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Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions
The book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually but the book entitled seven pillars in the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and has become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american intention in the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not in a failure. Maybe to caveat more often than not is too kind, and absolute failure that one except the basic lane was the stability and a better life for the people in the region. Of course once ultimately responsible for our country success for failure are the people who lived there but the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region
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