Mosul Eye

I think when you look at,

um, when you look at, uh, you know, historians in, in kind of brutal regimes, um, you know, for example, under ISIS, you know, there's a guy called Omar Muhammad, who's the historian that the Mosul Eye, he wrote, it was he who said like, you know, even under ISIS, we managed to stand up for truth and it costs a lot of people their lives.

Um, So, you know, there's so much less at stake for you in the free world.

And so you really have to step up.

It's the Lawfare Podcast.

I'm senior editor Scott R. Anderson with Dr. Omar Mohammed, a senior researcher with the Program on Extremism at the George Washington University and the author of the blog Mosul Eye; Ambassador Doug Silliman, president of the Arab Gulf States Institute; and Victoria Taylor, director of the Iraq Initiative and the Syria Project at the Atlantic Council.

What the Iraqis were expecting, and they are still expecting, is for the United States to start thinking more thoroughly about how to interact with Iran, not, uh, having this by kind of like an impulsive type of, uh, behavior, uh, to the Iraqi issue.

Today, we are discussing the recent withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq and what it means for the future of the relationship between the two countries.