CNAS conference hits (VI): Bing West blasts Bob Kaplan and Marc Lynch
One of the great things about CNAS conferences is you get different viewpoints and smart audiences. After the talks by Kaplan and Lynch at the sponsors’ breakfast, Francis “Bing” West, who was sitting near me, said he found them wildly over optimistic about the next several decades, which he thinks will be dominated by the ...
One of the great things about CNAS conferences is you get different viewpoints and smart audiences. After the talks by Kaplan and Lynch at the sponsors' breakfast, Francis "Bing" West, who was sitting near me, said he found them wildly over optimistic about the next several decades, which he thinks will be dominated by the proliferation of nuclear weaponry. But let him tell it his own way: "That was insane. The lesson of Libya is, Get a nuclear weapon and tell everyone to go fuck themselves. Qaddafi got rid of his nukes and we said, 'OK, you're out of there.'"
One of the great things about CNAS conferences is you get different viewpoints and smart audiences. After the talks by Kaplan and Lynch at the sponsors’ breakfast, Francis “Bing” West, who was sitting near me, said he found them wildly over optimistic about the next several decades, which he thinks will be dominated by the proliferation of nuclear weaponry. But let him tell it his own way: “That was insane. The lesson of Libya is, Get a nuclear weapon and tell everyone to go fuck themselves. Qaddafi got rid of his nukes and we said, ‘OK, you’re out of there.'”
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