Philip Gordon on the brewing crisis in the Middle East

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Leading international relations expert Philip Gordon, helps decipher the complexities in the Middle East: the actions and motives of major players and why the big national security challenges and risks that we face as Americans all emanate one way or another from the region.

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0:07.0	I'm Candace DeLong, and on my new podcast, Killer Psychie Daily, I share a quick 10-minute
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0:31.0	It is perfectly legitimate to say we need to do more to stand up to Iran and if necessary,
0:37.6	sacrifice blood and treasure to do so.
0:39.3	But please, let's do it knowing what we're getting into, because there's not a cheap and
0:43.2	easy way of doing it.
0:44.2	What are the Iranian goals in the region?
0:49.7	What are they after?
0:51.7	And if we've learned nothing from the Middle East in recent years is that things can get
0:57.0	worse.
0:58.0	Do things can't happen?
1:01.4	Is a second Arab Spring there possible?
1:05.3	I think it'd be crazy to exclude it.
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