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The stated goal of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq was to create breathing room for political reconciliation in Baghdad. That has not happened.
But reporting to Congress this week, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are pushing for patience — a pullback, next year, of the surge, but an open-ended U.S. military commitment in Iraq.
Yesterday, they testified before the House. Today, they cross Capitol Hill.
This hour, On Point: Petraeus and Crocker before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Guests:
Barry Posen, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology.
Stephen Biddle, senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.
The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.
Solving the U.S. military’s sex abuse problem. We look at the chain of command issue and what needs to change
North America as the new fossil fuel powerhouse. We’ll look at the blessing, the curse and how it may reshape geopolitics and energy politics.
