Bush’s legacy in the Middle East

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It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Gulf War in the 1990s definitively shaped the region, and the US foreign policy that we see today. Host Marco Werman talks to presidential historian Jeffrey Engel, who’s written extensively about George H.W. Bush, about the 41st president’s legacy in the Middle East. 

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