How will the president deal with troop pull-out in Iraq?

Thursday, February 26, 2009

President Obama announced an August 2010 deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution has written an op-ed piece in today's New York Times saying that "young democracies are fragile entities," and that some think it will take years to pull this off successfully. He joins us now to explain.

Read the op-ed article, Iraq’s Year of Living Dangerously, in the New York Times.

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