Why Can't the Kurds Catch a Break?

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode of Deep State Radio we journey from Kurdistan to the ski slopes of Afghanistan, from senior proms in Kabul to Iraq, from Catalonia to China. In short, Tom Ricks, Kori Schake, Rosa Brooks and David Rothkopf look at some of the most complicated foreign policy challenges the world has to offer and dish up solutions and the kind of insights upon which the denizens of the Deep State have come to rely.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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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio coming to you from the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in your nation's
0:56.0	capital, Washington, D.C. In your nation's capital today, we have Rosa Brooks of Georgetown
1:01.7	University.
1:02.8	In rural Maine, we have Tom Ricks, the author of Churchill and Orwell.
1:07.8	And in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, we have Corey Schake of Stanford University,
1:12.4	and I'm David Rothkoff at your host and I am in
1:15.6	sweltering New York City going through a very rough spell of Indian summer.
1:21.3	We go through Indian summer in New York City every single year, late
1:26.3	September, and every single year everybody is surprised by it. This reminds me
1:32.4	a little bit of the situation in Afghanistan, which is
1:36.6	where I'd like to start today, because we've been going through that now for 17 years, and periodically we have the exact same discussions, discussions
1:47.4	about the costs of leaving discussions about the benefits of adding troops,
1:51.2	discussions about the fact that the guys on the ground there,
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