"The American public knows nothing about the Middle East"

By Kayleigh Harvey - Talk Radio News Service

At a public hearing on U.S. Military Aid to the Middle East today, retired Ambassador Edward Peck said, "The American public knows nothing about the Middle East and because they know nothing they are not very interested, and because they’re not very interested they don’t know much, because nobody is going to tell them.”

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