Antony J. Blinken, secretary of state, speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations, admits that the last two decades of national building have been a failure: “I think if we look at the last 20 years, our experiments in regime change have not exactly been resounding successes. So, I think we have to have an appropriate degree of humility in focusing in that way on a problem.”
[added 1/18/2026] Thanks to Antiwar.com for this entry.
In Grand Junction, colorado, Patrick T. Egan, a taxi driver, assaults Ja’Ronn Alex, a television news reporter: “Are you even a US citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”
NOTE: Egan took no such oath to protect the nation from peaceful immigrants. What he took an oath to was to “protect and defend the Constitution for the united States from all enemies foreign of domestic.”
[added 1/18/2026] Thanks to Yahoo! News for this entry.
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References:
Blinken says Iran had bad year, but nuclear negotiations possible | Politics News | Al Jazeera
www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/19/blinken-says-iran-had-bad-year-but-nuclear-negotiations-possible
Patrick Thomas Egan accused of attacking TV reporter, saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’ | CNN
www.cnn.com/2024/12/28/us/patrick-thomas-egan-accused-tv-reporter-attack/index.html
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