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Pre-Convention Conversation: Making America Safe Without Doing Harm
On the last night of the Republican National Convention, listeners and guests called in to answer the question "what do you want a president to do to keep us safe from our enemies without repeating the mistakes of the Iraq War? "
Guests included:
- General Michael Flynn, Retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Author of The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies.
- Heather Hurlburt, director of the New Models of Policy Change initiative at New America's Political Reform program, and former White House and State Department official under Bill Clinton.
- Steve Clemons, editor-at-large of The Atlantic and editor-in-chief of AtlanticLIVE.