PODCAST: Pivoting around and around in the Middle East

Last night, some of  Washington’s finest national security minds met me at the cabinet room in the Jefferson Hotel bar to talk shop.  Elbridge Colby, William Rosenau, and Afshon Ostovar – all of the Center for Naval Analyses – were joined by surprise guests (“surprise” because they didn’t know they were meeting me for a podcast) Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation and Bill Braniff, the executive director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).We talked about President Obama’s and President Rouhani’s speeches at the United Nations, whether or not Rouhani’s election means there The post PODCAST: Pivoting around and around in the Middle East appeared first on War on the Rocks.