{"id":9176,"date":"2020-12-21T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=9176"},"modified":"2020-12-21T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:30:02","slug":"challenges-facing-the-free-world-with-h-r-mcmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/public-affairs\/challenges-facing-the-free-world-with-h-r-mcmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges Facing the Free World, with H.R. McMaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/public-policy\/search-details.aspx?showID=36567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/rokupicts\/36567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a> The United States suffers from a &ldquo;strategic narcissism&rdquo; that leads to international missteps and catastrophes, retired Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster said in a recent conversation with journalist Lowell Bergman.<\/p>\n<p>In a wide-ranging conversation, the Army combat veteran and historian discussed topics ranging from the Iran Nuclear deal, the war in Afghanistan, the Syria conflict and US-China relations.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster served for 13 months as National Security Advisor under President Donald Trump. He declined to discuss details of what that was like. He is now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. <\/p>\n<p>McMaster expressed confidence in the nation&rsquo;s democratic institutions despite the tests this year: the pandemic, the recession, racial and social divisions and extremely partisan presidential election. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/public-policy\/search-details.aspx?showID=36567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch General H. R. McMaster in Conversation with Lowell Bergman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States suffers from a &ldquo;strategic narcissism&rdquo; that leads to international missteps and catastrophes, retired Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster said in a recent conversation with journalist Lowell Bergman. In a wide-ranging conversation, the Army combat veteran and historian discussed topics ranging from the Iran Nuclear deal, the war in Afghanistan, the Syria conflict [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[825,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}