Can Peace in the Middle East be Sparked by the United States?
18 July 2014
Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow in Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation, discusses foreign policy, how U.S. inaction around the world creates opportunities for our enemies, and whether any government can have leverage over Hamas in the Middle East.
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