Realpolitik in the Middle East

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 30, 2015

Between ISIS, Yemen and Iran, President Obama has his hands full of conflicting interests and crises in the Middle East. Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War (Simon & Schuster, 2014), discusses the president's political strategy in the conflicted region.

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