Trump's Improvisational Foreign Policy
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the Syrian air strikes could affect U.S. relations in the Middle East, China, and Russia.
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| 0:53.3 | It's Friday, April 7th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, April 7th. |
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| 0:58.8 | Last night, President Trump ordered a series of cruise missile strikes |
| 1:02.6 | against a government air base in Syria |
| 1:05.0 | after Assad launched a nerve agent attack that killed more than 80 Syrians. |
| 1:10.7 | On Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar |
| 1:14.9 | Al-Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent, |
| 1:24.8 | Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and |
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| 1:45.0 | No child of God should ever suffer such horror. |
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