President-elect Obama’s foreign policy shift

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“Gates said to me, ‘We have helicopter pilots who are mediating tribal disputes. They haven’t been trained for this.'” ?David Sanger

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to introduce his national security team today. The team is expected to include the current Defense Secretary Robert Gates and former rival Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state.

Joining us to talk about what these choices mean and what they signal for Obama’s national security prioirties is New York Times reporter David Sanger, who wrote the front page article in today’s Times, “A Handpicked Team for a Foreign Policy Shift”.

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