";s:4:"text";s:5907:" Posted on October 25, 2013 by Laura Rozen. John Donvan: Thank you, Phil Gordon .
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There’s a lot to cover, but let’s focus on three countries.Iraq, how do you size up the legacy of this president, President Obama, in Iraq?Certainly, the developments of the last couple of years, when we have responded to the actions by the Islamic State, has gathered a considerable amount of momentum and actually taken back from the Islamic State all but one of the major cities, which is likely to fall in the weeks and months ahead.But, prior to that, of course, there was a pulling out of our forces, various explanations for that and whether that would have, if we had been able to keep them, could have given us the influence to prevent the ruinous course that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pursued that became highly sectarian and created the fertile fields for the planting of the seeds of extremism that the Islamic State exploited, before drifting into Syria and gaining lots of power in that civil war.When General Petraeus and our mutual colleague Ambassador Ryan Crocker negotiated the agreement in 2008, I think all of us anticipated there would be a residual U.S. force staying after December 31, 2011. "Get our investigations delivered to your inbox with the Big Story newsletter.Thank you for your interest in republishing this story.
And Philip Gordon, he served in the State Department under President Clinton and President Obama, and he served as the senior-most official responsible for the Middle East on Mr. Obama’s National Security Council staff from 2013 to 2015.Gentlemen, we welcome all three of you to the program.It’s a complicated region. April 1, 2015
"So many people who we stop have multiple IDs with different names on each one," he said. (January 21, 2018) (View Article) Brockton Facing $45.6M punitive damages from Lopes class action brought by Gordon Law Group, and Mayoral candidate calls for removal of Maureen Cruise (October 3, 2017) I think the answer is yes. by We need to keep in mind that the reason we went there to begin with is not to allow it to be a kind of petri dish for Islamic extremism that seeks to attack the United States.And, at the end of the day, we haven’t made the very, very difficult — and, again, there are no easy choices about Syria. It also happens to be the case that the Iraqis very much wanted us to leave. Philip H. Gordon is the Mary and David Boies senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. But we didn’t take the very tough decisions that could have given us a chance in some of these cases, and where you’re pretty certain that if there wasn’t a decision or not sufficient resources, that it wasn’t going to succeed, in the way that we defined success at the time.But I don’t think we should confuse that with the broader question of using military force to achieve our broader goals in Syria, like getting rid of the Assad regime. April 1, 2015 The bombing campaign soon expanded into Syria.One goal President Obama fulfilled was to sideline Iran’s progress towards a nuclear weapon. From 2009 to 2013, Gordon served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. January 1, 2018
He also served as President Obama’s director of the CIA, a post he resigned in 2012. View Phil Gordon’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. From 2013 to 2015, Gordon served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region.
What the Republican National Convention Tells Us About Trump’s Foreign PolicyTrump’s Flip-Flops on China Are a Danger to National SecurityPresent at the Destruction of U.S. Power and InfluenceWhat Should Come After Trump's Failed China Policy? In that sense, one, it’s kind of a moot point whether it would have been nice, because it wasn’t possible.But, two, I doubt, even though I would have rather seen some forces, that even a residual U.S. force, 5,000, 10,000, would have been enough to stop the very powerful trends that were going on in Iraq in terms of sectarianism, the rise of ISIS which was emerging from Syria, and all sorts of other things. From 1994 to 1998 he was a senior fellow and editor of the quarterly journal Gordon received his PhD in international relations and international economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1991; he also has an MA from SAIS (1987) and a BA from Ohio University (1984).