“What happens in the Middle East doesn’t stay in the Middle East”
Manas Chawla interviews Ambassador Richard Schmierer on a plethora of state positions and voices within the Middle East. Ambassador Richard Schmierer is a US diplomat with extensive experience in several countries in the Middle East. He has served for more than 34 years as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, and has lectured and published a book entitled Iraq: Policies and Perceptions.
Truly informative and insightful, listen to this podcast episode if you want to hear the thoughts of an experienced American diplomat on Palestine, Israel and approaches to the humanitarian crisis, why the Middle East is so laden with Saudi-Iran proxy conflicts, why there is an erosion of support for Israeli policies from some US voices, and why Iraq is a uniquely positioned Middle Eastern state.
