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Diane talks with a member of the Iraq Study Group's military and security working group about the plan for a gradual U.S troop drawdown and prospects of training additional Iraqi forces.
Paul Hughes, U.S. Army-Retired. He served as secretariat of the Iraq Study Group's expert working group on military and security issues, and is Iraq senior program officer for peace and stability operations at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
The policy debate and politics of the U.S. engaging Iran.
Flynt Leverett, senior fellow and director of the Global Energy Initiative at the New America Foundation; author, "Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire;" former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council; former Middle East expert on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff; former senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Kenneth Pollack, director of research at the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution; author of "The Persian Puzzle: the Conflict between Iran and America;" former director for Persian Gulf Affairs and former director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council; former Iran-Iraq military analyst, Central Intelligence Agency