Iraq's Impact on the Future of U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy: Session 3: "The Direction of U.S. Foreign and Defense Policy after the Intervention in Iraq"
Watch experts discuss the impact of the Iraq war on U.S. foreign and military policy.
Speakers: Michael R. Gordon, Chief Military Correspondent, The New York Times
Ronald Steel, Professor of International Relations and History, University Of Southern California
Presider: Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
October 6, 2006
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