14 May

Trump's War on the Neocons

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode dives into the geopolitical implications of Donald Trump's foreign policy speech in Saudi Arabia, comparing it unfavorably to Barack Obama's 2009 speech. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Washington, Washington DC, United States

"With me, as always, Executive Editor Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Washington Commentary Columnist Matthew Connetti."

Iran

"There are some small criticisms on Iran, which we can also talk about where he talked about Iran throughout yesterday."

Syria

"on now Syria, which, of course, was the huge moment where he said he would be waiving sanctions on the new Syrian government."

United States

"This is it's just Trump kind of laying out the course of the next four years until events intervene. OK, I want to read a passage from the speech. I've come to the Middle East to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world."

Israel

"The Syrian government collapsed. Why did the Syrian government collapse in five days? Because Israel bombed Iran."

Turkey

"Syria doesn't call. There isn't a new opportunity. And the nuclear and the nuclear site that Syria took out that Israel took out in 2007. But can I jump in here? I got to say, go ahead. Also, I want to add that the migrant crisis that was caused by the the the Syrian civil war is also arguably a result of the Obama restraint."

Libya

"Look at Libya. OK, there is an example where the Obama used American power to enact regime change in Libya, but rejected any nation building after it. Result, a Libya that is still war torn, still divided."

Saudi Arabia

"So I think there are ways to point out that there are some flaws in the conceptual architecture of the speech, while also recognizing that it's not it's not like new. This is just this is just the latest iteration of Donald Trump's foreign policy. What's new is, in my view, the heavy emphasis on peacemaking that we've seen. So far in this term, I just want to just make one quick point about Syria. The Syrian government collapsed. Why did the Syrian government collapse in five days? Because Israel bombed Iran."

Lebanon

"Syria doesn't call. There isn't a new opportunity. And the nuclear and the nuclear site that Syria took out that Israel took out in 2007. But can I jump in here? I got to say, go ahead."

Iraq

"We're wrong. We may disagree, but that's just conventional wisdom. This is not an apology tour. It's a new Trump foreign policy."

Afghanistan

"There's no I mean, this is conventional wisdom now that those wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're wrong."

Qatar

"Second of all, I love the stuff about the fancy planes, like people coming over here in fancy planes. The guy is like about, the guy is about to accept a 400 million dollar Qatari plane."

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Trump's War on the Neocons

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