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jenn and karyna are going to tokyo , for the first time, I m suggesting they stay at the park hyatt so just in case. they have a place that will take care of them, joi ito is going to organize kyoto for them. next weekend 17th in cambridge and 18th new york. any chance of you joining summers me ehud etc.

major take away was that he us does not act with one voice white house pentagon, state , cia.. support for nusra, attacking kurds, but arming them etc

Want to hear about last lunch. Can we move Jenn and K to Grand Hyatt. Closer to action, walking etc. when is Summers you and Ehud. Which date.

Yes. There is a tradecraft name for this Administration's approach. "Cluster fuck". When China began building bases in S China Seas we ran "freedom of navigation" cruises. This is a technical process that describes which of the ship's systems are on and which systems are off. O orders it done, Pentagon sends over details and Susan Rice views systems on/off not as a protocol but as a menu of options. She overrules Pentagon and orders which systems SHE wants on and off. In effect, WH diluted challenge for which freedom of navigation cruises were designed. He had a foreign policy strategy that was articulated at Cairo. It is a failed strategy and he failed to change when its failure was clear. Would like to hear what Ehud thought when he first heard Cairo. Good example was complete withdrawal from Iraq (military, diplomatic and economic) followed by passive support for Maliki who then slaughtered Sunnis and made ISIS a rational alternative.