Webcast: Reporter’s Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq, A Panel Discussion

Recorded on October 3, 2006. This event was sponsored by the Center for International Studies at MIT.

MODERATOR: Barbara Bodine
Bodine’s Center for International Studies profile

PANELISTS:
Rajiv Chandrasakaran: Author, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Chandrasakaran’s Random House profile

George Packer: Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Packer’s profile on The New Yorker contributors’ page

ABOUT THE PANEL DISCUSSION:

As viewed through the eyes of two well-informed journalists and an experienced Middle East diplomat, the U.S. invasion of Iraq demonstrated a unique combination of arrogance and ignorance, and the “reconstruction” period appears a fiasco with no end in sight.

A review of the discussion is located here along with video timeline.

The program runs 92 minutes. Direct to Video.

Source: MIT World

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