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America's Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East, 2014

America’s Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East, 2014

Juan Cole

Those who suggest that the United States as a superpower is weaker in the Middle East today than nine years ago overestimate the impact on the region of the Bush administration’s frenetic invasions and occupations. Iraq and Afghanistan were off in corners of the Middle East, and the US clearly got bogged down in them […]

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