From the state of virginia. Find a full Television Schedule online at booktv. Org or consult your program guide. Will come to our Cato Institute p. J. Orourke. We will take questions from the program and you can submit them at the Cato Institute website, facebook, twitter or youtube and use the cato evidence. We have many distinguished scholars at the Cato Institute constitutional studies, Foreign Policy, education and so on but perhaps our most distinguished scholar, at least if we can agree, it depends on what the meaning of distinguished is, our Research Fellow, p. J. Orourke. I would say ive sort of grown up with p. J. When i was in college college, National Lampoon which he edited and i remember quite a few funny bits from National Lampoon but i cant quote them because they all involve drug use, ethnic stereotypes are gender relations which are all forbidden now. He moved on to Rolling Stone where hes Foreign Affairs desk chief which is totally cool because they paid him to travel
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions
The book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. We will get to that subject eventually but the book entitled seven pillars in the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil and has become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american intention in the expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not in a failure. Maybe to caveat more often than not is too kind, and absolute failure that one except the basic lane was the stability and a better life for the people in the region. Of course once ultimately responsible for our country success for failure are the people who lived there but the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region
In terms of policy, you know, the fundamental issues were political and economic and they failed to deliver on their promises, on what people were expecting, you know, and this is this is what precipitated the rising i think significance of these religious groups, later on fundamentalist groups and later on extremist groups throughout the region, and the key problem here their rise was not just in terms of their own popularity, you know, within their borders, muslim brotherhood, 11, 12, 30 of the vote but more importantly i think they were able to dictate the parameters of the discussion in terms of the policy issues that were ongoing. You know, rise influence secular groups, nonpolitical groups so much so that they felt the need to bring religion to their own discussion, to their own sort of policies, proposed so to speak. One good example is what is happening in turkey today. Erdogan and akp have come to power in 2002 and hes been i mean, hes a politician and so successful in terms o
The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Will get to the subject eventually, but the point of the book entitled transeven and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply of the drivers entitled seven pillars. From yemen to syria iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been absolute failure. The basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the re