Why are we fighting Iran?

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Cato’s Emma Ashford joins Matt to explain America’s larger (lack of) strategy in the Persian Gulf region. Guest: Emma Ashford, (@EmmaMAshford) Research Fellow in Defense and Foreign Policy, Cato Institute Host: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox More to explore: Subscribe to Impeachment, Explained on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or your favorite podcast app to get stay updated on this story every week. About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weets on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:16.9	I'm Matthew Glacias.
0:17.9	My guest today is Emma Ashford, a research fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy at the
0:22.2	Kato Institute.
0:23.2	Emma has been on the show previously.
0:25.1	We had a kind of big picture discussion about restraint in foreign policy, but with Iran
0:30.7	in the news, I wanted to have Iran to talk more specifically about American policy in
0:36.9	the region, the interconnection with oil, with everything else.
0:40.6	So thank you for coming in.
0:42.3	It's great to be back.
0:43.3	I'm not particularly pleased with the circumstances.
0:45.2	Sure.
0:46.2	Well, that's the nature of foreign and defense policy, right?
0:50.0	You don't really get in the news for good news.
0:52.4	It does make you feel a little awful, though, when you're sort of professional triumphs
0:56.1	are tied to everything blowing up.
0:58.1	Yes.
0:59.1	No, it's sad occasion.
1:01.5	So it seemed like after a ratcheting up of tensions, we are maybe stepping back from
1:09.7	the brink somewhat.
1:12.4	And so to me, that's like a good time to ask, this is like a dumb question, but it's like,
1:17.9	what is the US and Iran conflict about?
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