Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
Just out: The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr.
The author, who was a senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, sheds light “on the heated infighting within the Obama administration, particularly between the White House and the State Department,” the New York Times reports.
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