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5 Oct 2022 Conversations with Tyler Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
“Bush left office, that you could possibly mess up the Middle East worse than the Bush administration. But President Obama proved that that was wrong and that you could actually take the Middle East at the end of 2008 and make it almost infinitely worse, both for American interests and for the safety and happiness of the people in the region.”
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- 5 Oct 2022
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…Everyone is tied. [laughter] In some ways, Eisenhower was deeply delusional about the Middle East, thinking that somehow there was a way the US and Nasser could become the cornerstone of a Middle Eastern order, but the consequences were not great of that mistake. I would think nobody really thought, in 2008, as George W. Bush left office, that you could possibly mess up the Middle East worse than the Bush administration. But President Obama proved that that was wrong and that you could actually take the Middle East at the end of 2008 and make it almost infinitely worse, both for American interests and for the safety and happiness of the people in the region. So, I think probably President Obama wins the crown. Does the State Department or the CIA understand the Middle East better?…
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