The Corridors of Power

The Corridors of Power

What happens in the White House when reports of arrive of foreign leaders murdering their own people en masse? "The Corridors of Power" investigates this over the past 40 years from Iraq to Syria and Bosnia to Kosovo, how did US policy leave millions to die and how did it influence World Politics today?

The Corridors of Power

1h 50m

What happens in the White House when reports of arrive of foreign leaders murdering their own people en masse? "The Corridors of Power" investigates this over the past 40 years from Iraq to Syria and Bosnia to Kosovo, how did US policy leave millions to die and how did it influence World Politics today?

  • U.S. Leaders on Interventions: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    U.S. Leaders on Interventions

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    Visual: Halabja massacre carried out by Saddam Hussein against Kurds in Halabja. Content: US leaders, including Kissinger, Powell, Albright, Lake, Wolfowitz and Berger share their views on US intervention to prevent atrocities

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    Clinton Tries to Address Ethnic Cleansing

    E1 - 4m 26s

    Chief of Staff Leon Panetta describes a young Clinton trying to address ethnic cleansing in the Balkans while Albright presses for more use of military force but faces Powel insisting that "Our Soldiers are not toy Soldiers."

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    Obama's Cabinet and Libya

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    Hillary Clinton and Ben Rhodes describe how Barak Obama debates intervention in Libya and decides to intervene militarily to save the residents of Benghazi from slaughter.

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