Profs & Pints: Lost in the Middle East

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Lost in the Middle East,” an examination of where the U.S. approach to that region went wrong, with Steven Simon, high-level foreign policy advisor under Presidents Obama and Clinton, Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow in International Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East.

The days of massive U.S. operations in the Middle East appear to have ended, and the two countries around which America has built its policies since World War II—Israel and Saudi Arabia—seem to be edging out of our nation’s orbit. How did we get to this point, and what does it mean? Are we abandoning the region?

Come to DC’s Little Penn to hear such questions tackled by Steven Simon, who has spent almost 40 years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship dealing with that…