Fwd: (s) 7/11, Atlantic Council (Hof): Syria: Blackberry Diplomacy
[{"sender": "Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]", "recipients": [], "timestamp": "7/11/2013 3:22:21 PM", "subject": "Fwd: (s) 7/11, Atlantic Council (Hof): Syria: Blackberry Diplomacy", "body": "---------- Forwarded message ----------"}, {"sender": "Fabrice Aidan", "recipients": ["Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>"], "timestamp": "Thursday, July 11, 2013", "subject": "Fwd: (s) 7/11, Atlantic Council (Hof): Syria: Blackberry Diplomacy", "body": "You'll find it interesting. Warm regards\nEnvoyé de mon iPhone\n\nDébut du message transféré :"}, {"sender": "GBIU-MideastNews <GBIU-MideastNews@dentons.com>", "recipients": ["Cheves, Belle", "Gray, Alex", "Mahle, Melissa", "Seche, Stephen A.", "Dixon, Timothy"], "timestamp": "11 juillet 2013 16:43:09 UTC+02:00", "subject": "(s) 7/11, Atlantic Council (Hof): Syria: Blackberry Diplomacy", "body": "Atlantic Council\n\nSyria: Blackberry Diplomacy\nBy Frederic C. Hof\n\nJuly 11, 2013\n\nA friendly discussion about Syria with a former US State Department colleague gave rise to a point |\nwill not soon forget. \"Fred, there's no time for policy deliberations about Syria or anyplace else. We\nlive in the era of Blackberry diplomacy. We react and we improvise as best we can.\"\n\nAnyone under the age of thirty reading the above would probably think, \"Why in the world is the US\ngovernment using the Blackberry?\" Those who turned thirty long before the end of the last century—\neven those of us who try seriously not to be technological Luddites—wonder sometimes if the\ncommunications revolution and the 24/7 news cycle it has spawned will end up doing more harm than\ngood to the progress of civilization and well-being of the republic.\n\nThose who have had the privilege and burden of working in the US national security establishment\nare well-acquainted with how hard it is to find time to think. This was true long before the advent of\nemail and other forms of electronic communication. Although there may have been times when\nofficials could contemplate great matters of state at something approaching leisure, those days have\nbeen long gone. Even offices created expressly to explore policy options stretching beyond a twenty\nminute horizon—the State Department's Policy Planning Staff comes to mind—routinely get pulled\ninto the maelstrom of daily struggles to manage breaking developments through some combination of"}]