From today's Nick Kristof newsletter....

[Ohiogal]

“For me one lesson is again that while we think of national security threats in terms of Iran or North Korea, often the most potent threats are the nontraditional ones — climate change, drug trafficking, epidemics. We invest in aircraft carriers and nuclear missiles for national defense, but they do little to reduce these new and nontraditional threats.“

Well said.

[GeorgeGist]

1. When you're narrow-minded ...

defense means people.

[lapfog_1]

2. I will disagree with one thing

These aren't "new threats"... it's not like we didn't know about the possibilities of pandemics

MERS, SARS, Ebola, the Spanish Flu... etc.

We just stuck our collective heads in the ground and hoped it wouldn't happen again... that is all but Obama... who actually elevated the concern about pandemics to the National Security team and appointed a "czar" to coordinate between agencies.

And then Trump killed it all and fired everyone... because, apparently, if "Obama did it, I must undo it"