We’re Living in a World Created by the Iraq War

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Reverberations of the global “war on terror”—launched by the Bush Administration following the attacks of September 11, 2001—have rippled throughout the world, taking hundreds of thousands of lives and costing trillions of U.S. dollars. This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, conducted on the false pretext that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos all spent time writing and reporting on the Iraq War and its aftermath—including from within Iraq. In our weekly roundtable, they look at the profound consequences of the war and how it has impacted today’s politics—through, for example, the rise of Donald Trump, debates over America’s role in the war in Ukraine, and widespread distrust of experts and the mainstream media. We are living in a world the Iraq War created, and Glasser, Mayer, and Osnos explain how.

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1:12.0	Welcome to the political scene. I'm Evanos, and I'm joined by my colleagues Jane Mayer and
1:17.4	Susan Glasser. This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It's a milestone
1:24.0	that can feel both far away and utterly present in our lives.
1:32.4	Susan and Jane and I have all spent time writing and reporting on the Iraq war and its legacy.
1:39.3	And this anniversary has us all thinking about the profound and in many ways overlooked effects of that war.
1:45.0	Whether we're talking about the rise of Donald Trump or the growing debate about America's role in the war in Ukraine or the widespread distrust of experts, we are living in a world that the Iraq war created.
1:52.5	So on this episode, we're going to look at how that war changed our country and the world and the
1:58.7	lessons that we might glean from it. But I want to start at the beginning
2:02.2	with each of you on where you were, what you were doing, and how this intersected with your
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