washington babylon dot com sounds like a lot of fun he's contributing editor advice and washington babylon comest at the observer can welcome back thank you already so fast think conversation just to set up where we picked that picked it up from our previous conversation you're kind of trying to make sense of all this political kickoff anie going back and forth and in the area of trump we were saying you know there's a new cold war war is a come from is it there's a baseless is there a basis for it and you use this term the trumped arrangement syndrome which is usually we hear that you know so let's talk a little bit about that and there's that relates to the miller investigation let's pick up there what's your take on what's happening there and a little bit on that please can the more investigation to me is a very scary. investigation for a variety of reasons again i feel compelled to emphasize that i am didn't vote for trump would never vote for trump i didn't vote for hillary either i said it out i couldn't care voting for either in a tough spot because you're trying to write in a way t

of washington babylon dot com contributing editor of vice and washington babylon columnist at the observer can great to have you thank you all right now the reason we have you on that is because in two thousand and eleven you wrote a piece for salon dot com about the neo cons pushing for a new cold war and it's getting a lot of attention today it's fair looks like those wonderfully president now those near cons of twenty levon have got their cold war two point zero and so talk about a little bit get on well i mean this is really a continuation of more than a half century of. an aggressive american foreign policy we always need an enemy for a variety of reasons one is because of the enormous influence of the military industrial complex which is you know let's face it i mean if there's a war they make bucks and there is also a foreign policy establishment that deeply deeply believes in the idea of american exceptionalism which i think an extraordinarily offensive idea the idea that this country has some. principle some standing some stature that is greater than any other country on the plane