Susan Glasser
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1,391 appearances
11 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Aug
Susan Glasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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to investigate them, to be transparent, to make amends, to try to understand what happened and to do what you can to mitigate that.
The United States actually has a long experience because of all the post 9-11 wars that it fought in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and trying to mitigate civilian harm.
And a lot of what
happened when Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth came in talking about liberating the warfighters to do their warfighting was essentially saying, we don't want to have those guardrails.
We don't want to have those constraints that the Pentagon, even under a Republican president, George W. Bush, worked to create.
of minimizing civilian casualties.
You know, Pete Hegseth literally got his job by his on-air advocacy on Fox News in the first term to make sure that service members who had been accused of atrocities against civilians
in Iraq would not be held accountable.
That's how he got his job.
Donald Trump liked what he had to say on TV, and Trump actually overruled his own military chain of command, you know, largely at the behest of Pete Hegseth.
That tells you a lot about Pete Hegseth and what his attitude toward civilian casualties is, unfortunately.
Yeah, I mean, you know, the usual dribble of propaganda and, you know, sort of there was one that really caught my attention this week.
You know, one outlet calling it Donald Trump's landmark memorandum of understanding.
It's an interim ceasefire agreement that actually hasn't even proven effective at being a ceasefire because there's been an awful lot of firing, including this week, between two sides for it to actually be called a meaningful ceasefire.
More importantly, you know,
there's no sign of any meaningful progress in the follow-on talks that were supposed to be occurring in the course of the 60 days allocated in the ceasefire in which the United States and Iran were supposed to talk about the disposition of its nuclear program, supposed to talk about new arrangements for the Strait of Hormuz.
If anything, what we've seen over the weeks since this memorandum of understanding is that Iran's understanding of the memorandum is that
The Strait of Hormuz is still under its control and essentially a spigot to be turned on and off at will in order to gain leverage in the negotiations, in order to show Donald Trump who's still in control, perhaps in order to raise revenue ultimately.
But that is definitely not what Marco Rubio and others told us about the memorandum of understanding.
And I would be very skeptical, Tim,
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