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This is John Batch, a conversation with Ambassador Hacconi, former ambassador from Pakistan

at the U.S., now at the Hudson Institute, about the U.S. involvement in the Middle East these last

decades.

Iraq, Afghanistan, now Iran, Syria, now Jordan, Lebanon.

And Hussein reminds that it's never a simple mission.

It's always dragged in by the culture and the expectations

and the dreams and the vision and some voices.

And Iran is not likely to be different.

And then he makes a prediction.

How long will this war last?

More than Mr. Trump has time in the Oval Office.

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