Jamie Rubin

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3,234 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Jamie Rubin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files · Did 9/11 put the US on a permanent war footing? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Tony Blair was prime minister and he spoke very beautifully about the links between the United States and the UK. voice-verified

And um I remember meeting there, I was very close to one of his top aides, Alistair Campbell, and Alistair wrote about this in his book because even then I began to get uh worried voice-verified

that there were different instincts in the Bush administration. voice-verified

And I remember warning Alistair that when they're working with the administration, remember there's two camps there, there's the the voice-verified

Colin Powell camp, the Secretary of State, who wanted the world to work together, who was very careful and cautious. voice-verified

And then there was the Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld camp, who were already talking by then about Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with the attack. voice-verified

And I warned Alistair in thinking about this, and he wrote about it in his book because obviously later it became relevant. voice-verified

And this was my analysis. voice-verified

my job really was both to try to build support and all of these interviews I was doing day after day on voice-verified

Um British and European television and CNN and all of the networks um for international responses and and the response to Afghanistan was uniform. voice-verified

I don't think there's ever been a a quote war in which the whole world was on the same side, including Russia, including China, including uh every country in the world really. voice-verified

Iran. voice-verified

They wanted to see the end of Al Qaeda voice-verified

ended up uh the technically the U.S. voice-verified

government worked with Iran directly to try to put in place a new government after the Taliban fell. voice-verified

Those were some some heady times when the United States was acting consistent with world opinion, when they were uh tr uh building support. voice-verified

And I thought that was uh wonderful, but I always knew deep down there were those who already had signaled in that. voice-verified

First year of the Bush administration, their uh their disdain for global opinion by pulling out of arms control treaties and saying other things that uh we can talk about in a minute. voice-verified

Later, the first signal of that, really the the worst moment I remember when it all changed was when they started to um uh arrest uh Al-Qaeda uh uh individuals they accused of being part of Al Qaeda. voice-verified

Al Qaeda and then refuse to give them the rights of POWs. voice-verified

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