Last week, President Barack Obama made his case for increased U.S. intervention in Iraq and Syria. His plan to continue air strikes, and increase the arming of those opposed to the so-called Islamic State, commonly referred to as ISIS or ISIL, has been met with some resistance from a war-weary public and Congress. But national security expert Scott Bates thinks that working with Iraqi Kurdish forces could be the key to defeating this extremist organization.
We also talk to a veteran war correspondent who wrote a biography about T.E. Lawrence - better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Today’s Middle East boundaries date back to Lawrence’s influence in World War I.
We also revisit a conversation about The Revenge of Geography with geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan.
GUESTS:
- Scott Bates - President of the Center for National Policy
- Scott Anderson - Author of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
- Robert Kaplan - Chief Geopolitical Analyst for Stratfor and author of The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
*Scott Anderson will speak at the New Canaan Library on Sunday, September 21 at 4pm.
