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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: The Iraq War changed everything. What have we learned?
Description: The Iraq War began 20 years ago – what lessons have been, and what must still be, learned from this invasion? Arthur Snell, the host of Doomsday Watch who served as a diplomat in Iraq, joins Alex Andreou to discuss the mistakes that were made, the human and cultural costs of the conflict, and the arguments surrounding a conflict which fundamentally reshaped global politics.
“There was a lot of groupthink and clustering around a set of predetermined conclusions.”
“The human losses, the cultural losses, the rise of Isis, there are so many long term effects of this war – to...