Nov 29th, 2009 · President Obama is expected to announce his decision on troop levels in Afghanistan this week. When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he'll draw not only from America's experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union's as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert Smith about the president's deliberations. Riedel served as a CIA agent in the region under now-Defense Secretary Robert Gates; he also chaired the first Afghan policy review completed this spring
Keywords: Afghanistan · policy · Afghan · CIA · president · region · America · Brookings Institution · agent · deliberations · Soviet Union · Obama
Nov 29th, 2009 · President Obama is expected to announce his decision on troop levels in Afghanistan this week. When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he'll draw not only from America's experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union's as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert Smith about the president's deliberations. Riedel served as a CIA agent in the region under now-Defense Secretary Robert Gates; he also chaired the first Afghan policy review completed this spring
Keywords: Afghanistan · policy · Afghan · CIA · president · region · America · Brookings Institution · agent · deliberations · Soviet Union · Obama
Jul 12th, 2007 · How has al-Qaida managed to regain its terrorist capabilities? Bruce Riedel, Brookings Institution senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, says al-Qaida was cornered and weakended after Sept. 11, but was sidetracked by preparing for the war in Iraq.
Keywords: terrorist · senior · Iraq · institutional · al Qaida · Bruce Riedel · weakended
Apr 30th, 2007 · In his recent article for Foreign Affairs magazine, intelligence expert Bruce Riedel contends that by going into Iraq instead of finishing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Washington unwittingly helped al-Qaida.
Keywords: Iraq · intelligence · Foreign Affairs · Osama · Washington · magazine · expert · al Qaida · Bruce Riedel
