Name: LIFE HACKS ANN MARIE MID EAST Web
Uploaded: 2014-10-17
Duration: 2 min 38 s
Description: Anne-Marie Slaughter on the Middle East

So Ann Marie, you're one of the most respected voices on the foreign policy front today. And you come to us with a very troubling message about where you see things going in the Middle East. What is going to be happening on that front? Well Nina, I hate to start with such a miserable message, but really as I look at the Middle East, I see 10 to 15 years of conflict that. Combines religious conflict and territorial claims. You have the Sunnis versus the Shiites. That split is being exploited by idealogues brutal extremist groups. And then you have lots of different borders that're getting redrawn. The borders after World War One so unless. All the nations in the region can come together to stop it, which would include Iran. And unless can force somebody Bashar al- Assad in Syria to table, which I don't think we can do unless we use force against him. There's no way to stop the current cancer of conflict fueled by religion and territory and extremism. From spreading across the entire center of the MIddle East. What's the big mistake this White House made when it comes to that conflict? This White House refused to recognize the potential for both the spreading across the region and fueling extremism. al, two and a half years ago almost three years ago it was evident that unless we intervened it was just gonna spread. But the White House did not want to get involved in another Middle East war. And so we affectively limited our assistance humanitarian aid on the side, and it's just gotten worse, and worse, and worse. You think the U. S. should use force but you don't believe in boots on the ground at this point? That's right. I think that we can use force from the air. We ought to be using it against Bashar al- Assad himself, against his, at least, against his air force. But we don't wanna put boots on the ground because that is what ISIL wants. ISIL wants images of American troops once again. Knocking down you know villages. Coming in taking over. That's how they recruit, right? Is the United States, the great enemy against Islam. So we cannot do that. But we can't get out of this unless we're willing to use force. Not just against terrorist groups. but also against the government that really started a lot of this which is the Syrian government, which has massacred 200, 000 Syrians and still very much in the mix spreading this conflict.