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History Unplugged Podcast

Henry Kissinger Used Cold Realpolitik to Create Order in the Middle East. Did it Work?

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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More than twenty years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Today’s guest, Martin Indyk—a former United States ambassador to...

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And indeed, when it comes to the least, those that came after Kissinger,

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in terms of the presence of secretaries of state and the United States,

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you're not Kissinger, you're not how to respect the constraints of the order,

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for the necessary constraints of the order that he had built.

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And therefore, the United States played an instrumental role in destroying the order,

1:31.6

that was an American-dominated order. And the most obvious example, of course, is

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Bush 43's Invasion of Iraq, which did more to destabilize the order than anything.

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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

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throughout human history that explained how and why we got here. Welcome to the History Unplugged

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