Aftandilian in Al Jazeera on Presidential Forum

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Gregory Aftandilian, Lecturer at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, published a recent Op-Ed discussing vulnerabilities displayed by both U.S. presidential candidates at the Commander-in-Chief forum held on September 6, 2016. 

Aftandilian’s Op-Ed, entitled “Vulnerabilities Exposed at the Trump-Clinton Forum,” was published on September 9, 2016 by Al Jazeera.

From the text of the Op-Ed:

After a week of exchanging diatribes on whether the other candidate had the temperament and judgment to be president, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton participated in a Commander-in-Chief forum on September 6 in front of a group of military veterans aboard a decommissioned US naval ship harboured in New York.

Although the format was not a debate – each candidate in separate sessions was asked questions by the interviewer and by veterans in the audience – they tried to highlight their qualifications for the job, but couldn’t resist taking jabs at each other despite the fact that the interviewer wanted them to stay clear of such actions.

You can read the entire Op-Ed here.

Aftandilian spent over 21 years in government service, most recently on Capitol Hill where he was foreign policy adviser to Congressman Chris Van Hollen (2007-2008), professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and foreign policy adviser to Senator Paul Sarbanes (2000-2004), and foreign policy fellow to the late Senator Edward Kennedy (1999). Learn more about him here.