Anonymous ID: 147217 Jan. 3, 2018, 10:56 p.m. No.239479   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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JackMatlock.com

Can we learn from experience?

"Jack Matlock is a career diplomat who served on the front lines of American diplomacy during the Cold War and was U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union when the Cold War ended. Since retiring from the Foreign Service, he has focused on understanding how the Cold War ended and how the lessons from that experience might be applied to public policy today."

Anonymous ID: 147217 Jan. 3, 2018, 11:02 p.m. No.239534   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Interesting read in reference to Monday 5pm post:

jackmatlock.com/2017/05/bacevich-on-24-key-issues-that-neither-the-washington-elite-nor-the-media-consider-worth-their-bother/#more-948

 

Bacevich on 24 Key Issues That Neither the Washington Elite Nor the Media Consider Worth Their Bother

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Jack

 

Andrew J. Bacevich has compiled an important list of the issues our principal media outlets have either ignored or given scant attention to. I could add at least a dozen more, and will if time and leisure allow. But now I would urge readers to contemplate Bacevich’s list:

 

Donald Trump’s election has elicited impassioned affirmations of a renewed commitment to unvarnished truth-telling from the prestige media. The common theme: you know you can’t trust him, but trust us to keep dogging him on your behalf. The New York Times has even unveiled a portentous new promotional slogan: “The truth is now more important than ever.” For its part, the Washington Post grimly warns that “democracy dies in darkness,” and is offering itself as a source of illumination now that the rotund figure of the 45th president has produced the political equivalent of a total eclipse of the sun. Meanwhile, National Public Radio fundraising campaigns are sounding an increasingly panicky note: give, listener, lest you be personally responsible for the demise of the Republic that we are bravely fighting to save from extinction.

 

IMO… Please read because this explains a lot