President Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy As The Longest War-Time President In US History

May 17, 2016 – Segment 2

We discuss President Obama’s foreign policy legacy. This month he became the longest war-time President in U.S. history.

With: Dr. Thabit A.J. Abdullah, Associate Professor of Middle East History at York University, Toronto; teacher, writer, activist Zein El-Amine, host of the radio show Shay Wa Nana on WPFW, which centers on politics and culture in the Middle East; and Doug Ollivant, Senior Fellow for New America’s Future of War initiative. He’s also a retired Army officer (Lieutenant Colonel), and his last assignment in government was as Director for Iraq at the National Security Council during both the Bush and Obama administrations.

Written by Marc Steiner

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