Episodes
Wednesday Nov 05, 2014
Diana West, Jim Hanson, Yleem Poblete, Peter Pham
Wednesday Nov 05, 2014
Wednesday Nov 05, 2014
DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on our Nation’s Character”:
- How a GOP majority in the Senate and House can respond to the plea for help to stop President Obama’s lawlessness
- The need for the U.S. government to take accountability of a failed policy in Afghanistan
- The unjust imprisonment of Sgt. Derek Miller as a paradigm of an ill-advised counterinsurgency strategy
JIM HANSON, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy’s Secure Freedom Roku channel and former 1st Army Special Operations:
- Election outcomes and their bearing on potential national security policy changes
- “A Tale of Two Sergeants” and how a drastic change is needed in guardianship of U.S. military personnel
- The administrations possible attempt to ‘whitewash’ the Bergdahl affair
- Inadvisability regarding a Navy SEAL operator revealing classified information on the Osama bin Laden raid
YLEEM POBLETE, former chief of staff of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:
- How domestic economic concerns led the way for a new conservative direction on foreign affairs
- Looking ahead to the GOP Congress fighting both Iranian influence in the western hemisphere and a proposed nuclear deal
- The prospects of resetting relations with Israel
Dr. J. PETER PHAM, Director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and author of “Somalia: Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State” (Tafelburg Short, 2013):
- Nigeria and Senegal’s effective eradication of the Ebola virus and the lessons learned
- How turbulence in Burkino Faso threatens Western counterterrorism operations in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Overeagerness of the international community to ouster Burkino Faso’s Blaise Compaore
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