Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy Part 1: Middle East And Museum Of Lost Objects

President Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
President Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York on Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press
President Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
President Barack Obama participates in a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York on Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press

Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy Part 1: Middle East And Museum Of Lost Objects

On today’s show:

  • Worldview examines Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy. Today, Obama’s policies in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
  • And as part of the BBC series “The Museum of Lost Objects,” the story of a tiny Sumerian cylinder seal depicting a harvest festival. Carved in 2600 B.C., it disappeared when Baghdad’s Iraq Museum was looted during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.