The Role of the United States in the Middle East
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Three U.S. service members were killed in Jordan this week, and now some Republicans are proposing that the United States should attack Iran. Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), explains why we even have troops in Jordan and other places in the Middle East at all, and how this is all related to the Israel-Hamas war.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYc, good |
| 0:03.0 | everyone. |
| 0:09.0 | It's the Brian Laire Show on WNYC. |
| 0:13.2 | Good morning everyone. |
| 0:14.4 | On today's show, we'll take a closer look |
| 0:16.5 | at Mayor Eric Adams' new proposal |
| 0:18.6 | for a Department of Sustainable Delivery |
| 0:21.6 | for New York City. |
| 0:22.8 | Did you hear about that? |
| 0:23.6 | Can the mayor and city council work together |
| 0:26.4 | to tame the Wild West e-bike and Mopad, |
| 0:29.0 | free for all we now have on New York City streets and sidewalks? |
| 0:32.3 | Can they do it while respecting and supporting |
| 0:34.9 | the delivery workers and maybe even making their jobs |
| 0:38.6 | and their vehicles safer for them? |
| 0:41.3 | We'll also talk about what should come next after the attack on U.S. troops in |
| 0:45.0 | Jordan. We'll have our climate story of the week as we do every Tuesday and how today's |
| 0:50.4 | generation of parents raising kids is grappling with the eternal tension over |
| 0:55.8 | how strict or permissive to be from Dr. Spock to Dr. Becky, the debate goes on and is taking new forms. |
| 1:03.3 | Parents will have a guest and take your calls later in the show. |
| 1:08.2 | But before all that, I would like to invite a few of you |
| 1:12.2 | to sign up for a short roundtable that we're planning for the show. |
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