Friday Interview: Making Sense of the Middle East

RALEIGH — It’s hard to read or watch any news without learning about some disturbing development in the Middle East. Americans ought to pay close attention to those developments. That’s the opinion of Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She was a special assistant to President George W. Bush and deputy national security adviser for Iraq and Afghanistan. O’Sullivan recently delivered North Carolina State University’s annual John W. Pope Lecture on the topic “Making Sense of the New Middle East.” She discussed key themes from her presentation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.