Foreign Affairs Live: A Discussion of Iraqi Futures (Audio)
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...
Speakers: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Council Special Report, After the Surge: The Case for U.S. Military Disengagement from Iraq
Walter B. Slocombe, Attorney, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered; Former Defense Department Official
Presider: Ellen Laipson, President and CEO, Henry L. Stimson Center
March 7, 2007
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