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Dennis C. Blair
American
Public Servant
Born:
Feb 4
,
1947
Intelligence
People
Think
War
World
You
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
Dennis C. Blair
Inspirational
Great
Change
Smart
Be Nice
King
Past
Nice
Great Change
Muslim
Nelson
Nelson Mandela
Would
Would-Be
Find
Religious
Admire
Able
Religious Leaders
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Leaders
Been
Mandela
In The Past
Gandhi
Who
Bring
Luther
High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.
Dennis C. Blair
Organization
Value
Country
Understanding
Those
High
Attacking
Came
Were
Methods
Provided
Information
Which
Used
Al
Deeper
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
Dennis C. Blair
Good
Experience
Intelligence
White
White House
Good Place
House
Integrate
Very
Place
Much
Less
Coordinate
You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.
Dennis C. Blair
You
Other
Carrots
Some
Someone
Shaping
Sticks
Always
Get
Just
Where
Want
Things
I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.
Dennis C. Blair
You
Find
Most
Talk
Practical
Subjects
Very
Chinese
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.
Dennis C. Blair
Democracy
Enemy
Complicated
Inevitable
Other
Extreme
Those
Must
Embraced
See
Some
Slowly
Superficial
Case
Developing
Contained
Hand
Often
China
Views
Who
Appeal
Things
I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.
Dennis C. Blair
You
People
Strong
Path
Diversity
Vice Versa
Back
Broad
Visits
Find
More
More People
Know
Advocate
Dialogue
Sounds
Versa
American
Intense
Going
Middle
Vice
China
Forth
Expose
The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.
Dennis C. Blair
Military
Difficult
Consequences
Out
Rarely
Volatile
Countries
Major
Force
Effective
Quick
Controlled
Short
Short-Lived
Regions
Turns
Use
Unintended
Unintended Consequences
Military Force
Lived
Large-Scale
Right
I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.
Dennis C. Blair
World
Think
Extreme
Sections
Systems
Willing
Some
More
Economic
Take
Open
Ideologies
Around
Governments
American
Politically
Representative
Against
American Interests
Interests
Stand
Served
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
Dennis C. Blair
Good
Intelligence
Important
National
Nothing
Analysis
Independent
Relevant
Critical
Security
More
Policy
Making
Conduct
Timely
Than
Accurate
National Security
In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
Dennis C. Blair
Destruction
Nation
Addition
Criminal
Our
States
Proliferate
Weapons
Some
Deliver
Mass
Mass Destruction
Adversaries
Global
Reach
Terrorists
Private
Anti-American
Them
Means
Organizations
Include
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