Monday December 17, 2007
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Assessing the impact of the "surge" strategy and how to maintain recent progress in Iraq.
Ivo Daalder, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, former director for European Affairs for the National Security Council, and author of "Beyond Preemption: Force and Legitimacy in a Changed World.”
Kimberly Kagan, president of the Institute for the Study of War in Washington; affiliate of the Olin Institute of Strategic Studies at Harvard University; author, "The Eye of Command"
Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent for "The New York Times;" author with General Bernard Trainor of "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq"
General Barry McCaffrey (U.S. Army-Ret.), infantry division commander in the first Gulf War, and currently adjunct professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point
Carolyn Jessop was once a member of a radical polygamist religious sect. She talks about her life as the fourth wife of a man decades older than her, living under the same roof as his other wives and children, and what spurred her to gather her eight children in the middle of the night and leave.
Carolyn Jessop, author