American - Public | November 14, 1977 -
When I think of the things that Trump has done, ironically, everything is sort of - we care so much about Cuba and the Iran deal. I think pulling out of TPP is just devastating.
Ben Rhodes
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What's interesting about the foreign policy establishment critique is, you know, I think the Blob and I have more in common in some ways than people might think, but also, what I was saying can be misread.
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If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers are thinking, 'How can I get my proposal into this guy's speech?' I was just thinking, 'What does he want to say?'
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Talking and diplomacy is often seen as a concession in America, in a way that it is not in other places.
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Laos is the ghost of American military interventions past.
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There are a very limited number of people in senior roles at the White House, and time is their most precious asset.
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Mandela was a guy who didn't come in and just eviscerate the existing institutions. He sought to co-opt them. He brought white South Africans into his government.
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'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.
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One of the things you learn in government is there's a long tail to American decision-making when it comes to foreign policy. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem, pulling out of the Iran deal, pulling out of Paris, not speaking up for democratic values - the world doesn't end the next day.
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The U.S.-Israel relationship is so important.
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