan for fighting ISIS. Is it smart or utterly nuts? A new article takes us deep inside the mind and menace of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared “caliph” of the Islamic State. And a new book takes us deep inside the operation to kill an American Al Qaeda fighter. Plus, in Object Lessons, ancient art and modern icons.

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0:28.0	Cancel any time, tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the enemy of my enemy is my friend edition.
0:43.3	I'm Shane Harris of the Daily Beast and here with my friends, not my enemies.
0:48.0	Not yet.
0:48.8	Not yet. The show is still young.
0:51.3	Wait, if you're my friend.
0:54.0	I haven't a friend of my friend.
0:57.0	It's my enemy!
0:58.0	That's where you're middle school.
1:01.0	I'm here with my enemies. Tamara Coffman-Widdis and Ben Wittis.
1:05.0	Hello, Shei-
1:07.0	Nice to see you again, my nemesis.
1:09.0	Nemesises enemies?
1:10.0	Nemesises is the plural of nemesis, yes?
1:12.0	I believe it is. Nemesises the plural of Nemesis, yes? I believe it is.
1:13.0	Nemesis, all right.
1:15.0	Today on the show, we're going to lead with the reference of the title of our show, which is
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