To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
Bombshell
War on the Rocks
4.8 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Melissa Dalton from CSIS joins Loren, Radha, and Erin to offer a thorough, if morose, update on the U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria and where that leaves Syrian Kurds. Bombshell returns to the topic of the United Kingdom which....might have a Brexit deal? The ladies also dive into the implications of recent NBA/China drama and what's going on with the impeachment inquiry, and amazingly have a disagreement about political speech by uniformed and retired military.
Links
- Cameron Abadi, "Why Is Turkey Fighting Syria's Kurds?" Foreign Policy, October 17, 2019
- Benjamin Mueller and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, "What Is in the New Brexit Deal?" New York Times, October 17, 2019
- Adam Taylor, "What Is Happening with Brexit Now? Boris Johnson's Plans for the Irish Border and the E.U. Explained," Washington Post, October 17, 2019
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Radha Ayn Gar. |
| 0:15.3 | And it has been a very busy few weeks in the foreign policy world. I don't know if anybody's been able to pay |
| 0:22.3 | attention to all of the many things, but here we are to try to recount them. Shall we start off |
| 0:29.4 | with what are we drinking ladies? I'm drinking coffee. I just told these guys, I just woke up. |
| 0:35.1 | It's 1115 on a Sunday morning. I was in Taiwan for a week. |
| 0:40.0 | My husband just said, like, I'm so sorry that you're not human yet. So that made me feel really |
| 0:44.2 | positive about how I look and how I feel at the moment. So yeah, this is going to be a great episode. |
| 0:49.1 | Really great. Yeah, I have all of the coffee that I can physically stomach because my child, children, hate sleep. |
| 0:58.1 | That's all I really have on that point. |
| 0:59.8 | They hate it. |
| 1:00.6 | I don't. |
| 1:01.8 | I'm drinking LaCroix, because I am maybe still recovering from my PourMe on the Plain party from Friday. |
| 1:08.0 | I am back in Washington for good, or at least until I get sent someplace else, |
| 1:13.5 | but I have taken all the shoes that I purchased this summer in Los Angeles and put them in a bag |
| 1:18.6 | and brought them all home. So that is... Wow. Well, not literally all of them. I had to do a previous |
| 1:24.6 | migration to really cool down my options. Anyway, I'm back in |
| 1:28.9 | Washington. We are slightly distributed this week, and we are all trying to caffeinate and hydrate |
| 1:33.6 | as best we can to bring our fair listeners. Very important foreign policy and national security |
| 1:39.1 | analysis. And to help with that, we have one Melissa Dalton with us. Melissa, hi. |
| 1:45.1 | Hi, good morning. Welcome back. We're so happy to, well, I'm happy to have you back. I'm not |
| 1:50.3 | happy to have you back to talk about what you're going to talk about, which is kind of how it goes for |
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