Joby Warrick: The Rise of ISIS

When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist mastermind and future architect of an Islamist movement bent on dominating the Middle East. Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick recounts in Black Flags: The Rise of Isis how the strategic mistakes of Presidents Bush and Obama and the zeal of al-Zarqawi led to ISIS's control of huge swaths of Syria and Iraq. WBEZ host Jerome McDonnell joins Warrick in conversation.
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[@LittleDesertFlower78]

Such a GREAT talk!!! I wish that it could be broadcast to the world.. Because these problems could be FAR more likely to be solved if more ppl really UNDERSTOOD the history, allllll the HISTORY, & details, & complexities, & nuance involved. -- Too often I see these problems EGREGIOUSLY over simplified.. And that kind of narrow view only ever seems to exacerbate things.

[@jagroch3706]

Hey, I know there are a lot of military schools like West Point, but what about for diplomats....which universities have really good graduate degree programs for history and foreign policy?

[@jgrave10]

Portraying Baghdadi is an "austere religious scholar" is like asserting Joby Warrick is an objective, non-political, honest journalist.