Tuesday 17 November 2015
Photo, left: "NATO member Turkey supports Islamic State Terrorists - Rally against Turkish attacks against Kurds fighting Islamic State"
JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, CNBC senior advisor; & Cumulus Media radio
Hour One
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block A: Robert Costa, Washington Post, in re: LK: The GOP must stand shoulder to shoulder with Hollande – a brave man who needs help. Obama says that his "plan' is working, which everyone sees is absurd. / RC: I've been on the Hill all day; still speaking of refugees, but a lot of sympathy for Hollande. LK: The individual candidates have the leadership platform to say what each would do were he president. Second draw up a plan to destroy ISIS. We can – we already have 3,000 troops on the ground; need a coalition of NATO forces to assemble a successful army and go and destroy ISIS. Sen Lindsay Graham is perhaps the best-prepared to speak for the Party in this matter, Bobby Jindal left the race tonight; Graham is still in because of his focus on national security. . . . A govt funding bill next month will put pressure on Ryan. LK: Need a new war resolution; the 1002 version is stil extant but needs to be updated. Graham: need 100K on the ground in a grand coalition; US has 3K now and needs to have a total of 10K. ISIS may be good terrorists but they're lousy soldiers. We can knock them down – someone needs to say this calmly and lay out the necessary following steps; and say, our president is not doing this and we can.
Jindal suspends presidential campaign: ‘This is not my time’ The LA governor said he had “come to the realization that this is not my time.” ; From sober to bellicose, Republicans differ in tone on terror threat The return of national security to the campaign shows differences in pitch and attitude among GOP candidates. ; Republican governors and candidates move to keep Muslim migrants out After the Paris terror attacks, two dozen states declare they don’t want any more Syrian refugees.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block B: Robert Costa, Washington Post, in re: Chas Schumer of NY speaking out for a "pause" in US reception of Syrian refugees. Multiple governors agree; even New Hampshire governor, Maggie Hassan*, does. Why the wave? Because of polls that show popular sentiment. In Connecticut, a blue state, voters oppose 2-to-1 receiving Syrian refugees. . . . Statements by Comey and colleagues say to Congress: there will be attacks here. As for an ongoing battle, uneasiness. Obama has not called a NATO meeting, or a UN Security Council Meeting – nothing. *Margaret Wood Hassan. In Arabic, the surname Hassan (حسن, Ḥasan) means "handsome", "manly", "strong", "good" or "benefactor". In Ireland/Scotland, the surname Hassan is one of the anglicized forms of the Gaelic (Irish/Scottish) form of Ó hOsáin. It is to be distinguished from Ó hOisín and Ó hOiseáin (Hession and Hishon). In County Londonderry, where it is numerous, it is spelt Hassan, Hassen, Hasson, Hassin and Hessin. In Hebrew, the surname Hassan (חסן) means "cantor", or "good cantor", derived from the Arabic "good" and the Hebrew "cantor"
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block C: Mona Charen, NRO, in re: Yale University president, Peter Salovey, is among the university president hiding their faces. "A safe place" – are you kidding? There is no safe place. The young people demanding safe spaces are really refusing to hear anything that alarms them – cryptofascists. At Yale, the woman should have been punished or removed: she cursed out a faculty member in public, did not apologize; instead, he apologized pathetically – over Hallowe'en costumes. Marx may have been right: history repeats itself as farce. The University of Missouri episode saw students and faculty behaving fascistically; the all-American football: boycott foreshadowed loss of a million dollars, so the president had to resign. Dartmouth: 100 African-American and other students rampaged through the library at exams time, cursed at students who were studying. Recall 1960s – 1965 in Berkeley, People's Park - and Sam Hayakawa. Consider Paris: the reality of it hasn't penetrated the American president's skull. / Somebody has to get up and make a speech, put their foot down, and say, "This is insane." http://www.nationalreview.com/article/426990/university-missouri-yale-campus-left-fascism
Yale: In response to the list of demands issued by NextYale, a group of students of color and their allies, last week, Yale University President Peter Salovey announced Tuesday that the administration will take a number of steps to improve the campus environment in regards to race relations. Salovey directly responded to most of the demands and met the students’ deadline of November 18, though notably omitted their demand to remove Nicholas and Erika Christakis, the faculty members whose emails about Halloween costumes angered much of the New Haven campus.
Salovey did, however, announce the formation of a multidisciplinary center. The university will hire four new faculty members to address the “histories, lives, and cultures of unrepresented and under-represented communities,” he said. “Recent events across the country have made clear that now is the time to develop such a transformative, multidisciplinary center drawing on expertise from across Yale’s schools; it will be launched this year and will have significant resources for both programming and staff,” Salovey said in a statement. “Over time, this center will position Yale to stand at the forefront of research and teaching in these intellectually ambitious and important fields.”
In the meantime, he said the university will add additional teaching staff to address these topics starting in the spring of 2016. Yale will also launch a five-year series of conferences on issues of race, gender, inequality, and inclusion. Another notable addition to the faculty will be a “deputy dean for diversity,” who will create a new committee to advise the faculty about diversity issues and strategies for inclusion. For the time being, Salovey said the staff, himself included, will receive training on recognizing and combating racism and other forms of discrimination.
The university will also address diversity within the student population. Starting next school year, the program budgets for the university’s four cultural centers will double, which Salovey said will allow the centers to better address the needs of graduate and professional students. He also said financial aid policies for low-income students in Yale College will see improvements next school year, and the details will be announced soon. The students demanded more mental health professionals on staff, especially mental health professionals of color. Salovey said in his statement that the university will build on the existing mental health fellows program, as well as make a renewed effort to increase the diversity of staff members.
Another one of the demands from the students was that the administration rename Calhoun College, a residential college at Yale named after presidential candidate John C. Calhoun, who was vehemently pro-slavery. Salovey said he’s asked a senior fellow from the Yale Corporation to organize meetings with other community members where they can express their views both about names for two new colleges opening in August 2017 and about Calhoun. “In my 35 years on this campus, I have never been as simultaneously moved, challenged, and encouraged by our community — and all the promise it embodies — as in the past two weeks,” Salovey said. “You have given strong voice to the need for us to work toward a better, more diverse, and more inclusive Yale.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 1, Block D: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution, re: Vichy, France : collaboration, cowardice, disgrace. Before Pres Obama's petulant press conference in Turkey, VDH published an article . . . Hollande was a Vichy product, reluctant to deal with banlieus; but now is the patriot. Hollande in Washington will learn about how the French have a smaller naval carrier and the US has larger – but France is he muscular power and the US is the flabby power, Obama deprecated patriotism – made fun of people concerned about their country and those of their allies. LK: Were we to say that any radical Muslim who killed a Westerner would lose his life, they'd understand better. People in the Middle East don't respect the US and sure don't fear it. Obama is angrier at the GOP and Americans than at ISIS. He said: "No change" in his policies. He'll run against both the Democrats and the GOP? Americans see that the US suddenly destroyed hundreds of oil tankers – what was happening a week ago?? He expects Democrats to run on both Obamacare – ouch – and now on his foreign policy. / When Hollande goes to Moscow, meets with Putin, who's more receptive to destroying ISIS – what then? Osama bin Laden famously spoke of " Obama can always find a way not to do something, whereas Putin can always find a way to do something. Europeans seeing the dangers of no internal borders – they spend <1% on defense. Have depended on the US for 70 years. Mene mene – maybe no NATO. "Pls pls don't go into Estonia – that'd trigger Article 5."
Hour Two
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 2, Block A: Stephen F. Cohen is Prof. Emeritus of Russian Studies/History/Politics at NYU and Princeton. He is also a member of the Board of the recently-formed American Committee for East-West Accord (eastwestaccord.com); in re: . . . the new cold war excludes the US; the centers are Paris and Moscow. A multipolar world is emerging: globalization, growing awareness of nationalism, all redound to the new phase. Ukraine and Syria as foci – minor compared to the other problems. Intense relations unfolding between Hollande and Putin. Merkel has become the vanishing European leader: weakened by Greek, Ukrainian and refugee crises – and now by events in Paris, which leads back to Syria. I think a lot of what Hollande is doing is for show, but he's a major leader. Putin looks to be the man with the weapon to defends Europe – he's the hero on many minds in London, Paris and Berlin. French intelligence is regarded as the best antiterrorist intell force in Europe – had experience with Algeria, uses a lot of humint – so how did French intell miss this? Took weeks, was sophisticated. The real issue . . . Steve Cohen will speak at the Commonwealth Club in Francisco on the Ukrainian Crisis at noon on Wednesday 18 November.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 2, Block B: Stephen F. Cohen is Prof. Emeritus of Russian Studies/History/Politics at NYU and Princeton; in re: The only army that can chase ISIS and run them down is the Syrian army. If Assad goes, nothing will work. Putin keeps saying again and again: Destroy ISIS and build up the Syrian army so it can be utilized. In the US we need to stop this childish discussion that Putin errs in defending Assad. Right now, we need Assad – if he goes tomorrow, the Syrian state and army go, and ISIS is in Damascus.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 2, Block C: Stephen F. Cohen is Prof. Emeritus of Russian Studies/History/Politics at NYU and Princeton; in re: The EU is based on free border crossings, no visa, and borders are closing, We may be seeing the foundations of the end of the EU. Will Europe now lift its sanctions on Russia? . . . The US has become a sort of sulky ex-superpower, like the wife who's been left behind. Now Hollande beseeches Russia's power; how does Ukraine respond? The new cold war began 2005; and the Ukr crisis began two years ago. The political epicenter of the new cold war remains Ukraine because the nose-to-nose confrontation between the US and Russia still exists. Neo-fascists in Ukraine. Klitchko (the older brother) was mayor of Kiev, ran in a run-off vs a guy who was closely allied to Svoboda (extreme right). Minsk Accords – obstructed primarily by Poroshenko, for whom the French and Germans have no more time.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 2, Block D: Stephen F. Cohen is Prof. Emeritus of Russian Studies/History/Politics at NYU and Princeton; in re: Putin works not on a fast or slow clock, but works methodically. Such is the training of an intelligence officer. Russians now see that Putin [looks good], esp in the photo from Turkey. Two years ago, Obama pledged to "isolate" Putin – and now Obama is speaking intensely and personally with Putin. ISIS is no longer a non-state actor; it's essentially a sort of state and has an army, Has representatives – proconsuls of terror – in other countries. What needs to be done militarily: Strengthen the Syrian army to follow up; coordinate Western bombing; share intell. Recall Boston, where Russia gave the US the information before the massacre. One barometer is how the US presidential candidates are doing. Are they responding intelligently, thoughtfully, carefully, to Paris? – It's scramble the field. Monday next, 23 November, 6 to 8 PM at NYU in the Green Center – speaking with a distinguished group.
Hour Three
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 3, Block A: Lara M Brown, George Washington University, & Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, in re: Presidential candidates and their candidacies.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 3, Block B: Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, & Lara M Brown, George Washington University, in re: Paris and the Press Put Obama on the Defensive ; A Horrible Day for American Leadership
; http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/92652/how-debate-over-syrian-refugees-changed-instant?mref=home In the past few days, at least a dozen Republican governors and New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, Maggie Hassan, have protested the arrival of Syrian refugees into their states until the vetting process has been definitively vetted. While legal scholars and advocacy groups doubt that is within a governor’s authority—the State Department said Monday its lawyers were looking into it—GOP lawmakers announced Monday that there would be oversight hearings as soon as this week eyeing the stream of refugees and legislation to limit them.
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 3, Block C: Kori Schake, research Fellow, Hoover, in re: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/15/the-right-time-for-america-to-lead-from-behind-paris-france-nato/
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 3, Block D: Paul M. Barrett, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: No Nukes Is Bad Nukes. One decade ago, the U.S. was on the verge of a second, climate-saving nuclear age—and with President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (aiming for 32 percent carbon reductions by 2030 and officially enacted on October 23) nuclear ought to be booming right about now. But it’s not. Paul Barrett visits the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia to better understand what killed America's climate-saving nuclear renaissance. Read the story here: http://buswk.co/nuclearenergy45
Hour Four
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 4, Block A: Aaron Klein, Klein OnLine and Breitbart Jerusalem Bureau head; in re: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/17/isis-supporter-to-...
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 4, Block B: Aaron Klein, Klein OnLine and Breitbart Jerusalem Bureau head; in re: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/17/isis-supporter-to-...
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 4, Block C: Richard A Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re: The Common Law in the Supreme Court (1 of 2)
Tuesday 17 November 2015 / Hour 4, Block D: Richard A. Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, Hoover; in re: The Common Law in the Supreme Court (2 of 2)