The World Policy Institute
at New School University

Presents

EXITING IRAQ: IS THERE ANY STRATEGY?

a panel discussion with

JAMES H. NOLT, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute

RAJAN MENON, Monroe J. Rathborne Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University and Fellow, New America Foundation

and

NIR ROSEN, Fellow, New America Foundation and author of In the Belly of the Green Bird: the Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq, forthcoming from Simon and Shuster

Moderated by

SHERLE R. SCHWENNINGER, Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute, The New School.

The Bush administration has made withdrawal of the American forces from Iraq conditional on the building up of an Iraqi army and the establishment of a working government even though these goals appear to be increasingly illusory. Others favor increasing America's commitment of forces, arguing that an American pullout would lead to a full-scale civil war and further chaos, turning Iraq into a haven for terrorists. Yet others contend that the presence of American forces may themselves be a catalyst for the insurgency and a contributing cause of the intensifying civil war, and argue for an American withdrawal. Three knowledgeable experts weigh the merits of these positions and offer their own informed view of the unfolding civil war in Iraq and what the United States should do.

Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6:00-7:30 p. m. Swayduck Auditorium, first floor, 65 Fifth Avenue (between East 13-14th sts.). Admission is $5.00.

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