Aaron David Miller
speaker
716 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Aaron David Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But based on our collective experience, including Dan's of almost 50 years dealing with this region, this region eats up transformational ideas.
It's more often than not a place where American ideas on war making and peacemaking exist.
go to die.
And at times I feel, Dave, like we're some sort of modern-day Gulliver wandering around in a part of the world that we don't understand, tied up by tiny powers, larger powers, large and small, and burdened by our own illusions.
And I think we have to be careful.
We have interests, we have allies, we have adversaries in this region.
And we need to lead to protect them.
But we need to really get a grip on how
how much we can actually change.
You have five Arab states now in active phases of some kind of dysfunction.
Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Yemen.
And Syria...
Maybe, maybe the Syrians will prove the exception of emerging from authoritarian rule with something better than the Assad's.
We can't do this for them.
We can't fix this.
And, you know, someone said that in the history of the world, nobody ever washed a rental car.
It's a profound piece of philosophy.
People care about what they own.
And there's an absence of ownership on the part of the leaders of this region.
We can't compensate for that.
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