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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: IMPERIAL ECHOES AND CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Description: The old adage under Atatürk was zero problems with the neighbors; now the adage is zero neighbors without problems.
You would be hard pressed to find a current member of the U.S. military who remembers a time in their service when the United States wasn't involved in conflict in the Middle East. Forty years ago this year Operation EAGLE CLAW, the rescue attempt of American hostages in Iran failed at a remote site known as DESERT ONE. Thirty years ago began DESERT SHIELD, followed by DESERT STORM. Nineteen years ago ENDURING FREEDOM began in Afghanistan and seventeen years ag...