PBS Frontline – Robin Wright, the Washington Post’s diplomatic correspondent, has reported on the Middle East for almost two decades and is the author of four books, including Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam and Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World. In this interview, she discusses how the Islamic world has viewed Saddam Hussein and U.S.-Iraq relations over the decades and the unintended consequences of America’s invasion of Iraq. Addressing the larger picture, she says the U.S. has “profoundly” misread what was happening in the Middle East and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the ’80s and ’90s.

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