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"Our Biggest National Security Problem"

David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post, offered an interesting perspective on foreign attitudes in the wake of Super Tuesday.   As he put it:

As I travel, I sense that the world has a big stake in what's going to happen [in the U.S. elections].  I’ve never seen people as angry at the United States as they are now.  In a sense, this is our biggest national security problem…

You can listen here to his remarks, in their entirety, before the San Francisco World Affairs Council.

 

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Mark Dillen

Mark Dillen heads Dillen Associates LLC, an international public affairs consultancy based in San Francisco and Croatia. A former Senior Foreign Service Officer with the US State Department, Mark managed political, media and cultural relations for US embassies in Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Sofia and Belgrade, then moved to the private sector. He has degrees from Columbia and Michigan and was a Diplomat-in-Residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins. Mark has also worked for USAID as a media and political advisor and twice served as election observer and organizer for OSCE in Eastern Europe.

Areas of Focus:
US Government; Europe; Diplomacy

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