How deep is the deep state? And can a combination of bureaucratic inertia and executive incompetence keep the ship of state lumbering in the right direction?
Plus more Prudent or Paranoid!
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-was-ataturk
https://warontherocks.com/2017/02/my-love-letter-to-the-deep-state/
The President authorized a counter-terrorism raid in Yemen, which went about as well as these things tend to go. Is Trump’s counter-terrorism strategy just more of the same? Meanwhile we’re pitching in to help refugees. And Terry is trying to figure out how to talk to people without going crazy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/world/middleeast/09raid.html
http://www.aeinstein.org/books/on-strategic-nonviolent-conflict-thinking-about-the-fundamentals/
http://overduepodcast.com/episodes/2017/1/16/episode-220-the-us-constitution