145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq

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145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq

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Robert Draper, writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and author of To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, joins The Realignment to discuss the process that led President Bush to make one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history.

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Jonah Goldberg: "Suicide of the West": Michael talks with Jonah Goldberg about his book "Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy." At the time of the interview, Goldberg was Founding Editor at the National Review. Now, he is an LA Times columnist and editor-in-chief at The Dispatch. Original air date 4 May 2018. The book was published on 24 April 2018. by Book Club with Michael Smerconish
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Is "Progressive Realism" the Future of US Foreign Policy?: The American foreign policy tradition has been recently dominated by just a few ideologies: neoconservatism of the Regan and George W. Bush eras and the liberal internationalism of the Clinton and Obama administrations. Robert Wright, has helped... by Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
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145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq

145 | Robert Draper: How and Why America Went to War in Iraq

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