Andrew Cockburn, author of Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy, discusses why John Kerry’s “Secretary of State” title doesn’t mean he conducts anything resembling foreign policy; how Obama’s personal dislike and jealousy of Kerry could be holding up an Israel-Palestine agreement; and why politics has always been ugly, stupid and shortsighted – no matter what the official court historians say.
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Always astonished by your grasp of the subject, Scott. A grasp that always has your guests exclaiming, “Exactly” after you rephrase their position better than they could have said. If only you could have a wider audience. Will try to work on that.
Extraordinary lack of understanding on what is going on in the world by both interviewer and interviewee.
When are you guys going to discard the surface noise and dig into deep politics. Kerry and Obama just showed you both up. As they did over Syria….which you still don’t get.