Foreign Affairs Live: A Discussion of Iraqi Futures
With violence down and U.S. troop deaths at their lowest point since the Iraq war began, military analysts are in near-agreement that Iraq is...
Speaker: Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
September 18, 2008
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