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Rational Security

The "Irrational Security" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Barack Obama tries to reassure the nation that ISIS is not winning. Donald Trump has a different plan to keep America safe. And John Kerry is so over the Middle East peace process. 

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and welcome to Rational Security Edition. I'm Shane Harris of The Daily Beast, feeling totally unhinged and irrational this week, you guys.

0:37.0

I'm completely off my rocker.

0:39.0

I'm so off my rocker. I'm just, I'm, you know, I I'm over the bend, unhinged, reporting by Muslim neighbors to the authorities.

0:48.0

And still so much more saying than a lot of our politicians.

0:52.0

Definitely.

0:53.1

I'm going to run for president now on that the space soon to be vacated, perhaps by the

0:57.8

Republican, the front runner.

1:00.3

I'm just the shade of less crazy than Donald Trump.

1:03.0

That's your news like it.

1:04.0

Less crazy than Donald Trump.

1:06.0

It's a low bar, people.

1:08.0

It's a very low bar, and I'm going to shimmy right under it.

1:11.0

Of course we're going to get to Senior Trump later in the podcast. Boy,

1:16.0

been quite a week, quite a week. I'm going to of course as always by my friends

1:20.6

tomorrow, Koffman, but it's a lot tomorrow.

1:22.1

Hello, Shane. And you you're feeling you're probably

1:24.3

feeling a little more rational than we let on yeah well I'll give you my own definition

1:29.1

of insanity a little later oh I look forward to that oh I look forward to. We're previewing all of our word plays here in the intro.

1:35.8

And of course, my friend Ben Wittis. Hello Ben.

1:38.4

Cheers to you.

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