Can the U.S. Just Pull Out of the Middle East?

Article/Op-Ed in In the Room with Peter Bergen
March 26, 2024

In Episode 47 of his podcast "In the Room with Peter Bergen," New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen examines the challenges of pulling the U.S. out of the Middle East, and why the U.S. seems to keep getting pulled back in:

Can the U.S. Just Pull Out of the Middle East? The answer is probably not. And that has to do with oil, the internet, and one of America’s most persistent foes, Iran.

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