James Traub: Bush's Vision of the Middle East

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Channel: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs · 2008 · News & Politics

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George Bush had "a visionary sense that the solution is not slow, incremental reform, but a kind of radical remaking and democratic transformation of the Middle East," says James Traub. And it didn't work.
This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on October 7, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to http://www.carnegiecouncil.org

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