|  As the Obama administration weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, the worst terrorist attack in two years rocked Baghdad. Nathan Freier, Senior Fellow, International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Marisa Cochrane Sullivan, Research Manager at the Institute for the Study of War, discuss with host Carol Castiel the security and political situation in Iraq in the wake of the deadly bombings and implications of a possible delay in nationwide elections slated for January 2010.
Airdate: 1 Nov 2009 |
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Ted Bromund, Senior Fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation and Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress discuss with host Carol Castiel options for dealing with the growing nuclear threat from Iran and spar over the promise and pitfalls of renewed US engagement with the United Nations.
Philip Levy, resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and Tony Avirgan, Director of the Global Policy Network at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, discuss lessons learned one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers caused a crisis of confidence that triggered recession around the world. 
Paul Pillar, former senior US intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia and Jonathan Schanzer, author of Al-Qaida's Armies, talk with host Carol Castiel about the status and strength of al Qaida around the world on the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 
