The U.S. role as the crisis in the Middle East escalates

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Hassan Ammar/AP)

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd talks with Here & Now security analyst Jim Walsh, senior research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s security studies program, about the latest.

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