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This week on Babel,\xa0Jon talks with Sen. Chris Murphy, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism. They discuss the U.S. relationship with Gulf allies, regional proxy battles with Iran, investing in Lebanon and Tunisia, and how worried policymakers should be about China's growing engagement with the Middle East.\xa0Then,\xa0Jon, Will Todman, and Caleb Harper discuss what a policy of greater U.S. restraint in the Middle East might look like and what impacts it might have.\xa0\n\nChris Murphy, \u201cBehind the Scenes of\xa0My Trip to the Middle East,\u201d\xa0Medium, May 10, 2021.\xa0\n\nJon Alterman, "Focus on Influence, Not Power in the Middle East," DefenseOne, March 25, 2021.\n\nChris Murphy, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Middle East Policy is Outdated and Dangerous,\u201d\xa0Foreign Affairs, February 19, 2021.\xa0\n\nChris Murphy, \u201cHow to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work,\u201d\xa0The Atlantic,\xa0October 7, 2019.\xa0\n\nEpisode Transcript, "U.S. Restraint in the Middle East," CSIS, August 10, 2021.