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Sir Lawrence Freedman: America Confronts the Middle East
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Lawrence Freedman: Islamists Allies to Enemies
03 min 30 secLawrence Freedman situates American support for Osama Bin Laden in a tradition of United States' support for Islamists. Drawing from the politics of the Cold War, Freedman reminds us that Americans supported Islamists precisely for their religious -- and anti-communist -- zealousness.
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Lawrence Freedman: A Graveyard of Foreign Policies
05 min 58 secFreedman contextualizes American foreign policy failures in the "complicated" dynamic of the Middle East.
"History has consequences," Freedman says, and this is not "happy story but one with a lot of sadness and tragedy." -
Lawrence Freedman on the Post 9/11 White House
02 min 57 secFreedman recalls the White House post-9/11 saying "the balance of power changed" to favor the "worse-case scenario."
This shift allowed, in Freedman's view, for the invasion of Baghdad and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. -
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