This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around

the world. I'm Farid Zakaria, coming to you live from New York.

Today, on the show, Trump's major escalation. He runs most powerful general is killed by

American firepower.

His reign of terror is over.

Now, Dehran is vowing revenge, promising a crushing response, even as the world urges

calm. How we at the start of the next Middle Eastern war?

We'll explain just who was General Kassam Soleimani, an examiner the complex ties between

Iran, Iraq and America. Then we'll discuss Trump's decision to kill Soleimani, the consequences

in the Middle East and beyond. I'll speak with Valinasa, Richard Hassan others.

Finally, how to get ahead in the 2020s? People say become a specialist, the research suggests

the opposite, and I opening conversation with David Epstein.

But first, here's my take.

Just what I thought I was out. They pulled me back in.

Michael Corleone is lamenting, Godfather III, about never being able to escape his family

business of crime could well be said about America's entanglement in the Middle East.

Donald Trump came into office firmly committed to the bipartisan consensus that the US had wasted

more than a decade and untold blood and treasure in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the country

had neglected its own problems like its crumbling infrastructure and forgotten working class.

In foreign policy, the consensus held, Washington should have been focused on the real challenge

of rising competitor in China. And yet, here we are a few years later, the old conflict still not

resolved, moving towards military escalation in the Middle East again. Kassam Soleimani was an

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