In case anybody missed the point, Obama later repeated it, in slightly different form:. Was the President, in making these comments, being wholly fair to Sanders, his supporters, and his program? The Vermont senator is challenging the entire Democratic Party establishment, of which Obama, the President, is a part. By David Remnick. By Ryan Lizza. Bernie Sanders has spent decades attacking inequality.
Now the country is listening. By Margaret Talbot. John Cassidy has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since Well guess what? President Obama has made a similar case in a very famous interview in the Atlantic magazine with Jeffrey Goldberg. He talked about free riders. Umm, so on that level he and Trump have some of the same themes. There is some of the same suspicion about the U.
And so I think that as Donald Trump begins to formulate a foreign policy, it will be fascinating to see whether he really stays on the almost a maximal Obama like view of the world. Much more exaggerated. Obama does believe in alliances. He does believe in an American role. You know, reaffirming NATO.
Yes, we do care about the NATO alliance. Reaffirming our alliances in East Asia. Working with the Sunni-Muslim countries in the Middle East. And as a result of that there was something of a chaotic approach through a lot of the part of the administration.
Secretary Clinton maybe was the force of the center of gravity that, you know, where there was gravity missing in other ways. That what drones and other covert methods allow you to do is to avoid any risk of escalation because it a covert clandestine operation you have control over it and it is extremely pinpointed targeted. The end game is much harder to figure out. And that, by the way, is where I think Hillary Clinton would be more willing to have gone the conventional route though she also believed in the use of covert ah, methods.
She was not opposed to them. She approved the bin Laden raid for example. She approved drone strikes. Her issue was that she thought in some countries drone strikes did a lot of diplomatic damage and made her life more complicated. Landler: I think Flynn would argue that the threat from the Islamic state is so great, ah, that we have not done enough to degrade or demolish or destroy them. President-elect Trump has been a little bit all over the map on this issue.
He does not want to send troops into a new Middle East conflict. On the other hand, in one of the Republican debates he quoted a general as having told him that 20 to 30 thousand ground troops in Syria and Iraq would really do the job against ISIS.
And a lot of people have said of Donald Trump that he often repeats what the last person told him. He finds them useful. The question just is given this existential threat that his advisors have built around the Islamic state, will he have to go a step further.
And if he does, what would that step look like and would it, in fact, lead him into making the kinds of military commitments that he ran against as a candidate. Mosel may well have been declared to be liberated by sometime in the next few months. So you could have a sort of success scenario even bigger from the current approach to things. Things are not going particularly well. Umm, and so I would be very interested to see what General Mattis, General Flynn, and others advise him to do in Afghanistan.
The typical military recommendation in Afghanistan has been more troops. In fact, in the Obama administration the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for much of the administration was General Martin Dempsey who actually advised strongly against the no fly zone in Syria. It will depend on where their view is of where the real threat is. But a tweet and a cruise missile strike actually seem very similar. Landler : I was going to say the tweets often come in the small hours of the morning and they make journalist lives very complicated and that will be the case with cruise missile strike the difference being the stakes are so much greater.
Ah, is it as big a deal as people have acted like it is? Landler : I think it is. We hope that President Trump will continue to talk to us and the people around him will. But it is also possible he will make use of some other ways to get the message out. He can use his Twitter account to bypass all of us right, center, or left and go straight to the American public.
Landler : Continue giving me interviews? A second term, with a vindicated and mandated Trump agenda, will make the past four years look calm in comparison.
Many across the world are pinning their hopes on a Joe Biden victory on Tuesday. They believe — or hope — that a Democratic win will mean a return to normalcy. Extensive polling commissioned by HOPE not hate to examine both the social divisions and the space for finding common ground found that large — frighteningly large — numbers of voters were skeptical that liberal democracy works at all.
But if Biden wins, what then? A Biden presidency will be opposed by an increasingly radicalized GOP and a depressingly persistent, Fox News-driven, conservative media echo chamber. He has staked his pitch on restoring empathy, respect, honour, truth and decency to American politics.
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