Bahrain - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Bahrain Index / Locations Transcripts Tommy Vietor ...down in the middle of a square in Bahrain .” I'm like, “What the fuck am ... Michael McFaul ...Egypt, and then there's Yemen and Bahrain . To what extent did this consume th... Jeffrey Feltman ...that's when Yemen, Libya, Syria, Bahrain , Morocco, Jordan—but it was lat... ...the Bahrainian foreign minister. Bahrain had had protests in the previous fall... ...was going to turn into what happened in Bahrain later. But we wanted her to sa... ...countries. Places like Tunisia and Bahrain , our response in Yemen; there was jus... ...take a break? No, I'm fine. I know Bahrain is a country I'd like to talk about... ...the course of events in a country like Bahrain . Less than we believe, is the shor... ...we believe, is the short answer. But in Bahrain , we did have tools. We have the Fift... ...Force Central Command] is based there. Bahrain was one where it had strategi... ...mutually constructive relationship with Bahrain , but [it is] a country where th... ...think it was Valentine's Day—in Bahrain , a significant uprising started. Thi... ...to try to manage this. I went out to Bahrain I don't know how many times, i... ...into dialogue. The crown prince of Bahrain was our government interlocutor o... ...“My word, look at what's happening in Bahrain .” It's just that some of the mor... ...the causeway from Saudi Arabia into Bahrain and put down the demonstrations b... ...it—the crackdown on the demonstrators. Bahrain was a sideshow compared to somethin... ...to the categories like Yemen and Bahrain and Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan—a lon... ...started to downplay our concerns about Bahrain during this period, after 1973 wa... ...out if we didn't mute our criticism of Bahrain . So the Bahrain human rights concern... ...mute our criticism of Bahrain. So the Bahrain human rights concerns became subsume... ...now of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain , Yemen—when the administratio... ...by the Syria example, as I am by Bahrain and Libya and many others. But in ou... ...Egypt meeting to a Yemen meeting to a Bahrain meeting to a Syria meeting. When yo... Show more... Jim Steinberg ...time frame. Countries from Yemen to Bahrain —and we can talk about those to th... ...role as deputy secretary. I had been to Bahrain . I was asked to go to Bahrain. And i... ...been to Bahrain. I was asked to go to Bahrain . And it was a sobering thing for me t... ...even maybe the most important power in Bahrain , and the Saudis were just on the othe... ...of the bridge. So what I had seen in Bahrain was the fact that this was still a wor... ...have a limited role? And I think the Bahrain situation was an obvious point, whic... ...place and to have the Sunni monarchy in Bahrain be replaced by Shia grassroot... ...saw from my own engagement in Yemen, in Bahrain , in Syria. I believe firmly, an... ...outcome there. Because each of these— Bahrain illustrates that it's very particula... ...strategy, whether it was in Egypt or Bahrain or Saudi or Yemen, was to try to wor... ...of the debate over Libya, right over Bahrain . It's—I think the eleventh of March i... Show more... John Brennan ...to Egypt, and the Gulf states, and Bahrain and Jordan and Syria—it was jus... Tawakkol Karman ...activists in places like Cairo, and in Bahrain , and elsewhere, or were you— Yes, w... Robert Gates ...on a trip that I made that spring to Bahrain , there had been demonstrations at th... ...the crown prince and with the king of Bahrain . I said, “You need to get out in fron... Michael Posner ...up at this time in Syria and Libya and Bahrain , for example. What's so striking to m... ...it considered what to do in Libya and Bahrain , for example. Was it your sense tha... ...answer to that. Let me use Egypt and Bahrain , where I also spent a lot of time, a... ...to what went on. You mentioned Bahrain as well. So, that's a very differen... ...part because of the dynamic. Of course, Bahrain , in the scheme of things, is muc... ...who had all kinds of relationships in Bahrain , was very concerned about the Fift... ...much so that I even was with Mattis in Bahrain , in Manama. We had some joint meeting... ...back and forth. Every time he visited Bahrain , he would come to me and say, “Wha... ...in that answer and with regard to Bahrain , thinking about cases where huma... Show more... Jake Sullivan ...then in Syria, then in Yemen, then in Bahrain , etc., as these revolutions swep... ...Libyan intervention, issues like Syria, Bahrain in the Middle East, what othe... ...things like, It's happening in Bahrain , and Valerie Jarrett is running it... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance