Episode 280: Why is Iraq so Important to the United States?

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Donald Trump ordered a drone strike on Iranian General Soleimani in Iraq and in the process created a potential crisis in the Middle East. What was an Iranian general doing in Iraq? The parliament in Iraq subsequently passed a resolution asking the United States to vacate at once which has led to a conflict in the Trump administration. Trump promised to get the United States out of the Middle East. This would be a good thing, and perhaps his drone strikes will have the desired--though unintended--effect after all. I avoid the constitutional questions surrounding the drone strike and instead offer an explanation of why Iraq is or is not important to the United States in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.

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0:31.5	The Brian McClainahan Show, episode 280. It's time to think locally and act locally.
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1:30.2	Happy 2020, everybody. Glad to be back here. It's been a few weeks now since I've been on the
1:35.1	program, and I'm very excited to be back. We've had a lot of stuff happen in the couple of weeks
1:41.2	that I took off. So welcome to 2020. I hope that you all have a productive
1:45.6	and happy new year and that the Brian McClainahan Show is going to be part of that. Well, let's talk
1:51.7	about the biggest issue. And I wanted to start off, kick off the new year with the biggest
1:55.7	issue that happened over the time that I was taking a little break. And that, of course, is the bombing of Iraq, which
2:03.9	I know that the attack was on an Iranian general, but let's talk about this Middle East situation.
2:11.3	I mean, look, impeachment was so last year. I mean, this was, this is gone now, as you've seen,
2:16.4	now the foreign policy initiative by the Trump administration to go after Iran, to go after Iranian leaders, and what they consider to be disruptive forces in the Middle East, has now put impeachment completely off the headlines. It's taken it out of the news cycle. We're now
2:37.3	just talking about foreign policy. And this is a big deal. And I've talked about foreign policy
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