A conversation with David Sanger Part II

with David Sanger

on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 * * * * *

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Part two of a conversation with David Sanger, White House correspondent for "The New York Times"

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    1. carmos  01/16/2009 01:55 AM Report

      are the links down for the 2nd part of the sanger interview.i can access other video on the site.just not this one.

    2. ShalomFreedman  01/15/2009 04:40 AM Report

      I wish this second part of the interview had been longer. Sanger knows his stuff and a survey of where the United States is worldwide, in political economic military matters is something he could give in an exceptionally good way. Here he talks about the U.S. and China, and presents the idea that the Iraqi- distraction enabled China to buy up oil rights in Africa and elsewhere, to forward its own interests globally. He sees the Bush Administration as having missed opportunities also with Russia. Sanger sees the mess in Pakistan and describes the problematic relations of our supporting a regime which does not trust us, and we do not trust either. His account of our having a special unit whose task is to seize the Pakistani nuclear weapons should the regime fall- while the unit does not really know exactly where those weapons are- suggest the difficult situation we are in.

      From Sanger's general survey we have the strong sense that Barack Obama is inheriting not simply great problems, but impossible situations which we have bungled in and made worse. The Iranian nuclear development story is a major one here with Sanger himself on the side of those, who in my opinion wrongly, would reconcile themselves to a nuclear Iran rather than take aggressive measures against it.

      Sanger has done comprehensive work. Charlie Rose is a truly informed host. As I said I wish the conversation would have gone on longer.

    3. REMant  01/14/2009 06:02 PM Report

      We not only didn't follow Bin Laden's escape, we let him go, according to some Special Forces types on 60 Mins. It is not just that Iraq distracted us, but that we tend to think only in the short-term, of tactics, not strategies, the way we do about everything else. I think the Bush admin welcomed Chinese subsidies and would not have rocked that boat anymore than was done in the Clinton admin. There has been an irrational exhuberance about the whole period since at least 1983 both in finance and foreign policy that has been fueled by the idea of keeping others in our debt, but as the old song goes, nobody knows you when you're down and out.

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