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Did you notice? Trump just tried to turn the U.S. armed forces into his personal domestic police force
By Andrew Bacevich, President
Los Angeles Times, 6/4/20
Ever the opportunist, President Trump within the last several days has used the social unrest triggered by the police killing of George Floyd to mount an attack on the Constitution itself. His specific offense: exploiting his authority as commander-in-chief to try to convert the armed forces of the United States into a personal instrument for enforcing domestic order. Allow this effort to succeed and the constitutional order created in Philadelphia in 1787 will cease to exist.
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Too much military spending got us into this mess
By Neta Crawford & Catherine Lutz, Board Member
Boston Globe, 6/7/20
The coronavirus pandemic — and all its far-ranging societal, economic, and global consequences — are the manifestation of four catastrophes of America’s own making: An endlessly growing “War on Terror”; deepening economic and health inequalities due to declining investment in public goods; a rise of anti-democratic governance; and an unsustainable relationship with the planet we all exist on. If we recognize that this emergency didn’t appear out of nowhere, we can use it as an opportunity to imagine and build a better world.
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Trump is deploying troops against Americans, and military leaders are abetting him
By Andrew Bacevich, President
The Nation, 6/4/20
Imagine that these are difficult days to be a professional soldier serving in the armed forces of the United States. As a long-ago soldier myself, I hope they are.
That is, for the sake of our republic and for the military professional ethic, I hope that members of the officer corps are deeply troubled by the apparent willingness of the Trump administration and Trump’s acolytes in Congress to insert U.S. military regulars into situations where they don’t belong.
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The damage Trump has done this week extends far beyond America’s borders
By Mary Dudziak, Non-Resident Fellow
The New York Times, 6/4/20
Protests in Minnesota after the killing of George Floyd made the state “a laughingstock all over the world,” President Trump claimed in a call to state governors on Monday. He later pledged to bypass governors who tolerated protest, and to use the military to “dominate” American streets.
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Profits over people: Trump White House backs arms dealers
By Annelle Sheline, Research Fellow for the Middle East
American Prospect, 6/2/20
Saudi Arabia’s war against the Houthi movement in Yemen has little relevance to U.S. national strategic interests. Yet the U.S. continues to support a Saudi-led war on an impoverished country increasingly devastated by COVID. Why? The undue influence of U.S. arms manufacturers in the White House.
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PAST WEBINAR: Maximum pressure or maximum failure — America’s shrinking options on Iran
Speakers: Jarrett Blanc, Negar Mortazavi, & Barry Posen. Moderated by Trita Parsi.
Quincy Institute, 6/4/20
WATCH HERE
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19 years later — how to wind down the War on Terror
Date: Thursday, June 11
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ET
The threat of terrorism has not been defeated, nor can it ever be entirely eliminated. But have military interventions prevented acts of terrorism or, conversely, fueled them? Nineteen years after 9/11, two things are clear: The U.S. will not be able to defeat jihadist terrorist threats “over there” as long as U.S. interventions inflame civil conflicts and inadvertently contribute to the dysfunctions of the host government. Secondly, the fact that the U.S. has only been successfully attacked by a foreign jihadist once since 9/11 is mainly due to investments in domestic defenses rather than U.S. foreign operations within the Global War on Terror.
In a Quincy Institute paper released this week Steven Simon and Richard Sokolsky address these issues and demonstrate why and how the war on terror finally can come to an end.
To explore the issues, Fordham University's Karen Greenberg and the Sloan Dickey Center's Ambassador Daniel Benjamin will join QI's Steven Simon for a discussion moderated by New York Times' Eric Schmitt.
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- Party leaders: Comrade Leonid, Comrade Donald by QI President Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative, 6/6/20
- Putting America first by leading again by Elliot Silverberg and Andrew Injoo Park/ Quoted: QI President Andrew Bacevich, Stars and Stripes, 6/5/20
- Trump to Pull Thousands of U.S. Troops From Germany by Michael Gordon and Gordon Lubold/ Quoted: Quincy Institute, Wall Street Journal, 6/5/20
- Milley, America’s top General, walks into a political battle by Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, & Thomas Gibbons-Neff/ Quoted: QI Board Member Paul Eaton, The New York Times, 6/5/20
- PODCAST: Was the U.S. sleeping through China's Rise? by Ruth Morris and Laicie Heeley/ Interviewed: QI Research Fellow for East Asia Rachel Esplin Odell, Things that go boom--Public Radio International, 6/5/20
- PODCAST: Defense & Aerospace Podcast [Washington Roundtable], Interviewed: QI Non-Resident Fellow Gordon Adams, 6/4/20
- Biden resists move left on foreign policy by Colum Lynch/ Quoted: QI Deputy Director of Policy and Research Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Policy, 6/3/20
- VIDEO: The future of US-Iran engagement: Lessons for the next administration, Speakers include QI Chairman Suzanne DiMaggio, Middle East Institute, 6/3/20
- Time to fundamentally rethink what Trump means by security by Katrina vanden Heuvel/ Cited: Quincy Institute, Washington Post, 6/2/20
- VIDEO: The Age of Illusions: How to fix foreign policy, Interviewed: QI President Andrew Bacevich, Network 20/20, 6/1/20
- Leaked audio: Trump attacks “weak” governors for not calling in "military" after he hid in a bunker by Igor Derysh/ Quoted: QI Executive Vice President Trita Parsi, Salon, 6/1/20
- Gulf security: The Gulf states have no good options by James Dorsey/ Quoted: QI Executive Vice President Trita Parsi, JNS, 6/1/20
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