Ta-Nehisi Coates
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
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And I actually think one of the things that we're really avoiding on the foreign policy front is the extent to which Trump is actually an extension of some of our worst impulses.
That actually might be the area
where he's most American.
Ben Rhodes has a piece that I won't quote from.
It's in New York Review of Books.
It's a review of Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.
I really am getting McNamara.
It's a review of his biography.
And one of the things that Ben, you know what I mean, was in the Obama administration as close as anybody to Obama foreign policy.
But what he comes to at the end of that is that, you know, we have basically allowed ourselves to believe that
Our mythology of good intentions was enough.
But as it turns out, around the world, they remember other things.
And I don't know that we grapple with that enough.
I think that's true.
And I think what, I think I haven't seen a polling on this, but, and perhaps I'm being too optimistic about this, but my general sense of Americans is, look, they may not understand the details of this or that.
It may not be up on, you know, what, what argument is being made for what, but
I don't think we love foreign wars in general, in general.
Now we do it, that's not to exempt the country of it.
And then like Iran is so dumb.
Like it's so, so dumb.
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