The "Slippery Slope" Edition

Rational Security

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News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

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🗓️ 3 December 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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President Obama is sending 200 more special operations forces to Iraq to combat ISIS. China seems to be hacking the U.S. less. And a Taliban ally is holding an American man hostage.

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0:28.0	Cancel any time, tease and sees apply. Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Slippery Slope Edition. I'm Shane Harris of Daily Beast. It's fitting title. It is rainy today, quite
0:46.4	slippery outside. It's slippery all over it. It's slippery all over the world. And we haven't
0:51.8	seen the sun in DC in a long time.
0:56.0	It says Thanksgiving, I think. That was the last really nice sunny day that we had.
1:00.0	It's been slippery and rainy and I guess we didn't give enough thanks.
1:03.7	We did not give enough thanks.
1:04.7	It's true.
1:06.7	It's true. And meanwhile, our boots on the ground are slipping and sliding.
1:09.6	They are sliding way down that slip.
1:12.2	You thought we met Washington. No, no, no, no. We're going to get to that in the show today.
1:18.0	I'm of course joined as always one of good friends, Tamara,
1:21.0	hello Tamara. Hello, Tamara.
1:22.0	Hello, Tamara. and Ben with us,
1:23.3	Hello, Benjamin.
1:24.3	Hello, Shane.
1:25.6	It's nice to see you both.
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