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Ep. 67: Saddam Hussein's Demise

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Politics of the Middle East Had Reached a Point of Dangerousness

The politics of the Middle East had enabled and created this massive swap of terrorism that can no longer be contained to the Mideast, he says. "We knew that this was a problem that was simply going to grow," writes Peter Bergen. The swamp could be drained only if you could fundamentally change the regimes that filled the swamp, argues Bergen.

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