I think the interesting question is whether Iran has reached a point where there's not all that much we can do about it. They've got too many secret sites, too far underground. We've lost the kind of coverage we needed through the various weapons inspectors. The only thing that would change would be in Iran would be if you saw the security forces beginning to refuse to kill innocent Iranians. Pakistan's got a large number of nuclear weapons, and it's well on the way to becoming a failed country. Politically, it's dysfunctional. It's ironic. Pakistan used to be the sanctuary to radicalize Afghanistan. Now Afghanistan's become something of a base to radicalize Pakistan. I don't
A year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and weeks after the presence of a Chinese spy balloon led U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to put off his Beijing visit, Kara and Nayeema talk about where the U.S. stands in the world and whether President Biden has the global coalition and momentum he claims. These are great questions for our guest today, Richard Haass. The foreign policy expert helms the Council on Foreign Relations and has had a long career in the Carter, Reagan and both Bush administrations as well as beyond working on intractable challenges from Northern Ireland to Iraq. Kara asks him why America’s global standing is on the decline, how Biden should deal with Xi and why his most recent book looks not to the rest of the world, but to our domestic problems.
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