Several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we cross to could see he is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this Quincy Institute coming into being the media has commented on i was obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think of the idea itself i mean it is coming out against the endless war wars that do not need to be started in the 1st place i mean there is a need for it and im all for it i raise my hand in agreement well talk about whats problematic a
It yeah this is a good idea but im just a little worried about the fund the funding of it go ahead ted in oxford. Im not particularly worried about the sources of funding i find it interesting that 2 such disparate sources have both decided this is a good idea but that doesnt stop me from thinking that its a good idea too and looking at the contributors i see in andrew bass of each and there whos very much along my lines of sort of conservative libertarian on a lot of International Issues i see parsi from georgetown with whom i agree on almost nothing but the whole idea i would think is to have people of various points of view coming together to discuss these issues and get people outside of their echo chambers thats one to please put don ok im going to start throwing some cold war or water on it here ok you have george soros in his relationship with the Atlantic Council a very you know that is the mouthpiece of nato its star in chile anti. Russian if you look at the Koch Brothers they