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jenn and karyna are going to tokyo , for the first time, =C240 I m suggesting they stay at the park hyatt s= just in case. they have a place that will take care of them,=C24, joi ito is going to organzie kyoto for them. .

next weekend 17th in cambrdge and 18th new york. =C24> 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. .=C24, support for nusra, attacking kurds, but arming them*=A0 etc

Want to hear about last lunch. Can we move Jenn and K to Grand H=att. Closer to action, walking etc. when is Summers you and Ehud. Wh=ch date.

Yes. There is a tradecraft name for this Administration's ap=roach. "Cluster fuck". When China began building ba=es 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 =etails 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 want= 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. =t 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.Q=A0 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.

nusra, isis , al queda, jaba , hamas , the leaders a=l prefer donald wild