U.S. Power and Influence in the Middle East: Part One | Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Karim Makdisi:
You can presume to build your policies based on supporting authoritarian regimes and apartheid-like states and all the rest of it, and you can get away with it, but does that come back to bite you in the long term? I think it does. Does it stand in the way of the standing of the United States as a global power? Yes, I think it does. Does it help American interests? I would argue that it does not help American interests.