Danielle Pletka

American Enterprise Institute

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Senior Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; former senior staffer for Near East and South Asia on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1992-2002)

Danielle Pletka on KCRW

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Syria tops the agenda as Presidents Obama and Putin meet at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

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