Radio War Nerd EP 492 — The First Time America Tried "Reshaping The Middle East" 1947-58 (pt. 1)

from War Nerd Radio — Subscriber Feed · host Gary Brecher

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

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Recorded: January 9, 2025 With all the boasting in Washington about "reshaping the Middle East" today, we look back at the first time the US Empire tried "reshape the Middle East" from the early Cold War years up through Ike's 1958 intervention in Lebanon, using ex-CIA agent Wilbur Crane Eveland's memoir, Ropes of Sand, as our thread. This episode: Eveland's arrival in British-ruled Iraq in 1950, up to the eve of the 1956 Suez Crisis... Total time: 1:29:09Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescope Audio Check out the Radio War Nerd Merch store here! Order your print or ebook of John Dolan's new book Erdogan Pizza: Dispatches from a Violent & Grotesque World

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