Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently returned from Kabul where he helped McChrystal with the assessment. Now it’s all up to Petraeus.

The CFR President, who advised both Presidents Bush, tells Zirin about his fascinating new memoir “War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars,” and how his alarms in 2003 fell on deaf ears.

Is the Net a force for reform in the Islamic world or just a platform for Al Qaeda? Kohlmann, International Terrorism Consultant, and Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, CFR, discuss.

I will go to my grave “not knowing the answer” as to why we went to war in Iraq, says the former Bush administration insider.  President of Council on Foreign Relations Haass explains how the Internet can rationalize US foreign policy.