Podcast
What A Day
Gordon wrote this book in 2020, arguing against military interventionism and the false promise of regime change in the Middle East, drawing from his experiences in the Obama White House and the failings of the interventions in Iraq and Libya.
We went into Iraq with an enormous footprint and it was a catastrophe. We went into Libya with a light footprint and it was a catastrophe. And we didn't go into Syria and it was a catastrophe.
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Gordon wrote this book in 2020, arguing against military interventionism and the false promise of regime change in the Middle East, drawing from his experiences in the Obama White House and the failings of the interventions in Iraq and Libya.
We went into Iraq with an enormous footprint and it was a catastrophe. We went into Libya with a light footprint and it was a catastrophe. And we didn't go into Syria and it was a catastrophe.
The idea that the U.S. could engineer events and politics inside of these countries, pull a lever and oust a leader and put another group of people in there, we had to realize that that was beyond our control.