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[Q]: Supporters of the Syrian regime rejected any link to a chemical weapons strike. They claimed the reports were fabricated by terrorist groups in Idlib and suggested the fatalities were the result of an explosion at a supposed al-Qaeda chemical weapons factory. Russian authorities  whose warplanes are flying in support of the regime  said they had not conducted a strike in the area around the town. But the broader international reaction was vehement â and put the blame squarely on  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad .
Such strikes are a regime tactic to further demoralize the flagging rebellion. " Assad  calculates  reasonably  that military dynamics play in  his  favor. By using chemical weapons and other weapons   he  is demonstrating the powerlessness of international actors " Emile Hokayem  a Middle East analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies  told The Washington Post.
"Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people  including women and children  is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world " said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. "These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution."
It's seemingly a bizarre line of attack for the Trump administration to choose. In 2013  the Obama administration contemplated a military response after a suspected regime chemical weapons attack on rebel-held districts in the suburbs of Damascus killed more than 1 000 people. The mounting international pressure at the time compelled  Assad  to agree to eliminate its chemical weapons program.
The fact that Obama chose to back off from confronting the  Assad  regime  which allegedly used chemical weapons numerous times in the years since  will forever haunt the former president's legacy. Much of the Washington foreign policy establishment has excoriated him for it. But Trump in 2013 â then a private citizen with the same itchy Twitter finger â was opposed to American intervention in Syria.
The irony is that Trump's position on the Syrian conflict isn't that far removed from Obama's â although it's more conspicuous in its indifference to the plight of Syrian refugees. The previous administration called for  Assad 's departure  but it did little to actually push for regime change  fearing that any deeper involvement in the Syrian conflict would risk the sort of blowback and chaos that rocked Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Trump  meanwhile  has insisted on multiple occasions that he is not interested in nation-building in the Middle East or dictating regime change. His lieutenants indicated as recently as last week that the White House does not prioritize removing  Assad  from power.
[A]: A chemical weapons attack in Syria exposes Trumpâs Assad problem


[Q]: In 1992  Clint Eastwoodâs  âUnforgivenâ won four Academy Awards and sent  his  career on an entirely new trajectory.
Yes  it was a Western and  Eastwood  had made plenty of those already but  âUnforgiven â was different. It had some action but mostly it was a bleak character study and was regarded by many as âart.â Whether intending to or  not Eastwood  had become an auteur.
In the wake of this critical and artistic breakthrough  Warner Brothers â  Eastwood âs exclusive distributor for  his  entire output as a director since  his  debut âPlay Misty for Meâ in 1971 â began to position not all but most of  his  future efforts as âOscar bait.â Thirteen of Eastwoodâs next 19 films came out in the fall â the highly-treasured time of year reserved for awards contenders. The six that were not released in autumn were low achievers such as âAbsolute Powerâ and âBlood Workâ and lightweight fluff like the senior citizen buddy comedy âSpace Cowboysâ and the bizarre misfire that was âJersey Boys.â
Warner Brotherâs long term  Eastwood  strategy paid off in spades. Since and including âUnforgiven â Eastwoodâs films have been nominated for 35 Oscars and have won 12 with  Eastwood himself  walking away with four as well as receiving the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1994.
Less than a dozen people have won more Oscars than  Eastwood  and most of those were in technical categories. Not bad for a guy who used to co-star with monkeys.
Beginning in 2006 with âFlags of Our Fathersâ and âLetters from Iwo Jimaâ (shot at the same time but released three months apart)  Eastwoodâs choice of material started to change. The political content began to increase (âJ. Edgar â âInvictus â âGran Torinoâ) and although not overt it confirmed what many had known for a while:  Eastwood  was a conservative. While a moderate on most social issues   Eastwood  considers  himself  a âpragmatic Libertarianâ who eschews political correctness and  his  output in the last dozen years has indicated that  he âs an unabashed patriot.
While not a backer of most American Wars  he âs a staunch and unwavering supporter of armed service personnel  a point made with unmistakable clarity in âAmerican Sniper.â In addition to being the highest-grossing movie of 2014 and Eastwoodâs career  this throttling and unflinching bio-drama about the late Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) lit a welcomed fire under red state Middle America.  Eastwood  pulled off a delicate balancing act by crafting an inspirational  crowd-pleasing film that didnât pander while acknowledging the efforts of an American hero without addressing the war itself.
âThe 15:17 to Parisâ â the new movie about the three soldiers that thwarted the 2015 Thlys Train Attack â opens this Friday and it is the first  Eastwood  movie in at least 20 years that was not made available for advance press viewing.
Instead of hiring regular actors to portray the leads   Eastwood  cast the actual soldiers who confronted the terrorist â a bold move indeed and one sure to appeal to fans of âAmerican Sniper.â
[A]: Is Hollywood Turning on Clint Eastwood and '15:17 to Paris'?


[Q]: But one of Silicon Valleyâs most influential billionaires  LinkedIn founder and Greylock Partners investor  Reid Hoffman   received  his  masters degree in philosophy from Oxford in 1993.  He  was originally planning to go into academia  but decided that  his  desire to do nothing less than change the world would be more likely in the world of tech. Thatâs not to say  however  that  he  abandoned the lessons  he  learned.
In an interview for Business Insiderâs podcast âSuccess! How I Did It â  he  explained that  his  unusual educational background has proven quite helpful throughout  his  career.
 Hoffman  told us  his  favorite philosophers are Aristotle  Friedrich Nietzsche  and Ludwig Wittgenstein  and  he  said that studying them has proven useful in two ways.
It honed  his  critical thinking
 Hoffman  said that âphilosophy is a study of how to think very clearly â and that is useful in both investing and being an entrepreneur  which  he  said is like being âan all-in investor.â
It gave  him  deep insight into human nature
 He  told us  âI think what every entrepreneur in consumer internet is doing is essentially embodying a theory of human nature as individuals and as a group for how theyâll react to the service  especially if itâs community or network properties  how theyâll interact with each other  how this will fit in their landscape of how they identify themselves and how they communicate or transact with other people.
 Hoffman  said in a recent episode of  his  podcast âMasters of Scaleâ that  he  considers the MBA path to be potentially dangerous for entrepreneurs  because it teaches them to approach business in a safe and ordered way; by studying the essence of human nature   he  explained in our interview   he  instead had an education into how humans interact with each other and the world â  his  business education came through trial-and-error in the real world.
âThereâs almost a sense in which part of being an entrepreneur or being an investor is being an applied philosopher or an applied anthropologist â  Hoffman  said.
[A]:
Billionaire LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Says His Masters in Philosophy Has Helped Him More Than an MBA