The Obama Syndrome: New President, Same Mistakes - A Live Interview

Tariq Ali

Asia Society

October 2010

Interviewer:

Joel Whitney

The Obama Syndrome: New President, Same Mistakes - A Live Interview

Historian and critic Tariq Ali traces the continuity of errors between Bush and Obama in their Middle East and South Asia policy.

Tariq Ali

Tariq Ali is a novelist, historian, political campaigner and one of New Left Review’s editors.

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Also by Tariq Ali

Who will reshape the Arab world: its people, or the US May 2011
Selective vigilantism by the West April 2011
Egypt's joy as Mubarak quits February 2011
An Arab 1848: Despots Totter and Fall February 2011
The Obama Syndrome: New President, Same Mistakes - A Live Interview October 2010

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