Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
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Housing right more at length. a key issue on the top of mind the border as is the national security as this would come in the shadow of the easter sunday of last this group which took over $250.00 lives in this country which i would argue but wrong the thing to tighten up national security and given the military history he has a strong association to do so however there are tons of baathists there are allegations that influence disappearances occurred during his term as the defense secretary on the other hand. is considered a more viable candidate for minorities but even he has spoken about how the long time medically of what this country the country is also struggling with a massive debt and the sluggish economy so it would be interesting to see who the people of this country choose to be the next president to work. out of this as well
He brought back a caliphate supposedly. he you know, the social media contributed to the brand of isis and he was the face of that brand. definitely, you know, tactician. he depended a lot on strategists, especially the ba athists to help him. however, he s not a bin laden. he considered himself among when he talks to the troops as the followers of bin laden. they say, we are the two followers of bin laden. wedge in bin laden s al qaeda, not the other al qaeda. remember the islamic state in iraq was a branch of al qaeda. it is very didn t when bin laden was killed versus when baghdadi is killed. when bin laden was killed al qaeda benefited from a deep cadre of people who had been with bin laden from even before he established al qaeda. some of them still exist until today.