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20 years after the invasion of Iraq

Pod Save the World

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The Infrastructure in Washington Makes That Really, Really Difficult

Peter Bergen: Trump and Obama have completely different foreign policy views. But in their different ways, they were both trying to break out some of the assumptions that I think had proved like so catastrophic. He says even when you have a president who wants to break out or those to some degree or other politicians, the infrastructure in Washington makes that really, really difficult.Bergen: A lot of people in Washington are partly subsidized by defense contractors.

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