… folks have studied this region for so long and just said that's just the way it is for him, just to throw those paradigms aside. I think it's been great. The one area where I do think that we could have done better and still need to do better is explaining it to American people. And I think he has the toolkit to do that. Because when I listen, particularly Secretary Rubio and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Kaine, extremely capable communicators and our head of CENTCOM is doing a great job as well too. (22:11–22:18)
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Asserts that the U.S. government needs to better explain its Middle East policies to the American public.
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