The Soleimani Killing Was the First Wag-the-Dog Episode of the Trump 2020 Campaign...Whose Dog Will Be Next?

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The president has no foreign policy expertise, no advisors, no morals, no scruples and he is in deep political hot water at home. So naturally, he wags the dog with an attack on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. He does it in spite of international law. He lies about it. He doesn't think through the consequences. And he survives politically. So, now you know that as this year of ever-increasing pressure on the president progresses, he's bound to try it again. What dog will he wag next? And which of the issues raised by last week's attack will have the most enduring consequences. We discuss with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law School and Kori Schake the head of the Foreign Policy and Defense program at the American Enterprise Institute...and it's not a discussion to miss. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.0	I am your host host David Rothkoff
0:52.7	and I am joined today by the two beating hearts
0:55.8	of Deep State Radio, Corey Schake,
0:59.6	runs both the Foreign Affairs and Defense programs
1:02.2	at the American Enterprise Institute.
1:04.8	Hi, Corey.
1:06.8	Hello, David.
1:07.8	And Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law School.
1:12.3	Hello, Rosa. Hello, Rosa.
1:13.6	Hello, David.
1:15.0	So here we are in the aftermath of the Solomani attack
1:21.4	and then the tensions that followed the Solomani attack and then halfway
1:29.7	through last week those seem to abate. But things lingered on, you know, some issues lingered on as one
1:38.5	might have expected that they would, including small, small debates over things like why we did it and why the president said we did it then why the president's
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