Aaron David Miller
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716 appearances
16 recordings
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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So, no, I don't think they're doing a good job.
Again, hard conflicts.
But you need a structure.
You don't need professional diplomats.
I don't want the U.S.
Congress running our foreign policy.
And frankly, I don't want the State Department running our foreign policy.
You don't want professional diplomats, you're saying?
I said, you don't need professional diplomats.
You don't need professional diplomats.
James Baker was not a professional diplomat.
Neither was Henry Kissinger.
Those are the two best negotiators.
One I worked for, the other I got to interview for a couple of my books.
They had a sense of how to negotiate.
They realized that you need to strike a balance of interests, that you had to understand at least what the other side wanted and how to try to reconcile the two.
They were both great actors with real charisma, each in their own way, and they worked for presidents.
who knew foreign policy, Kissinger for Nixon and Baker for George H.W.
Bush, who knew foreign policy.
So you don't have that.
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