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Rational Security

The "Goodbye to All That" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on the podcast, the gang wraps up the year that was 2015. What were the most important stories of the year? And what's the big story we'll all be talking about in 2016?

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Cancel any time, tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the goodbye to all that edition. I'm Shane Harris of The Daily Beast. It is Wednesday,

0:45.3

December 30th as we record this on a rainy day in Washington. We are less than

0:49.8

48 hours away from wishing goodbye to really one of like the crappiest years I can remember.

0:56.3

Oh, thank God, it's almost over.

0:58.3

I mean, really, it's just, I mean, I don't, I wouldn't really know where to begin on the,

1:02.3

my list of just crappy things that happened in 2015

1:05.0

not to me personally I feel like personally I'm fine but I'm really glad to turn the page

1:10.0

I mean I think any time you're dealing with a year whose major events include videoed beheadings

1:18.0

which seems like a lifetime ago right and by the way there were a bunch of them

1:22.3

I mean it wasn't like one ago. Right and by the way there were a bunch of them.

1:23.0

I mean, it wasn't like one...

1:24.0

Or half the entire population of a country being displaced.

1:28.0

Yeah. Yeah.

1:29.0

We could have that on the list.

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Yeah.

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And when and when you've gotten bored of mass shootings. Yeah, and Judy Dentsh died.

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