What might a New York Times columnist offer in terms of expertise on this question Policy? A four point list?
Headline: How Biden Can Avenge Navalny’s Death
Finances:
Recognition:
Dissidents:
Power:
Stephens offers the wise council of David Petraeus, on what should be done.
David Petraeus, the retired general and former C.I.A. director, had a specific suggestion: “The White House should announce the provision of the Army Tactical Missile System to Ukraine, which would double the range to approximately 300 kilometers of the missiles provided by the U.S. to date.”
David Petraeus is a political actor worthy of trust?
Headline: How David Petraeus avoided felony charges and possible prison.
On April 23, 2015, Petraeus pleaded guilty in Charlotte. The judge upped the fine to $100,000.
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For this to go away, he said, Petraeus would have to plead guilty to lying to the FBI and mishandling classified information, a misdemeanor. In the statement of facts that would accompany the plea agreement, prosecutors also said they would want to reference a message Petraeus sent to the CIA workforce in 2012 after John Kiriakou, a former agency officer, was convicted of leaking classified information.
“Oaths do matter, and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy,” Petraeus had said.
Petraeus’s lawyer, David E. Kendall, declined to comment. But another person familiar with the meeting said he described the lying charge as “a nonstarter.” The Kiriakou reference was also off the table, he said.
Both Petraeus and Stephens self-concepts are wedded, in Petraeus’ case to his expertise in Military Matters. Yet afflicted with the pleasures/alliances with a younger women, and the sharing of classified data, as demonstrated from the above quoted Washington Post report. While Stephens draws on the inheritance from Plato’s ‘Noble Lie’, as presented by Leo Strauss: although as a propagandist he is given to constructing a ‘History Made to Measure’, that is the first resort to which the Pundit Classpractices, in its many iterations.
Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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