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The World Is A Dangerous Place And You’d Be Well Within Your Rights Not To Care Right Now

Started by washingtonindependent · 9 months ago

The economy is basically writing a suicide note to the country. What’s a national security reporter to do? The first opportunity I had after coming back from Afghanistan, I went right to my bank to make sure I hadn’t lost all my savings while on the other side of the plan ... Continue reading »

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  • Joshua Foust

    9 months ago

    Spencer. The U.S. has also denied the Pakistanis shot at its helicopters. And that can happen, and the guys on the ground can be doing the shooting, and nothing must necessarily be wrong with our relationship. Normally, this is the pattern: the U.S. does what it does, the government agrees to it in private but with the understanding that it cannot support it publicly because public opinion is so solidly anti-U.S.

    That's not the say the relationship isn't strained for other reasons, but it's a mistake to assume that all discussions happen in public.
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