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The Rich Zeoli Show

What is Happening in the Middle East? U.S. Military Hits 85+ Targets in Iraq & Syria

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Victoria Coates— Former Deputy National Security Advisor & the Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the U.S. launching retaliatory strikes against Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria. Last week, three Army reservists were killed—and 34 service members were injured—in a drone strike at Tower 22, a U.S. military base in northeast Jordan. According to reports, Iranian-backed terrorists responsible for the attack evacuated their bases after the Biden Administration signaled that retaliatory strikes were imminent. Will Biden’s military response amount to anything more than posturing? Could this lead to a larger conflict in the Middle East? Dr. Coates is the author of “David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art.” You can find her book here: https://www.amazon.com/Davids-Sling-History-Democracy-Works/dp/1594037213

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and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation and

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former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump.

0:28.3

She's Philly's own Dr. Victoria Coates.

0:31.0

Hello, my friend, thank you for joining me in an incredibly

0:33.5

busy news breaking news day. It's a heck of an afternoon rich good to be with

0:39.8

you and I know you're in high demand and you're about to be everywhere so we're getting you first which is huge.

0:46.0

Yes, yes you are and I think that this will be of great interest to your listeners.

0:52.0

It's it's a pretty momentous day.

0:55.0

All right, now we're getting different reports, but what do you know so far that is is that is happening.

1:03.0

What looks like happened were about eight strikes in Iraq and Syria, pretty much

1:08.6

that border area between the two countries. This is pretty standard stuff.

1:14.5

It's what you would anticipate.

1:16.5

And I'm pleased that they are doing something.

1:20.7

So I want to give credit where credit is due. I think the problem is that this was so heavily telegraphed.

1:27.0

It was just called on a news network, the worst kept secret in Washington, which means it was the worst kept secret in Washington which means it was the worst kept secret in Baghdad and Damascus and Tehran as well.

1:37.0

So I think I think they had the bad guys had plenty of time to move assets and personnel out of the danger zone and so we'll have to wait

1:48.1

you know for some number of hours or days to find out what what actually was destroyed but you know I think I think we

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