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I want to draw your attention to one of those stories that I think should be a big story

and it's just not getting talked about because there's so much other stuff we could spend

all day talking about John Federman or about Zelensky's visit to Capitol Hill and I do have

something to say more on that and other things.

I want to talk about Inbrbank, but this is a story you need to think about.

And it is a failure of foreign policy.

Look to the east. Look to the east.

Look to the east.

The Middle East.

The Middle East is an interesting situation.

I grew up over there.

You've got Bahrain, the 5th or the fifth fleet is in Bahrain.

You have Qatar, which is increasingly leaning towards radical Islam.

Have the United Arab Emirates, which is divided into Emirates, some of which have been pro-United

States.

The Abu Dhabi was more socialist, sympathetic to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but

fairly pro-America.

Oman, pretty American.

Yemen in disarray.

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