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DeM Banter: If it is all about taking care of your friends...allies...this has me scratching my bald head... http://www.upi.com / View Original / October 22nd, 2013 PARIS, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Spying on millions of French phone calls raises legitimate issues for U.S. allies, the White House said ahead of a U.S.-French meeting on the matter in Paris.Secretary of …
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DeM Banter: Interesting take on what appears to be a very real trait in what we have come to call "foreign policy." Honestly...who would not take advantage of the crisis of leadership in DC. We are on the world stage and not for the greatness of our system, but for the folly. Interesting times to …
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DeM Banter: Is this a leadership issue? A cultural issue? A training issue? A selection of senior leadership issue? All of the above? Or simply just someone (one of many as of late) that messed up? Alcohol on a TDY, I doubt he simply "turned it up" on night and got busted. Thoughts? View Original: …
DeM Banter: Crisis of leadership...vision...AND strategy...wonder what we will remember of this era 20 years from now....assuming we get better, and we don't remember these days as the GOOD 'ol day... View Original: Four Budget Practices That Are Destroying America's Defenses (Forbes) 15 Oct 13 … The United States has spent trillions of dollars since …
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DeM Banter: There are so many 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order effects of this... it is honestly hard to even track them all. A failure of leadership at the highest levels...how can any entity focus on the strategic when they can't get passed the very tactical issue of surviving and funding the day to day …
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DeM Banter: I'm pretty sure there is a better way to do business, but I am not sure this is the answer...further...a guy from CATO and another from MIT--simply reeks of the "ivory tower" syndrome. IF we were to go down this road... it would signal the withdrawal of the US from the world stage and confirm …
DeM Banter: one thing I have found most interesting...that we would have the arrogance to believe that just because we SAY the war is over... it is indeed over. Have we really forgotten that the enemy gets a vote....heck we don't even want to acknowledge there is an enemy here. Just pick up Sun Tzu …
DeM Banter: Well... this will be interesting to watch...the optimist in me is quite happy... the Sith Lord in me says IT'S A TRAP! It's a classic...good cop (Rouhani) vs bad cop (the Ayatollah)...beacuse all know bad cop, bad cop (Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah) doesn't work...even Mark Wahlberg knows that... It would seem the news of Syria has …
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DeM Banter: Couple of quick thoughts...again, this is all about choices...and it would appear this is what the majority of the American public voted for. There is no perceived threat (or at least not one the press choses to talk about) and no strategy...in that light...this all appears quite logical if we don't look much …
DeM Banter: There's that pesky thing called history again... Wall Street Journal September 19, 2013 Pg. 19 President Reagan knew that adversaries take negotiations seriously when the use of force is clearly an option. Since Barack Obama came to the White House, he has practiced an activist diplomacy. The president never met a diplomatic opportunity …
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