Richard Haas, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, gave President Donald Trump a failing grade, equating his first 100 days in office to being “the Macaulay Culkin of foreign policy.” “You have a seriously understaffed government,” the head of the independent think tank said Monday at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. “We basically have the Macaulay Culkin of foreign policy. We have a secretary of defense and a secretary of state who are home alone.” “We simply don’t get historical input from bureaucracies and you don’t get the careful oversight of implementation,” Haas went on to say.
- 5/1/2017
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, shared some sobering analysis with the panel guests on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday. He said that the Boston Marathon bombings were not merely an isolated event, but the harbinger of a new era of global terrorism with a low barrier to entry. He said that the future of terrorism will look more like the attack on the Boston Marathon than September 11, 2001.
- 4/21/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Much of Morning Joe was spent discussing President Obama's speech on Afghanistan. Joe Scarborough thought it was a "political speech" and not really an effective one, given how no one across the political spectrum seems to be happy with the plan moving forward. And since Richard Haas suggested that the overall cost savings from Obama's proposed drawdown would be very small, many on the panel were left wondering what exactly is the goal with Obama's strategy?...
- 6/23/2011
- by Matt Schneider
- Mediaite - TV
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