{"id":1473940,"date":"2024-01-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=459409"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:00:00","slug":"biden-stands-at-the-precipice-of-a-greater-war-in-the-middle-east-and-his-political-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/31\/biden-stands-at-the-precipice-of-a-greater-war-in-the-middle-east-and-his-political-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Stands at the Precipice of a Greater War in the Middle East and His Political Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22biden-stands-at-the-precipice-of-a-greater-war-in-the-middle%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/biden-stands-at-the-precipice-of-a-greater-war-in-the-middle?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">The killing of<\/span> three U.S. soldiers at a remote military outpost in Jordan, claimed by Iraqi militia groups to be retaliation for U.S. support for Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza, has set the stage for a response by the Biden administration that has blamed Iran for helping support the attack. After years of attempting to pivot away from the region, the Biden administration now looks set to deepen its military involvement in the Middle East as it fights the Houthis in Yemen and squares off in an escalating proxy war with Iran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on Intercepted, Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain discuss the trajectory of the U.S. long war in the Middle East with Juan Cole, professor of history at the University of Michigan and a longtime writer and commenter on the region. Cole discusses the basis of the ongoing U.S.\u2013Israel security relationship, the perspective of anti-Israel militant groups in the region, and the prospects of the expansion of the war despite the Biden administration&#8217;s stated desire to keep it contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/01\/31\/intercepted-podcast-biden-middle-east-war\/\">Biden Stands at the Precipice of a Greater War in the Middle East and His Political Future<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/01\/31\/intercepted-podcast-biden-middle-east-war\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly attack by Iraqi militias against a U.S. military base in Jordan sets the stage for a potential new era of U.S. conflicts triggered by its support for the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/01\/31\/intercepted-podcast-biden-middle-east-war\/\">Biden Stands at the Precipice of a Greater War in the Middle East and His Political Future<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479113,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473940\/revisions\/1479113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}