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This is Deep State Radio.

Coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of

Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio.

This is David Rothkoff. I'm here in the isolation ward of the

fourth sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark because I am still struggling with

Bubonic Plague or whatever it is that I've got. And in healthier parts of the ministry,

we have Max Boot of Council on Foreign Relations,

a columnist for the Washington Post,

an author of The Road Not Taken,

Edward Lansdale, and the American tragedy in Vietnam, which is a wonderful new book, and Rosa Brooks, who is at Georgetown as we know and and part of our team here and written many

wonderful books and probably has one do that she's struggling with or hasn't

even started yet probably right Rosa correct Rosa? Correct.

So it's always a pleasure to discuss somebody's book who's finished, actually finished their book.

I know it doesn't make, it does does induce panic horror and shame and the rest of us though

Well yes, but I mean we don't have to have shot in Friday. We can be happy for Max this is a New York Times bestseller. The book has gotten

amazing reviews all around. It's a great story, a spy story, a war story, a political story,

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