Growing Concerns over Iran and Syria after U.S. Troop Pull-Out from Iraq
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-10-25/growing-concerns-over-iran-and-syria-after-us-troop-pull-out-iraq
New concerns over Iran and Syria after American troop withdrawal from Iraq. Options for the U.S. and E.U. to contain their influence and enhance security in the region.
Guests
Michael Rubin
resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and senior editor at Middle East Quarterly
Phyllis Bennis
director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies; co-author of "Ending the U.S. War in Afghanistan: A Primer"
Nicholas Burns
professor in the practice of diplomacy and international politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and former undersecretary for political affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Fareed Zakaria
editor-at-large, TIME magazine; host of the CNN program "Fareed Zakaria GPS"; Washington Post columnist; author of several books, including "The Post American World 2.0"
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When commentators welcome home our entire contingent (40K troops?) from Iraq in one felled swoop they assume the American public is stupid.
Many personnel will be deployed elsewhere or begin training for the next adventure. To assume we'd immediately have to provide jobs for all of them or that every military family concerned would be happily reunited is a fairy tale. Such scenarios might have been more accurate after WWII or in the Great Crusades to the Holy Lands, but our military is a tiny, mostly professional minority, and despite our withdrawals from occupations abroad most of them will remain in the active duty ranks. A draw-down is not disarmament, and a shift of violence is not peace.
(I tease katleen's worthy effort to illustrate the entrenched pov on NPR.
Phyllis Bennis was terrific today, so might not be asked back.)
Grady...cracks in the wall. Let the light shine in.
The Islamic mafia occupying Iran for the last 33 years does not represent the majority of Iranians. It represents a bunch of bloody con artists and psychopaths. Unfortunately, for some peculiar reasons some lefitists support the Islamic mafia of iran. The People's Mojahedins are unfortunately even more savage than the bloody mullahs. What Iran needs is to topple this bloody Islamic mafia and replace it with a system that respects human rights, democracy, and the separation of mosque and state. If the People's Mojahedins take over, they'll cause massive bloodshed due to their Stalinistic/Maoistic/Islamic ignorance and bararism.
Hilary and Flynt Leverett are totally clueless about the true nature of the Islamic mafia in Iran. I wonder why you seem to be siding with an Islamic mafia, which has no right to exist because it has no respect for human rights and democracy. If you had any idea of the suffering which has been imposed on the people of Iran by this Islamic mafia, you too would be against this Islamic mafia, at least, I hope you would.