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I Think That The Only Time We Will Really Know What Then-president Trump Is Going To Do About The Set Of Challenges That Confront Him Is After He Has Sat Down With His Advisers As The Commander In Chief, When He's Looking At The Threats And The Intelligence From The Standpoint Of Being The Number One Decider, When He's Hearing From His Secretary Of Defense, His Chairman, Who Was The Same Chairman President Obama Had, Chairman Joe Dunford, Who Is An Outstanding Public Servant, Who Has Led Our Anti-isil Effort, On Which We're Making Great Progress.

Another Longstanding Foreign Policy Flaw Is The Degree To Which Special Interests Dictate The Way In Which The "national Interest" As A Whole Is Defined And Pursued.... America's Important Historic Relationship With Israel Has Often Led Foreign Policy Decision-makers To Defer Reflexively To Israeli Security Assessments, And To Replicate Israeli Tactics, Which, As The War In Lebanon Last Summer Demonstrated, Can Turn Out To Be Counter-productive.

From Richard Holbrooke - And I Miss Him Every Day - I Learned Two Things. One, Prioritization: Never Take Your Eye Off The Longer-term Reforms. The Other Thing Is, He Was A Hell Of A Schmoozer! So I Should Take Advantage Of My Irish Love Of Beer And Gift Of The Gab, And Build Relationships. That's A Cherished Part Of The Job, Asking Someone, "how Did You Get To Be The Rwandan Ambassador?" I Try To Take Advantage Of The Fact That I Hope To Be Here At Least Until The President's Term Ends Getting To Know My Colleagues.

The Story Of U.s. Policy During The Genocide In Rwanda Is Not A Story Of Willful Complicity With Evil. U.s. Officials Did Not Sit Around And Conspire To Allow Genocide To Happen.

I Think The Point That We All Agree Upon Is That We Have To Engage With Russia.