Glossary
The Iraq occupation policy Jiang uses as an analogy for destroying state capacity by excluding the personnel who ran government, military, and police.
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de-Baathification
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Look, I mean, if you just look at America's history in the Middle East for the past 20 years, what they did in Iraq,..."
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Jiang compares the proposed destruction of Iran with Iraq after 2003, where de-Baathification destroyed state capacity and helped produce ongoing sectarian violence.
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Jiang says the U.S. occupation of Iraq generated chaos by purging Baathist military and government elites rather than simply changing the regime.
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"Look, I mean, if you just look at America's history in the Middle East for the past 20 years, what they did in Iraq,..."
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"The problem with that is that everyone who worked in government, everyone who worked in the military, everyone who worked in the police was..."
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"Um, that's the second thing. Um. And the third thing is that, um, the Iraqi people didn't know what's going to happen. They, they..."
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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Jiang begins with prediction as a disciplined loop, then turns the whole century into a religious struggle in disguise.
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