CSPAN3 Oral Histories Former Iran Hostage John Limbert July 13, 2024
Years, served mostly in the middle east or africa. During that time, i didnt see a lot of what you would call successes. There were not a lot of saving the world, stopping a coup, averting a humanitarian disaster , the kind of thing you might see madam secretary accomplish in her halfhour series. I was never really in that kind of position. Perhaps the opposite, trouble seemed to follow me wherever i went. I saw a lot of military mutinies, and i served in iraq, served in sudan. None of which places you would call a triumph for american diplomacy. But thinking about this, i want intell a story ...